Montpelier, VT – April in Vermont is sweetened with festivities that celebrate Vermont’s spring-time traditions. From pond skimming to mud season celebrations, here’s a sample of the VermontVacation.com events you’ll want to experience:
Fifth Annual Mud Season Groove
April 1, West Glover
Celebrate the arrival of spring and its requisite mud at the Fifth Annual Mud Season Groove. Foot-stomping music, raffle prizes, food and libation. Supports the Northwoods Stewardship Center.
April 4, Various Ski Resorts
Brave souls attempt to cross a long, slush-filled pond on skis or snowboards without falling in. It’s a uniquely Vermont form of entertainment that happens at resorts throughout the state: Smugglers’ Notch, Killington, Burke Mountain, Okemo.
Chamber Music Series: Con Moto
April 4, Brattleboro
Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Music Series features artists and ensembles with international reputations, as well as gifted emerging young artists, performing chamber music of the highest quality. The Con Moto concert will feature music by Haydn, Brahms, and Garfield. Con Moto is a Vermont Arts 2015 event.
Baby Animal Day at Billings Farm & Museum
April 5, Woodstock
Meet the farm’s newest additions during family-centered programs featuring lambs, chicks and calves. Wagon rides, heirloom seed programs, and craft activities.
Echo Afterdark PechaKucha Night
April 9, Burlington
Join friends and neighbors as they present fast-paced and visually striking slideshows using the international PechaKucha format.
April 12, Randolph
A documentary film about food waste in America, followed by an informal discussion.
April 10-12, Essex Junction
Vermont is home to some of the most vibrant locally made products in the country. The marketplace will feature a great variety of Vermont made products from furniture, wine, spirits, specialty foods, and crafts to home goods and fine art.
April 22 - May 10, Burlington
Winner of the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play, The Mountaintop is a fictional re-imagining of a chance meeting between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a mysterious maid at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis the evening before his assassination. The Mountaintop is a Vermont Arts 2015 event.
Blackbird, Traditional Music Duo
April 25, Brandon
Blackbird, a Vermont duo made up of Rachel Clark and Bob DeMarco, presents a lively musical mix on flute, penny whistle, fiddle, accordion, guitar, cittern, piano, and vocals. A pre-concert dinner is available. The Blackbird concert is a Vermont Arts 2015 event. http://www.brandon-music.net/
April 24 - May 3, Statewide
Vermont Restaurant Week is an opportunity to sample locavore, farm-to-table cuisine that is consistently celebrated with national accolades and headlines. Vermont can credit its distinction as a culinary destination to its abundance of agricultural resources and top-flight chefs. This is your chance to explore.
The 49th Vermont Maple Festival
April 24-26, St. Albans
When sugaring’s over, it’s time for maple fun! The weekend is host to new syrup tasting, exhibits, street entertainment, food stands, pancake breakfasts, cooking and maple contests, a carnival, face painting, sugarhouse tours and a giant parade.
April 25, St. Johnsbury
The St. Johnsbury World Maple Festival celebrates the history and heritage of the maple syrup industry, and St. Johnsbury’s status as the Maple Center of the World. Pancake breakfast, 5k run, and street festival.
Alfred Hitchcock and the Art of Suspense
April 26, Mount Holly
By drawing on 12 film clips, Rick Winston will illuminate the arc of Hitchcock’s brilliant career. A Vermont Humanities Council event.