Welcome to our 2023-24 season! Our renewed vision for Scrag is one of “healing and connection in musical service to our community.” It is “Music as Grace for all of life’s stages.” We have been moving in this direction for a number of years—honing in on exactly what is meaningful to us personally about music and how we can better serve you, our community.
We will continue to offer residencies for musician artists, accessible community concerts, and community engagement as we always have done, with a special emphasis on spiritual chamber music that connects us to one another and to our common humanity. In addition to our residencies, lullaby projects, and school performances, we will be adding Spiritual Soundings hosted by Evan—live music experiences for mindfulness and meditation—and exploring and unfolding a pilot year of bringing music to hospice clients in central Vermont.
We have a rich season in the works and are so excited to share the new directions and new growth with you all!
We will continue to offer residencies for musician artists, accessible community concerts, and community engagement as we always have done, with a special emphasis on spiritual chamber music that connects us to one another and to our common humanity. In addition to our residencies, lullaby projects, and school performances, we will be adding Spiritual Soundings hosted by Evan—live music experiences for mindfulness and meditation—and exploring and unfolding a pilot year of bringing music to hospice clients in central Vermont.
We have a rich season in the works and are so excited to share the new directions and new growth with you all!
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Lullaby Project Celebration Concert
Friday, September 22 at 6:30 pm I Capital City Grange, Berlin, VT
Join us to celebrate the culmination of four Lullaby Project workshops and the creation of dozens of songs with inspiring members of our community! The program will include the performance of a selection of songs created during workshops held during the 2022-23 season. Details and RSVP |
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Spiritual Soundings
Ongoing
Evan's Spiritual Soundings feature improvised loop-based ambient music presented with an intentional theme. The community is invited to participate in these ceremonies in whatever spiritual modalities they want -- meditation, prayer, dance, chanting/vocal sounding, deep listening -- while holding the intention of the session's theme. The hope is that this music and these gatherings will facilitate deep meditative experience which connects audiences to one another and all consciousness. October 6 Spiritual Sounding Details and Ticketing |
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Sacred Songs of the Mary's
October 27 - 29
Scrag presents Sacred Songs of the Mary’s, a program of ecstatic and contemplative early and early-inspired music that connects back to Divine Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. Scrag co-Artistic Directors Mary Bonhag (soprano) and Evan Premo (bass and viola da gamba) are joined by classically trained musician, sound healing practitioner, and a founding member Anonymous 4, Ruth Cunningham (voice, recorder, harp, and flute), on works by Hildegard of Bingen and Kaija Saariaho, local composers Kathy Wonson Eddy and Evan Premo, and others. Details and Tickets |
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Lullaby Project Workshops
Ongoing
This season, Scrag Mountain Music and Writers for Recovery are pleased to partner once again with the Healing Together Project of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and their advocacy partners Umbrella, Inc., Voices Against Violence, Kids-A-Part (a program of LUND) and DIVAS (a program of The Network) to bring the Lullaby Project to communities around the state. |
Scrag Mountain Music's 2023-24 season is generously supported by Edie Stetson Yovu, the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont Community Foundation, the Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Foundation, Joseph P. Donahue Charitable Foundation Trust, Montpelier Alive, the Seaver Fund, and our wonderful community of individual donors.
Lullaby Project Workshop photo (c) Kelli Prescott
Lullaby Project Workshop photo (c) Kelli Prescott