The band Gogol Bordello has its roots in Eastern European Gypsy music. The band's leader, Eugene Hutz, is of Romani ancestry. He grew up in Ukraine but became a refugee and as a teenager he moved with his family to Vermont.

Musician Gordon Stone joins VPR's Jane Lindholm during Vermont Edition to play live.

Asteria is Sylvia Rhyne, soprano, and Eric Redlinger, tenor and lute.  They will perform LIVE on VPR Classical their exquisitely beautiful and historically informed interpretations of romantic music of Burgandy around 1400.

At 11am the Rose Ensemble, 15 singers and instrumentalists based in Minnesota, performs a holiday program of Mexican Baroque and early American music.

The Will Patton Ensemble returned to VPR's performance studio Thursday night, and gave us a taste of their new CD "6th Street Runaround". Listen to the live performance, hosted by VPR's Jazz Host, George Thomas.

The Boston-based string ensemble, A Far Cry, and flutist Karen Kevra perform at 11.  At 1, cellist Allison Eldredge, Artistic Director of the Killington Music Festival, joins pianist Yoshie Akimoto.

Pianist Parker Shper and drummer Øyvind Hegg-Lunde played live Tuesday night on Jazz In The Evening on VPR with George Thomas Click here to listen.

Pianist and composer David Feurzeig is the newest faculty member of the UVM Department of Music.  He joins Walter for a live performance preview of his recital on Sunday, September 14, which blends Bach and Bartok with Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake.

Violinist Katherine Winterstein, concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Inessa Zaretsky perform Violin Sonatas by Beethoven.

For the 16th summer, Artistic Director and cellist Peter Sanders and his colleagues of the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival come to Chandler Music Hall in Randolph for 2 weeks of concerts. They join Walter Parker for a live performance preview today at 11am.

Guitarist Eliot Fisk is a featured soloist at the Vermont Mozart Festival, and his visit to the Green Mountain State also includes a stop at our performance studio for a special live performance and conversation. Other music today includes the 6th Smphony by Jean Sibelius, and even more guitar music by Rodrigo.

Join Walter Parker for a live performance by musicians from the Killington Music Festival, including Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44.

The Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival visits the VPR Performance Studio with music to include some of Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25.

Harpist Grace Cloutier is Walter's guest at 11, performing live music from her new holiday recording, "Winter Solace."  Also, music of Olivier Messiaen on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Bassist Ellen Powell and guitarist Geoff Kim play Live In VPR's Performance Studio.  Ellen is one of Vermont's premier bass players and Kim is an accomplished composer and guitarist with GuaGua, Burlington's latin world band.

At 11, organist David Neiweem brings UVM's 4-stop portative pipe organ to the VPR Performance Studio for a live preview of concerts he will give in Burlington, Montpelier, and Middlebury.

Walter Parker welcomes clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and pianist Jeewon Park to the VPR Performance Studio.  They play Brahms' Clarinet Sonata in E-flat and other works.

At 11 pianist Sally Pinkas of Dartmouth College joins us for a live performance preview of her Hopkins Center recital on June 1, which includes music of Beethoven, Faure, and Prokofiev.

George Thomas welcomes UVM Jazz Studies teacher and trumpeter Ray Vega to the studio. Vega was introduced to Burlington on the opening night of the 2009 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival.

Vermont vocalist and trumpeter Jennifer Hartswick previews her upcoming Burlington Discover Jazz Festival appearence live in VPR's Performance Studio.

The Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival visits the VPR Performance Studio to play American music by George Whitefield Chadwick, John Harbison, and William Bolcom.

Saxophonist Steve Wilson and pianist Danny Grissett join George Thomas in the Performance Studio for a live preview of their Vemont Mozart Festival concert July 22.

At 11 a.m., Walter's guest will be conductor and pianist Gil Shohat of the Vermont Mozart Festival.  He'll preview his upcoming all-Beethoven recital in Middlebury.  

Canadian pianist Jean-Francois Latour is quickly establishing himself as one of the country's best young musicians. Latour's performance highlights one of his specialties, music by Frederic Chopin.

The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival performs music of Schubert and Chausson live in the VPR Performance Studio.