Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

The Good Kind

Some things are too good to let slip away. That’s what the six musicians of the Bluegrass Gospel Project figured when they played a memorable Burlington show in 2001. Needless to say, these bluegrass-Americana acoustic-playing northeasterners kept the ball rolling, and they’re back in Burlington with one of their annual concerts benefiting Volunteer Vermont. For the eighth year, the band proves it’s “a force to be reckoned with onstage,” as Vermont Life says, to support this nonprofit group that sends high schoolers down south each spring for community work. In fiddle player Gene White Jr.’s mind, VV is “the ‘poster child’ for grassroots social justice and community building.” He also notes that “the music soars” when BGP play for a cause. Go ahead, hear what he means.