Update from Scrag Mountain Music: Sabbaticals (October 17, 2022)
Dear Scrag friends,
Happy Fall, everyone! The ethos of Scrag has always been one of reciprocity and symbiosis. For 12 years, you, our community, have generously sustained and supported us by attending concerts, donating, volunteering, and generally cheering us on! In return, Scrag has served the community for 12 years by providing affordable-to-all concert experiences and a host of community engagement each season. For 12 years, Scrag artists have come to Vermont to recharge and return to their home communities reoriented to the potential of music to create, change, and heal our world.
This fall, Scrag’s Board of Directors has generously extended this same offer of rejuvenation that we have provided to hundreds of hard-working musicians to us! — Scrag Mountain Music Founders and Artistic Directors. In order to maintain the culture of nourishing artistry at the highest level, we will take this break. Step back. Rest and recharge. Pause and assess so that we can return stronger, more innovative, and more impactful than ever before.
We are each grateful to receive a year-long sabbatical from Scrag performances, along with a modest stipend, in order to both rest and revision for the future of Scrag. We are taking a pause in live programming to allow new ideas to gestate and to set new visions into motion. We want Scrag to reflect the changing landscape of our needs and the needs of our community, and in order to best do that, we are taking the time and space to rest and gestate.
In addition to planning Scrag’s future, this will give us time to dedicate ourselves to new projects we’re passionate about. We’ll look forward to sharing more about this in the coming weeks! During this time, we will continue our powerful Lullaby Project with communities throughout the state in partnership with the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Come fall 2023, we’ll have a whole new batch of lullabies created by our neighbors to share with you.
We will be here in Vermont during this year. You will see us at the grocery store, at concerts, at the library. We will be performing locally and out of state as freelancers, and we will stay in touch and keep you posted on what we’re working on and dreaming up! We’ll stay in touch and hope that you will too. Over the course of this season, Lara (Scrag's Managing Director) will share new videos of past events to keep you connected to Scrag during our sabbaticals. We will miss playing Scrag concerts for you over this year but know that when we return in fall 2023, it will be with a new sense of possibility, a renewed vision for the power of music and art, and for what we can accomplish together.
Musically yours,
Mary and Evan
Artistic Directors, Scrag Mountain Music
Dear Scrag friends,
Happy Fall, everyone! The ethos of Scrag has always been one of reciprocity and symbiosis. For 12 years, you, our community, have generously sustained and supported us by attending concerts, donating, volunteering, and generally cheering us on! In return, Scrag has served the community for 12 years by providing affordable-to-all concert experiences and a host of community engagement each season. For 12 years, Scrag artists have come to Vermont to recharge and return to their home communities reoriented to the potential of music to create, change, and heal our world.
This fall, Scrag’s Board of Directors has generously extended this same offer of rejuvenation that we have provided to hundreds of hard-working musicians to us! — Scrag Mountain Music Founders and Artistic Directors. In order to maintain the culture of nourishing artistry at the highest level, we will take this break. Step back. Rest and recharge. Pause and assess so that we can return stronger, more innovative, and more impactful than ever before.
We are each grateful to receive a year-long sabbatical from Scrag performances, along with a modest stipend, in order to both rest and revision for the future of Scrag. We are taking a pause in live programming to allow new ideas to gestate and to set new visions into motion. We want Scrag to reflect the changing landscape of our needs and the needs of our community, and in order to best do that, we are taking the time and space to rest and gestate.
In addition to planning Scrag’s future, this will give us time to dedicate ourselves to new projects we’re passionate about. We’ll look forward to sharing more about this in the coming weeks! During this time, we will continue our powerful Lullaby Project with communities throughout the state in partnership with the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Come fall 2023, we’ll have a whole new batch of lullabies created by our neighbors to share with you.
We will be here in Vermont during this year. You will see us at the grocery store, at concerts, at the library. We will be performing locally and out of state as freelancers, and we will stay in touch and keep you posted on what we’re working on and dreaming up! We’ll stay in touch and hope that you will too. Over the course of this season, Lara (Scrag's Managing Director) will share new videos of past events to keep you connected to Scrag during our sabbaticals. We will miss playing Scrag concerts for you over this year but know that when we return in fall 2023, it will be with a new sense of possibility, a renewed vision for the power of music and art, and for what we can accomplish together.
Musically yours,
Mary and Evan
Artistic Directors, Scrag Mountain Music