BRATTLEBORO — The 10th Annual Northern Roots Festival will bring together the largest array of traditional music since the festival's founding.
Presented by the Brattleboro Music Center on Saturday, Jan. 28, and drawing on Brattleboro's rich local scene and colleagues from across New England, Northern Roots presents Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian and French Canadian music in intimate settings, offering the opportunity to experience a wide range of music through teaching workshops, performances, and jam sessions.
The festival is based at the New England Youth Theater with McNeill's Brewery hosting a pub sing and Irish and French Canadian jam sessions throughout the afternoon.
Among the featured performers:
• The Gawler Family, a fun-loving, folk-singing, fiddle-playing family band from Maine.
• The Vox Hunters, Armand Aromin, and Benedict Gagliardi, are musically bound by a shared love of traditional Irish music, which originally brought them together, as well as an eclectic and ever-growing amalgam of songs.
• Shannon and Matt Heaton, a husband-and-wife duo who have been Northern Roots favorites, will present a mix of flute-based traditional Irish music and song.
Also performing will be Anna Patton, Mary Lea, and Kate Barnes.
The festival brings the latest incarnation of “Traddleboro,” a grouping of local musicians that changes each year.
This year's ensemble features Becky Tracy, Keith Murphy, Lissa Schneckenburger, Andy Davis, Carol Compton, and Steve Rice, who will come together to recreate the classic sound of the Irish Ceili band.