Songs for Today:
a Concert/Conversation featuring Vermont Folk Songs from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection
presented by singer and storyteller Jack DesBois

Saturday August 18th, 2018 at 7:30PM
Unity Hall, The Congregational Church of Middlebury, UCC
Free (donations welcome!)
Sponsored by the Vermont Folklife Center

Folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders devoted her life to preserving and promoting New England's folk music culture. Her collection, compiled from 1930 to 1958 and currently housed at Middlebury College, contains over four thousand recordings of New England songs, tunes and stories. Initially intent on tracing Vermont's Anglo-Irish heritage, Flanders increasingly expanded the scope of her collecting to represent a wide cross-section of Vermonters in the mid-20th century. In this concert/conversation, singer and storyteller Jack DesBois leads an exploration of Flanders' collection of Vermont songs and the importance of folk song in our lives today.

Jack DesBois earned his BA Music from Middlebury College. He teaches Town Hall Theater education programs and is a caregiver at Project Independence adult day center. Jack is a classically trained folk singer and recipient of the Vermont Folklife Center's Flanders Award for Traditional Vermont Music.

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