The Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture presents…
Our 8th Annual – Spice on Snow Winter Music Festival
January 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th
At multiple venues throughout Downtown Montpelier, VT
Info – www.summit-school.org / 802-793-3016 / director@summit-school.org
Get ready for Spice on Snow Winter Music Festival. A four-day, city-wide celebration! From Thursday, January 25th, through Sunday the 28th, Montpelier will be filled with the sounds of spicy-hot Cajun and Old Time Stringband music, culture and cuisine from Louisiana, Southern Appalachia, and Canada. Our 2018 Headliners are…
From Ontario, Canada: The April Verch Band is a tour de force of North Americana sounds. Verch and her fellow trio members highlight the simple pleasures of upright bass, guitar, clawhammer banjo, voices, fiddle, and stepping in intimate conversation. At the heart lies Verch’s delicate voice, energetic footwork, and stunning playing. Sometimes she sings, steps, and fiddles all at once! Her live show is a beautiful companion to her music: versatile, robust, and masterfully executed.
From Lafayette, Louisiana: David Greely and Blake Miller represent a new wing of Cajun and Louisiana roots music. With fiddles, accordion and voices they play fiery two steps, ancient ballads, cane field blues, and yearning waltzes. Alumni of legacy Cajun bands The Revelers, Balfa Toujours, Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole, The Mamou Playboys and the Pine Leaf Boys, David and Blake meld an ancestral legacy with their own compositions. Accompanying David and Blake will be Vermont’s own Green Mountain Playboys.
From Brattleboro, Vermont: Scott Ainslie is steeped in Old-Time Southern Appalachian fiddle and banjo traditions, as well as Black Gospel and Blues. Armed with a variety of vintage guitars, a fretless gourd banjo, a one-string, and homemade diddley bow (aka cigar box guitar), Scott shares personal anecdotes of his encounters with senior musicians across the South. He offers a personality, a moment in history, and a vignette to entice you into a song and to give that song a chance to wake and breathe among us like a living thing.
From Glover, Vermont: Modern Times Theater are masters of the thoroughly modern media of pantomime, puppetry and novelty music. Husband and wife performers Justin Lander and Rose Friedman delight crowds with a fresh take on the entertainment styles of the past. There will be live acoustic music on a variety of instruments, from the ukulele to the bicycle pump, as well as a thrilling puppet show, all calculated to delight and enlighten both children and their folks.
Rounding out our lineup will be top-notch talent from throughout Vermont and New England.
Young Tradition Touring Group (25-piece youth group), Big Night (Cajun, Country Swing), Rear Defrosters (Honky Tonk), Granite Junction (Old Time), Chaque Fois! (Cajun), Mayfly (Family Program), Jon Gailmor (Folk, Family), Rich Colombo (Folk), Dana & Susan Robinson (Americana), Kick ‘Em Jenny (Old Time), Brian Slattery (Old Time), Two Cents in the Till (Folk-Bluegrass), Tim Jennings & Leanne Ponder (Storytelling), The Montpelier Gospel Choir, Heidi Wilson (Family Show), Patti Casey (Folk), Workshops, Irish, Swedish, Old Time, & Bluegrass Jam Sessions…
For the complete schedule, visit: www.summit-school.org
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For more information, contact – Dana Robinson, at director@summit-school.org
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