CONCERT with Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem. Friday, Sept. 10 at 8 pm at the New England Youth Theater, 100 Flat St. in Brattleboro.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door.
Buy on line at www.brattleborotix.com or in person at: Everyone’s Bookstore, 23 Elliot St., Brattleboro or World Eye Bookshop, 156 Main St., Greenfield MA. Call (802) 257-1571 for more information.

Rani Arbo, fiddler, lead singer and founder of daisy mayhem, is an expressive alto who navigates swing tunes, ballads, funky call-and-response songs with ease and honesty. Utilizing roots music of all kinds, daisy mayhem, a four-piece string band, celebrates America’s rich musical past and presents it with good humor, impeccable musicianship, powerful songwriting, and a clear love of playing together. With stunning vocal harmonies and irresistible chemistry on stage, a 100% recycled drum set, fiddle, guitar and bass, daisy mayhem creates an entertaining, fresh, and inspiring concert.

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The Brattleboro Memorial Day Dawn Dance will take place on Sunday
September 5th, 2010 at the Gibson Aiken Center on Main Street in Brattleboro,
VT. The dance begins with English dancing from 2:30 to 5:30 PM with Gene
Murrow calling, lydia ievins on violin, Anna Patton on clarinet, and Karen
Axelrod on piano. The contra dance segment begins at 8:00 PM and ends at
7:00 AM, and features three bands and three callers including Kathy Anderson
with Notorious, Nils Fredland with Wild Asparagus, and Jeff Petrovitch with
Nor’easter. Tickets are $10 for English, $20 for contra, and $25 for both
($7/$15/$22 for students and seniors), and can be purchased online at
www.dawndance.org, at Maple Leaf Music in Brattleboro, or at the door the day
of the dance.

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The Brattleboro Contra dance this Sunday, August 22nd will feature calling by Rebecca Lay and music by Ethan Hazzard-Watkins, Anna Patton, and Julie Vallimont.

Tags: Brattleboro, Contra Dance, VT

Sunday, September 5th, 2010, 7:30 pm
The Stone Church, Brattleboro

for a concert featuring nationally touring young musicians
all born and bred in greater Brattleboro:
T h e D a u g h t e r s & S o n s R e v i e w

featuring

Sam Amidon

http://www.samamidon.com/

A N D

The Devil Makes Three

http://www.thedevilmakesthree.com/

guitarist/frontman Pete Bernhard
stand-up bassist Lucia Turino
guitarist Cooper McBean
A N D

Red Heart the Ticker

http://www.rhtt.net/

Robin MacArthur
Tyler Gibbons

The Stone Church
(corner of Main and Grove Streets, Brattleboro, Vermont)
Sunday, September 5th, 2010, 7:30 pm
Admission TBA

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Fiddler and step dancer Andrea Beaton will be down from Cape Breton and joining
me for a four day camp from Aug 23 – 26. The location is at the Old Town Hall
in historic Pond Village, Brookfield , VT Camp will run from 10 – 4 each day,
and the cost is $240/person. There is also a chance that we’ll be joined by Mac
Morin on Monday and Tuesday. For those of you who don’t know him, Mac is an
amazing Cape Breton piano player and step dancer. So…if there are any people
out there wishing to learn some Cape Breton piano accompaniment…..Mac is as
good as it gets.

Also the 4 day cost will be reduced to $225 if I receive a $100 deposit by
August 16th. The day rate is $70/day.

Please call for more info after August 14th…… Beth Telford 802-728-6351

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http://cvfest.org/

Lots of great performers in a beautiful spot on the lake in downtown Burlington, VT.

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It’s official! We’ll be holding another Hot Dance on a Cold Night in Tracy Hall,
Norwich, VT, on a 5th Saturday this winter, on January 29, 2011. This is an
occasional event (last held in 2009) that is aimed at experienced dancers, an
evening with less time spent on teaching basic figures and an opportunty to
tackle a few dances that are more challenging than you’d find at a regular
monthly dance.

David Millstone will be calling, presenting a selection of contras, rip-roarin’
squares, triplets, and perhaps an oddball dance or two to stimulate your
neurons, excite your feet, and leave you grinning all evening long.

Music will be provided by an exciting new band: Arigana Highway, consisting of
Mary Cay Brass on piano and accordion; Alden Robinson, a hot young fiddler from
Portland, Maine; Stuart Kenney on bass and banjo, and Matthew Kenney on
percussion.

(The band’s name comes from a tune Stuart wrote on banjo – and that name in turn
comes from his kids singing This Land is Your Land – and mistaking “a ribbon of
highway” for Arigana Highway. Now you know!)

Rick Barrows will be providing the sound system.

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Here’s another opportunity to hear and support young traditional musicians. The deadline for performers to apply is mid-April.

*Young Tradition Showcase Contest*

The annual Showcase Contest at Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vermont is a
primary focus of the annual Young Tradition Weekend. The program for the
contest starts in the mid/late morning on 5/15/10 and finishes by 3pm,
running simultaneously with Kids Day at Waterfront Park. It is designed so
that young singers, players and dancers (25 years old and younger) in
single, duo or group formats can perform 2 or 3 numbers. Participation is
not limited to Vermonters.

Prizes include showcase performances at a variety of concerts, festivals,
coffeehouses and tours, cash ($500 for 1st, $250 for 2nd and $125 for 3rd),
$1000 in scholarships, and more. There are no judges for the contest and
all styles and genres that fit under the ‘folk and traditional’ umbrella are
welcome. There is time for about 20 ‘acts’ and we strive to make sure that
what is presented at the contest is either directly related or inspired by
what is generally considered folk and traditional music or dance….. if you
think it fits, there is a good chance that it does.

Prospective performers who have not participated in the past are asked to
submit an audio and/or video sample. Samples will be returned if
self-addressed, postage-paid packaging is included with the
application. Samples should be e-mailed to

mrksustc@together.net

or mailed to:
Young Tradition Vermont
PO Box 163
Fairfax, VT 05454.

We strive for balance in the genres
presented, the instruments used, and the traditions presented, etc. (e.g. we
try to not have just fiddlers, just dancers, just singers, etc.).

Contact Mark Sustic, PO Box 163, Fairfax, VT 05454
802-849-6968
mrksustc@together.net
www.youngtraditionvermont.org

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Five fiddlers, 2 guitarists, an accordionist, and a flute player gathered at J.D. McCliment’s Pub in Putney, Vermont, on a cool September evening recently. In addition to all of us being resident in the Connecticut River valley, we shared a love of Irish traditional music. We were attending the weekly Wednesday night Irish session to play jigs and reels, reacquaint as friends, meet new musicians, and share stories.

The Morning Star/Lady Ann Montgomery
The Long Drop/The Earl’s Chair

Leading our group this night were Lissa Schneckenburger on fiddle and Corey DiMario on tenor guitar. Lissa set the tone with a choice selection of tunes played at a relaxed pace. Irish reels can be very exciting when played at break-neck or dance-tempo speed, but the lovely soul of a tune is best revealed at more moderate tempos when the lift of a phrase and the ornamentation of melody can easily be heard. A pleasure for listener and player alike. Corey’s chording on the 4-string guitar followed the melody very closely, a hallmark of good Irish accompaniment, and each tune was given its due with numerous repetitions. Read the rest of this entry »

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