The Event

Music for Trains stretches the concept of art and community by presenting a musical performance outside the walls of a traditional concert hall reaching beyond the typical music audience and redefining the notion of concert-going.

The performance experience will begin when the audience boards the train in Brattleboro and will continue with live outdoor concerts in the train depots Bellows Falls and Brattleboro. Performance “adventurists” can participate in the multi-site experience for a unique concert-going experience or chose to take in a single concert in Brattleboro or Bellows Falls. In either case, it will be an experience to remember.

Music for Trains brings So Percussion to Southern Vermont for activities in April, May and June of 2008, which will precede a four-week creative residency and culminate in two evenings of performance on August 8 & 9, 2008. During their residency, So Percussion will work with young performers from Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, play at local farmers markets, collect and record sounds and stories through a Mobile Sound Studio, conduct instrument making workshops, visit the railroad sites and delve into the rich pictorial imagery and sounds of present and past.

The Music for Trains performance and residency with So Percussion is produced by Vermont Performance Lab in partnership with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, the Brattleboro Music Center and the Rockingham Arts and Museum Project.

Special thanks to Connecticut River Transit and Amtrak for helping us move passengers from site to site and to The Green Mountain Railroad/Vermont Rail Systems and the Town of Brattleboro for giving permission to present these performances on their sites.