Meet the Event Staff
Below are the vendors who are helping to make this event possible, thank you for supporting our community-driven festival!
Cody Corcoran
Emcee
Cody Corcoran is a student at Vermont State University- Lyndon. He will be graduating in May of 2025 with a Bachelor of Science in audio engineering. He was born in Thetford Vermont and is a leader in the new wave of sound technology reverberating on the Lyndon campus.
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Cody is currently working on fine-tuning his craft; building stages, providing sound for various bands, networking with his internship connections, and finding studio work.
The plan for Emcee Cody Corcoran is to host a full compliment of events and showcases, while developing his on stage persona.
Social C plans to perform at the Hornet's Nest, Loading Dock, Greg Fest, and the Houston Hill Music Festival. His goal is to spend more time collaborating and producing an album that will be released.
Gary Kouzoujian
Festival Organizer and Host
Gary Brian is a singer-songwriter from Walden, Vermont. His roots, deeply planted in Rock and roll music,
follow the path of artists such as the Beetles, Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull and Paul Butterfield.
Gary has spent the last three years at VTSTU-Lyndon writing songs and studying every aspect of
audio engineering. His classmates became a major source of inspiration and challenged him to take his music
to another level. As a result, Gary was able to come up with his own locally crafted brand of pop rock, a genre
that is now known as Mountain Rock; a combination of many different musical styles and expressions.
The music can be characterized as as happy, upbeat, cool, catchy, trendy, and graphic.The images
are easy to identify with, diverse, and appeal to anyone who listens.You will have the pleasure of hearing unique
melody lines, creative vocals, and a variety of instruments and effects.
AJ Gonzalez
Assistant Festival Organizer
AJ Gonzalez is a graduate from Vermont State University - Lyndon, now living and working in Bethlehem, NH. Being a former classmate and friend of Gary Kouzoujian (Festival Organizer), AJ quickly became involved in the planning and organization of the festival's second year in late January of 2024. With a background in audio production and artist and event management, they look forward to working on HHMF 2025 and other new opportunities as they arise.
Kevin Fernald and Douglas Tucker
Volunteer Chefs
Kevin has worked in kitchens for over 50 years as a chef short order cook and dishwasher. He is an event kitchen staff for the Hardwick American Legion and Hardwick's Civic Standard and is currently employed by the Cork and Fork restaurant in Hardwick Vermont.
Kevin has always liked to help people.
Douglas lives in Hardwick and is a life long chef who "cooks it all". He is currently employed at Positive Pie in Hardwick, VT.
Brian Ainsworth
Master Corn Chef
Brian lives in Hardwick, VT and spends most of his time landscaping and snow plowing, but loves to participate in local gatherings (Especially when he is asked if he forgot the corn). He is known as the Master Corn Chef.
Lillian Provencher
Event Photographer
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