TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE IS OUTDOORS.

VSO’s TD Bank Summer Festival Tour is back with a lineup of American favorites to get you dancing and celebrating the most anticipated time of year in Vermont. Guest trumpeter and jazz legend Ray Vega joins the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Argentinian/Italian conductor Michelle di Russo in a concert of swing, jazz, spirituals, and marches. A “…hornman with deep roots in Latin Music and Afro-Cuban Jazz” (New York Daily News), Vega is known as a prolific, state-wide performer and as host of Vermont Public’s Friday Night Jazz program. Relax under the balmy summer skies with feisty, soothing, and unforgettable music by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin, John Philip Sousa, Johnny Mandel and more. Bring your picnic baskets and summer spirit!

This concert is presented in partnership with Pentangle Arts.

EVENT DETAILS & THINGS TO KNOW

Saskadena Six Ski Area – 247 Stage Rd, South Pomfret
Gates open at 5:30 pm for picnicking
Concert begins at 7:30 pm
Rain site: Woodstock Union High School 100 Amsden Way, Woodstock, VT

Advance adult tickets: $28
Gate Prices:
Adults: $35
Ages 6-17: $5
5 and under: Free

AARP discounted tickets are available for AARP members and their guests only.

We encourage you to bring:
– A picnic blanket or folding chairs
– Sunscreen & sunglasses
– Insect repellant
– Water
– Whatever you need to comfortably enjoy the outdoors

Sun umbrellas are welcome until the start of the concert. Flashlights are also suggested to help you find your way to your car after the sun has set. Smoking and animals (except assistance and service animals) are not allowed at any VSO show.

PROGRAM

Guest conductor Michelle Di Russo, trumpet soloist, Ray Vega

Bernstein – Overture to Candide
Seeger – Rissolty Rossolty
Monk arr. Julien – Round Midnight
Joplin – The Entertainer
Armstrong – Satchmo!
Suessdorf, arr. Fredrickson – Moonlight in Vermont
Mandel, arr. McCarthy – Medley: The Shadow of Your Smile/A Time for Love
Ellington, arr. Custer – Duke Ellington!

INTERMISSION

Gershwin – Cuban Overture
Hernandez, arr. Hartigan – Lamento Borincano
Burleigh, arr. Tyzik – Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Ellington, arr. Vega – Black and Tan Fantasy
Gershwin – Strike Up the Band
Sousa – The Washington Post
Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever

This concert is generously sponsored by:
         

The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation

The Musical Petting Zoo interactive exhibition for this concert is supported by:

For accessibility information at this venue, please contact Saskadena Six at (802) 457-6666.