Vermont Folklife's Sugar in the Pan Trad Band plays traditional music from New England, Québec, Maritime Canada and beyond, featuring lively tunes that will have folks of all ages up & dancing!  These fantastic teenage musicians with the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group offer creative and engaging arrangements for audiences.  They have performed at the New World Festival in Randolph and the Young Tradition Festival in Burlington; toured Cape Breton in 2023 and Québec in 2024; and have entertained at various retirement communities and schools in Vermont. 

Stop by to see our table at the MRPS PIE Montpelier Fall Festival! We will also be performing a sneak peek of our fall musical - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!

Opening Weekend Party! 

Join us in kicking off our By Donors, For Donors Benefit Series with a night of live music, drinks, dancing, and fun! This event is open to all ages. 

Get Up With It (calypso jazz dance funk) is Ras Burnett on Tenor Sax, Emily Lanxner on Steel Drums, Keith Gibson on Drums and Jeremy Hill on Bass.

We are so excited to partner with Tally, who will be serving drinks at this event!

Doors will open at 7:00 pm - drinks, DJ’d music

Live music begins at 8:00 pm - Get Up With It

A double-header folk music concert with Maddie Fern and Frosty Frog! This event is family friendly.

Ordinary Days: A Musical By Adam Gwon

From one of musical theatre's most exciting new composers comes Ordinary Days, a refreshingly honest and funny musical about making real connections in the city that never sleeps (but probably should at some point).

Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. Ordinary Days is an original musical for anyone who's ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex place. With equal doses of humor and poignancy, it celebrates how 8.3 million individual stories combine in unexpected ways to make New York City such a unique and extraordinary home.

Ordinary Days is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Director: Eric Love

The Traveler's Circle (tc), founded in 1996 by Montpelier author Mark Laxer.  It's a fun, informal way to get storytelling experience and to learn about the larger world.  Here's how it works.   It's like jamming.  Someone starts by telling a story and that story sparks another story--and another--and before you know it, mostly everyone has shared a story, as the theme through the evening evolves.  No fact checking.  Peace Corps Beer Scholarships available.  For details contact Mark, a passionate supporter of the Hub, at Mark.Laxer@gmail.com   

Next tc potluck at the Hub: October 19th, 1-4pm.

Ordinary Days: A Musical By Adam Gwon

From one of musical theatre's most exciting new composers comes Ordinary Days, a refreshingly honest and funny musical about making real connections in the city that never sleeps (but probably should at some point).

Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. Ordinary Days is an original musical for anyone who's ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex place. With equal doses of humor and poignancy, it celebrates how 8.3 million individual stories combine in unexpected ways to make New York City such a unique and extraordinary home.

Ordinary Days is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Director: Eric Love

Since her accident, college sophomore Freya spends each day sitting under a tree and talking to her squirrel friend, Ratatosk. Her eccentric behavior becomes worrying when strange things start happening on campus, including the disappearance of a classmate. In Under the World Tree, Norse gods are real and Freya struggles to accommodate their increasingly bloody demands.

Join us for an intimate solo concert with VT Blues and Soul musician, Dave Keller!

Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn't everything.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Director: Kianna Bromley
Assistant Director: Anna Blackburn
Music Director: Molly Clark
Choreographer: Sierra Norford

Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn't everything.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Director: Kianna Bromley
Assistant Director: Anna Blackburn
Music Director: Molly Clark
Choreographer: Sierra Norford

Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn't everything.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Director: Kianna Bromley
Assistant Director: Anna Blackburn
Music Director: Molly Clark
Choreographer: Sierra Norford

Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn't everything.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Director: Kianna Bromley
Assistant Director: Anna Blackburn
Music Director: Molly Clark
Choreographer: Sierra Norford

Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn't everything.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Director: Kianna Bromley
Assistant Director: Anna Blackburn
Music Director: Molly Clark
Choreographer: Sierra Norford

More than 30 teams of filmmakers from across Vermont channel their inner Kevin McAllister to help Crowdsourced VT remake the holiday slapstick comedy “Home Alone!” Produced by the Media Factory, this screening is Co-Presented by ORCA Media.

Remember back in the day, when the cool kids would hang out at cool house parties with their cool friends doing cool things?

SEESH, HOW BORING WERE THOSE KIDS?

While they were busy being popular in somebody’s house, the rest of us were chillin’ out in the gas station parking lot. In the sand pit. In the woods behind the friggin’ Wal-Mart. Y’know: building character.

HOMETOWN ZEROES is a fully improvised comedy show where noted unpopular nerds/professional improv comedians THE KINGDOM KIDS ask the audience about the places they used to hang out in their youth (and the people they used to hang out with).

Then, using those conversations as inspiration, they build a spontaneous, freewheeling and hilarious show you'll never forget.

Those cool kids had better watch out — we may have been zeroes back in the day, but after this cathartic comedy show, everyone will be calling us heroes! Come join us!

The Slaphappy Santa Christmas Spectacular is the swing, rock, and blues Christmas dance party you won't want to miss!

This band of 14 incredible musicians will have you up and dancing all night! Brian Boyes, Jolynda Burton, Mike D, Joey and Andy DC, Tom Frink, Greg Hayes, Jen Heller, Daemmon Hughes, Ryan Mase, David Ruffin, Adam Sawyer, Amy Woodbury Tease, and Carolyn Wesley

Join us for a performance by Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group performing traditional music and dance.