 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 Kyla Ski-Browning. I'm Sophie Rowe. We're the More Road Fiddlers. The first game I was eight or nine, so many years. Yeah, I think so too. Part of it is to meet lots of other musicians and be in an environment where it's just like constant music and once you're done playing you can just go relax and watch everybody else, which is always good. Yeah, watching people is also really nice. Last year when we came in here we got to see 10 strings and a 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 loved to bring them here and the spirits are good, the people are good, it's a real special festival. So we're here 10 strings and a goat skin. We come from Prince Edward Island, Canada and we're here to play you some music. So this is a little set called Mckin 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 Arch and the Huron in the seven years. He gets shot and that's no good. Seven is up to be a real serious song. Anyway, he's 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. He's telling his big brother too. So it's starting to set off on a... That's real depressing. But that being said it's a beautiful tune so I hope you guys enjoy this healthy uniform. From the west coast of Brittany, oh no, west coast of France the province is Brittany. 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. The first person in North America will meet you afterwards. So Tien are a fantastic, fantastic, kind of like a psychedelic traditional Breton music and they were all sorts of weird. But they made great, great music and in the end we were touring in Brittany, we passed through 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, 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 Trien, they're a bunch of crazy old guys and they 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 Trien. And we were like, so they were closing out the night anyway. So we're just like, we just got in the van the right afterwards and left. So this is a tune called Mali von Judetta 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 and 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 Mali von Judetta. I hope you guys are doing it. So the Ante les Charbonnières dans Faire it's a New World Festival welcome, le bricour dans la vie. Great, let's give a great New World Festival welcome to Fretless. Remises it. So naturally the guy 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. Well it's nice to be part of so many of this festival where we're just 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. We're going to do a tune here that I 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.