Workshops
Upcoming Workshops with the Amidons
Saturday, Oct 24, 2009
Lexington, MA
9 am - 1:30 pm
Teaching Traditional Dance and Singing Games to Children
sponsored by New England AOSA (Orff) music teachers
contact: Pam Yanco 508-533-6425 * pamyanco@comcast.net
Saturday, Oct 31, 2009
Middlebury, VT
10 am - 2:30 pm
Amidons lead Choral Singing for All
Participants will bring home a fresh repertoire of
great arrangements of a wide range of traditional
American secular and sacred songs, including African
American gospel and spirituals, old and new American
shape note pieces, newly composed pieces and old
hymns. The Amidons' energy and warmth encourage
people to feel relaxed while empowering groups to
create rich and soulful harmonies.
$40.
Contact: Brennan Michaels & John Beattie
802-352-4416 * owlhouse@wildblue.net
Saturday, Nov 14, 2009
Brattleboro, VT
10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Singing Fest led by
the Amidons, Matt Wojcik,
Brendan Taaffe, and Becky Graber
Contact: Brendan Taafee * brendan@brendantaaffe.com
Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
Northboro, MA
8:30 - 2:30 pm
Workshop for music & physed teachers
"Mostly Dance"
First of two (the second is Thursday, April 1, 2010)
Contact: Jennifer Lilley * 339-206-9076 * lilleyj@yahoo.com
Thursday, Friday, Jan 21, 22, 2010
Tuscaloosa, AL
Alabama Music Educators Association Conference
Amidons present four workshops:
* Teaching Dance to Children
* Storytelling, Literature, Picture Books & Music
* Amidon Children's Choir Arrangements
* Evening Community Dance
Saturday, Jan 30, 2010
Des Moines, Iowa
9 am - 3 pm
Simpson College of Music
sponsors an Amidon music teacher
workshop: dance, storytelling, singing.
Contact: Michael Patterson * 515-961-1582 *
michael.patterson@simpson.edu
Fri, Sat, Sun, February 12, 13, 14, 2010
The Dance Flurry Festival
at Saratoga Springs, NY
Amidons present workshops on
shape note singing, gospel harmony
singing, as well as calling contra and
community dancing.
http://www.berkshire.net/~flurry/festival/
Saturday, April 17, 2010
9 am - 3 pm
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Iowa AOSA (Orff)
Music teachers workshop:
dance, singing, storytelling, literature, music
Contact: Aaron Hansen • 319-415-9155 * aaron.hansen@wsr.k12.ia.us
Saturday, April 24, 2010
9 am - 4 pm
American River Orff Schulwerk
Sacramento, CA
Music teachers workshop:
dance, singing, storytelling, literature, music
Contact: Jeremiah Jacks * 530-417-7021 * jntbone@yahoo.com
Saturday, June 5, 2010
9 am - 4 pm
Feast of Singing
Randolph, VT
A day of harmony singing with a focus on
church choir music, but all singers are welcome.
Contact: Jane Eubanks * 802-234-9671 * jane@maresnest.com
Mon - Fri, July 5 - 9, 2010
9 am - 5 pm each day
Hartt Summerterm
West Hartford, CT
Rich Traditions and New Creations:
Dance, Song, Storytelling and Literature in the Music Classroom
The foundation of this class is the wealth of songs, dances, singing games, and folktales that spring from the Anglo American/African American oral traditions. We will sing and dance through a rich repertoire of old and new songs, dances and singing games that you can take back to the classroom, discuss how to make dance a successful, dynamic, ongoing experience for you and your students, and learn how to organize an evening of dancing for the school community as well as an all-school sing. The Amidons will share their discoveries of the power of connecting music and literature: telling stories, creating songs from poems, introducing songs with stories, creating a performance from a folktale, song writing, and bringing picture books alive with music. Each participant will write a song and tell a folktale. Limited to 24 participants
Contact: Dee Hansen * 860-768-4128 * dehansen@hartford.edu
Sat - Sat, July 17, - 24, 2010
Pinewoods Family Week
outside of Plymouth, MA
sponsored by Country Dance & Song Society
Week of dancing, singing, storytelling with
other families with Mary Alice, Peter, and a
full staff of teachers/dance leaders/singers.
http://www.cdss.org/
Thurs - Sun, Sept 23 - 26, 2010
Somewhere in Virginia
Pourparler - an annual
national conference on
teaching folk dance to children,
Sanna Longden, founder and contact:
847-328-7793 * SannaMars@aol.com