Yellow Bird,
I Dream of Jeannie,
Jamaica Farewell,
Unsolicited praise for Coconut Grove:
"Matt and I just wanted to thank you both for providing us with the BEST music for our cocktail hour. We have received so many compliments on your playing both during the ceremony and afterward. We could not be happier!" - Deveney Gallant
- Stowehof wedding, Stowe, VT.
"Just wanted to say thank you for an awesome job at out wedding! It was exactly what we were looking for. We got a lot of compliments on the originality of Steel Drums." - Matt Morrow
- Chapel of the Snows, Stratton, VT.
"The entertainment this past Saturday exceeded expectations! Having attended numerous events where a disc jockey wants to be the center of attention or a rock band blares so loudly that no conversation can be held, the steel drums are the answer. The guests at the birthday party enjoyed the upbeat rhythm and sound of the music you and Barbara provided and you received many compliments. If you ever need a recommendation, please feel to contact me, as I am now one of your biggest boosters. Again, thank you for a talented professional performance!" - Bob Mongan
- Rye Beach, NH
"Hi Scott, just a quick note to thank you for the great music at our wedding - it was so good of you to be available on such a messy driving night. Lots of our guests complimented us on your music, and I appreciated it that people could still have convesations while you were playing. Take care - we will call again someday!" - Deb Allen
- Wedding, Starry Night Cafe, Vergennes, VT.
"Coconut Grove was great and easy to work with. I wish I could have hear more of the steel drums (a little hard between the pictures and commotion once we got into the cocktail hour) but what I heard sounded great and people loved them!" - Pete Spencer
- Stowhof Wedding, Stowe, VT.
For performance dates please check out the Concerts & Events page.
Please call or E-mail vteventmusic@aol.com for performance prices and availability
Barbara C. Smith - Classical Flutist
Barbara Smith attended Bard College as a Liberace Scholar, where she received her Bachelor of Arts with a focus in Music Performance. While at Bard, she worked with Joan Tower, Luis Garcia-Renart, flutist Patricia Spencer, saxophonists Erika Lindsay, Harvey Kaiser and Howard Johnson, clarinetist Larry Guy, and performed as a solo flutist with the American Symphony Orchestra. In 1999 she toured the United States, Russia, and Central Europe as a saxophonist with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein. In 2000 she served as a guest panelist at the New York City Flute Convention.
Currently, Barbara performs in the area with The East Bay Jazz Ensemble, various Steel Pan groups, and at a variety of functions as a solo flutist. She has also served as an adjudicator for district and state music festivals. She has also served as a chamber music coach at the Green Mountain Youth Symphony Summer camp in 2006 and 2007. She is the co-founder of Vermont Independent School of the Arts in Sharon, VT where she has a teaching studio. Many of her students participate in district, state, and regional music festivals.
To contact Barbara for lessons, solo performances, or the Green Mountain Woodwind Trio, call her at 802-236-0349 or
E-mail her at Mscwinds@aol.com
Scott Paulson - Highland Bagpipes
B.A. Music from Johnson State College, Vermont. Scott has taught instrumental music programs, jazz bands, steel bands and percussion groups in area private and public schools since 1996. He has done Steel Drum workshops for such entities as The Vermont Alliance for Arts Education and for The Green Mountain Suzuki Institute . He has played and recorded with myriad groups in various genres and on a variety of instruments, notably as leader/ front man/ steel pannist /bassist with the eclectic group SKABAZZA, which performed at the 1998 Phish festival "Lemonwheel" in Limestone, Maine. He currently plays lead pan in several of his steel bands, Bass Guitar with folk artist/ instrumentalist "Spencer Lewis and the Thrufters," and with GUSANO (Latin and New Orleans Funk), and with 3...2... Get Ready, and Highland Bagpipes with The Catamount Pipe Band.
Praise for Scott Paulson
Scott I just wanted to say thank you for playing at our wedding. I know that the weather wasn't very kind and you were still able to impress all! Thank you so much once again." - Jason Lawson
Wedding at Grand Isle Lake House, North Hero, VT.
The Ko-Ko-Nutz Steel Band
Want a fully live steel band that won't break the bank? The Ko-Ko-Nutz
are for you! With two or three voices of steel drums, bass, and drumset, the Ko-Ko-Nutz are a great choice for parties, restaurants, and cruises.
Ko-Ko-Nutz members have performed for countless parties and bar-b-ques and on the "Northern Lights" Lake Champlain Supper Cruise every season since 2003. They have also appeared at The Quechee Balloon Festival, , The Strolling of the Heifers Parade in Brattleboro, Vermont,
The Green Mountain Chew Chew and The Vermont Brewers Festival in Waterfront Park in Burlington, two of Vermont's biggest festivals.
Bring the festive, happy, danceable sounds of the islands to your function
For performance dates please check out the Concerts & Events page.
Please call or E-mail vteventmusic@aol.com for performance prices and availability