Serving Cabot and the Region with Quality Arts Experiences
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The 5th Annual
Cabot Village 12th Night Celebration
Friday and Saturday, January 3rd & 4th 2025
Twelve events in three venues featuring an eclectic array of performing arts and activities for all ages!
All 12th Night Events are Free!
Able to Donate? The Cabot Village 12th Night Celebration is free for everyone to participate, but it costs plenty to host! We are looking for support from folks who can to help keep our beloved community festival going. Thank you!
Able to volunteer?
Many hands make light work!
We need about two dozen volunteers for 12th Night.
Featured Events!
Wild Leek River
7pm Friday Dance at the Willey Building
Wild Leek River is a 5-piece country band. The songs they play vibrate with sounds of new and old, steady back-beats and good stories. Their style and performances trace its roots from the honky tonks of days gone by, with rowdy shows across Vermont and throughout the Northeast.
http://wildleekriver.com
New Event!
Winter Woods Scavenger Hunt
Saturday 10:00 -11:30am
McQueeney Trails Click here for directions
Get to know our Cabot Trails and search for nature’s treasures in the winter woods. All ages are welcome on this fun scavenger hunt. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Click here for details and prizes
Village Harmony presents
music for MidWynter
12 noon at the Willey Building
Seasonally appropriate songs from the Balkans, Caucasus Georgia, and Corsica, as well as Renaissance and Baroque music and songs from the American shape-note tradition.
http://villageharmony.org
Brendan Taaffe
Crankie Show - Saturday, 12 noon
at the Willey Building.
Crankies are illustrated scrolls that are cranked from
one side to the other in a wooden puppet theater, accompanied by songs and stories.
A beloved crankie artist and musician from Vermont, Brendan Taaffe has been sharing crankies for a decade and music for longer than that.
Sap Line
Cabot United Church 2:30pm
With a sound firmly rooted in the musical traditions of New England, Sap Line brings a fresh and youthful flavor to their jigs and reels, lyrical 3-part harmony singing, and foot-stomping Old Time favorites!
Sap Line's Website
Goodies, Games and Bon Fires
on the Cabot Village Common
Cabot Village Common 2:15 - 4:30pm
Come and hang out, bring the kids and socialize for an afternoon around the mini-bonfires. Partake in hot cocoa, mulled cider and goodies. There's games, singing, and merry-making! The afternoon culminates with a parade around the Common!
Make a Paper Lantern or Newfoundland Ugly Stick!
Make your very own paper lantern or Newfoundland Ugly Stick in this craft workshop for all-ages. All materials are supplied!
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Click Here for details about the Paper Lantern Workshop
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Click Here for information about the Newfoundland Ugly Stick making workshop
The Georgetown Chimes
Village Common 3:45pm
We are very fortunate to have members of the renowned and historic a cappella singing group visit Cabot. For more than 75 years, The Georgetown Chimes have been gracing the University and Washington, DC community with fellowship and close harmony. This long tradition of song is what makes the Chimes such a unique and historic a cappella group.
https://www.georgetownchimes.org/
Cabot Community Theater Mummers Play
Village Common 4:00pm
The Cabot Community Theater returns for their annual folk play - street theater style!
Sunset Lantern Parade
Village Common 4:20pm
Celebrate the longer days of the New Year! Bring your paper lanterns, noisemakers and Newfoundland Ugly Sticks for our
annual parade together around the Cabot Village Common.
The Midnight Capers
Willey Building 5:00pm
Based in Cabot, the nationally acclaimed Morris Dance troupe, The Midnight Capers returns for their annual performance of traditional dances from the Cotswolds region in England.
Community Dinner
Neighbors in Action
3339 Main St in Cabot
4:30-6:30 pm
Free or by Donation
Wassail
Willey Building 5:30pm
Open community Sing!
Brendan Taaffe and
Colin McCaffrey
Willey Building 6:00pm
On gourd banjo and electric guitar, Brendan Taaffe and Colin McCaffrey will present a reverie-laden exploration of old-time music. Deeply grounded in both Irish and Appalachian fiddle traditions, Brendan has also spent time in Senegal studying the roots of the banjo. All of these threads come together to inform his reflective and groovy take on clawhammer banjo. Colin McCaffrey is Vermont’s top sideman, his tasteful playing enriching every project he’s a part of. Together they’ll play old-time music that makes you think thoughts and feel feelings.
Forest Station
The Den at Harry's Hardware 7:00pm
Forest Station, a rising Vermont bluegrass band, brings their tight harmonies, energetic instrumentals, and captivating stage presence to the Den at Harry's Hardware. In addition to putting fresh twists on classic Americana bluegrass tunes, the band will showcase their new album, "Earth Tones," recorded in Vermont last fall and released in early April.
Thank You,12th Night Sponsors!
