
5th Annual Irish Arts Festival
GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER’S 5TH ANNUAL
IRISH ARTS FESTIVAL
Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15
Saturday, March 14 @ 7pm
Traditional Irish Acoustic Music
Featuring music by Benedict Koehler and Hilari Farrington; the Knotwork Trio (Annabel Moynihan, Michael Moynihan, Don Schnaber); and Green Corduroy (Joe Cribari, Denise Dean, Harold Kaplan, John NcKelvey, and Katrina Van Tyne).
This concert will be followed by an Open Irish Music Sessionfor audience members to join in with their instruments, voice, or to listen to this unique style of ensemble music.
Tickets are $25/adult, $15 children 12 + under at the door or at www.sevendaystickets.com
For information and registration email grangehallcc@gmail.com or call 802-244-4168.
Sunday, March 15 @ 3pm
O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music
by Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer
In a theatrical reading with guitar music by Stephen Kiernan
Performed by Ethan Bowen
Artistic Director of Bald Mountain Theater
Charles MaCabe meets his hero Tulough O’Carolan and a deep friendship is formed as the two musicians travel through 17th century Ireland. But what side are you on? Can the friendship endure O’Carolan’s playing to the invading English gentry? The music and story might spring from the 17th-century invasion of Ireland by England, but the play seems as current as the questions challenging our own times.
Tickets are $15 adult/ $10 youth (12 + under) at the door or at www.sevendaystickets.com
For more information and registration:
email grangehallcc@gmail.com or call 802-244-4168.
BIOS:
Benedict Koehler and Hilari Farrington are multi-instrumentalists renowned across the U.S. and Canada as teachers and performers of Irish traditional music. Founders of the Vermont School of Irish Traditional Music, this couple has helped to create and promote a thriving Irish music community in the state and hold regular traditional Irish music sessions at Baggitos in Montpelier, Vermont.
Knotwork Trio is made up of Annabel Moynihan, Michael Moynihan, and Don Schabner. Annabel is the director of Vermont Music Center in Waterbury, Michael is a scholar, writer, composer and musician. Don is a well-established and respected musician who has guided many bands and solo artists. is the founder of The Vermont Music Center in Waterbury, Vermont, serving students from all over central Vermont. She started playing the violin when she was five years old and now performs all over the world in various bands and groups. All three musicians have performed and recorded all over the world with musical line-ups from folk to classical to rock and heavy metal.
Green Corduroy is a 5-member traditional Irish/Celtic music band that plays everything from foot-stomping jigs and reels to graceful waltzes and the occasional familiar American folk song. Based out of central Vermont the band includes Joe Cribari on guitar and vocals, Denise Dean and Harold Kaplan on fiddle, John McKelvey on Irish pipes, flute and bouzouki, and Katrina VanTyne on fiddle and vocals.
Ethan Bowen is an accomplished professional actor formerly based in New York City and later in Washington DC (Woolly Mammoth Theater Company), now living in Rochester, Vermont with his family and founding Bald Mountain Theater in 2015. With Bald Mountain Theater he has made it their mission to bring great classic stories to life for all ages, especially delving into the ancient characteristic stories to share the hearts of different cultures with audiences of all ages.