Jon Gailmor Opens the Tinmouth Old Firehouse Fall Series with  his unique songs and humor! Jon Gailmor is a Vermont Troubador from up on the edge of the Northeast Kingdom. He opens the Tinmouth Old Firehouse Fall Series on September 8 at 7:30 PM. His original songs are marked with childish illogic, profound feelings, absurd humor and, at times, both subtle and obvious messages. Songs to make people feel alive!. Music for humans prenatal through prehistoric, spanning the entire emotional…

Vermont-based folk duo Cricket Blue is inspired by diverse aspects of the American folk tradition: old and current, popular and obscure. Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith write songs marked by close-knit harmonies and words about myth, confusion, love, and the ends of things.   The Old Firehouse is at Mountain View Road and Vt. 140 in downtown Tinmouth, next to the new Firehouse.   Doors will open at 7 PM and performances start promptly at 7:30PM.  There is a suggested donation…

The Selectboard will hold an open forum on needed infrastructure improvements at the Transfer Station and Town Garage on Saturday October 7 at 10 am at the Old Firehouse.

A world-touring, world class virtuoso mandolinist with over twenty years professional performing experience, Tim Connell has created a sophisticated and original global mandolin style.  Regarded as one of the top North American interpreters of Brazilian choro, Tim has also developed his own unique voice for the instrument, described in a recent Mandolin Magazine cover story as “fiery and energetic, soulful and evocative.”  Tim comes to us from Portland, Oregon. You can check out Tim's website to hear a sampling:  https://www.timconnellmusic.com/ The Old Firehouse is at…

Daddy Long Legs is an exciting new band that will be at Tinmouth’s Old Firehouse at 7:30 PM on Saturday, October 28, a change from our usual Friday nights. The band is the creation of three well known Vermont musicians, Dave Gusakov, Rick Ceballos, and Matt Witten. Infusing catchy folk songs, Celtic and “old-timey” melodies, and early minstrel and jazz pieces with passion and intricacy, Daddy Long Legs is playful and dynamic. The three musicians play fiddle, viola, banjo, gourd…

A hot jazz club in Tinmouth? Paris in the 30’s? Swing Noire brings you into those smoky clubs of days past, makes you feel jazz the way it was meant to be felt, full of emotion and energy. There’s no smoking in the Firehouse, and they keep the stage lights on but every time Swing Noire has visited us we went home excited.   Concerts are on Friday nights at 7:30 PM in Tinmouth village  (Except Jenni Johnson is on…

The railroad never got to Tinmouth – one was planned that would have run through the Firehouse – but David Gusakov and his son Nate  are bringing us a symbolical train. David is a play-anything musician – Vermont Symphony, jazz two weeks before with Swing Noire, bluegrass, and fiddle and banjo music with his clawhammer banjo expert son Nate. They play with a lively, toe-tapping touch, sing with mournful sensitivity, and exhibit a creative chemistry that can only be born of a…

Jenni has come back to the Firehouse many times, always thrilling a full house. Her full, smooth voice offers an ideal format for her collection of American jazz classics, as well as, blues, swing and funk music. You will be mesmerized by her unique style and versatile renditions. She'll have you smiling from your souls, while your feet dance happily to the beat. (This concert is on Saturday, not our usual Friday.) Concerts are on Friday nights at 7:30 PM…

House Blend is a delightful group of musicians who get together to sing for the fun of it. Larger than most of our performing groups, they somehow fit our house perfectly. Many are music teachers; all have well trained voices. Their repertoire is as wide as the membership – instead of one director, they take turns leading songs they have chosen. They perform songs from all over, and from many periods. “Singing group” is their only musical classification, for the…

Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known and loved for their decades of music making, have spent nearly a decade in a joyful musical collaboration. Cindy is a superb singer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Grey is one of America’s finest players of the Irish flute and tin whistle, as well as an accomplished singer and concertina, fiddle, piano and harmonium player. As composers each contributes to the unique tapestry of contemporary folk and world music as it flourishes in the…

Swan Song The Spoon Mountain Singers will give their annual Tinmouth Firehouse concert on Saturday, June 30 at 7 p.m. After 21 years in Tinmouth, this will probably be their last concert of all. The program includes vocal music from many periods: 16th to 20th century, sacred and secular. Love songs and spirituals. The centerpiece will be Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna, his arrangement of one of his early Italian operas, to which the original score has been lost. Ariadne laments…

From here at Tinmouth Pond, a fun performance by the DuPont Brothers at the Tinmouth Old Firehouse. Two brothers living on the indie circuit, driving around sharing their stories through songwriting. That’s life for Sam & Zack DuPont. Based out of Burlington, VT the sibling indie-folk-rock duo has kept busy on the road since 2013. Their two studio releases, Heavy as Lead (2015) & A Riddle For You (2016) & two live albums, Live at Beehive (2016) & Live at…

Claude Bourbon is a French-born guitarist who grew up in Switzerland where for a time he was classically trained, but he soon felt the need to explore the guitar without the limitations of written music and delved headlong into folk, blues, jazz and rock music. Now based in England, he has become a world-renowned player, highly acclaimed for his finger-picking style—plucking, picking and strumming at such speed that his fingers seem to appear just as a blur. His music utilizes…

The Old Firehouse will jump with an evening of old time American music on Friday, September 28 at 7:30. Martin Grosswendt and Susanne Salem-Schatz make beautiful music together, presenting a delightful gumbo rooted in the blues and old-time traditions, with soul that comes from deep within and a wry humor that never fails to engage audiences.  Martin is internationally known for his mastery of pre-war blues and other southern traditional genres on guitar, banjo, and mandolin among others. Susanne is…

Cosy Sheridan will be coming to the Old Firehouse in Tinmouth on Friday October 12 at 7:30. She has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful singer-songwriters.” Her concerts are wide-ranging explorations of modern mythology (meet Hades the Biker), love songs for adults, contemporary philosophy for the thoughtfully-minded, and her signature parody on aging and women. Her lyrical dexterity is backed by her distinctive, percussive bluesy-gospel guitar style. Cosy, a New Englander by birth, tours all over…

There must be little towns in Ireland a lot like Tinmouth – a little village in the fields with a pub (ice cream as well as brew in Tinmouth) and a small hall. Old Firehouse in Tinmouth was once a Grange Hall, but on Friday, October 26 at 7:30 PM it will spend an evening as the Hibernian Club in an tiny Irish community.  Extra Stout will fill the hall with its Irish singing, whistling and fiddling! Extra Stout is…

Fri Nov 9 • The Bright Wings Chorus at the Old Firehouse, Tinmouth • 7:30 pm • $10 general/ $15 generous

Catch this fabulous group of singers, directed by Brendan Taaffe and featuring local hero Wheaton Squier, on their final, farewell tour. Over the span of four albums in seven years, The Bright Wings Chorus has brought to life the music of celebrated composer Brendan Taaffe. Rooted in the American shape note music, an early hymn tradition, the singers of Bright Wings are soulful, rhythmic and soaring. Their performances and recordings have set a standard for choirs throughout North America and the UK and many of their songs have become standard repertoire.
Of their first album, Here Below, one reviewer said, “"If you are moved by the sacred, if you need music that takes hold of your bones and won't let go, you should own a copy of Here Below. It's simply the most powerful stuff I've heard in a long time and I don't know what to do with it except tell you over and over that you must have it."
This will be the group’s final tour. Please join them to celebrate their years of making harmony together
The Bright Wings Chorus is Meg Chittenden, Kimberley Moore, Mia Bertelli, Addie Rose Holland, Wheaton Squier, Brendan Taaffe, Stephen Higa, Avery Book, and Casey Steinberg.

Theater in the Woods Vermont Company will present a beautifully imagined production of Thorton Wilder's masterpiece of small town life, Friday, April 5 at 7 pm and Sunday, April 7 at 3 pm at the Old Firehouse. Our Town has endured as a staple of theater companies since it first premiered 81 years ago, with good reason:  its clear-eyed look at the stability of traditions and family, the steadfastness of the natural environment and the transience of human life is…

Theater in the Woods Vermont Company will present a beautifully imagined production of Thorton Wilder's masterpiece of small town life, Friday, April 5 at 7 pm and Sunday, April 7 at 3 pm at the Old Firehouse. Our Town has endured as a staple of theater companies since it first premiered 81 years ago, with good reason:  its clear-eyed look at the stability of traditions and family, the steadfastness of the natural environment and the transience of human life is…

May 10     Va-et-Vient (“Come and Go”)   Some of the Crew really like French Canadian folk songs, but we’ve never had a group that sang a program of them at the Firehouse. These three women from around Middlebury really know how to rattle the hall with songs from our neighbors up north, as well as Cajun and French music. Lively dance numbers, touching love songs, kickin’ Cajun tunes, and rollicking Québecois favorites!  Be sure to stay over and come to the…

May 24:  The Revenants Bluegrass Gospel Project alums Taylor Armerding, Andy Greene, and Kirk Lord have come together to present original, time-honored, and contemporary Americana music. Showcasing compelling, intricately braided vocals, richly textured instrumental work, and solid, innovative rhythm, the three band members bring decades of performing experience to the stage. Andy Greene and Kirk Lord were at the Firehouse two years ago with the bluegrass band Northern Flyer. All the concerts start at 7:30; doors open at 7:00. The Old Firehouse is at Vermont 140…

June 14:   Tom MacKenzie Tom MacKenzie Plays All Kinds of Traditional Music at Tinmouth’s Old Firehouse on June 14. Tom MacKenzie will close out the Tinmouth Old Firehouse spring season on June 14 at 7:30 PM. We owe Tom a big turnout…last time he was here, playing with Patti Casey, the electricity in the Village went out at 5 PM. Tina at the Snack Bar had a generator running – the only lights in the village – and she…

The Sky Blue Boys, long time favorites of the enthusiastic crowds at the Old Firehouse, have revived the tradition of “brothers duets” from the 30’s and 40’s. Two fellows with a mandolin and a banjo, a musical teamwork built of habit, their voices fused in the special blend produced by kinship. Willy and Dan have built up a large repertoire of wonderful old ballads, parlor songs, heart songs, songs about Vermont history,  and sacred numbers. Heeding their own musical instincts…

Hilton Park was an unknown when they came here a few years ago. They brought the house down, and we are pleased to have them back. Hailing from Southern Maine, the award-winning band Hilton Park is known in the Northeastern U.S. for earthy, emotionally expressive and superbly crafted Americana, Folk & Blues. Every song tells a story, and there’s a story behind every song.  Combining veteran musical & songwriting skill with teen enthusiasm, father/son team Bruce and Conor Hilton and family…

Big Woods Voices unites four veteran Vermont singers from the Brattleboro area in celebrating their common passion for a cappella harmony:  Alan Blood, Will Danforth, singer-songwriter, traditional acoustic artist, and the group’s arranger/composer; Becky Graber, and Amanda Witman, They marry singing traditions from around the world with various American roots genres. They concoct original compositions and arrangements in which harmony and dissonance dance in riveting yet accessible soundscapes. Imagine lyrical settings of poetry by David Whyte, Mary Oliver, W. B.…

Pete Sutherland has played and sung everywhere in Vermont, including Tinmouth contradances and many trips to the Old Firehouse. He has decades of concert touring, teaching and studio production behind him. His all-Vermont “POSSE” includes his teenage fiddle protégé Oliver Scanlon, and the dynamic accompanist Tristan Henderson. Featuring Pete's rootsy songs, original and traditional fiddle music, and a few out there covers, this band is a fine opportunity for an intimate listen to an ever-evolving musical relationship that spans generations! The Old…

We are sorry that the Bill Staines concert must be cancelled.  We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the Jenni Johnson concert must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the House Blend concert must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the Gypsy Reel concert must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the fall concert series must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the fall concert series must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the fall concert series must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…

We are sorry that the fall concert series must be cancelled. We'll hope to reschedule soon!   All concerts are at 7:30 on a Friday night; doors open at 7:00. Coffee and tea will be hot soon after the doors open; refreshments available as well. Donation for the concert is $10-15. 90% goes to the musicians; 10% to the down for maintenance of the Old Firehouse. Donations for the refreshments go to support local projects. The Old Firehouse is at…