Concert by Windborne
Presenting their newly released Song On The Times Project
7:30, Saturday August 26th
$15 Admission (contact heather.l.alger@gmail.com for tickets)
(free for Summersong Weekend Workshop participants)
Whitehill Farm 59 Blaisdell Lane, East Ryegate, VT
For more information, Contact Heather Alger: Heather.l.alger@gmail.com
Summersong workshop participants will open the evening with some songs learned earlier that weekend, and then Windborne singers share songs from their new Song On the Times project along with some old favorites.
SONG ON THE TIMES is an illustrated songbook and album that brings together music from working class movements for peoples’ rights in the US and UK over 400 years, and sings them for today’s struggles. Enjoy Windborne’s richly harmonized arrangements with a book of beautifully illustrated lyrics and music, alongside history and personal reflections on the songs from activists, singers, and scholars. More about Windborne’s Song On the Times Project: http://www.windbornesingers.com/
Internationally acclaimed folk band Windborne is a group of vocal chameleons who specialize in close harmony singing, shifting effortlessly between drastically different styles of traditional music within the same concert. Their musical knowledge spans many continents and cultures, but they remain deeply rooted in American folk singing traditions. Praised for “the purity of their voices, strength of their material, and attention to detail in their arrangements,” Lynn Mahoney Rowan, Will Thomas Rowan, Lauren Breunig, and Jeremy Carter-Gordon share a vibrant energy onstage – their connection to each other and to the music clearly evident. They educate as they entertain, telling stories about the music and explaining the characteristics and stylistic elements of the traditions in which they sing.