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Vermont Foklife’s mission is to deepen our understanding of each other by engaging with communities across the state to document and share everyday expressions of tradition, innovation, and culture.V﻿ermont Folklife is the home of Young Tradition Vermont. Learn more about YTV programs here: https://www.vtfolklife.org/ytv

Vermont Folklife

2022 Young Tradition Festival
May 2-8, 2022 
2022 YTV Festival in City Hall and other locations in/near downtown Burlington, Vermont

Burlington

Young Tradition Festival is an annual event held on the first full weekend (Friday-Sunday) and the weekdays prior in May. It’s a weeklong celebration of multi-generational relationships from diverse traditional music and dance communities. Children, youth and young adults are the major focus, as well as those who support them as teachers, mentors, friends and families. The Festival is an attempt to cultivate and feature intergenerational sharing. Participants share what inspires them, what they have learned, and their ability to perform, and to be inspired by and inspiring to others.
The Festival is scheduled to return to a full set of programs and activities in 2022 (any adjustments in that plan will be announced by 4/1/22): 
•	Monday May 2nd through Friday May 6th 7pm evening concerts featuring artists and guests from and inspired by Quebec: Grosse Isle (Monday), É.T.É (Tuesday), Zigue (Wednesday), Babineau/Chartrand (Thursday) and the Young Tradition Touring Group and Young Tradition Youth Commission (Friday)
•	Saturday, May 7th 1pm Contest Finals, featuring 10 finalists from dozens of entries and past contest winners and TBA guest performers
•	Saturday, May 7th 6pm Showcase Concert featuring a wide variety of young musicians and dancers performing with their mentors, teachers and/or parents, including those involved with the Vermont Folklife Center's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
•	Sunday, May 8th 3pm Tribute hosted by Windborne with other guests honoring Larry Gordon, Tony Barrand and Norma Waterson.
Host musician for the entire week will be Lisa Ornstein. Other activities planned include performances on Church Street Marketplace, post-concert Festival Club sessions, school, hospital and senior center visits, and a flash mob performance.
The Festival is presented by Young Tradition Vermont with Burlington City Arts and the Vermont Folklife Center with support from Church Street Marketplace, the Nelson Family Foundation, the Quebec Delegation Boston, the Turrell Fund, the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and others TBA.

Tickets will go on sale by 4/1/22.

For more information contact YTV Executive Director Mark Sustic at mark.sustic@gmail.com or 2022 Festival Manager Danielle Devlin at danielle.canismusic@gmail.com. 
photos: Lisa Ornstein, Grosse Isle, É.T.É, Zigue, Babineau/Chartrand, Windborne, Larry Gordon, Tony Barrand, Norma Waterson

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