Festivals in Vermont

Tucked between the ridgelines of the Green Mountains and the shores of Lake Champlain, Vermont nurtures a festival scene that mirrors the state itself: intimate, mountain-bred and fiercely devoted to live music. Everything orbits Burlington, its flagship city, where each September the Grand Point North gathers the close-knit family of Vermont rock on the lakefront, anchored by hometown hero Grace Potter. Further south in Manchester, the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival sets the foothills humming with banjo and Appalachian country, while the Mad River Valley hosts the Frendly Gathering, born from the communal spirit of the state's snowboarders.

There are no mega-festivals in the dust here: a Vermont summer is lived in flannel shirts, among meadows and maple woods, carried by a plain-spoken, warm-hearted folk sound. The Jeezum Crow Festival — its very name borrowing a piece of local slang — keeps that jam-and-roots fervor alive, and the nearby Solid Sound Festival, just across the state line, rounds out the region's musical ecosystem. FestT calculates your FestiScore — the affinity between a lineup and your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date.