Sponsor the Young Tradition Festival!
About Young Tradition Festival
The 2024 Young Tradition Festival will take place May 10-12 in Burlington, VT. The Festival celebrates young artists and multi-generational relationships in diverse traditional music and dance communities. It also provides engaging opportunities for youth, families, and the greater community to become immersed and involved in traditional music and dance from many Vermont communities.
The Young Tradition Festival is one of several Living Traditions programs run by Vermont Folklife to support Vermonters as they practice and pass on traditional art forms that are vital and relevant to their communities. These programs encourage youth to explore, learn, and perform traditional music and dance.
Who will see your logo/business name?
Young Tradition Festival’s Audience:
The goal of the Young Tradition Festival is to provide youth with a venue to perform, alongside their peers, mentors and professional musicians, and also to inspire youth who are not yet participating in traditional music and dance to engage with those art forms. We also seek to bring high-caliber musical performances from a range of cultural backgrounds to the community more broadly.
We anticipate a total of 3,500 to 4000 people participating in events between performers and audience members, of whom 800-1000 will be youth. Audience members will include locals with an interest in traditional music, this year also including those with a specific interest in Quebecois and/or Nepali music. We will also reach the majority of attendees to the Burlington Farmers Market through our Student/Mentor Showcase, as well as students at a local school and residents at a local retirement home.
Our Digital Reach:
Vermont Folklife’s website averages 3000-4000 unique views a month
The Vermont Folklife Newsletter lands in 2600 inboxes a month.
Vermont Folklife has 3,682 Facebook followers, and Young Tradition Vermont has 2,110.
Vermont Folklife has 2,048 Instagram followers, and Young Tradition Vermont has 279.
Sponsorship Levels
$150 - Friend Level Sponsorship
As a friend of the festival, you’ll cover the stipend and administrative costs of one of our Saturday morning student/mentor showcase acts, in which young performers perform a short set together with a teacher or mentor at the Burlington Farmers Market.
For our Friend Level sponsors we will:
List your name on the Young Tradition Festival web page (vtfolklife.org/YTFest)
Share your name/logo (and tag you, if applicable) on our Facebook and Instagram pages
Display your name in our list of sponsors at all Festival events, and include your name on any printed festival materials, such as programs.
Provide you free admission to Festival events
Send you a poster you can display to share with customers/clients that you are supporting youth involvement in traditional music, and helping to foster strong arts community in Vermont.
$250 - Community Level Sponsorship
As a community level sponsor, you support us creating community events within the Young Tradition Festival, such as our Sunday morning family-friendly jam session, and our Sunday afternoon family contra dance. You’ll also help cover the costs of having Festival performers share their music in local community spaces, such as schools and retirement communities.
For our Community Level sponsors we will will do all of the above, and also:
Thank you individually on our social media
Share your logo in any Vermont Folklife E-Newsletters and Young Tradition Vermont Email Updates that includes updates about the the festival (expect this to happen 1-3 times)
$500 and up - All-Festival Level Sponsorship
All-Festival Sponsors help make every part of the festival possible, from covering venue costs and staff time, to buying snacks for our wonderful performers!
For our All-Festival Level sponsors we will will do all of the above, and also:
Thank you from the stage at Festival performances
Include your logo on the Young Tradition Festival poster* (*If received by April 1st)
Vermont Folklife is a 501(c )3 organization (EIN = 22-2550951). We certify that this gift is tax deductible to the full extent of the law and that no goods or services were provided in exchange for this donation.
Checks can be made out to Vermont Folklife, 88 Main St. Middlebury VT 05753, with “Young Tradition Fest Sponsor” in the memo line.
Please email ytv@vtfolklife.org if you would like to receive an invoice prior to payment.
Current Sponsors
Young Tradition Festival 2024 is put on in partnership with Burlington City Arts and Burlington Farmers Market, and funded in part by the Government of Quebec and the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts,, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. Additional sponsors include the Northeast Fiddlers Association, Courtyard Marriott, Vermont Violins, Burlington Irish Heritage Festival, Vermont Hindu Temple, Cabot Arts, Folinos Pizza, Deb Flanders, Alyson Richards & James Pepper, Gigi Weisman and Jane Van Buren, John & Fiona Patterson in honor of Aidan Price, and Matt Buckley.
