Sam Bartlett attended Shelburne Village School and the Shelburne Middle School in Shelburne, Vermont.
21 Facts About Sam Bartlett
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Sam Bartlett received the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship Award in 8th grade.
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Sam Bartlett performed with The Green Mountain Volunteers on the banjo and as an Appalachian clogger in 1984.
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Sam Bartlett played contra dances around Vermont and New England starting in 1985, supplementing his income by making apple cider for the Chittenden Cider Mill from 1985 to 1988.
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Sam Bartlett met his wife, Abby Ladin, in 1992 and moved to Bloomington, Indiana.
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Sam Bartlett became a member of the percussive dance and music company, Rhythm In Shoes.
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Sam Bartlett resumed playing the national contra dance circuit in 1997 after forming the Reckless Ramblers and being an original member of the Sevens.
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In 2005, Sam Bartlett began playing with Notorious and continues to play with them to this day.
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Since 2014, Sam Bartlett has been a member of the 5-piece Stringrays, with Rodney Miller, Max Newman, Mark Hellenberg, and Stuart Kenney.
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In 1999, Sam Bartlett began playing with Illinois native fiddler Garry Harrison, and he was an integral member of the group that made the now legendary recording of original old-time music, Red Prairie Dawn.
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Sam Bartlett traveled to southwest Louisiana in 1996 and teamed up with Dirk Powell to make Swamp Ceili, the first radical mixing of Irish and Cajun and Zydeco music.
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In 2004, Sam Bartlett followed Swamp Ceili with a recording of all original music, Evil Diane.
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In 2016, Sam Bartlett released a sequel to Evil Diane, Dance-a-rama.
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Concurrent with a long and active music performing career, Sam Bartlett has maintained another identity as a documentarian and drawer of tricks and stunts.
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The Journal of Stuntology was Sam Bartlett's self-published zine from 1992 to 2006.
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Sam Bartlett has received Indiana State Arts in the Parks Grants to make collaborative moving panoramas.
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Sam Bartlett has been hired by communities across the country to do local, participatory art projects.
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Sam Bartlett received a grant from the State of Indiana to write a moving panorama history of its oldest State Park, McCormick's Creek State Park.
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Sam Bartlett was hired by the Lotus World Music Festival to make giant paper mache parade masks and a participatory cranky show about the life of Lotus Dickey.
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Sam Bartlett has made 615 sculptures to date and his show Low Stakes: Plywood Cutouts and Everyday Comix has been featured at the McCarthy Art Gallery at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, VT, as well as the Baron and Ellin Gordon Gallery at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA,.
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Sam Bartlett's designs have been used by performing groups We Banjo 3 and Rising Appalachia.