Join us each Thursday in June for a series of conversations and presentations with local luminaries. Each week we will feature a different expert — a gardener, a filmmaker, a poet, and a musician — and invite them to show their work and share stories of their craft in the North Barn.
June 25: Cultural Resilience Musical Performance and Talk by Brendan Taaffe of The Bucolics Project
Brendan Taaffe is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and artist in Brattleboro, Vermont. His recent work, The Bucolics Project, is a collaboration with Kentucky poet Maurice Manning. The project is a collection of songs based on poems in Manning’s 2007 collection, Bucolics, a conversation between a field hand and a divine being known only as Boss. Each song references an archival field recording from the Appalachian Sound Archives at Berea College, where Brendan was awarded a research fellowship in 2017.
A crankie artist, Brendan has been directing The Vermont Crankie Festival in Brattleboro for the past 10 years.
Food by RVQ Smokehouse.
