Mark LeGrand is always a welcome voice in troubled times. The Montpelier singer-songwriter’s songs dig deep into the psyche — perhaps because he’s been there.
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Tom Azarian, foreground, pictured in an unnamed newspaper clipping dated 1963–64. Courtesy image.
There is so much more to tell what music and life was like from the 1930s through 1940s before TV and all. I left out many French Canadian fiddlers small town square dances, etc. As poor as everyone was during the Depression, we had one bright spot. That was radio. It seems every family had a radio. We didn’t have cars or phones, we had little food, but radio helped the country through the hardest times.
There have been so many musicians in Vermont it’s hard to list them all. Old time fiddlers, retired farmers, country people of that radio generation now are gone. Thankfully young people are keeping traditional music from going extinct.