Buy discounted tickets for our 23rd festival during this incredible one-day sale!

Deeply discounted two-day passes the 2026 Sugar Maple Music Festival will be on sale this year for one day only – Cyber Monday, December 1, 2025. Our 23rd annual festival promises to be extra special, and you won’t want to miss it. For just $40, you’ll be able to pick up a weekend pass for the July 31 and August 1, 2026 event. This same pass will cost $75 at the gate in July, so mark your calendar and don’t miss this chance to save $35 per ticket. Sugar Maple tickets make great holiday gifts! 

Order your cyber tickets on our ticket page (starting at 12:01 am December 1.)

Shauncey Ali is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and author who blazes a creative path in the acoustic music world. His voice fuses a deep knowledge of American fiddle music with extensive experience in classical and Celtic orbits, a love for improvisation and sensibilities influenced by pop, rock and Scandinavian music.

Shauncey is the creator and director of MadFiddle, a youth violin ensemble that performs fiddle music from around the world. The group is comprised of students ages 5-17 and can be seen performing with the energetic adult backing band, Highway 151. MadFiddle has released three captivating recordings and appeared at saloons, opera houses and street corners.

In episode 3 of “Notes From The Jam Tent”, Ben Bice interviews Shauncey Ali, creator and director of MadFiddle. You can see Shauncey and MadFiddle perform on the main stage on Saturday at The Sugar Maple Music Festival.

Grammy Award-winning musician John Reischman has been a foundational mandolinist, composer, bandleader, and musical educator in bluegrass and North American roots and folk music since emerging from the vibrant “new acoustic” bluegrass music scene of the Bay Area in the 1980s. Reischman’s mastery of bluegrass, old-time, swing, and multiple Latin American musical styles, coupled with an Old Master’s sense of tone, taste, and musicality, has brought him a global reputation as one of the finest mandolinists of his era.

Like the powerful mandolinist and composer at its helm, John Reischman and the Jaybirds fashion a stylish take on bluegrass that seamlessly blends original songs and instrumentals with Appalachian old-time music for a truly unique band sound. Now in their 20th year, with seven acclaimed albums and two Juno nominations, the Jaybirds are simultaneously innovative and unadorned, sophisticated and stripped-down, happily old-fashioned and 21st-century contemporary.

In episode 2 of “Notes From The Jam Tent”, Brian Hirsh interviews John Reischman, leader of John Reischman and the Jaybirds. You can see John Reischman on the Roots & Reasons Stage and the band on the main stage on Saturday at The Sugar Maple Music Festival.

“All the quiet people have got a lot to say,” sing the Cody Sisters on the title track to their forthcoming album. And the group—Maddie Cody, Megan Cody, and Will Pavilonis—has spent the better part of their young lives proving it, whether they’re collaborating as writers, harmonizing on bluegrass stages, or inviting fans to share their own stories. With Maddie on banjo, Megan on mandolin, and both trading turns on the guitar, the sisters built a following quite early for their resonant harmonies and meticulous instrumental chops. The Cody Sisters’ sound took on a new depth in 2020 when bassist Will Pavilonis joined the band, bringing fresh dimensions to their arrangements.

We hope you enjoy our new podcast, Notes From The Jam Tent! In episode 1, Brian Hirsh interviews Maddie, Megan and Will from The Cody Sisters. They will lead a workshop on the Roots & Reasons stage and play the main stage Saturday afternoon at The Sugar Maple Music Festival.

The Cajun Snowshoes brings together four premier Cajun musicians and long-time friends, crossing borders and blending genres The band represents, indeed explicitly links, the Acadian origins of Cajun music with Louisiana where the displaced Acadians settled and “Cajun Music” evolved. But it’s more than north meets south, Acadie meets Acadiana, maple meets cane, or poutine meets gumbo. It’s a glimpse on our music stage into a before unseen music world, where the Acadian music of above our northern border and of that almost to our southern border blur from the steam of the pot cooking the musical magic.

Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind, from Quebec, have played to the Sugar Maple audience with the Foghorn Stringband, Blake Miller and Amelia Biere, from Louisiana, appeared together in The Old-Fashioned Aces. The four of them share a deep love for Old-Time, Cajun and Country songs and tunes and playing them all night long in the kitchen—now together for the first time on Saturday of the Festival on the main stage. They will also lead the Cajun jam and present a workshop on Saturday afternoon.