More info when we know more. Tickets once things are locked in.
Synthfest ’27 will actually start in December ’26 with a special ambient concert event featuring Thorny, TotoRobyn, and Not A Hedgehog with hints of trance, downtempo, and dreamtime, plus psychedelic visuals. The three performers will create a seamless experience of three 30-minute parts, each by a different player. This one will be on the stage, unlike the in-the-round sessions. The area in front of the stage will be reserved for those who wish to bring pillows, mats, cushions, or blankets to sit or lay on to get lost in the experience, meditate, or even take a nap if so moved. Chairs will be available in the back.
Saturday, December 12, starting at 6:00 PM. Tickets are a suggested donation of $20, which goes entirely to the performers.
Thorny is the ambient music project of Vermont synthesist and bassist JD Ryan, working from a deep palette of hardware synthesizers and processed bass guitar to creates immersive, slowly evolving soundscapes — music that lives in the spaces between tension and stillness, shaped by the fog, silence, and shifting light of the Green Mountains.
TotoRobyn, a.k.a. Robyn Alman, based in Boston, uses hardware synthesizers and effects pedals to compose primarily electronic ambient and downtempo music, with occasional forays into drone, chiptune, noise, and dance.
not a hedgehog, a.k.a. David G Shaw, is an enigmatic Boston synthesist creating eclectic ambient works of innovative electronic dreams.
