Concerts

This fine Vermont chamber ensemble is dedicated to exploring the boundaries of the string quartet repertoire. The concert will feature music from Baroque to jazz to Nordic folk, and much in between. These soulful lyrical tunes fill a concert of approximately one hour of music, without intermission.

 A traditional West African  performance and educational  ensemble bringing the  spirit of West African  music and dance  to New England since 1993! They give high energy performances featuring traditional pieces with  djembe, doun doun and krin  instruments and dancers.   All of our performances are interactive  and culminate in audience participation.

Three ensembles of different styles will perform at this event. The Green Mountain Chorus appears with the Chordination barbershop quartet, and --new this season-- the VLQ (Very Large Quartet), Offshoots..

These six Vermont musicians focus on the sound and repertoire of Louis Armstrong’s All Stars of the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Enjoy an informal cabaret-style evening featuring a fine jazz quartet of clarinet, grand piano, double bass, and rums! Relax at your own table while musicians Haiduck, Heckendorn, Haenni, and Ryan perform all-time favorites featuring the Great American Songbook. Reserve your table online.

Vermont’s premier big-band swing/dance group. Swingin’ for over 40 years! Their appearance is always a popular event in the hot venues across Vermont.

New York City concert pianist Sohyun Ahn returns to Island Arts for the third year. Her well-attended concerts of the last two summers elicited raves— “amazing delicacy” and “world class”. Ahn plays the Ballade No. 4 and Three Nocturnes Op. 15 by Chopin, and Sonata in E flat Major by Haydn. Local pianist Eun Hee Park joins Ahn to play the piano 4-hands work Romantiques, Op. 55 by Cécile Chaminade.

Island Arts 40th Anniversary Celebration with Food Truck. Vermont musician Colby Crehan, former vocalist and songwriter for the Bluegrass Gospel Project and Possum Haw, reunites with Possum Haw bandmates for the new 5-piece acoustic project Marsh Lights.

This internationally known ensemble appears in South Hero on Sat. June 7. Experiencing an ensemble like this up close is SO unlike the distant view in a big concert hall.  Not to be missed. Click for details.