Workshops
Upcoming Workshops with the Amidons
Friday - Sunday, Oct 31 - Nov 2:
KMEK (Kodaly Music Educators of Kansas)
MKMEA Regional Conference: Teaching Traditional Dance and Singing Games to Children
Contact: Kirk Olson KOlson@usd259.net, kodaly@wichita.edu
Wednesday - Saturday, Nov 12 - 15:
National AOSA Orff Conference
Charlotte, NC
Various workshops: The Amidons will be headliners at this national music teachers’ conference.
Contact: Diane Sabourin * 518-561-8409 * orffnc08@westelcom.com
Saturday/Sunday, Nov. 22, 23:
Brattleboro, VT
Two-day hospice singing workshop
Led by Hallowell leader and music directors Kathy Leo, Mary Cay Brass and Peter Amidon
Contact: Kathy Leo, kleo@sover.net
http://hallowell-singers.org/weekendworkshop.htm
Coming Next Summer
Our Hartt Summerterm session:
This will be our ninth year teaching this week-long 3-credit course in West Hartford, CT:
Rich Traditions and New Creations
Dance, Song, Storytelling and Literature in the Music Classroom
Monday through Friday, July 6 - 10, 2009.
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. Limited to 24 participants
Hartt Summerterm courses will be listed I think around January, 2009.
Meanwhile you can go to: http://harttweb.hartford.edu/summer.php
or e-mail dehansen@hartford.edu for more information.
Adult Village Harmony
9 days: Fri - Sun Aug 7 - 16, 2009
in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom of Vermont
Mary Alice and I are very excited to be leading this with our son Stefan Amidon (who is currently on a UK/European tour with Northern Harmony) and Luke Hoffman. They are both wonderful young musicians in their mid-twenties, both Oberlin grads, both superb percussionists (between them they cleaned up most of the major Vermont All-State percussion awards for years) and equally inspired singers and singing leaders.
The summer 2009 Village Harmony camps are listed on their website:
http://www.villageharmony.org/
Next Fall
Friday - Sunday, Sept 18 - 20, 2009:
Star Guilford: Rethinking the Small Church Choir
A weekend of singing for church choir directors and singers looking to revitalize their music ministry for worship and end-of-life singing. Led by Peter Amidon, Tony Barrand and Andy Davis - the three co-choir directors of the Guilford (VT) Community Church, UCC.
http://www.amidonmusic.com/starguilford/