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Winter Music Series: Pete Sunderland and Oliver Scanlon

5 Town Friends of the Arts in collaboration with the Lawrence Memorial Library and NEAT TV present a series of monthly concerts featuring local musical talent. There will be no in person audience, but the series will be broadcast live on NEAT TV and streamed live on the NEAT TV website and added to the NEAT TV archive for viewing. Steam live here: Northeast Addison Television (NEAT) – Northeast Addison Television (neatbristol.com)

Local folk hero Pete Sutherland and his protege Oliver Scanlon met up when Oliver was a shy 4th grader, where the two wordlessly bonded over fiddle music. Several years later they began to play out, later joining forces with guitarist Tristan Henderson to form Pete’s Posse, a hard-driving trio that spent half a dozen years touring nationally and internationally with its innovative blend of rocking contradance music, thoughtful and hilarious original songs and soulful three-part acapella. The Posse spent the first months of the largely gig-free pandemic recording a double album of new music. With the trio in hibernation due to the closure of the Canadian and U.S. border, Pete and Oliver have revived their duo act, featuring a wide variety of instrumental combinations, informed by all the musical styles and sounds the trio is known for, and continuing to keep the Posse flame burning while adding new repertoire to the mix.


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