August 24, 2019 SATURDAY 7:30 PMMusic Hall

All Beethoven will conclude our 27th Season of Standards. Early, mid and late Beethoven with a Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, and the "Ghost" Piano Trio.

September 1, 2019 SUNDAY 12:00 PMMusic Hall

Celebrate Vermonts Celtic and French Canadian heritage with traditional--and sometimes not so traditional--music and dance. Each year more than 70 exceptional musicians are drawn from New England, Canada, and the British Isles. Concerts, music and dance, childrens activities, and open dancing unfold on five continuous stages from noon until 11 pm. Main Street is closed to traffic, and the festival site becomes an intimate pedestrian village.

September 13, 2019 FRIDAY 7:30 PMMusic Hall

The Fretless is the Canadian fiddle foursome playing an essential part in the emerging movement mainstreaming traditional irish folk music. Starting with its debut album in 2012, the band has steadily pushed further into the public eye, winning Instrumental Album of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and Instrumental Group of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Its 2014 tune Waving To Ryan has topped a million Spotify plays, and in 2016, The Fretless took home a Juno award ...

September 20, 2019 FRIDAY 7:30 PMMusic Hall

Returning for the third time to Chandler, Boston-based quartet, Darlingside, constructs every piece of their music collaboratively, pooling musical and lyrical ideas so that each song bears the imprint of four different writing voices. NPR Music dubs the result "exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded

October 5, 2019 SATURDAY 7:30 PMMusic Hall

The VSO joins leaf-peepers on the road in late September, visiting intimate and historic venues across the state with our Made in Vermont chamber orchestra tour. This season marks Jaime Laredos 20th anniversary as Music Director, and hes excited to conduct a program that features Ifetayo Ali, a teenage cellist from the Sphinx Program, playing Haydns famous C Major Concerto. (Her teachers think she could be the next Yo-Yo Ma!) Also in the spotlight is our own wonderful principal flutist, Melis...

October 19, 2019 SATURDAY 7:30 PMMusic Hall

Will the Circle Be Unbroken When John initiated the Will the Circle Be Unbroken* album with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band it brought together the icons of Bluegrass, Country, and West coast country rock: Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuff, Junior Huskey, Oswald Kirby Vassar Clements, and Maybelle Carter. Six hot August Nashville recording days produced this benchmark album, relevant to this day (Amazon top-30 still!). ...