Posts by Ross Mickel

Live music phenom Billy Strings was one of Burlington, Vermont’s most anticipated spring concerts in April of 2020, a date on one of many tours that was not to be when Covid-19 lockdowns began last year. Strings made good on the canceled date on August 3rd, returning to the Champlain Valley as the second consecutive […]

Champlain Valley Exposition kicked off it’s summer ‘Midway Lawn’ concert series on July 28th with a trio of delightfully different, but fitting musical selections. Singer-songwriter Tre Burt, Carolina blues rockers Marcus King Band and Americana meets soul revivalists Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats treated their Vermont audience to a diverse cross section of tunes. […]

An unseasonably cool and drizzly evening greeted Warren Haynes and special guest Zach Nugent at Northlands Live in Swanzey, NH for the third of Haynes’ four-date solo ‘tour’ on Friday night. The inclement weather, however, didn’t dampen the enthusiasm for all three involved. Haynes, Nugent, and the socially distant crowd all simply seemed happy just […]

Tedeschi Trucks Band, Blackberry Smoke and Shovels And Rope brought a triple bill of soulful and guitar-friendly roots music to the Granite Mountain State. Their performance to the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, NH on July 13, 2019, had its share of solos, covers and harkened to the days of 70’s rock big bills. […]

Gov’t Mule headed up to the northernmost parts of Vermont as they visited the Stateside Amphitheatre at Jay Peak Resort in Jay, VT on July 12, 2019. The band offered a vast and colorful setlist that covered all eras of the Mule and then some. Photos by Ross Mickel