A Benefit Concert for the

Bennington County Multicultural Community Center

Presented by the Bennington College Carriage Barn Music Series in partnership with Vermont Arts Exchange

Tickets $20, Kids free or by suggested $5.00  donation, Bennington students free with ID.

All proceeds from this event will go to benefit the Bennington County Multicultural Community Center

The Bennington County Multicultural Community Center is the local office of the ECDC (Ethiopian Community Development Council), a national refugee resettlement agency. The Community Center works directly with those who have recently arrived to the United States as refugees, helping them start their new lives. The center also runs community programs that promote cultural exchange, language learning, local resilience, and expanded opportunity for all residents of Bennington County.

“The Tuvans were astonishing in various styles of khöömei (throat singing),

from frightening growls to otherworldly overtone whistles …

Alash’s many songs about ‘fast horses and pretty girls’ were pleasingly

punctuated by equine snorts and neighs from their horse-head fiddles.

The result came close to magic …”

— Songlines

“It’s one of the most astonishing sounds a human body can produce. Imagine a subsonic growl, a bullfrog’s croak, some electric barber’s clippers and a high-frequency whistle—all reverberating out of a single larynx at once.”

— Washington Post