The Drop Offs are a Woodstock-VT-based band featuring a cast of
well-traveled musicians who all settled in the Upper Valley and formed a
local group to play their own songs and favorite covers. Mike Calabrese:
drums, vocals (Lake Street Dive), Avi Salloway: guitar, vocals (Billy
Wylder, Bombino), Ben Kogan: bass, vocals (Ben Kogan Band, David
Wax Museum), Michael Zsoldos: tenor sax (Paquito D’Rivera, Conver-
gence Project), Elizabeth Frascoia: trombone, vocals (St. Vincent, Michael
Bolton), Alex Beram: trombone (John Brown’s Body) Special Guests:
Steeve Valcourt and Nadine Niles from Lakou Mizik.

2025 Spring Concert

Overture to Der Freischütz - Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Concerto in G Major - Maurice Ravel
Alison Cerutti, piano
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, 90 - Johannes Brahms

The most popular and sought after big band of all time returns to the Chandler Music Hall for one night only! On May 8, The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra will perform their greatest hits, including “In The Mood”, “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, “American Patrol”, “A String Of Pearls”, “Little Brown Jug”, “Pennsylvania 6-5000”, Tuxedo Junction”, and of course their theme song “Moonlight Serenade” as they continue their national tour. The orchestra, along with the music director Erik Stabnau, vocalist Jenny Swoish and The Moonlight Serenaders, will perform their catalog of big band classics just the way they would have over 80 years ago when Glenn Miller stood in front of his band. It is a show that continues to transport audiences back in time and is as nostalgic as it is exciting.

Having performed with her parents and acclaimed fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy for over 600 shows, genre-defying fiddling (and piano) sensation Mary Frances Leahy is branching out with her fantastic debut solo album First Light. The innovative, eclectic nine-track collection of originals, co-produced by Mary Frances and Cuban guitarist Elmer Ferrer, is an amazing blending of Celtic, Latin, and Jazz influences.

A mix of genres: classical, rock, folk & movies inspired by the theme "Meditation to Mirth."

Eugene Uman, Director at the Vermont Jazz Center, brings his ensemble to Chandler to perform original jazz compositions, with an edge of rock, swing and funk, and the inspiration of Colombian folkloric rhythms.

Make Music Randolph showcases live music all around town, all day long. This year's headlining act is Villalobos Brothers: a GRAMMY-Award-winning family band, recognized as one of the foremost Contemporary Mexican ensembles in the world, known their unique fusion of Mexican folk, jazz, and classical music.

Trained by world-renowned artists, members of the Dalí Quartet are from Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the US, and have degrees from esteemed institutions including the New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard, Indiana University Bloomington, and the Simón Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas, Venezuela. The quartet is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Inspired by its namesake, the great Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, the quartet holds imagination and excellence at the heart of its music making.

String Sextets:
A little known sextet in d minor, Op. Post. by Borodin,
music by Nico Muhly for choir played by strings
and the Op. 48 sextet by Dvořák.

The 33rd Annual New World Festival…Vermont’s Premier Celtic and Québécois Event!

Featuring: Cecilia • The Reel McCoys • Skye Consort & Emma • Sean Dagher • Kavaz • Cassie and Maggie • Cantrip • April Verch & Cody Walters • Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira • Heron Valley ...and many more to be announced soon!