 We had heard about the New World Festival for years, but my wife and I are traveling musicians, so last year we get to come for the first time and are resolved to never miss another one. We like to see the Canadian culture, the music that's still going on up there, come into Randolph, Vermont, and we both have a love for French-Canadian music as well. So I think it's just neat to have some of this Roots music right here in Vermont for us to be able to partake in. Hi, I'm Ray Greenleath with Vermont Kelta Company from Menden, Vermont, and we're here at the New World Festival at the Chandler Music Hall Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont, having a great time. One of the first things I noticed while I was setting up here, setting up the shop, was I had a group of kids practicing songs over here, and they're all laughing and joking and have a good time, and really their introduction to the arts at a young age that they'll carry through their whole lives. And that was my first impression of the New World Festival here, and I think that's really great. My name is Patrick Sharp. I'm Kyle Ski-Browning. And I'm Sophie Roe. And we're the More Road Fiddlers. The guy first came, I was eight or nine. So many years. Yeah, I think so too. Exactly, part of it is getting to meet really lots of other musicians and being in an environment where it's just like constant music. Yeah, and once you're done playing, you can just go relax and watch everybody else, which is awesome. Yeah, and watching people is also really nice. Last year when we came in here, we got to see Ten Strings and the Goat Skin, and as soon as the fiddles started, we felt like the paint was coming off the walls. So we had six children. We love to bring them here, and the spirit's good. The people are good. It's a real special festival. So we're here at Ten Strings and the Goat Skin. We come from Prince Edward Island, Canada, and we're here to play you some music. So there's a little set called Makin' Dave's after the guys who taught us the first tune. So that's not very inventive at all, is it? I hope you guys enjoy it. He joins the Royal Army, and he gets on a boat, and he's in the Huron in the seven years. What happens is that he gets shot. Seven is up to be a real serious song. Yeah, I would say. Anyway, no, so he is mortally wounded on the field of battle. And this song, in fact, is his letter that he writes home to his family, telling them that he's just kind of very confused. He doesn't know where he is. He doesn't know who he's fighting or for what he's fighting for, telling his big brother too. Starting to set off on a... that's real depressing, you know. But that being said, it's a beautiful tune. So I hope you guys hear it. This is called The Uniform. I'm kind of bilingual, educational. We're from the west coast of Brittany. Oh no, west coast of France. The province is Brittany. And yeah, so it's kind of one of the seven Celtic nations. And while we were touring in France this year, we played Brittany, and we played this song for them. They all seemed to really like it. It was made really popular back in the 1970s by a group called Tien. Really? First, in North America, we'll meet you afterwards. So Tien are a fantastic, fantastic, kind of like... They were like, kind of a psychedelic, traditional Bretton music. And they were all sorts of weird, great, great music. And in the end, we were touring in Brittany. We passed through it, and everyone really liked the song. It was very well known. And then we went to the south of France after we were on the coast. And we're like, ah, the southerners, you know, they... If the Brittany people like this, then they'll love it, you know? Because they don't know anything about this stuff. And then we played a festival that was kind of like a Celtic music festival. And right in the south of France, where there shouldn't have been like any ties at all. And we were all bloaty. We were on our high horses for this one. And we presented it, and we're like, yeah. And we did exactly that intro. And we're like, yeah, and tri-en. They're a bunch of crazy old guys. And they're all, you know, really psychedelic and weird music and stuff like this. And maybe... And I mean, we were trying to be polite. It didn't quite work. And it turns out that the band following us was tri-en. Well, they were closing out the night anyway, so... So we're just like... We just got in the band right after we left. So this is a tune called Mallevon du Rete. And it's about a young man who goes off and he tries to find a wife. And it's possible he does it in the creepiest way imaginable. He just goes into town, picks one, kind of points at her, and then runs at her. And I mean, I don't think that would work no matter what century you were born in. Anyway, this is called Mallevon du Rete, I hope you guys are doing it. Soriant les charbonniers d'enfer. It's a festival to welcome le bricour dans la vie. Let's give a great new world festival welcome to Frontless. So, naturally, I was like, I think we should play this tune. And so these guys are like, great. You don't get to play for like the first two minutes, though. It's my favorite start of the tune, personally. It's the most in tune I play in the concert. It's part of so many of this festival, which is kind of like wandering around from awesome piece of band music to another band that's playing another cool thing, and then you open another door and there's a band playing something cool over there. You guys found that today, too? Happy meanders wrote in the month of June. And at the time it was new, so I called it Trans New Junetune. And then it's not new anymore. And these guys know my name, so it's just called the Junetune.