Concerts in the Courtyard: Peter Mulvey

Name: Concerts in the Courtyard: Peter Mulvey
Start: 2025-09-05T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-05T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 75 West Main Street, Bennington, VT, United States, Vermont 05201

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

75 West Main Street, Bennington, VT, United States, Vermont 05201 | Bennington, VT

We are pleased to announce that Bennington Museum has received an anonymous grant once more for 2025. Performances will begin June 6th and run through August 29th, 2025, and will be free of charge.
All events take place from 5-7pm.
Please bring your own blankets or lawn chairs!
Sage Pizza will set up shop in front of the Museum’s gates serving delicious pie. The Museum will provide beverages.
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.
PETER MULVEY
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Raised working-class Catholic on the Northwest side of Milwaukee, he took a semester in Ireland, and immediately began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple years gigging in the Midwest before lighting out for Boston, where he returned to busking (this time in the subway) and coffeehouses. Small shows led to larger shows, which eventually led to regional and then national and international touring. The wheels have not stopped since.
Nineteen records, an illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDx talk, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp, opening for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco, Emmylou Harris, and Chuck Prophet, appearances on NPR, an annual autumn tour by bicycle, emceeing festivals, hosting his own boutique festival (the Lamplighter Sessions, in Boston and Wisconsin)… Mulvey never stops. He has built his life’s work on collaboration and an instinct for the eclectic and the vital. He folds everything he encounters into his work: poetry, social justice, scientific literacy, & a deeply abiding humanism are all on plain display in his art.
In late January 2019, Mulvey and his band, SistaStrings (Chauntee & Monique Ross) with Nathan Kilen on drums, decamped to their home turf, the Cafe Carpe, in Fort Atkinson, WI where they spent just five days making two records in the tiny back room. The live record, “Peter Mulvey with SistaStrings Live at the Cafe Carpe” is out now on Righteous Babe Records. It’s a celebration of a world that is temporarily on hold: a small folk club, packed with listeners, and a band shoulder-to-shoulder, playing and singing with intimacy and abandon.