Deborah flanders

17th Annual Folk Concert

HEIRLOOM

Passing the Music on

to the Next Generation

Sunday, August 16, 2015

4:00 p.m.

Old West Church in

Calais, Vermont

Admission: $15

This year’s concert showcases Vermont performers passing the music on to the next generation. Franco American Folk singer Michèle Choinière performs with her eight-year-old daughter Isabella, Deb Flanders sings with her niece Esther Nemethy, Fiddler David Gusakov performs with his son Nate who plays banjo and Pete Sutherland performs with his protégé fiddler Oliver Scanlon. Musicians from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra cellist John Dunlop and violinist/fiddler Laura Markowitz will also join the concert for an afternoon of memorable music making.

The 17th Annual Calais Concert is featured in Vermont Arts 2015, a year-long celebration highlighting arts events, concerts, festivals, exhibits and openings that will occur all across the state in 2015 by the Vermont Arts Council.

For 16 years, The Calais Concert has been organized by singer Deb Flanders in honor of her great-aunt Helen Hartness Flanders, one of the pioneers of folk music history in the United States. Helen Hartness Flanders, a native of Vermont, was an internationally recognized ballad collector and authority on folk music found in New England and in the British Isles. Today, 4,500 of her field recordings are housed at the Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College. This collection is consulted frequently by folklorists and musicians locally, nationally, and internationally.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Vermont Folklife Center. For more info: Call 802-233-1015