CONCERTS IN THE COURTYARD

We are pleased to announce that Bennington Museum has received an anonymous grant once more for 2024. Performances will begin June 7th and run through August 30th, 2024, and will be free of charge.

All events take place from 5-7pm.

Please bring your own blankets or lawn chairs!

The Avocado Pit will set up shop in front of the Museum’s gates, serving delicious tacos, beer and wine.

In the event of rain, the event will be cancelled by 2pm on Fridays. Check our facebook page for updates.

Museum educators will provide free children’s activities during Concerts in the Courtyard. Kids of all ages will find a fun makerspace at the picnic tables where they can create art based on art and objects featured in the Museum.

Brotchman

Brotchman is a dynamic singer/songwriter performing regionally to New England & New York audiences solo and as a band ensemble. He has shared stage with numerous musical mainstays like CSN & others but his most treasured compliment came from the lips of Pete Seeger following their duet of “No War No More” not long before Pete passed on. Pete simply looked Brotchman in the eyes and said “that’s a goooood song!”

He is an eclectic songwriter & performer who entertains as well as communicates. Many of his melodies are infectious. He will touch you with lightweights and may knock you out with substantive songs of conscience. Brotchman’s tunes will make you move, feel, think and won’t leave you alone the next day!

Brotchman, from Wells, VT, is a farmer among other things. Like the ubiquitous insurance ads, he “knows a thing or two because he’s seen a thing or two”. His songs reflect a life being lived brim-up-full as an outdoor adventurist, slogging a guitar on his back or other instruments over thousands of miles of mountains or down some of the world’s wildest river rapids as a guide, stints in logging camps, merchant marines, cowboying. More then. More to come tucked up in his hillside homestead in Vermont. Always a passionate teller of tales, earth protector and singer of songs. Is he a little different? Yup. He’s a little different. But he’s oh so familiar too! Hear him. You decide if he’s got things to say worth the ear space.