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 |
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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. Past Events
Spiritual Sounding: This Too Co-presented with United Church of Northfield May 30 @ 5 pm I United Church of Northfield Spiritual Sounding: Sacred Trees Co-presented with Mad River Valley Arts April 26 @ 5 pm I Mad River Valley Arts, Waitsfield Spiritual Sounding: Divine Love Co-presented with Unitarian Church, Montpelier February 13 @ 5 pm I Unitarian Church, Montpelier Spiritual Sounding: Traces of Essential Self Co-presented with Art at the Kent October 6 @ 5:15 pm I Art at the Kent, Calais Spiritual Sounding: Woodland Echoes Co-presented with Highlight Burlington December 31 @ 6:30 pm I BCA Center, Burlington Spiritual Sounding: Woodland Echoes Co-presented with Cabot Arts January 6 @ 2:30 pm I Cabot United Church, Cabot |
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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, Ruth Cunningham, local composer Kathy Wonson Eddy, and others. Details |
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Winter Wind, Melting Ice: The Season of Transition
Friday March 8 I 7:30 pm Unitarian Church, Montpelier
Saturday March 9 I 7:30pm Warren Church, Warren Scrag welcomes back dear friends and esteemed musicians David Kaplan (piano) and Catherine Gregory (flute). Featuring Evan Premo’s composition Inside the Breath, inspired by a painting by local Vermont artist Jan Sandman, this program also includes robust works from the classical repertoire. |
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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, Gail Osherenko and Oran Young, The Windham Foundation, Highlight Burlington Bright Ideas Project, The Montpelier Community Fund, the Seaver Fund, the Warren Arts Committee, Mad River Valley Rotary Club, The Alchemist Foundation, Montpelier Alive, and our wonderful community of individual donors.
Photos: Evan Premo (c) Meredith Brockington Photography; Mary Bonhag (c) Ariel Doneson; Catherine Gregory and David Kaplan (c) Dario Acosta; Primacy of Consciousness, artwork by Jan Sandman; Lullaby Project Workshop photo (c) Kelli Prescott Vermont Network;
Photos: Evan Premo (c) Meredith Brockington Photography; Mary Bonhag (c) Ariel Doneson; Catherine Gregory and David Kaplan (c) Dario Acosta; Primacy of Consciousness, artwork by Jan Sandman; Lullaby Project Workshop photo (c) Kelli Prescott Vermont Network;