Sarah King sings Aug. 2

Hit Summer Sounds this Saturday, August. 2, from 5:30-7 p.m., on the Town Hall Theater’s Outdoor Maloney Plaza. The concert is free! Register on THT’s website.

Cornwall barn provides intimate setting for Larry & Joe

On Sunday, July 20, Larry & Joe will perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music at The Barn at Bread Loaf View Farm in Cornwall. Tickets are limited.

Festival on the Green promises a week of fun and good music

The much-anticipated Festival on the Green will run from July 13 to July 19. This seven-day spectacle provides adults, children and families from all over Addison County with a week of free shows, concerts and performances.

Free music pops up for July in Hancock

The Hancock Green Summer Concert series opens on Thursday, July 10, from 6:30-8 p.m., with the newly formed trio of Greg Ryan, Adda Kridler and Michael Caterisano.

Otter Creek Music Festival kicks off ‘Weekend 1’

OCMF ’25 kicks off July 19 in Salisbury, and then concerts will be featured in Middlebury, Brandon and Rutland.

Singer Sarah King is off to kick cancer

Just 72 hours after her newest album, “When It All Goes Down,” was released — Sarah King received an unwelcome diagnosis from her doctor: “He told me I have thyroid cancer.”

Kruger Brothers concert to benefit the Verg. Opera House `All Access Project’

Brothers Jens and Uwe Kruger were raised in a family in Switzerland where music was an important part of life. The Kruger Brothers now are a fixture within the world of acoustic music with their unique ability to infuse classical music into folk music.

Engage with writing, music and movement in free community programs at THT

Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater will host three free programs next month that you don’t want to miss. Composer Mathew Evan Taylor and choreographer Laurel Jenkins will present “27 Breaths,” a live music and movement piece on Sunday, May 5; former dean of t … (read more)

Francois Clemmons to celebrate 400 years of Negro Spirituals

Francois Clemmons has sung spirituals his entire life and is a preeminent interpreter and champion today of the American Negro Spiritual. He will give a concert in Middlebury on May 6.

Annie Patterson and Peter Blood to lead a singalong

The Middlebury United Methodist Church will host Annie Patterson and Peter Blood on Friday, May 5, at 7 p.m., for another community sing-along concert. Patterson and Blood are two of the country’s leading folk music activists. In these challenging times t … (read more)

New world music and wine series starts this summer at Lincoln Peak

Town Hall Theater’s new series World Music + Wine features a monthly music showcase celebrating sounds from around the world. From May through August at Lincoln Peak Vineyard, drink in the music of Kenya, Chile, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Brazil, and Costa Rica, pe … (read more)

Dan Forrest’s ‘Jubilate Deo’ to be sung in Hinesburg May 22

The Hinesburg Artist Series is bringing back Dan Forrest’s “Jubilate Deo” on Sunday, May 22, at St. Jude Catholic Church in Hinesburg, with performances at 2 and 4:30 p.m. Originally scheduled for March 2020, members of the Hinesburg Artist Series are thr … (read more)

Faith Gong: The Year the Music Died… and How it Was Reborn

It will probably not surprise you to learn that 2012-2013 – the year the music died — was the year our family got a puppy and the year I gave birth to our fourth child.

Protest playlist: 10 songs curated by Middlebury College political science professor Kemi Fuentes-George

As a bonus to our Jan. 7 story about Middlebury College professor Kemi Fuentes-George and his upcoming J-Term class on protest music, the Independent is pleased to present the following playlist, curated by Fuentes-George, which features some of the songs … (read more)

Music, politics collide in J-term class

MIDDLEBURY — On April 25, 2019, Ayman Mao, a Sudanese musician living in the United States, flew back to his native city of Khartoum to participate in a sit-in outside that African nation’s army headquarters. Two weeks before, amid massive protests, the c … (read more)

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