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Andy Kolovos
March 7, 2018
Special Events

Anna & Elizabeth - A Benefit Concert for the Vermont Folklife Center

Andy Kolovos
March 7, 2018
Special Events
Anna & Elizabeth - A Benefit Concert for the Vermont Folklife Center

Spellbinding reinterpretations of traditional New England songs learned from the Vermont Folklife Center Archive and the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College.

vtfolklife
January 25, 2018
Featured Media Homepage

Exploring Community in the Vermont Grange

vtfolklife
January 25, 2018
Featured Media Homepage
Exploring Community in the Vermont Grange

Exploring and documenting the role of the Grange in Vermont today - specifically focusing on two active community Granges: Middle Branch Grange in East Bethel and Riverside Grange in West Topsham.

Tagged: Fieldwork, Current Fieldwork

vtfolklife
October 4, 2017

Peoples Academy: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

vtfolklife
October 4, 2017
Peoples Academy: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

Visit Peoples Academy in Morrisville, VT as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning. 

Tagged: Proficiency Film - PA

vtfolklife
September 15, 2017

CVU: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

vtfolklife
September 15, 2017
CVU: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

Visit Champlain Valley Union HS in Hinesburg, VT as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning. 

Tagged: Proficiency Films

vtfolklife
September 11, 2017

Harwood: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

vtfolklife
September 11, 2017
Harwood: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

Visit Harwood Union HS in Duxbury, VT as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning. 

Tagged: Proficiency Film - HUHS, Proficiency Films

vtfolklife
September 1, 2017

BFA St. Albans: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

vtfolklife
September 1, 2017
BFA St. Albans: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

Visit Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans as a part of our “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” series -films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning. 

Tagged: Proficiency Films

vtfolklife
August 15, 2017
Featured Media Media

Trailer: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

vtfolklife
August 15, 2017
Featured Media Media
Trailer: Stories on the Road to Proficiency

Film trailer for “Stories on the Road to Proficiency” a compendium of films to explore, spark dialogue, and further understanding about the implementation of proficiency-based learning. 

Tagged: Proficiency Films

Andy Kolovos
February 24, 2017
Featured Media Media, Grassroots Food Movement

Growing Food, Growing Farmers

Andy Kolovos
February 24, 2017
Featured Media Media, Grassroots Food Movement

The Growing Food, Growing Farmers audio series focuses on agricultural activity - and agricultural revival - in Rutland County from the perspectives of the farmers themselves.

Dan Kirk
February 12, 2017
Daisy Turner, Featured Media Homepage, Featured Media Media

Daisy Turner

Dan Kirk
February 12, 2017
Daisy Turner, Featured Media Homepage, Featured Media Media
Daisy Turner

In 1983 Jane Beck, the founder of the Vermont Folklife Center, first met Daisy Turner, who then was 100 years old, born in Grafton, Vermont, the daughter of slaves.

Tagged: Past Fieldwork, Fieldwork

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

Migmar Tsering - "Yamdrok Yumtso"

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

Migmar Tsering, an accomplished singer and player of dramyin - a long-necked, seven-stringed lute - is a Tibetan refugee who has lived in Vermont since 2011.

Tagged: Traditional Music

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

Harold Luce and Adam Boyce - "Fisher's Hornpipe"

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

Harold Luce of Chelsea, VT learned to play fiddle as a boy in the 1930s and performed as a member of the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers from 1933 up until his death in 2014. In 2007 folklorist Andy Kolovos recorded Harold and his accompanist, Adam Boyce, in Chelsea, VT.

Tagged: Traditional Music, Traditional Music NEH

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

Alberta Gagné - "C'était une bergere"

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

"C'était une bergere" is a French language folk song that tells the story of an ill-fated encounter between a shepherdess and kitten. This version of the song was performed by Alberta Gagné of Highgate, VT and recorded by Vermont Franco-American performer and cultural advocate, Martha Pellerin in 1995

Tagged: Traditional Music, Traditional Music NEH

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

Fred Atwood - "Springfield Mountain"

Andy Kolovos
February 8, 2017

"Springfield Mountain" (Laws G16) is a widely-distributed American folksong that details the story of a young man who dies of a rattlesnake bite.  This version was performed by Fred Atwood and recorded in 1964.

Tagged: Traditional Music

Andy Kolovos
December 1, 2016
Apprenticeship

Vermont Nepali Cultural Heritage Dance Group

Andy Kolovos
December 1, 2016
Apprenticeship
Vermont Nepali Cultural Heritage Dance Group

Early this past summer, members of the Bhutanese Nepali New American community formed a folk dance and music group for young people in Burlington’s Old North End neighborhood

Tagged: Fieldwork, Current Fieldwork

Andy Kolovos
August 26, 2016
Tropical Storm Irene, Featured Media Media

Weathering the Storm

Andy Kolovos
August 26, 2016
Tropical Storm Irene, Featured Media Media
Weathering the Storm

An audio documentary compiling excerpts from interviews with Vermonters who were impacted by Tropical Storm Irene.

Tagged: Aylie Baker, Audio

vtfolklife
August 20, 2016
Comics

Cartooning and Place

vtfolklife
August 20, 2016
Comics
Cartooning and Place

Andy has been interviewing a number of Vermont cartoonists to explore how being from - and living in - Vermont informs their work.

Tagged: Current Fieldwork, Fieldwork

Andy Kolovos
August 19, 2016
Comics, Featured Media Media, Featured Media Homepage

El viaje más caro / The Most Costly Journey

Andy Kolovos
August 19, 2016
Comics, Featured Media Media, Featured Media Homepage
El viaje más caro / The Most Costly Journey

An ethnographic cartooning project that pairs Vermont cartoonists with Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms. 

Tagged: Current Fieldwork

vtfolklife
August 1, 2016
North Branch School, Featured Media Media

North Branch School

vtfolklife
August 1, 2016
North Branch School, Featured Media Media
North Branch School

A short documentary film about the North Branch School in Ripton, VT - collaboratively produced by students, teachers, staff, and Vemont Folklife Cenrter ethnographer, Ned Castle.

Tagged: Past Fieldwork, Fieldwork, Video

vtfolklife
July 31, 2016
Grassroots Food Movement

The Grass-­Roots Food Movement in Vermont

vtfolklife
July 31, 2016
Grassroots Food Movement
The Grass-­Roots Food Movement in Vermont

The Vermont Folklife Center has undertaken an ethnographic research project exploring the occupational cultures and practices of these emergent, locally focused, “grass-­roots” agricultural enterprises.  Photo / Eric Seitz, Pitchfork Farm, Burlington, VT.

Tagged: Current Fieldwork, Fieldwork, NEH

vtfolklife
July 28, 2016

Unleashing Partnerships

vtfolklife
July 28, 2016
Unleashing Partnerships

UP for Learning and its collaborators provide a road map for building meaningful working partnerships between youth and adults – enabling them to take on the challenges and opportunities of improving their own schools across Vermont.

Tagged: Video, Unleashing Partnership

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