Dates to date (please check back soon!)
Fifth Annual Farewell Reunion with Mark Sustic and Friends - June 1
Bread and Bones - June 22
Village Harmony - July 21
Full Circle (just added) - August 10
Rebecca Hall - August 25
Thea Hopkins - September 14
Praise him with
a blast of the ram's horn;
praise him with lyre and harp.
Praise him with
timbrel and dance;
praise him withstrings and pipe.
Praise him with resounding cymbals;
praise him with loud-clanging cymbals.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Hallelujah!
Following is the current listing for the 2007 season. Please check back for updates.
Friday,
June 1: MARK SUSTIC & FRIENDS FAREWELL REUNION
7:30 PM
The Fifth Annual Farewell Reunion! Details to follow. Presented by the Events for Tom Series as part of Summer Music at Grace. Contact Beth Crane beth@daybell.net or Mark Sustic mrksustc@together.net.
$10 suggested donation at the door.
Bread
and Bones, June 22nd, 7:30 PM
New this year!! Welcome Bread and Bones. Bread and Bones is Richard Ruane with BethDuquette and Mitch Barron Their music has been described as well-crafted, soulful, rootsy, haunting and intelligently infectious.
Richard is an award-winning songwriter and has been a songwriting finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival Grassy Hill New Folk Competition, the Great Waters Folk Festival Songwriter Contest, the Plowshares Coffeehouse Singer-Songwriter Competition and the SolarFest Songwriter Showcase. In performance, Richard’s original music is mixed with traditional songs and even some folkie treatments of standards. Beth’s expressive alto voice blends beautifully with Richard’s warm baritone. Richard plays guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo and the ukulele. Mitch Barron adds his wonderful presence on double bass, fretless electric and vocals.
Check out Bread and Bones' website here.
Saturday,
July 21 at 7:30pm: Village Harmony Potluck dinner PRECEDING concert
at 6:00 PM
Led by Director Larry Gordon, Val Mindel and Tijana Vignjevic
The ensemble is jointly led by Vignjevic, Village Harmony founder and co-director Larry Gordon, and Val Mindel.
Vignjevic is a dynamic young choir and orchestral director who is expert in both the raw village music and the more lyrical urban music of Bosnia. For ten years she has led the women's vocal ensemble Corona which specializes in traditional music of the Balkans. She comes to the US this summer after drawing rave reviews from all the singers who participated in last summer's Village Harmony singing camp in Bosnia.
The concert program also includes: rhythmic and powerful South African songs and dances, rousing American shape-note and gospel songs, and three intricate14th century motets, led by Gordon; and a range of appealing Appalachian and old time harmony songs led by Mindel. The voices are joined on some numbers by a band of up to five fiddles, flute, clarinet, saxophone and keyboard. The 22 dedicated young singers are drawn from seven states and two foreign countries, and they have just spent eight days in intensive rehearsal retreat in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom learning the music and culture of these songs in preparation for this concert tour.
Each summer Village Harmony repeats this process ten times, with six different ensembles traveling through New England and three or four different groups overseas, this summer in Bulgaria, Caucasus Georgia and South Africa. Each group develops its own unique sound, but all share some common traits: a powerful, natural, unrestrained, yet unforced vocal sound; a remarkable variety of vocal styles and timbres, as appropriate to the many varieties of ethnic and traditional music; and the vibrant community among the singers which always includes the audience in a joyous celebration.
Village Harmony's many recordings and songbooks will be available for sale at the concert.
Suggested admission is $8 for adults/$5 for children and students.
.jpg)
Full
Circle
Friday, August 10, 7:30 PM
Full Circle is a group of five friends who have been making music together, in various combinations, since 1978. Our paths have separated, our lives have become complex and busy, but we've come full circle, all together again.
Full Circle specializes in music from approximately 800 to 1600 AD. We particularly enjoy medieval and Renaissance dances and love songs. We also add other pieces as we come to love them, so our repertoire now includes Baroque instrumental music, folk songs, Celtic and Appalachian tunes, and some 20th century pieces. The members of Full Circle are Maeve Kim, Beth London, Susan Reit, Linda Rodd and Mary Ann Samuels. Full Circle sometimes includes other musicians for some performances. Susan and Mary Ann also perform as Samuels and Reit. Our instruments include recorders, hammered dulcimer, harp, guitar, voices, drums and tambourines, finger cymbals, wood blocks, bells, gourds, a gong, and goat toenails. Over the years, members of Full Circle have performed at Burlington's First Night, UVM Carol Dinners, Owl's Head Blueberry Farm, the Essex Children's Choir Twelfth Night Celebration, Fine Wine and Food Festival at Shelburne Farms, the Fleming Museum, Lane Series Dine-a-Round, Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington's Festival of the Trees, the Inn at Essex, Medieval Fairs, UVM's Campus at Noon, garden parties, church services, weddings, and schools in Vermont and New Hampshire.
.jpg)
Rebecca
Hall and Ken Anderson Return!
Saturday, August 25, 7:30 PM
“"...Completely enchanting..." "If you haven't yet heard folk songstress Rececca Hall, remedy the situation as soon as posisble." - Casey Rea in Seven Days (January 12-19, 2005)
Conjuring the ancient, often haunting, ballads of the British Isles and their Appalachian counterparts, Rebecca Hall’s compositions don’t so much ignore modern songcraft as transcend it. Combined with husband Ken Anderson’s old-school musical arrangements and ‘60s-era pop harmonies, the result is an altogether new, yet curiously familiar, style they call “retro folk.” Sing Out! calls Rebecca’s tunes “uncannily like the timeless traditional songs that inspire her.” Indeed, she has been hailed as “a true rarity: a new folk classicist” by the Boston Herald. On stage, Rebecca plays guitar and Ken plays bass, guitar and harmonica. Listening to them live, their musicianship and eerie vocal perfection may very well transport you to Café Wha? in 1962, the Troubadour in 1972, or another place and time entirely. Visit their website: http://rebeccaandken.com
Thea Hopkins
Friday, September 14, 7:30 PM
Critically
acclaimed Boston singer-songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music
American Short Story Folk: concise, striking narratives, they tell of
American romance and tragedy in modern terms. Folk icons Peter, Paul &
Mary, (who have recorded her ballad “Jesus is On The Wire,” about gay
hate crime victim Matthew Shepard) described Hopkins as “one of the most
literate, poetic and emotionally moving of the new singer-songwriters
to arrive on the scene in the last few years”. In 2004, her song "Jesus
Is On The Wire," was included on Peter, Paul & Mary's first album in nine
years, "In These Times." Thea's song is the only new song to be performed
in its entirety in the trio's recent PBS-TV special, a career-overview
called "Carry It On." Visit www.theahopkins.com
for more information about Thea.
photo by Daniel Gewertz
Information for Performers: The Summer Music at Grace series is a program of Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon. We are open to hosting a wide array of musical genres and begin programming for the summer months in January.
The music series is an unsponsored program, so we cannot guarantee income from the performances. We encourage performers to set an admission fee or to suggest a free-will donation. Proceeds from the gate are the property of the artists. In return, we are grateful for a gratuity to help defray our expenses, but it is not required.
The Grace space is also available at other times of the year for use by performers. If you are interested in performing at Grace Church as part of Summer Music at Grace or at another time of the year, please contact Beth Crane at (802) 326-4603 or via email at beth@gracechurchsheldon.org. If we are able to host you, please send us publicity photos and a sample press release at least one month prior to the date so that we can publicize the performance locally well in advance of the event.
To reach Grace Church from VT
105:
North Sheldon: Take the Kane Road to East Sheldon Road (T); turn right
and proceed about 2 miles to the village of Sheldon (known as Sheldon
Creek). East Sheldon Road becomes Pleasant Street. Grace Church is the
brick church on the right just after the intersection of Central Street.
Sheldon Junction. Turn onto Main Street at the mileage sign showing 2 miles to Sheldon, 6 miles to Fairfield. (Main is on the left heading West and on the right heading East. Follow Main Street to the village of Sheldon (known as Sheldon Creek). Turn left onto Bridge Street at the 3-way stop. Follow Bridge across the bridge and old railroad crossing; continue until Bridge and Pleasant diverge. Bear left onto Pleasant and follow around the big turn. Grace Church will be on the left.
Directions are also available by clicking on "Directions and Map" in the index.