Village Harmony is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and all contributions are fully tax-deductible. Village Harmony has developed an ever-expanding online teaching resource library for choir directors looking to collaborate via zoom with expert teachers across the globe. Our aim is dual-fold. The project provides much-needed income to our teachers.
And the program provides a valuable interface for singers of all levels to learn songs directly and authentically from musician experts in many of the worlds greatest non-Western choral traditions: from South Africa, the Republic of Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Corsica, Cuba and the American Appalachian and African-American communities.
And the program provides a valuable interface for singers of all levels to learn songs directly and authentically from musician experts in many of the worlds greatest non-Western choral traditions: from South Africa, the Republic of Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Corsica, Cuba and the American Appalachian and African-American communities.
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Larry Gordon has been leading choirs since he founded a madrigal group in 1962 while still in high school in Portland, Oregon. Since 1971 he has lived in central Vermont where he has become a kind of Johnny Appleseed of community music making; he has been active as a conductor, a teacher, a publisher, and a community organizer.
For over 27 years Village Harmony has been a place where teenagers who don't follow the beaten path have been able to come together and experience the sheer power of making music as a community with like-minded peers. But there are still plenty of singers who aren't represented in our camps in large numbers, including underprivileged students who could greatly benefit from the support of the VH environment.
Sitting at a table of elderly song-bearers, their table completely covered with food harvested from their fields as they sing songs that reach into the depth of your soul and remain in your heart. Songs of love, of the changing seasons, of loss. This is the manner in which Inna Kovtun, artistic director of the Rozhanytsia and Kalyna ensembles of Kyiv, Ukraine has collected songs and folk dances in the Ukrainian countryside.
We expect to send out a first round of acceptance emails for our 2018 camp sessions in mid-January. Singers thereafter will be accepted on a rolling basis as long as space remains. Once a camp session is full, new applicants will be placed on a waiting list until a place opens up. Village Harmony teen camps are open to ages 12-18.
Twenty-three mostly barefoot teenagers grab at each others' hands and bow, sweaty and tired, intensely pleased with themselves. They grin broadly as New Englanders of every age rise to their feet in the old wooden church building, applauding, whistling, ululating.
A note is sounded above the din and the young singers launch into a South African dance song, stilling the crowd long enough to allow them to make their way down the aisles to take a final ovation from the back of the building.As the young people, unleashed, dive into the crowd or escape outside, you remain rooted in your pew a bit longer, shaken to the core by what you've just witnessed.
A note is sounded above the din and the young singers launch into a South African dance song, stilling the crowd long enough to allow them to make their way down the aisles to take a final ovation from the back of the building.As the young people, unleashed, dive into the crowd or escape outside, you remain rooted in your pew a bit longer, shaken to the core by what you've just witnessed.
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Donna Mae Rasmussen
May 26, 2019
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