New England Adult Camp – August 18 – 25, 2018 – $750

Date: August 18-25, 2018
Venue: Buxton School
Leaders: Suzannah Park, Matlakala Bopape, Gideon Crevoshay
Price: $750

Our venue for the coming summer’s New England residential adult camp will again be Buxton School in Williamstown, Mass, which has a beautiful campus with several excellent singing and dancing spaces and a range of accommodations.

The camp will feature a particularly exciting trio of popular Village Harmony leaders.

Veteran camp leader Suzannah Park will bring her appealing mix of traditional Appalachian songs, sea shanties, gospel songs and Appalachian clogging. One of our most popular directors, Suzannah’s infectious love of people and singing and her amazing enthusiasm always pervade the camps she leads.

Matlakala Bopape, from Polokwane in the northeastern province of Limpopo, South Africa, is a musical and social mover-shaker. Matlakala has been organizing camps in South Africa for Village Harmony since 2003 and has taught in Europe, the UK and the US with us nearly every year since then. She will be leading an infectious set of South African folk, political and church songs.

Gideon Crevoshay, born in the hills of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, grew up singing and traveling with Village Harmony around the globe. He will teach from his repertoire of traditional and ancient forms of singing from the US, Caucasus, and Mediterranean.

Basic rooms are shared (4-bed) occupancy. Participants can choose to reserve single or double rooms for a supplemental fee of $100 or $50, respectively.

The camp will conclude with two concerts: Friday night at Buxton School, and Saturday afternoon, an hour’s drive east, in Ashfield Mass.

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Leaders

Suzannah Park

SUZANNAH PARK comes from a family of three generations of ballad singers, storytellers, and dancers and lives in the North Carolina mountains of her birth. She began teaching at Village Harmony in 2000 after participating as a camper since the age of twelve. Her joyous and intuitive teaching style, born of a lifetime of familiarity with traditional music, makes singers old and young feel at home in the songs that she shares and with each other. Whether she is teaching American ballads, South African songs and dances or Appalachian clogging, laughter and good times abound. When not on tour with Village Harmony Suzannah leads the Wild Asheville Community Chorus and kicks up her heels with the Green Grass Cloggers. www.suzannahpark.com

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Matlakala Bopape

MATLAKALA BOPAPE, of Polokwane, South Africa, is the director of Polokwane Choral Society—a community-based group whose aim is nurturing musical talent in African society. As a director, Matlakala is committed to drawing out musical excellence from her singers, as well as exposing them to musical cultures of the world. Her limitless patience, careful attention to vocal technique, and rich repertoire of folk and contemporary South African choral music make her a formidable teacher. Matlakala’s first taught with Village Harmony in Italy in 2000 after a fortuitous initial meeting with Patty & Larry at Festival 500 in St. John, Newfoundland the previous summer

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Gideon Crevoshay

Gideon Crevoshay is a musician from the hills of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. He uses the human voice to explore the countless dimensions of sound, language, improvisation, and ritual. Gideon studies traditional and ancient forms of singing from around the world, including the US, Caucasus, and Mediterranean, finding inspiration in the wisdom contained within these traditions and how they can inform present ideas of music-making and community. He has performed, recorded, and toured extensively with many projects including Tenores de Aterúe, OKAPIS, Mosaïc, Sempervirens, Starry Mountain Singers, Northern Harmony, Cambridge Revels, Briars of North America, Trident Ensemble, Bread and Puppet Theater, and Meredith Monk. Gideon is a member of the international music collective Found Sound Nation and has facilitated its US music residency and festival, OneBeat, since its inception in 2012, having also co-led projects in Turkey, Russia, and the Balkans. He teaches polyphonic singing throughout the US and abroad, both independently and with Village Harmony.

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Venue

Buxton School

The Buxton School, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has a beautiful spacious campus, with gorgeous trees and nearby walking trails. There are several good singing spaces, a beautifully appointed dining room, and well-equipped industrial kitchen.

Accommodations are in two different buildings, and every room is different The rooms are mostly triples and quads, but since there are more rooms than we need, we are able to allocate some rooms as doubles and a few as singles, for an additional supplement.

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