Green Heron will be at the Ripton Community Coffee House on Saturday, May 18, 2024!
Photo by Amanda Kowalski
The music of Green Heron stretches across the entire folk landscape. Old-time, folk, bluegrass, country, celtic and blues music are all represented as the band brings the back porch to the stage. Featuring Betsy Heron on fiddle, banjo and vocals, and Scott Heron on guitar, banjo and vocals, the duo has been sharing New England stages together since 2017. The two songwriters weave the contemporary with the traditional and deliver high energy performances.
Betsy, brought up playing country music with her family's band in rural Massachusetts, still plays alongside her three sisters in The Green Sisters. Meanwhile, Scott spent several years in various metal bands touring New England and much of the country before discovering folk and bluegrass. Despite their very different backgrounds in music, the pair still draws from their roots when writing and performing and have found a common love for Americana and folk music.
To date, Green Heron has released three albums: Folk Heroes in 2018, New Pair of Shoes in 2019 and Feet on the Floorboards released in 2021.
Throughout their home state of New Hampshire, the duo has been featured in a variety of publications and have made appearances on several television and radio stations including WMUR's New Hampshire Chronicle as well as NHPR's All Things Considered and The Folk Show. New Hampshire Magazine featured Green Heron among the Editor's Choice picks for their Best of 2020 issue and Seacoast Edge listed Feet on the Floorboards among their best albums of 2021. In 2022, the band was nominated for Best Roots Act for the New England Music Awards.
The band occasionally performs on stage and records in studio with a variety of acts throughout New Enlgand. The two perform as part of the old-time string band Little Wishbone and co-founded the Americana quartet Mama Ain't Dead, subsequently releasing their self-titled debut album in September 2019.
Green Heron has shared the stage with several touring acts including The Del McCoury Band, The Seldom Scene, The Way Down Wanderers, and Them Coulee Boys in world-class venues such as Prescott Park, Belleville Roots Music Series, Ossipee Valley Music Festival, Stone Church, Bank of New Hampshire Stage, Club Passim, and Word Barn.
New Hampshire's weekly newspaper The Hippo said: "Betsy and Scott Heron's deft, delicate instrumental interplay and inspired harmonies make the case for them as New Hampshire's own Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings."
New Hampshire Magazine described Green Heron as a: "gumbo of old-time, bluegrass, folk, Irish, country and blues. They guide us along a path that alternates between a percolating stroll and an all-out breakneck sprint across the American folk landscape. Their pairing of string instruments with beautiful vocal harmonies is uplifting and joyful."
Home Stage of Norfolk, United Kingdom said they are: "Truly natural performers. Green Heron effortlessly embody the look, sound and style of 'old time' American folk, forging a timelessness in their music that can be hard to find in modern performers."
Seacoast Edge magazine called them: “A youthful pair paving their path of being the next wave of folk heroes … great vocal harmonies, campfire pluckery.”
Peter Biello, of NHPR’s All Things Considered said: "Their music calls to mind New England Old Home Days, county fairs and the kind of summer nights that feel downright magical."
Advance tickets are recommended and appreciated.
Click here to buy tickets for Green Heron on May 18th
Doors open at 7:00. Music begins at 7:30.
General admission $15 Generous admission $20-$25 or pay what you can
Beverages and Baked Goods Available
Thank you for your support!
1283 Vermont Route 125, Ripton, VT 05766
rcchfolks@gmail.com 802-388-9782
The Ripton Community Coffee House is entirely volunteer run with no paid staff. We are a nonprofit arts organization and all donations to us are tax deductible. Please contact us for more information or if you would like to help us in anyway. Our email address is rcchfolks@gmail.com. Thank you.
