Skip Gorman & Mark Burds at Rumney Sessions at Feast and Field in Barnard!

For over half a century SKIP GORMAN has enjoyed singing, playing and performing an impressive and varied palette of traditional American and Celtic folk music. As an accomplished singer, guitarist, fiddler and mandolinist, Gorman has completed over 18 recordings of old time cowboy songs, fiddle, mandolin, bluegrass and been featured on many others, and established his own record label, Old West Recordings.

His recordings have earned a prestigious NAIRD (INDIE) award, and been selected as a top ten folk pick of the year by Amazon.com. Filmmaker Ken Burns has used Skip’s original music on four of his celebrated documentaries. He has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, toured with the US Embassy in Chile, Argentina and Paraguay, performed at World Fiddle Day in Co. Kerry, Ireland, and taught at numerous music camps in America and the British Isles.

When he was a teenager, MARK BURDS left suburban life in Massachusetts to move to a cabin with his parents in Chelsea, Vermont. Soon after he fell in love with the guitar playing of Tony Rice and Norman Blake, and began mixing those traditional bluegrass influences with more experimental acoustic music.