Each January, the Battleboro Music Center hosts a one-day music festival to honor "northern" music such as Irish, Scottish, Swedish and French Canadian. The daylong festivities include family dance events, workshops and music concerts featuring fiddle styles, youth sessions, family concerts and mini-concerts. In the Gold Straw Room, you'll find hands-on guitar, piano, flute and singing workshops.
The small town of Stowe transforms into a week-long winter carnival for tourists and residents each year in January. Started in 1921 and brought back in by locals in 1974, the carnival has become a city tradition. With more than 10 activities for all ages, the Stowe Annual Winter Carnival draws in hundreds of people each year. Events include an ice-carving competition that the public may enter, movies and sporting events such as snow golf and snow volleyball.
Since 1846, the city of Rutland has hosted the Vermont State Fair. Held in September for approximately two weeks, the agriculture-based fair offers an exotic-animal petting zoo, a pavilion featuring different breeds of horses, a bike giveaway and pig racing. The family-friendly event's activities for children include bumper cars, clowns and carnival rides. Circus acts, concerts and demolition derbies appeals to patrons of all ages.
