SAINT AIDAN'S CHAPEL: 2025 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
Notes on 2025 Summer Concert Series
The videos below capture highlights of the 2025 Summer Concert Series at Saint Aidan’s Chapel (Steve’s Chapel). Linda Young selected and produced this first summer series of four concerts, providing friends and neighbors an opportunity to see and hear some of the region’s great musical talent in an intimate and local setting.
QUARTET
July 20, 2025
On a very frosty night in December, LInda had the chance to hear these four wonderful singers join forces in their first combined vocal adventure, a winter solstice concert at the Old Round Church in Richmond, VT. She wrote: "It was sooooo cold in that unheated church, but the music was so jaw-droppingly beautiful that we, the audience, sat completely spellbound for the entire hour as they wove a web of renaissance polyphony, vocal improvisation, poetry, and more."
Many music lovers in Vermont already knew some or all of these wonderful singers individually, but the vocal combination in St. Aidan's Chapel, accompanied only by summer rain and birds singing, was pure magic.
Water Song
Come, Summer Day
Composed by Moira Smiley and sung along with recitation of Mary Oliver’s poem “Summer Day"
TURNING STiLE
July 30, 2025
Joanne Garton and Aaron Marcus, well known Vermont dance musicians based in Montpelier, entertained us with their New England blend of traditional Scottish and Irish music, alongside their beautiful and inventive original compositions. Their musical connection is strong, and their joy is infectious. They definitely got our feet tapping!
MSR (March Strathspey Reel) Set
A very common set form in traditional Scottish music, especially in piping competitions. A stately and/or elegant march gradually builds to a fiery set of reels.
Moneymusk
Joanne and Aaron treated us to bit of footwork while finishing up the concert with a round of traditional Scottish reel Moneymusk.
HEARTWOOD TRIO
August 18, 2025
Heartwood Trio brought their magical form of “song catching” to a new three-person storytelling musical performance, illustrated with a "crankie" - an illuminated, papercut, hand-cranked scroll. After successfully touring the show in the UK and the Pacific Northwest in the spring, the trio returned to New England and made a special stop in Wolcott to share this piece with us in the chapel.
The Well Tree is an all-ages, participatory journey through story and song, where the three members of Heartwood – Sarina Partridge, Willy Clemetson, and local favorite Heidi Wilson – are the actors, musicians, and the crew that runs the crankie, created by papercut artist Jennifer Jones. The audience was invited in to help sing pieces of the story - a chance to let our bodies be filled with the magic of vocal harmony and live storytelling.
As We Roll
None To Spare
As The Fog Rolls In
Serpent
DEAREST DEAR
August 24, 2025
Helen Kuhar & Rose Jackson joined us for an afternoon of toe-tapping New England style traditional music. This duo blends traditional tunes from Ireland, New England, Quebec, and France, and craft vocal harmonies that bring age-old songs to life with modern relevance. They stopped through on their way home from a weekend playing contra dances in Burlington and Brownington, providing an afternoon of inspiration!
Green Fields of Woodford, Maids of Selma, Hole in the Hedge,
Traditional Irish
Bread and Roses
Huntsman's Chorus, Petronella
Traditional New England
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