Twilight Music Concerts 2024
Twilight Music Concerts 2024
Kalos and
Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick
Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Celtic and fiddle music by Kalos (Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson, Jeremiah McLane) and Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick on Friday, September 6 at 7:30 pm at Next Stage.
Three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music - McDonald (guitar,mandolin, vocals), McKasson, (fiddle, viola, vocals), and McLane (accordion, piano, vocals) - draw on years of experience performing with the likes of Cantrip, Nightingale, The Clayfoot Strutters, and Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas to forge a new musical path as Kalos. They are masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges, delivering an alluring musical complexity full of spontaneity and joyful exuberance. Their individual artistry springs from strong traditional roots, and as a trio they move beyond this foundation. Kalos’ underlying drive and pulse, rhythmic electricity and swirling intensity transform traditional repertoire into a vital, elemental, genre-transcending sound appealing to music lovers of all stripes. Their music asks to be shared live, and performance is the band’s heart and forte.
Hannah O’Brien and Grant Flick mix original compositions and traditional pieces from various fiddling traditions. With backgrounds in classical, Irish, and American improvisational idioms, they feature double fiddles, but also vary instrumentation, incorporating tenor guitar and nyckelharpa. Their musical interests are broad and as a result, the award-winning duo showcases an eclectic assemblage of repertoire.
Next Stage is located at 15 Kimball Hill in downtown Putney, VT. Tickets are $20 Advance / $25 At the Door / $10 Livestream. For information, call 802-387-0102. Advance tickets are available at nextstagearts.org. Next Stage will provide a beer, wine, and cocktail cash bar.
Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick
Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick
Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick
Folk/Roots/Americana Music Festival
Folk/Roots/Americana Music Festival
Next Stage Arts continues its 2024 Bandwagon Summer Series of concerts with a Folk/Roots/Americana music festival, co-presented with Twilight Music, and featuring The Clements Brothers, The Jacob Jolliff Band, and The Mammals on Sunday, October 6 at 2:00 pm at Cooper Softball Field in Putney, VT.
The Clements Brothers are George and Charles Clements, identical twins from New England. They’ve been playing and writing music together for as long as they can remember and their duo marks their first project together since playing in the internationally touring grass-roots band The Lonely Heartstring Band, with whom they put out two albums on Rounder Records. With roots, rock, bluegrass, jazz, and classical influences, George (guitar) and Charles (bass) aim to capture their singer-songwriter sensibilities in a unique blended voice, at once enthralling and intimate, groovy, and serene. The duo is a fusion of each brother's unique musical journey, and the result is a music all its own, filled with vocal harmonies, instrumental virtuosity, and a genuine love of song.
Folk/Roots/Americana Music Festival
Folk/Roots/Americana Music Festival
Folk/Roots/Americana Music Festival
Born into a musical family in Newberg, OR, Jacob Jolliff started playing mandolin at age 7, and performed in a bluegrass gospel band with his father as a teenager. At age18, he was awarded a full scholarship to The Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he joined the New England-based roots music band Joy Kills Sorrow. They toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, playing hundreds of clubs, theaters, and festivals. In 2012, Jacob won the National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, Kansas, and two years later, joined the progressive bluegrass jam group Yonder Mountain String Band, releasing three albums and touring with the band until the end of 2019. In 2022, Jacob was called on by world famous banjo player Béla Fleck to tour as part of My Bluegrass Heart. He performed around the country alongside Béla and some of the very best musicians in the genre - Bryan Sutton, Cody Kilby, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Michael Cleveland, Stuart Duncan and Billy Contreras. Jacob's main focus now is The Jacob Jolliff Band - an ensemble of virtuosic pickers who play his original instrumentals, and showcase his singing. They tour nationally in the US and have also travelled to Scotland and Australia to perform.
Folk/Roots/Americana Music Festival
The Mammals are folksingers Ruth Ungar, Mike Merenda, and a cohort of compelling collaborators who form a touring quintet on the fiddle, banjo, guitar, organ, bass, and drums. Over the past 20 years they have quietly composed a canon of original songs (“Some of the best songwriting of their generation” - LA Times) that both reflect our culture and offer a vision of how the world might yet be. A rough and tumble decade in the 2000's forged The Mammals identity as "subversive acoustic traditionalists" (Boston Globe) and a "party band with a conscience," equally inspired by their folk predecessors and Americana peers. Re-emerging in 2017 from a hibernation period during which the band's founders explored new songwriting terrain (releasing five albums under the moniker Mike + Ruthy), the quintet effortlessly spans the horizons of Americana, from soulfully harmonized indie-folk ballads to zealous fiddle and banjo-driven foot stompers.
Cooper Field is located at 41 Sand Hill Road in Putney, VT. Tickets are $22 in advance / $25 at the gate / kids under 12 free. Advance tickets are available online at nextstagearts.org. Next Stage will provide a beer, wine, and cocktail cash bar. Bring lawn chairs or blankets for outdoor seating on the grass. For more information, visit nextstagearts.org or call 802-387-0102.
Coming Soon to Next Stage
September 20: Rakish and The Early Risers
October 11: Seth Glier and Rosier
October 20: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas and San Miguel Fraser
November 29: Hayley Reardon, Sam Robbins, and Emily Margaret
December 14: Antje Duvekot and Goodnight Moonshine
December 19: Mick McAuley & John Doyle and Rachel Clemente