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Doors open at 7:00 for all shows- no advance tickets
Saturday March 3rd Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
"This quartet has a rare gift for fashioning hip, sleek sounds from the solid cloth of vintage American music." -- The Boston Globe
"As hard to classify as it is to praise highly enough...an intoxicating blend of roots music styles, with deep traditional roots and a healthy futuristic outlook. Strongly recommended." -- The Rogue Folk Review, Vancouver BC
Saturday April 7th Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen
"Steve Gillette, a veteran singer-songwriter, has penned tunes for Garth Brooks, Linda Ronstadt and Jiminy Cricket and it's easy to hear why these disparate artists look his way... His sense of love is immensely personal, engagingly familial and sweetly generational.
"Cindy Mangsen combines a magnificent smoky voice with pure intelligence. Intelligence in choosing songs, in writing songs, and understanding of what she sings."
Saturday May 5th Dollar General
Dollar General plays a unique brand of acoustic music. The song based quartet infuses improvisation and subtle but complex rhythms into Chorney’s book of sometimes ethereal, sometimes driving songs. Guitarist and vocalist Michael Chorney, bassist Robinson Morse and drummer Geza Carr have worked together for years. They are the foundation of the Hadestown Orchestra, the touring group that performs Chorney’s and Anais Mitchell collaboration "Hadestown”. The addition of pedal steel player Asa Brosius provides the perfect compliment both in sound and in musical personality to the road-seasoned trio.
Saturday June 2nd special co-bill with Ray Bonneville and Louise Taylor
"Taylor brings a new sophistication and eclecticism to her music, which reaches beyond simple folk constructions and references such diverse musical idioms as African rhythms, world music, blues and percussive jazz. Taylor's guitar work is front and center on this collection of songs which represents a unique talent coming of age in contemporary music." --- Paste Magazine, Ralph Digennaro
“Ray is like Gunpowder and Opium . . .”
— Ray Wylie Hubbard
“a master of the slow burn, the gentle funk, the infectious rhythm.”
“a deceptively simple soundtrack for life augmented by seductive guitar lines that weave through each composition…it’s a hot summer drive down a familiar road with the windows down.”
Saturday July 7th After The Rodeo
After the Rodeo is an innovative and imaginative new Americana act that is a harbinger of their genre. Featuring some of Vermont’s busiest and most sought after musicians, After the Rodeo is an amalgamation of talent that blends seamless, melodic musicianship along with supple three-part harmonies that transcends beyond the typical musical landscape. They wowed us at the January open mic- we welcome them to the Ripton Stage for a feature performance!
Saturday October 6th Cosy Sheridan
Cosy Sheridan has been called "one of the era's finest and most thoughtful singer/songwriters." A winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival NewFolk Showcase and the Telluride Troubadour Contest, she has played everywhere from Carnegie Hall and Jerry Lewis Telethon to the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Her songs have appeared in best-selling author Robert Fulghum's book "Third Wish" and in the documentary "Lines Across The Sand."://www.cosysheridan.com/index.htm