Camps and Workshops
About the Midyear Workshops
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“This was my first time with you all, and it was an experience of over-the-top extravagance in beautiful sounds, introduction to cultures beyond my own, inspiring stories sprinkled in-between songs, and the almost immeasurable joy of singing with 80+ other good singers under the magical guidance of your and the other teachers’ amazing ability to pull out of us a standard of being One Voice that I have never experienced before.”
Any one of them is a sure bet to fire up your musical imagination as well as your voice. In addition to our well-established and popular world music workshops at Hulbert Center in Vermont in February and at Menucha Center outside Portland, Oregon in March, we are offering four new weekend workshops—three in Vermont, and one North Carolina—this autumn.
Tuitions listed for the singing weekends includes shared rooms and six meals for the workshop weekends, which begin with supper on the Friday night and close with a review session following lunch on Sunday.
North Carolina Singing Weekend
October 16-18, 2009
Larry Gordon, Patty Cuyler, and Ken Shimizu
We will sing from a wide range of traditions, including South African, Georgian, Corsican, Appalachian, gospel and American shape-note singing, with plenty of dancing, too.
At Mount Shepherd Retreat Center near Asheboro.
Tuition: $200/adults, $160/teenagers & low-income adults. Commuters also welcome, $150/adults, $120/students
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Corsican Singing Workshop Weekend at Lake Morey
October 23-25, 2009
Patty Cuyler, Larry Gordon, Will Thomas, Lynn Mahoney
A Corsican-only weekend workshop, intended for singers who are ready and willing to sing one-on-a-part and to take on the exhilerating challenge of Corsican folk song style, with its often elaborate ornamentation and precise intonation.
At the Hulbert Outdoor Center in Fairlee, Vermont.
Tuition: $220 per person in 4-person shared bunk rooms or $300 per person for a double room. Commuters welcome, $150.
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South African Singing Workshop
Saturday November 7, 2009, 10 am-4:30 pm.
Larry Gordon , Patty Cuyler
A repertoire-building day to learn a set of wonderful new South African gospel arrangements, folk songs and protest songs—and their dance movements—in four-part harmony.
At The Lamb Abbey in Montpelier, Vermont
Tuition: $35 adults/$20 students, includes CDR resource disc with recordings, video and transcriptions.
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Singing World Music: A Two-Day Course for Teachers (and Singers)
November 14-15, 2009,
Saturday 10 am-8 pm, Sunday 10 AM-3 PM.Larry Gordon , Patty Cuyler
A special training workshop aimed at providing music directors and ensemble singers alike with the tools and confidence to successfully teach and perform songs from selected traditional music genres—including shape-note, South African, Bulgarian, Georgian, ex-Yugoslavian.
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS ONLINE ONLY
At the Thetford Community Center, Thetford, Vermont
Tuition: $175 adults/$100 teens & low income ($200 at the door), includes scores, media files, wordsheets for songs taught, plus pronunciation guides and a packet of additional repertoire to take home.
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Winter Weekend at Lake Morey
February 26-28, 2010
Larry Gordon, Patty Cuyler, Mary Sherhart
Patty and Larry will be joined by Seattle singer Mary Sherhart, one of the country’s leading teachers of Balkan singing, for a rollicking weekend of song and dance. American shape-note and gospel traditions, South African songs and dances, traditional and arranged music from Bulgaria and Bosnia, music from Georgia, and more.
At Hulbert Outdoor Center, Fairlee, Vermont
Tuition: $220 per person in 4-person shared bunk rooms or $300 per person for a double room. Commuters, $150.
Read more about the Winter Weekend at Lake Morey→
Columbia River Gorge Weekend
March 19-21, 2010
Suzannah Park, Nathan Morrison, Eva Primack, Stefan Amidon, Zara Bode
A weekend of American shape-note, Appalachian, gospel, ballads, rounds, game-songs, traditional and arranged folk songs from the Balkans and Ukraine, and a number of South African songs and dances. Bring your dancing shoes for Balkan line-dancing and some contras. Instrumentalists will be very welcome to join the ad-hoc workshop dance band.
At Menucha Retreat & Conference Center, Corbett, Oregon
Tuition: $220 per person in 4-person shared bunk rooms or $300 per person for a double room. Commuters, $150.