Seven Stars Arts Center

03/29/2026

McCaffrey & Rooney Present: Bob & Sarah Amos Band
Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, VT
Friday, April 17th at 7 pm
​with Special Guest Jim Rooney

The Vermont father-daughter duo Bob & Sarah Amos are truly on a roll. Their recent acclaimed
folk/americana album “Ever Onward” spent a full year on the national Folk charts, reaching the #1
album slot on the national FolkDJ-L chart, while their Vermont inspired song “The Hills That I Call
Home” was the #1 song for a month on the Folk Alliance International chart.
Vermont Public’s legendary “All The Traditions” show host Robert Resnik has described Bob and
Sarah’s music as “Heavenly harmonies and glorious songwriting. Every song is toe-curlingly
beautiful”.

In addition to their recent acclaimed “Ever Onward” album Bob and Sarah have just released an
acoustic Beatles album “Two Of Us”, and they will be featuring some of these songs in their 2026
shows. As Bob says, “We carefully selected Beatles songs that fit our ‘Bob & Sarah Amos Band’
style. We’ve had a blast putting together this special project, and folks are really responding to
these songs in a big way!”
Guitarist/banjoist/vocalist Bob Amos is an internationally recognized, award winning
bluegrass/folk/americana singer-songwriter whose songs have graced the top of the folk,
bluegrass and americana charts. He has recorded twelve acclaimed albums and performed
throughout the USA and Europe for over 30 years.

Singout! magazine has called Bob “one of the
most interesting and intelligent songwriters in American music”.
For the past ten years Bob has been performing with his daughter Sarah Amos, a vocalist of
remarkable power and sensitivity. This talented duo and their supporting band present a highly
entertaining and varied program, with original and traditional songs ranging from beautiful ballads
to powerful, bluesy bluegrass-tinged numbers. Their vocal blend has been called “mesmerizing”
and “a must see”. With an all-star band backing them up, including guitarist Andy Greene, bassist
Kirk Lord and mandolinist Taylor Armerding, and a wonderful variety of their unique bluegrass, folk
and Americana sounds, this is a show not to be missed!
http://bobamos.com/home
7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
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Ticket cost: $20.00 in advance (+fee), $25 at the door
​Children under 12 – free admittance.
​Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/

03/07/2026

Welcoming Springtime!!
Sound Bath & Sound Massage

Saturday, March 21st

12 noon - 1:30 pm

Join Kirk Jones of Evolvlove Sound Therapy (https://evolvlove.com/) and Handpan
Maestro Jed Blume (jedblume.com) for an immersive resonant experience of
sound and vibration. Tone-matched gongs, hand pans, and crystal bowls will
create an enveloping soundscape, while large bronze singing bowls are rung and
sung on the front and back of the body (if you choose).
This session is designed to clear energetic and muscle tension, guiding you to
healing within and bringing you and your nervous system into deep restorative
relaxation.
Bring a yoga mat, a small pillow if you wish, and whatever else you need to feel
comfortable lying down for 90 minutes.
We have metal folding chairs with cushions available.
All welcome. No experience necessary. Email Kirk with any
questions: [email protected]
We encourage advance registration as this offering is limited to 23 folks.
Advance registration $32.00 + fee:
events.humanitix.com/sound-bath-and-sound-massage-3dgmnqdm
$35.00 pay at the door

Join Kirk Jones of Evolvlove Sound Therapy and Handpan Maestro Jed Blume for an immersive resonant experience of sound and vibration.

11/05/2025

SHAWN CAMP with JIM ROONEY

FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 21ST, at 7 pm

Some careers can be described with a couple of words, but Shawn Camp isn't one of them.
He is a bold and distinctive singer, a multi instrumentalist, and a brilliant songwriter.
As lead singer with the Grammy winning Bluegrass band The Earls of Leicester, Shawn was named the IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year in 2015.
He's written hit songs for such as Garth Brooks, George Strait, Brooks & Dunn and Josh Turner. He won a Grammy for his production of Guy Clark final album My Favorite Picture of You; He wrote the title song of Willie Nelson's recent Grammy winning album A Beautiful Time. Shawn is steeped in the traditions of Country music.
In addition to Willie Nelson he has co-written with Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard.
​He was an indispensable member of Rooney's Irregulars for 25 years. Grammy winning producer Jim Rooney is best known for his work with Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Iris DeMent, and Hal Ketchum, to name a few. He has been involved in music ever since he first appeared on the WCOP “Hayloft Jamboree” as a teenager in Boston in 1954. For over 50 years Jim partnered with the legendary banjo player Bill Keith,

recording several landmark recordings together.

shawncamp.com/
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=569019178059607
www.jimrooneyproductions.com/
7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
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Ticket cost: $20.00 in advance (+$2.07 Humanitix fee):
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$25 at the door
​Children under 12 – free admittance.
Brocklebank beer will be available

09/14/2025

Bill Hearne
Thursday, Sept 18 at 7pm
With Colin McCaffrey and Dave Rowell

At the Star Mountain Events Barn
139 Star Mountain Rd, Sharon VT 05065

Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keene, Jerry Jeff Walker
and others have said that Bill and Bonnie Hearne were the key
figures in the development of the Austin Music Sound of the
seventies.
All of them held Bill and Bonnie in such high reverence not only
as artists but as friends.
Bonnie is gone, but Bill Hearne carries on these days playing at
the famous La Fonda Hotel on the Plaza in Santa Fe, as well as at
other venues in Santa Fe, Taos and Austin.
Bill& #39;s strong flat picking guitar style and wide-ranging song
repertoire is guaranteed to get people up and dancing from the
first song to the last.
Don& #39;t miss this rare opportunity to hear this music legend in
person, backed up by Colin McCaffrey and Dave Rowell.
https://www.billhearne.com/
Thursday, September 18th at 7 pm
Tickets in advance $15 adult, $5 child (+
fee): https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/

$20 at the gate (cash and checks only)
Children 10 and under, $5.00 ​
Beer for sale by Brocklebank Craft Beer.
Sorry! NO Thai barbecue for sale on this date.
Sorry! No early Picnickers or dogs please.
Thanks!!

For more info: [email protected] or 802- 765-
4454
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Colin McCaffrey is a native Vermonter, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and
award-winning record producer who has worked on hundreds of regional
recordings and live productions. Lending his smooth voice and string
wizardry to the best music coming out of these hills, Colin McCaffrey is what
the Burlington Free Press calls "A Green Mountain treasure worth
unearthing."
Dave Rowell is one “wicked talented bass player and spot-on lead and
harmony vocalist”. Dave hails from East Craftsbury where his musical roots
run deep, he brings more than 20 years experience as a founding member of
one of Central Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom’s favorite traditional
country bands, the WDEV Radio Rangers.

Seven Stars Arts Center is pleased to be a fiscal sponsor for Star Mountain
Events.

08/09/2025

The Sterling String Quartet
Friday, August 22nd at 7 pm

The Sterling String Quartet invites you to their 3rd Annual Jazz for Strings Concert!

The Sterling String Quartet has been performing in the Upper Valley since 2007. The quartet will play works
by Gershwin, Ellington, Kern, Harold Arlen and other composers of the big band era, but with a string quartet twist! Leave the stress of today and step back into music of the 30s, 40s, and 50s when life was a little slower.

The Sterling String Quartet: $20 at the door
Doors open at 6:30.
Children under 12 – free admittance.

04/14/2025

BOB AND SARAH AMOS BAND
With Special Guest JIM ROONEY
Friday April 18
7 pm
The Bob & Sarah Amos Band provide a highly entertaining program, ranging
from powerful, bluesy bluegrass to beautiful ballads, which is sure to please
all fans of acoustic music.
Robert Resnik, host of Vermont Public’s All
The Traditions, has described Bob and Sarah’s music as: “Heavenly
harmonies and glorious songwriting. Every song is toe-curlingly beautiful.”

7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
Brocklebank beer will be available.
​
Ticket cost: $20.00 in advance (+ fee):
https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/
​$25 at the door

03/17/2025

Seven Stars Arts Center’s ST PADDY'S DAY CELEBRATION with Jim Rooney, Colin McCaffrey, Patti Casey, Geordie Lynd and Footworks!!
Friday, March 21st at 7 pm
Come and join us for a sweet sharing of songs by these fabulous seven musicians. Enjoy some yummy snacks, Brocklebank beer and good company!
Patti Casey is a native Vermonter. She has been called ”...the voice of Vermont contemporary music” by the Times Argus/Rutland Herald, with a voice that’s strong and sweet, a catalog of timeless songs, and a history of penning classics that have found their way into the folk music world across the United States.
Geordie Lynd plays Irish music on the fiddle in a style influenced by recordings of the Clare masters and by the uileann piping tradition.
He and his family have a small dairy farm in South Walden, Vermont.

Inspired by the high-energy Gaelic music of Cape Breton Island, Footworks is a Vermont-based instrumental band. With Jacob Brillhart on fiddle, Jon Brillhart on whistle, and Tory Heft on guitar, Footworks provides a rich and balanced sound that is bound to get your feet tapping and your hands clapping.

Brocklebank beer will be available.
7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.

Ticket cost: $20.00 (+fee) in advance:
https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/st-paddys-day.html
$25 at the door
Children under 12 – free admittance.


Colin McCaffrey, Vermont producer and award- winning songwriter has become a regional “one-stop-shop” for high quality audio production, as well as heading up long time Vermont favorite band The Stone Cold Roosters and winning various song competitions including the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest.

Grammy winning producer Jim Rooney is best known for his work with Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Iris DeMent, and Hal Ketchum, to name a few. For over 50 years Jim partnered with the legendary banjo player Bill Keith, recording several landmark recordings
together.

03/17/2025

STAR RADIO HOUR 'LOVE, SWEET LOVE'
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 7-9 pm

On April 5 Seven Stars Arts Center will present their 5th Star Radio Hour show.
With Jim Rooney as emcee, it is a fun hour of music, stories, skits and poems.
And! You’ll want to stay afterwards for a fabulous Swing Dance Party!

The show will be broadcasted live through Royalton Community Radio at 96.5 on the FM dial. www.royaltonradio.org/

You’ll hear great tunes from our band “Play It Forward” with
Chris Rua, Thal Aylward, Bruce Sklar, Ted Mortimer, Glendon Ingalls and singers Becky Bailey and Bethany Nafziger

Storyteller Simon Brooks returns with a story “The Princess Who Had to Marry”
Advance Tickets are $22 (+ fee) or $25 at the door
https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/
Children under 12 - free admittance.
Doors open at 6:30.

A very grateful thank you to the the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation for their support of this series.
And many thanks to our local Royalton, Bethel and South Royalton sponsors for supporting the
Star Radio Hour shows: Roma’s Butchery, Ellis Music BALE, The Country Animal Hospital and The South Royalton Market

03/17/2025

BOB & SARAH AMOS BAND
With Special Guest Jim Rooney
Friday April 18
7 pm

The Bob & Sarah Amos Band provide a highly entertaining program, ranging from powerful, bluesy bluegrass to beautiful ballads, which is sure to please all fans of acoustic music.

Robert Resnik, host of Vermont Public’s All The Traditions, has described Bob and Sarah’s music as: “Heavenly harmonies and glorious songwriting. Every song is toe-curlingly beautiful.”

7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
Brocklebank beer will be available.

Ticket cost: $20.00 in advance (+ fee):
https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/
$25 at the door

02/13/2025

WE ARE EXCITED for our upcoming MARDI GRAS! POINTE NOIR WILL SHAKE UP OUR LITTLE GRANGE HALL! Come join us for FUN, DANCING!

MARDI GRAS WITH
POINT NOIR BAND

McCaffrey & Rooney Present -

Friday, February 21 st
Pointe Noir plays an uplifting combination of exciting dance music, country
songs, and Cajun tunes from Lafayette and beyond.
Pointe Noir finds its rhythm deeply seated in Southwest Louisiana, where
many of its members have studied and learned Cajun music. Katie Trautz is a seasoned fiddle player, who drifted south to the Bayou after many years of playing Old-time music. Chris Hollis, the Montpelier-based
old-time guitar player, also found an interest in Cajun music, and together he and Katie traveled to Louisiana to learn the musical traditions there. Cannon Labrie is a long-time Cajun and Zydeco accordion player.

This performance Pointe Noir is joined by Andrew Stearns of the Burlington based Wild Leek River band. Pointe Noir rhythm section includes Walker Blackwell, a percussionist who has been surrounded by Cajun music his entire life and has been performing percussion in several local bands on
and off since he was 4 years old. Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a multi- instrumentalist and music educator. She started singing and drumming in bands in Vermont when she was 14 years old, and continued her performing career for the past 2 decades.
​
www.facebook.com/PointNoirCajunBand
7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
Brocklebank Beer will be available.
​
Ticket cost: $20.00 (+ fee) in advance:
$25 at the door
​Children under 12 – free admittance.

02/05/2025

MARDI GRAS WITH
POINT NOIR BAND

McCaffrey & Rooney Present -

Friday, February 21 st
Pointe Noir plays an uplifting combination of exciting dance music, country
songs, and Cajun tunes from Lafayette and beyond.
Pointe Noir finds its rhythm deeply seated in Southwest Louisiana, where
many of its members have studied and learned Cajun music. Katie Trautz is a seasoned fiddle player, who drifted south to the Bayou after many years of playing Old-time music. Chris Hollis, the Montpelier-based
old-time guitar player, also found an interest in Cajun music, and together he and Katie traveled to Louisiana to learn the musical traditions there. Cannon Labrie is a long-time Cajun and Zydeco accordion player.

This performance Pointe Noir is joined by Andrew Stearns of the Burlington based Wild Leek River band. Pointe Noir rhythm section includes Walker Blackwell, a percussionist who has been surrounded by Cajun music his entire life and has been performing percussion in several local bands on
and off since he was 4 years old. Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a multi- instrumentalist and music educator. She started singing and drumming in bands in Vermont when she was 14 years old, and continued her performing career for the past 2 decades.
​
www.facebook.com/PointNoirCajunBand
7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
Brocklebank Beer will be available.
​
Ticket cost: $20.00 (+ fee) in advance:
$25 at the door
​Children under 12 – free admittance.

08/30/2024

Lynne Hanson
Friday, September 20 7:00 pm
Lynne Hanson is an Ottawa-based, Americana songwriter
known for her high energy, roots guitar
driven live performances, with an authenticity
​that& #39;s as entertaining as it is disarming.
​
Too tough for folk and too blues-influenced for country, Lynne Hanson’s brand of porch music with a little
red dirt can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue sky ballad to a full on thunderstorm of gritty Americana
swamp from one song to the next. Her hard living music has garnered her the nickname “Canada’s Queen of
Americana.”
And while her deep, bluesy croon has drawn comparisons to Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch,
it’s the poetry of her lyrics that really sets her apart.
Winner of two Canadian Folk Music Awards, Hanson has an uncanny way of connecting with her audience
with an authenticity that is as entertaining as it is disarming.
​The prolific songwriter has released nine studio albums along with
two books of poetry over her 18 year solo career.
She’s toured extensively across North America, Europe and the UK, and appeared at leading international
festivals including Take Root (Netherlands), Glasgow Americana (Scotland), Maverick Festival (UK),
Kerrville Folk Festival (US),
and Winnipeg Folk Festival (Canada).
She has also toured as support for Grammy-nominated artists like Gretchen Peters,
Steve Forbert and Albert Lee.
Lynne Hanson will release her tenth studio album “Just A Poet” in Spring 2024.

www.lynnehanson.com/home
Click to Listen "Light in Me"​
For additional performance videos visit Lynne Hanson& #39;s YouTube channel
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7:00 pm concert time. Doors open at 6:30.
Tickets in advance $22.07 includes fee: https://www.sevenstarsarts.org/
$25.00 at the door ​Children under 12 – free admittance.

If you need:
www.sevenstarsarts.org 5126 VT Rte 14 Sharon, VT 802 763 2334
SSAC is physically accessible.