Singer, songwriter, and fiddler Sara Milonovich will be performing along with musical collaborator Greg Anderson at 6 On The Square at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 19. (Photo from saramilonovich.com)

OXFORD — After taking off the month of January, 6 On The Square in Oxford will host upstate New York alt-country singer/songwriter/fiddler Sara Milonovich and musical collaborator Greg Anderson at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Milonovich cut her teeth as a sought-after side person in the bluegrass, folk, rock, Americana, and Celtic music worlds, and she has performed and recorded throughout North and South America, Europe, and beyond.

She was among the last generations to learn traditional music as it was passed down firsthand, from the grange halls and lumber camps of the North Country to the pubs of New York City. Growing up on a working farm, she began playing when she was four, and by nine was leading her own band (around the same time she learned to drive a tractor).

After a collection of awards for fiddling, singing, and composing, she left school at 16 to hit the road with bluegrass band The McKrells. A diverse trajectory led her from there through a busy career as an accompanist and collaborator with artists such as Richard Shindell, Pete Seeger (including on his Grammy-winning “At 89” album), Eliza Gilkyson, Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys, and Mountain Quickstep.

In 2011, Milonovich toured Kosovo, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Turkey as part of “The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad,” a cultural diplomatic program administered by Jazz At Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department. In 2016, she founded Rootstock (www.rootstockfest.org), a nonprofit music festival dedicated to supporting the next generation of farmers in the Northeast.

In addition to her career as both a solo artist and accompanist, Milonovich also appears as a featured violinist/fiddler in the hit Broadway musical “Come From Away.”

On her latest album, “Northeast,” Milonovich and her band Daisycutter explore down-and-out cities, abandoned farms, rural poverty, substance abuse, heartbreak, resilience, and hope — all things the Northeast shares with the rest of blue-collar America, except that it also happens to be a lot colder.

Produced by Anderson and recorded and mixed by multiple Grammy-winner Justin Guip, “Northeast” also features such guests as legendary pedal steel guitarist Lloyd Maines and singer Leigh Gibson of the Gibson Brothers.

For more information, visit saramilonovich.com.

Tickets for the Feb. 19 concert are $18 (plus a $2 service fee); purchase online at 6onthesquare.org or call 607-843-OTS6 (6876) to make a reservation. Doors will open one hour before the start of the performance.

All patrons will be required to show proof of a vaccination, either by a card issued by the vaccine provider or by an Excelsior Pass on paper or an electronic device. Also, every person entering the venue for a concert needs to be masked, covering the nose and mouth for the entire time the person is in the venue, except when that person is eating or drinking.

The performance also will be streamed live online on a pay-what-you-can basis. Please purchase more than two hours before the show, or you will not get your viewing link in time. More information at 6onthesquare.org.

This concert is made possible in part with public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Earlville Opera House.

6 On The Square, Inc. is an intimate, not-for-profit, volunteer-based acoustic music listening room and arts venue located at 6 Lafayette Park in downtown Oxford.

-from 6 On The Square