OLD TIME ON
THE ONION
FIDDLERS' REUNION – ALL-ACOUSTIC, ALL TRADITIONS
July 18-20, 2025
THE PRANSKY FARM, CABOT, VT
Camping, Workshops, Jam Sessions
Saturday Night Potluck Dinner
Old Time on the Onion is an all-acoustic, very informal, mostly non-performance gathering – all jams, all day, and all night for the exceptionally vigorous. Come for the whole weekend to camp or for a day to jam, listen, and take workshops.
The Music: It’s mostly old-time, but all traditions (Irish, Scandinavian, Indigenous, Baltic, Balkan, Blues, etc.) are welcome.
The Food: Stag & Thistle’s food truck will provide comestibles on Friday. There will be a Saturday evening pot-luck under the big tent.
The Location: The Pransky Farm, 234 Pransky Rd, Cabot VT. The farm is a rural paradise with wide fields, sheltering woods, and a pavilion that offers shelter and a site for the Saturday pot-luck. It is about 15 miles north of the Onion River Campground, easily accessible along paved roads, and is a few miles from Cabot Village. Cabot is known for the Den at Harry’s Hardware, which hosts a weekly old-time jam every Sunday starting at noon. The farm is part of the Winooski River headwater area, and, though no river runs through it, it does have a pond available for swimming. It also boasts the advantage of not being subject to flooding!
Some power can be strung from the pavilion, but there are no RV hookups. Dogs are OK, so long as they’re under control.
The Cost: $35 for the weekend, $20 Friday or Sunday, $25 Saturday
Check out our new location!
2025 Fundraiser
Pransky Farm is a well-known festival venue, high above the floodplain near the headwaters of the Winooski (Onion) River, with spacious fields surrounded by woods, a permanent pavilion and a lovely pond for swimming and dangling your feet. The Pranskys are experienced hosts and they have their own site crew who will be assisting OTOTO.
But this new venue will cost Summit School $1,500 more than the old campground, which is no longer available to us. Based on previous years’ attendance, we would have to raise our admission fees substantially in order to cover this additional cost, putting our gathering out of reach for younger musicians and for many families. We faced the same challenge last year, when we needed to rent a Big Top at the old, flood-damaged location, so we sent out an appeal, and our friends and fans raised the money we needed to cover the tent expense. We held our fees steady at $35 per adult for the weekend and wound up barely in the black!
So once again we’re asking for your support, whether you plan to be with us or just want to ensure that this volunteer-produced, unprogrammed celebration of traditional music and song can carry on as part of the northeastern summer festival season. OTOTO does not hope or expect to make a profit -- break-even is the height of our success. If we raise at least $1,500, we can be confident of hitting that benchmark without having to increase our entry fees.
The Summit School is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, so your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.