Teen Traveling Camp II

July 11- July 27, 2025

  • Leaders: Sinead O’Mahoney, Carl Linich & Hannah Levy

  • Rehearsal location: Stump Sprouts Lodge, Hawley, MA

  • Price: $1900.
    Need-based financial aid is available for this camp. You'll need to apply first and pay your deposit. Should we not be able to make the finances work for you, you may withdraw your registration with a full refund.

Village Harmony’s 17 day-long teen traveling camps are open to young singers ages 12 to 18. Auditions aren’t required to attend our camps. If you like singing full force and galumphing about the countryside performing for appreciative audiences, these summer camps are for you.  

Like all VH teen camps, we will begin with a week of rehearsal in residence at a retreat center. This summer’s programs will be held at one of our favorites—Stump Sprouts Retreat in Hawley, western Massachusetts.

This session will be led by Village Harmony teen program coordinator Sinead O'Mahoney, veteran teacher Carl Linich and VH alumna Hannah Levy.

Repertoire will include traditional songs from the Balkans, Caucasus Georgia, South Africa and America.

Meet the leaders

  • Sinead O'Mahoney

    A native of Montpelier, VT, Sinead O’Mahoney has been singing with Village Harmony and Northern Harmony since she was in her mid-teens. She has traveled abroad with Village Harmony in Corsica, France, Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has made three trips to Caucasus Georgia, including an intensive Georgian language course. Sinead has been praised for her sure command of rhythm and clear and efficient teaching style.

    Active in Sacred Harp and other shape-note singing throughout New England, Sinead became a co-director of VH’s community choir Boston Harmony in 2018. She has been in charge of programming Village Harmony’s teen programs since 2023.

    Sinead earned her bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Vermont in 2016 and is currently working toward her masters in choral conducting at Boston University. She currently lives in Boston, Mass. USA.

  • Carl Linich

    Carl Linich has been studying, singing, and teaching traditional polyphonic folk and liturgical music from Caucasus Georgia since 1990, and has been sharing it with Village Harmony for over two decades. After traveling to Georgia in 1995 and 1997 with his Trio Kavkasia Carl lived in Georgia for about a decade, meeting singers, making field recordings, and amassing a tremendous repertoire of songs. In recognition of his work to promote and preserve traditional Georgian culture, Carl is a Silver Medal State Laureate of Georgia (1995) and has been awarded the Georgian President's Order of Merit (2009).

    Since relocating back to the US, Carl has directed The Supruli Choir in New York City, the Bard College Georgian Choir, and his own family trio with his two sons. Carl is also a member of Tenores de Aterùe, a men's quartet devoted to traditional music from Sardinia. Carl holds an MFA (2004) in Music / Vocal Performance from Bennington College in Vermont.

  • Hannah Levy

    Hannah has been singing since childhood and performing professionally in choirs, bands, and studios since 2013. Trained in jazz and marinated in funk, RnB and a range of traditional styles, she has a wide lens for approaching the songs she teaches and performs. She has collaborated with master singers across vast genres and geographies—from gospel in Kentucky to yodeling in Tbilisi to ad-libbing in Oakland—and has a deep belief in the connective power of song.

    A graduate of the California Jazz Conservatory, Hannah appeared on blues legend Fantastic Negrito’s Grammy Award winning 2018 record, “Please Don’t Be Dead,” as well as “White Jesus Black Problems” (2022) and is featured heavily on “Grandfather Courage” (2023). Hannah was a longtime member of Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, toured several times with Northern Harmony, and taught at Village Harmony’s Oregon Adult Week in 2022. Hannah plays bass and sings in dream pop band Little Arcs and vocal group, Stone Fruit Trio.

“Actually learning music from throughout the world shows you so many drop-dead-gorgeous singing traditions, exposes you to music that moves you down to the very marrow... and it makes you exercise so many different ways of singing that you start to figure out the ways that work best, not just the ways that you’ve always done it. It’s sort of like feeding the addiction you never knew you had--for the chocolate that nobody else has discovered yet.”
- Teen camp participant

Stump Sprouts - Hawley, MA

Hand-built and furnished almost entirely with wood harvested from our land, the Lodge has seven guest rooms, a large living room and a complete kitchen and dining room. Everywhere there are large windows taking in the magnificent view. Lofts, cozy nooks, art work, plants, and a fireplace.

Not exactly a hotel, motel or B&B, Stump Sprouts is in a unique category of its own. In keeping with the owners’ simple philosophy, overnight guests share bathrooms and bring their own sheets, blankets, pillows & towels (there will be a limited number of sets for rent if you cannot do this for some reason).

All rooms have a double bed in them and most have a single or bunk bed as well. Rooms are decorated with original art, barn board, old farm implements, etc.

Village Harmony’s rehearsal space will be in a beautifully refinished barn, with superb cross-ventilation and large windows looking out over a gorgeous mountainscape.