So, here’s the deal: we've calculated the tariff tax on your happiness and decided to subsidize it by UNcharging you in the form of an UNtariff Untax….ie, a special discount.
Read this blog to learn more about - What’s an UNtariff?
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We all feel it—that heaviness when scrolling through the news, that sense of unease settling into our daily lives. But here's something we know for certain: your soul needs nourishment just as much as your body does.
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The Impact of Recent Tariffs
In the past few months, the global economy has experienced significant shifts due to changing trade policies and the imposition of additional tariffs on goods coming from China, Europe and other parts of the world.
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Vermont Violins Wins Prestigious SBA Exporter Of The Year
Vermont Violins has been awarded the Small Business Exporter of the Year by the SBA Vermont District Office, recognizing their global expansion and commitment to sustainability. This achievement is largely attributed to their innovative GaiaTone material, a revolutionary alternative to traditional ebony, crafted from 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
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Join Vermont Violins on a 30-year musical journey! From humble beginnings in 1994 to navigating global changes, we celebrate diversity, craftsmanship, and sustainability. Explore our evolving story!
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‘My home and my violin shop are completely destroyed’: a call for help from a Mariupol luthier
A Ukrainian violin maker whose livelihood has been devastated by the ongoing Russian invasion is calling for help.
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This is an unabashed plug for a string-oriented music camp if your child plays a bowed, string instrument. Here is why:
1) Maintaining fine motor skills.
2) Expanding the student’s peer group
3) Having fun with music
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Can Music Ever Be Centrally Controlled?
I was surprised to read (The Economist, 12/21) that it was Chile's short-lived President, Salvador Allende, that first tried in 1973 to implement a computer-driven HQ for managing a complex economy. He brought in a Super-Computer (probably similar in superness to today's calculator), built a command center to house it (apparently borrowing features from the Brig of the Starship Enterprise, but adding a minibar) and got to work planning and controlling the newly nationalized economy. His regime was overthrown by the brutal Pinochet regime before he could make much of a start on it...and Pinochet preferred the tried and true old fashioned ways of rule: torture, suppression and fear.
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El Sistema in Vermont – Supporting Community Music for Kids!
As part of our commitment to giving back to the communities we serve, and to foster a love for music among all our children, Vermont Violins has been an active supporter and partner to many string programs serving under-served and financially challenged communities in our region. From Winooski to St. Johnsbury, we have been providing low-cost instruments to help sustain programs that bring violin instruction to schools that are dedicated to enriching the lives of even our states least privileged individuals.
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What is Fiddleheads?
Fiddleheads is a program of Young Tradition Vermont, hosted by Vermont Violins and the Burlington Violin Shop. It is dedicated to bringing kids together to learn and enjoy traditional music in all its forms in a low-key, non-competitive, session. Kids of all levels are invited to join a monthly play-together, led by a master fiddler or musician recruited from the professional traditional music community of Vermont and her neighbors.
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Why should I go to a contemporary music concert?
I have played some pretty crazy music as a violist. Music that looked more like a scientific analysis on the page than notes. Music that used my bow as a percussive instrument rather than a string instrument. Music that asked me to make sounds I’m pretty sure my instrument will never do again. As a performer it was fun, challenging, exhilarating! But if I were asked to sit in the audience – would I have sat in that audience? What was the goal? Why would I want to go to a contemporary music concert as a parent of a string instrument student – and should I take my child?
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Practice Cookies
There is nothing like a cold, snowy day to inspire a warm cookie baking session. The icing and decorations provide a colorful contrast to the stark white flakes floating down our windows. The cookies warm us up as we play games or come in from yet another round of shoveling.
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