Robert Resnik

2022 Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy

Robert Resnik of Burlington has hosted the folk and world music show, “All the Traditions,” on Vermont Public Radio for 26 years. Despite a recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease, Resnik delivers the same encyclopedic knowledge of musical culture and history from Vermont and across the globe, with humor and delight that he has always shared. For 28 years, Resnik was a librarian at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, where he performed live weekly musical programs in the children’s library. Resnik plays a stunning variety of stringed and wind instruments and performed with various Vermont artists. A respected critic and scholar, Resnik writes music reviews for local publications, serves as a program consultant for a variety of area concert venues, and is well-known in northern Vermont as a wild mushroom hunter and chef. In 2013, he wrote the book, “Legendary Locals of Burlington, Vermont,” and in 2019, he was awarded the Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts for his inspirational leadership.

From a five-part short video tribute series created by Willow O’Feral and Brad Heck of Haptic Pictures, honoring each of the six 2022 awards recipients of the Vermont Arts Council.