Vermont has been home to several recent rising stars in the music business. While everyone has at least heard of Phish and many are learning about Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, I thought we ought to take a look at a few Vermont acts that are just now coming into their own.
I caught the Joshua Panda Band at one of the summertime concerts that the City of Burlington sponsors at Battery Park. One of the buildings that my management company operates is literally right across the street from the bandstand, so I figured I could check in with one of my tenants and listen to some tunes all at the same time. It was a great time! Give a listen to this:
One of Burlington’s emerging stars made her home at that building across from Battery Park for a couple of years. But several years before that transpired, Myra Flynn was looking for her first apartment after graduating from college, which was when I first met her. She moved into a building I manage over on College Street, just around the corner from the (in)famous Nectar’s nightclub. Myra made a splash quickly and she’s now in New York working with Lava Records. Our loss is the rest of the world’s gain, as you’ll see here in this live clip of Myra playing one of her compositions:
In that very same apartment building across from Battery Park lived a very nice woman named Emily who it turned out was the sister of another remarkable Vermont musician, Aya Inoue . Emily and Aya Inoue raised money for victims of the terrible Japanese tsunami by running a spectacular fundraiser last March that brought in an embarrassment of talented players from all over Vermont. Here is a clip of Aya playing one of her original tunes:
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