Catch free live music in the main Base Area as part of Stratton Mountain Music summer series. We’re happy to welcome Ida Mae Specker with members of the Terrible Mountain Stringband for a free show in the main base area.

Food will be available in the main base area, including Grizzly’s and BaseCamp.

Unwind where rhythm meets the mountains. Never miss a show and always know where to go for Stratton Mountain’s après music and live shows.

This concert will be held rain or shine! In the event of inclement weather, the band will be moved into Grizzly’s, so plan on coming up for a great time no matter the weather.

Ida Mae Specker is an old-time fiddler, folk singer and songwriter from Andover, Vermont. Her music fuses original, contemporary, and traditional material, bringing heartfelt new life and relevance to the chain of American folk music. Specker’s EP of original music, ‘Billy in the Heartland,’ was released in December 2019. A longtime member of family band The Speckers, Ida Mae is currently touring solo and with a backing band. Specker released a new EP on October 28th, 2023, a live session recorded in a church in Peru, VT by Dan Rome and Austin Burrell (Future Fields). Her live show features Specker’s original songs in addition to creative arrangements of traditional old-time tunes, bluegrass and country songs. More information at www.idamaespecker.com

Ida Mae Specker has shared the stage with acts such as Donna the Buffalo, Rising Appalachia, Caitlin Canty, Noam Pikelny, The Lonesome Ace Stringband, Upstate, Darrin Hacquard, and Jake Blount, and has performed at venues such as Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, Caffe Lena, Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival, Floyd Fest in Floyd, VA, Higher Ground, Club Passim, Shakori Hills Festival in NC, the Spice on Snow Festival in Montpelier, VT, Troy Music Hall and many more. She is also a recurring guest host on Vermont Public Radio’s Folk and World Music show “All The Traditions”

Terrible Mountain Stringband fuses original, contemporary, and traditional material, bringing heartfelt new life and relevance to the chain of American folk music. Third generation fiddle players, Ida Mae and Lila Specker were born in a one-room cabin at the foot of Terrible Mountain in Andover, Vermont and learned to play the fiddle from their father, John Specker. Together with Josh Norman on guitar, vocals and percussion, Lila and Ida Mae formed Terrible Mountain Stringband in 2017. They are joined by renowned luthier and multi-instrumentalist William Seeders Mosheim on banjo and innovative virtuoso Mowgli Giannitti on bass. Carrying on the legacy of their forebearers, the band pays homage to the past while continuously evolving their unique sound.