About Winter Village Music

For more than 15 years Winter Village Music has been bringing the best of traditional and progressive acoustic music to Ithaca, New York, in the dead of winter - when we need it most! Since 2011, we have hosted the Winter Village Bluegrass Festival, and many concerts featuring established and emerging bluegrass, old time, Irish, swing and folk artists. In 2013 Winter Village Music added a music camp weekend in addition to the bluegrass festival. In the post-COVID era, we decided the Winter Village Music Camp was a better fit for Ithaca, given our eclectic musical tastes and our community’s focus on education. We now have an ever growing community of musicians returning each year to listen, learn, and play the music they love in January, while supporting our downtown and the beloved Community School of Music & Art. Won’t you join us?

In 2026, on January 8 - 11, we are hosting our second Winter Village Music Camp in Downtown Ithaca, with most of the workshops hosted at Ithaca’s Community School of Music & Arts, along with a few at the Canopy Hotel and the Bike Bar. The Canopy by Hilton - Downtown Ithaca is our hospitality host offering special room rates for the camp and is hosting Happy Hour and evening jams in the Strand Cafe lobby. The Bike Bar hosts free and very popular Happy Hour concerts on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Winter Village weekend. Thank you for visiting our Winter Village Music web site.