BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9018@royaltonradio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261218T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261218T210000 DTSTAMP:20261111T001538Z URL:https://www.royaltonradio.org/events/mccaffrey-and-rooney-present-a-ho nky-tonk-christmas-at-seven-stars-in-sharon/ SUMMARY:McCaffrey and Rooney Present a Honky Tonk Christmas at Seven Stars in Sharon! DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHonky Tonk Christmas    Friday\, December 18th\,  7-9 pm\n\n"McCaffrey and Rooney Present" are happy to celebrate the season again\, with\nDave Rowell\,  Danny Coane &\; Don Schabner f or a Honky Tonk Christmas evening!\n\nJim Rooney on guitar/vocals\, Colin McCaffrey on electric lead guitar/fiddle/vocals\; Danny Coane on acoustic rhythm guitar/vocals\, Dave Rowell on electric bass/vocals\, Don Schabner on guitar. The evening features vintage\, classic country\, bluegrass\, ro ckabilly and western swing.\n\nColin\, Danny &\; Dave are all native Ve rmonters\, long-time friends and musical colleagues possessing many years of professional experience performing in various groups. They first got together as a casual\, informal trio in 2017 and quickly discovered thei r ability to deliver the goods off-the-cuff.\nJim Rooney &\; Don Scha bner are a perfect fit !\n\n7:00 pm concert time   Doors open at 6:30\n\n Ticket cost: $20.00 in advance (+ small fee):\nevents.humanitix.com/honky- tonk-christmas-xuju9pte\n\n$25 at the door\nChildren under 12 – free adm ittance.\n\nBrocklebank beer will be available\n\nBrattleboro native COLI N McCAFFREY has a huge musical resume going back to being a graduate of the Berklee College of Music\, then performing with many regional artists \, including the Stone Cold Roosters\, the Clayfoot Strutters\, Patti Ca sey\, Jim Rooney and many more. Colin is a multi-instrumentalist\, singe r\, award-winning songwriter\, recording engineer and record producer.\n \nJIM ROONEY  knows how to bring folks together\, he has a deep love of gathering us all around some very fine musicians.  And he will regale th e audience with his entertaining stories of the road\, and his own wonderf ul interpretations of the excellent old-time traditional and country repe rtoire of music. He is a Grammy winning producer. ?Jim Rooney is best kn own for his work with Nanci Griffith\, John Prine\, Iris DeMent\, and Hal Ketchum\, to name a few. For over 50 years Jim partnered with the legendar y banjo player Bill Keith\,\nrecording several landmark recordings togeth er.\n\nMontpelier native DANNY COANE first started playing professional ly with his high school rock band\, The Jesters (1963-65)\, followed by b eing a member of such groups as Crossroads\, The Slant Six Revue\, the f amous Throbulators\, the Chrome Cowboys\, the WDEV Radio Rangers and his  longest-running and highly recognized band\, The Starline Rhythm Boys.  Danny has also played banjo in former bluegrass bands (Pine Island and B reakaway) and currently works with The VT Bluegrass Pioneers.\n\nEast Cra ftsbury native DAVE ROWELL is from a well-known and recognized generati ons-old farm family who were early settlers of Craftsbury/Albany and\, al so\, a family with a lot of musical talent. Besides co-owning a major re al estate agency\, being an ad salesman for WDEV/WLVB and an auctioneer\, he has been involved as a bass player and singer for years in several w ell known bands which include The WDEV Radio Rangers\, The Craftsbury Vib rations and Rick and the Ramblers.\n\nDON SCHABNER grew up on Long Island and started playing guitar around age 10. Although not having much formal training\, he received good basic instruction from the studios of Mario R enda\, as well as some advanced instruction later on from  top guitarist s Sal Salvador\, Sal LaPorta\, and Allen Hanlon. He started general-busine ss gigging at a young age and spent most of the next 20 years as a full-ti me working guitarist. When Don moved to Vermont in 2000\, he had no intent ion of working as a musician\; however\, the vibrant creativity of the sta te’s music scene soon drew him in\, and he’s now happier playing music than at any previous time. Working with a number of groups\, Don reckons himself to be very fortunate to have accompanied the very best Vermont mus icians in jazz\, country\, and various types of traditional music. He live s in Morristown and is retired from full-time work in the schools\, the be tter to devote more time to his family\, home\, friends\, and musical purs uits.  Don’s an incredibly gifted guitarist with tremendous ears and s kills\, plus he’s one of the nicest guys around.\nIt doesn’t get much better than Don Schabner on guitar!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.royaltonradio.org/wp-content/uploads /2026/11/screenshot-2026-09-14-at-6-11-00-pm_orig.png CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:Seven Stars Arts Center\, 5126 VT-14\, Sharon\, Vt\, 05065\, Winds or County\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=5126 VT-14\, Sharon\, Vt\, 05065\, Windsor County\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Seven St ars Arts Center:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR