Camps and workshops
Summer 2011 Residential Adult Camps
New England August Adult Camp
August 13-20 , 2011 (7 nights)
Led by Larry Gordon, Kathy Bullock & Eva Primack
This 7-day session will be full of blow-out folk, gospel and South African singing, including an eclectic selection of wonderful world-music harmonies. Long-time VH favorite Kathy Bullock, a high-energy singer-teacher from Berea, KY, will lead the group with soul-filled gospel and fabulous piano playing.
Larry Gordon, founder & co-director of Village Harmony, will lead the group in South African and traditional and contemporary American shape-note songs, as well as teaching a set of early music pieces. Eva Primack, a veteran VH teacher and member of the folk duo AE, will bring her expertise in Balkan folk traditions to the week.
This session will be spent in residence at Rikki Carroll's house and renovated barn on quaint Main Street in Ashfield, MA. With Ashfield Lake across the street, a daily swim will be just steps away. Rehearsals will be held just down the road at the community church and town hall.
In residence in Ashfield, MA
$675 ($600 optional tuition for low income applicants)
Leaders
LARRY GORDON has been making community music in Vermont since the early 1970s. He founded Village Harmony in 1988. Though his first love was medieval and renaissance music, he is a vital figure in New England shape-note singing. Larry is an inspired organizer with an unerring eye for good repertoire and a unique knack of pulling together interesting combinations of singers and letting them shine. His patient and relaxed, yet demanding, teaching style and collaborative approach have shaped the welcoming atmosphere of the Village Harmony community since the beginning. Larry has led Onion River Chorus in Montpelier since the late 1970s, and is well known across the US and internationally for leading stunning periodic adhoc incarnations of Northern Harmony, a semi-professional tour group made up largely of veteran Village Harmony singers.
KATHY BULLOCK’s father was a Baptist minister, and she grew up singing and playing piano and organ in his church and performing with her four sisters. She is a professor of music at Berea College where, in addition to teaching music theory and ear training, she teaches courses in African-American music and directs the Black Music Ensemble, a boys’ choir that performs music from the African-American tradition and by African-American composers. This will be Kathy’s fifth year leading a Village Harmony session.
EVA SALINA PRIMACK is a Brooklyn-based California native who travels the world learning and performing traditional music. With a life-long focus on the music of the Balkans, Eva holds a degree in ethnomusicology from UCLA, where she studied extensively with Tzvetanka Varimezova. She tours with Ash(AE), a duo with Aurelia Shrenker, whose repertoire includes Appalachian, Balkan, Caucasus Georgian and Corsican music. She is a vibrant, passionate and exacting teacher and performer. this is her fourth year teaching with Village Harmony. To listen and learn more, please visit www.aesings.com.
AT Ricki Carroll’s House, Ashfield, MA.
Campers will be housed side by side in 2 houses on the quaint Main Street of town. With Ashfield Lake across the street a daily swim is only a few steps away. There’s a hot tub and sauna for night time relaxation and lots of room to just hang out. Rehearsals will be held down the road, in the Grange Hall, which has a hardwood floor and plenty of space with good acoustics.