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Carolan Festival Worcester, VT

Our festival is a gathering of people who play, listen, sing, or dance to
the music of Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), Irish harper and composer.

Music, Dance, & Cultural Links (all VT unless otherwise noted):

'All the Traditions' Radio Show on VPR, hosted by Robert Resnik (statewide and beyond)

Benedict Koehler & Hilari Farrington: Vermont School of Irish Traditional Music

Birchen Music & Publishing  Timothy Cummings (Monkton)

Burlington Country Dancers English Country (Burlington,Plattsburgh) & Scottish Country Dancing (Burlington)

Burlington Irish Heritage Festival (Burlington)

Cairde na Cruite(Ireland)

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Ireland & Worldwide)- this page is a Glossary with audio of Irish pronunciation

Ensemble Musica Humana (Boston) **CD, "Turlough O'Carolan: A Life in Song", on period instruments & voice**


Timothy Cummings (Monkton)

Dominique Dodge (Burlington)

Frost & Fire (VT/Adks)

Fyre & Lightning Consort (Marshfield, VT)

McFadden Academy of Irish Dance (Burlington area, Middlebury)

Heather Morris School of Dance (Charlotte, Burlington area, Waterbury)

New World Festival (Randolph, VT)

NIPS Music (Central VT & Champlain Valley)

On the Border Morris Dancers  (Burlington)

The Pipers' Gathering (CT)

Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival (Portsmouth, NH)

Quechee Scottish Festival & Celtic Fair (Quechee, VT)

Reagh Greenleaf, Jr. (Bristol, VT)

Revels North (Hanover, NH)

Scrag Mountain Music (Warren, VT)

Siamsa (Montreal, QC)

Summit School of Traditional Music & Culture (Montpelier)

Upper Valley English Country Dancing (Norwich, VT)

VT Bellows Pipe & Fiddle School (Huntington)

VT Institute of Celtic Arts  Iain MacHarg (Marshfield/statewide)

VT Irish Sessions blog  Katrina Van Tyne

Wire-Strung Harp  (International)

Young Tradition VT  Mark Sustic