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Enjoy music from VPR including All The Traditions with Robert Resnik, My Place with Joel Najman, Friday Night Jazz with Ray Vega, Safe & Sound with Mary Engisch. We also carry national music programming, including American Routes, All Songs Considered, Alt.Latino, Mountain Stage and Hearts of Space.Check out VPR Classical, too!

Great Songs Performed By The Composers

photo courtesy of NPR
Kris Kristofferson (the composer of "Me and Bobby McGee"!)

A healthy serving of classic songs performed by the composers, and not by the musicians that made them famous, plus our cure for the Election Season Blues: A dose of the real thing,  from Willie Dixon to Big Joe Williams.

This program will air on Sunday November 6th from 7 - 10 p.m.

This week's calendar announcements:

Bruce Molsky and his trio the Mountain Drifters will perform at the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph on Saturday November 12th at 7:30 p.m.  They will also be giving a workshop at the Chandler at 2 p.m. on the same day.

The 802 Vermont Music Showcase presents The Backstage Blues Cabaret featuring Bob Stannard & Those Dangerous Bluesmen and Dave Keller on Thursday, November 10th at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, November 12th the Whallonsburg, NY Grange Hall will present a concert by Adirondack folk singers and storytellers Dan Berggren & Alex Smith.  The show begins at 7:30 p.m.

The newly formed Friends of the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House present The Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band in a concert to benefit future programming at the Opera House on Sunday, November 13th at 4 p.m.

There will be a Contra Dance at the Tunbridge Town Hall on Friday November 11th at 7:30 p.m. with live music and with refreshments at intermission.

NRBQ and The Whole Wheat Horns will be playing at the Barre Opera House on Saturday November 12th.

The Dave Keller Band will be performing at Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. in Lincoln, on Saturday, November 12th at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Daddy Longlegs, a Vermont trio consisting of Rick Ceballos, David Gusakov and Matt Witten, will be performing at Brandon Music on Saturday November 12th at 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota Bluesman Charlie Parr will be playing at ArtsRiot on Pine St. in Burlington on Wednesday November 9th.

The Cedric Burnside Project will perform on Saturday, November 12th at 7:30 pm at the newly-renovated and accessible Next Stage in Putney.

Benedict Koehler, Hilari Farrington, Norman Kennedy, and Dominique Dodge will be performing at the Cabot Town Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday November 13th.

Robert Resnik has been the host of All the Traditions, Vermont Public's folk and world music show, since 1996. He is the winner of the 2019 Herb Lockwood Prize In the Arts, an honor that rewards the pinnacle of arts leadership in Vermont and is the recipient of the 2022 Margaret L Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Council of the Arts.
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