Join us for our annual Mardi Gras Party to Benefit the Tom Sustic Fund featuring Yankee Chank and Ponyhustle!

Live music for dancing and listening from Yankee Chank, Ponyhustle & others with cajun inspired food from Juniper and drink from the Alchemist and Shelburne Vineyard!

Yankee Chank is a group of musicians from throughout New England who perform traditional dance music from Southwest Louisiana. Band members include Bob Naess, Cannon Labrie, Mark Sustic and Jim Burns.

Ponyhustle plays at Radio Bean every Tuesday for Honky Tonk classics, fitting originals & plenty of swingin’ dancers to boot!’ The band includes Eric George, Colin Cope, Mia Valentini, Cody Sergeant, Luke Houseman, Erich Meisberger and John Abair.

The event benefits the Tom Sustic Fund, which was established to support a bone marrow transplant, generated through a series of benefit events in 1999 and 2000 featuring a wide variety of well known performers. After several bone marrow drives and monitoring and searching on registries in North America and Europe, an ideal donor was not located. After Tom’s death in 2001, the funds were re-purposed as on-going support for families with children with life-altering conditions at the Vermont Children’s Hospital and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.