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June 2021
Foot Percussion with Bourque Émissaires
Bourque Émissaires are Benoit Bourqua and Antoine Pigeon-Bourque. Benoit is a versatile artist overflowing with energy and a contagious joie de vivre, who has been winning the public over more than 30 years. Charismatic, exuberant, warm, funny, limber, the band’s sparkplug are a few words to describe him. Antoine started playing piano at the age of 11 and accordion at the age of 16. He has degrees from Université de Montréal, where he studied the classical repertoire for piano-accordion, and from Collège Saint-Laurent, in Montreal, where he studied tuba and accordion.
The Vox Hunters & Friends
The Vox Hunters (Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi) are seekers and singers of old songs, cultivators of local (Rhode Island) music, and chronic multi-instrumentalists. They are touted as strong tradition-bearers in their generation, and their genuine affinity for the music is evident in the emotion they draw from it. With a pair of oft-harmonizing voices tastefully garnished with fiddle, free-reeds, and tenor guitar, The Vox Hunters offer an all-natural connection to the living tradition of folk music.
Cool Guitar Tricks! with Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen is a blues musician who plays, for the most part, Southeastern music that used to be found on 78’s, including blues, gospel, country dance music, fiddle tunes, monologues, ballads, classic rags, ditties, country songs, and boogies. As well as a virtuoso finger-style guitarist, he is also an enthusiastic proponent of the dolceola, a kind of miniature (Schroeder-sized) grand piano. andycohenmusic.com
Bowing 747 with George Wilson
A talented multi-instrumentalist and singer, George Wilson samples a wide variety of traditional and folk styles. As a fiddler, he has over 500 tunes for dancing and listening—tunes from New England, Quebec, Cape Breton, Scotland, Ireland, and Shetland. His dynamic fiddling, strongly influenced by Cape Breton and French Canadian styles, has been popular with contra dancers and concert-goers since the late 1970s.
Hubby Jenkins
Hubby Jenkins is a talented singer and multi-instrumentalist (especially banjo, guitar, and bones). Having delved into his Southern roots, he follows the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. After years of busking around the country and playing with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, as well as Rhiannon Giddens’s band, today he spreads his knowledge and love of old-time American music through his dynamic solo performances.
Cedar Stanistreet & Donal Sheets
Cedar Stanistreet graduated from the North Bennet Street school of violinmaking in 2012. He then worked in the Boston area before moving to western Massachusetts. He has worked at Stamell Strings (shops in Amherst, MA; and Poughkeepsie, NY) since 2015, where he does restoration and set-up work on violins, violas, and cellos. He is a master fiddle player and tours with his band Nor’easter playing concerts around the country.
https://www.stamellstring.com/cedar-stanistreet-luthier.html
Young Tradition Vermont
The 2020/2021 Young Tradition Touring Group consists of teen players, singers and dancers who focus on learning and performing a variety of traditional music and dance repertoire over the course of 9 months, starting in September 2020. Group members learn from and are supported by manager Mark Sustic and artist leaders Oliver Scanlon, Fern Tamagini-O’Donnell and Hilary Menegaz Weitzner, in addition to exchanges with young performers and host
organizations during a virtual April tour. Members ranging in age from 11 to 19. Though most members are from Vermont, this year members also represented Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Ontario.
They did the annual spring tour virtually in late April 2021. Previous in-person tours have includedEngland, Ireland, Cape Breton, New Brunswick, Scotland, Japan and metro New York/New Jersey. This year the group visited Sweden, England, New Brunswick, Quebec, Orkney, the Hudson River Valley, Scotland, Ireland and Japan to share music with other trad youth groups, learn in master classes and participate in peer-to-peer socializing.
For more information contact mark.sustic@gmail.com
Sunday Afternoon Concert
Lost & Found with Roger the Jester • The Great Groove Band • The Vox Hunters • Sam Gleaves & Deborah Payne • Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen • the Byrne Family • Cedar Stanistreet & Donal Sheets • Bethany Yarrow • the Amidons • and Jim Lloyd with Hunter Wilson & Sophia Pucket