Va-et-vient

Mike Walker (mjwalker@gmavt.net) is organizing a Thursday series on the Charlotte town green and Charlotte library porch.  In addition to lively music, the "Grange on the Green" event features food and displays from Charlotte Farmers.  We are delighted to join them, so please bring your appetites, and be ready to chantez avec nous !  

We had our last concert of 2020 in this wonderful outdoor space in October.  Bring your lawn chairs, favorite snacks and beverages, and watch the sunset over the Adirondacks (oh, that view – spectaculaire !).  Family units will be seated together, and Host-with-the-Most (and drummer and chef par excellence) Dan Whittemore ensures that everyone is safe and happy.  We are delighted to return in August!  Free-will contributions  rule the day, and ensure that none are turned away, yet musicians are paid. 14 Audet Rd., Cornwall, VT 05753

Pittsford Village Farm is planning to restart a wonderful series of concerts on Tuesdays this summer.  We will be playing under the canopy to an outdoor audience, so come on out to chantez avec nous !  More details to come! 42 Elm St, Pittsford, VT 05763

Kick off your Labor Day weekend of fun with us in Shrewsbury, Vermont!  We'll be performing behind  the Shrewsbury Community Meetinghouse, and our rain date is September 4th.  (Mais il va faire très beau, sans doute...) This concert series features ten great regional bands play from May 29 - October 9, 2021, and is held outside the historic Meetinghouse on 88 Lottery Road in Shrewsbury, VT.  Bring your  generous CASH contribution, picnic dinners, friends and family. Folk, brass jazz ensemble, rock, blues, French-Canadian, originals, bluegrass... they've got it covered.  Lots of room to spread out, dance, and enjoy the company Read More

Va-et-vient will perform in Portland, Maine on a beautiful autumn Friday.  Mayo Street Arts will be hosting us in the St. Ansgar Lutheran Church on Kennedy Park.  Tickets are $15, and are available through our gracious hosts, located at 10 Mayo Street in Portland,  Call Ian Bannon at 207-879-4629, or email info@mayostreetarts.org for more information, and check out their forthcoming lineup, as the performing world reopens!

Please plan ahead to join us for Saint Johnsbury’s wonderful New Year’s Eve celebration – the warmth of the audiences more than compensates for the cold outside!  Va-et-vient will again perform two sets, at soon-to-be-announced times and venues, to sing good-bye to 2021 in St. Johnsbury.  Hundreds of fully vaccinated performers at sixteen venues around the city will help you ring out the old and ring in the new in this alcohol-free city-wide festival from 4 pm to midnight.  Get buttons early for this outstanding celebration to welcome in 2022! ($20/adult and $12/student until 12/30, and $22/adult and $14/student on Read More

We're excited to be performing for Bristol, Vermont's community television station, NEAT-TV!  The Five-Towns Friends of the Arts are our hosts, at this concert broadcast live from the Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol.  Now you can chantez avec nous from the comfort of your own living room!   Find us on the website neatbristol.com, and the concert will be available in NEAT-TV's archives for those unable to join us Live.

We're excited to share this small local venue with Richard Ruane and Beth Duquette, friends and long-time collaborators who play original music with a clear traditional-roots influence steeped in tradition, but of its own time. Par la suite, Va-et-Vient (Carol Reed, Suzanne Germaine, and Lausanne Allen) will take you through the centuries from France to Québec and New Orleans with lively dance numbers, touching love songs, kickin’ Cajun and Créole tunes, and rollicking Québecois favorites. Bring what you will:  folding chairs, beverage of choice, blankets and the like.  Remember to bring some cash or Venmo. (freddanforth1@gmail.com ) We ask for $20 each, but emphasize that Read More

We are so happy to see this wonderful celebration of French Heritage in Vermont resume in Winooski.  Va-et-vient is delighted to again join the line-up singing at this outdoor festival by the old Champlain Mill in Winooski's Falls Mill District.   Hosted by the City of Winooski, and sponsored by the Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region, the date has now moved to be closer to Québec's beloved Saint-Jean-Baptiste.  From 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, the area will be bustling with music, food, and all things fun.  It coincides with the weekly farmer's market as well.  À tantôt !

It's always a joy to perform at Middlebury College, particularly in the building that was Carol's dormitory forty-some years ago.  Please have fun following the Summer School's Language pledge--your grammar and spelling won't count against you!  Et surtout, chantez avec nous, les ami.e.s !