ABOUT US | Northeast Heritage M

OUR MISSION

Established in 2005, Northeast Heritage Music Camp (NHMC) is now a 501(c)3 non-profit, group-run organization. The week-long camp, located in the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, celebrates and promotes the acoustic music and folk dance traditions of New England and eastern Canada, along with related traditions from Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales, France, the southeastern United States, and other parts of the world.

NHMC is dedicated to fostering lifelong musicianship and love of traditional music through an immersive week-long educational program for musicians of all skill levels. Intensive, workshop-style classes encourage musical growth by both challenging and supporting students to take their musicianship to a new level.

Our goal is to create a vibrant and dynamic musical community in which students and faculty learn from one another and enjoy playing together in formal and informal settings - during the week of camp and beyond.

OUR BOARD

Our dedicated volunteer board includes staff and enthusiastic campers.

Rose Jackson - President

Oliver Scanlon - Vice President

Gianna Marzilli Ericson - Secretary

Todd Taska - Treasurer

Sophie Chang

Steve Hoffman

Jonathan Leonard

Joanne Puente

Linda Young

BOARD BIOS

Others, too, have volunteered their time and skills towards the re-birth and continued growth of NHMC.

Thank you!

TESTIMONIALS

Adult Camper:

NHMC was a total music immersion experience from about 6:30 AM to past midnight. What a wonderful time. I started playing within about 30 mins of arriving and don't think I stopped for the full week. Not even mincemeat fingers were able to get in the way.

It wasn't until I had been home for about 3 weeks that I began to understand what a difference this camp made in my playing outlook. I've been happy to try new ideas I didn't know I would have and my thinking has been considerably expanded. NHMC is a must. -- LB VT

THE BACK STORY

NHMC (fondly known as “NaHuMCa” since that fateful day when a few faculty and campers composed a now largely forgotten camp song) was founded in 2005 and co-directed by Peter Langston and Ken Perlman until 2011. In 2012 we became a non-profit, run by a volunteer board of enthusiastic campers and faculty who seek to sustain and grow the vibrant musical community they began. Since 2013, the camp has taken place each June at the Common Ground Center in Vermont's Green Mountains.

What a wonderful vision Peter and Ken had, and what a special camp they created. We are most appreciative and thankful to them for all they have done to make NHMC such a warm, musical community and, in continuing the camp, we strive to maintain that vision.