Illuminate Vermont Artisan Street Festival - 2025

Vermont’s newest artistic festival returns April 25 & 26, 2025 and once again the Library will be hosting live performances as part of this fantastic city-wide event. The schedule of performances taking place in the library is below. For a complete Illuminate VT schedule, visit https://www.illuminatevermont.com/schedule-of-events.

Friday, April 25

5:00–6:30 PM | Saru

Saru is the passion project of four Burlingtonians who aim to bring joy through music. Saru takes influence from artists such as Béla Fleck, Chick Corea, and Dave Matthews to bring a fresh perspective to jazz fusion. With a catalog of inspired originals, Japanese jazz fusion classics, and modern hits, Saru is sure to leave everybody dancing and feeling good.

7:00–8:30 PM | Ukulele Clare and Rebecca

This entertaining duo draws deeply from the American Songbook, bringing the best of jazz, country, folk, and blues. Ukulele Clare has shared the joy of making music with hundreds of students and audiences, drawing on — you guessed it — ukuleles and a variety of instruments. Rebecca Padula is well known in the Champlain Valley music scene for her smoldering alto and well-honed guitar and ukulele backup.

Saturday, April 26:

5:00–6:00 PM | Holly Painter & Friends Performing Poetry

Duncan Campbell’s poems have appeared most recently in Barnstorm, Empty House Press, Ghost City Review, Northern New England Review, and Whale Road Review. A chapbook of his poems, Farmstead, Fire, Field, was published by ELJ Press in 2015, and a selection of short poems was anthologized in June Poems in 2021. Duncan lives in Northern Vermont.

Holly Painter is the author of The pressure of all that light (Rebel Satori Press, 2022), My Pet Sounds Off: Translating the Beach Boys (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Excerpts from a Natural History (Titus Books, 2015). Her next collection, As last, we listen closely: cryptic crossword poems, will be published by Black Spring Press in 2025. Read more at hollypainter.com.

Angela Patten’s publications include five poetry collections, Feeding the Wild Rabbit (Kelsay Books 2024), The Oriole & the Ovenbird (Kelsay Books 2021), In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge Books 2014), Reliquaries and Still Listening (both from Salmon Poetry, Ireland), and a prose memoir, High Tea at a Low Table (Wind Ridge Books 2013). Born and raised in Dublin, she maintains dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States, where she has lived since 1977.

7:00–8:30 PM | Laura Markowitz

Laura Markowitz, from Pittsburgh, PA originally, has lived in Jericho most of her life. She plays violin with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles in the area. In March, she’s joining an all-female string quartet for concerts around the state, commemorating Women’s History Month. She teaches violin and fiddle to all ages at her studio and assists in teaching strings at Browns River Middle School. She loves playing Irish and Swedish music as well, and on April 26, will bring a mix of classical and world folk tunes to the audience.

The Library will be closed to other business during these performances. Please see the event website for more details.