MUSIC GROUPS YOUTH AND ADULTS:

Young Tradition Vermont (For young folks of all ages!!!)
Woodbury Strings Fiddle and Banjo Club (For private students of Woodbury Strings)
Slow Jam (Meets Odd Months, Second Fridays in Burlington for Acoustic String Players)
Vermont Fiddle Orchestra (For fiddle, lower strings, flutes, accordian, and fretted folk instuments: mostly adults, rehearsals in Montpelier)
Northeast Heritage Music Camp (For folk musicians, singers, and dancers, every June in Johnson; adults and youth)
Champlain Valley Schottish Fiddle Club (First Sundays in the afternoon in Middlebury, and open to all-comers, although focused on fiddles)
Northeast Fiddlers Association (First Sundays in the afternoons in various locations)
Welsh Jam Session (Meets annually for St. David's Day,First Sunday in March)
Green Mountain Youth Symphony (For young classical musicians in Central Vermont)
Vermont Youth Symphony (For young classical musicians: rehearsals mainly in Burlington area)

MUSIC STORES:

Guitar Sam (Your first stop for all your music needs in downtown Montpelier: sales, rentals, and repairs)
Vermont Violins (Stores in Burlington, Montpelier, and Lebanon, NH: sales, rentals, and repairs )
Gregoire's Violin Shop (Barre: sales, rentals and repairs)
Paul Perley Cellos (Berlin: sales, rentals, and repairs)
North Branch Instruments: Branch Instruments: (Fretted Instrument sales and repairs in Montpelier)
Randolin Music: (Downtown Burlington: Instrument sales & repairs)

FIDDLE INFO:  (THANKS JULIE for recommending this great link!)

Musical Playgrounds: All About Fiddling