Village Harmony founder and director LARRY GORDON has been making community music in Vermont since the early 1970s. He founded Village Harmony in 1989, and his patient and relaxed, yet demanding, teaching style and his collaborative approach have shaped the welcoming atmosphere of the Village Harmony community since the beginning. Though his first love was medieval and renaissance music, he is a vital figure in New England shape-note singing, and he is the music editor of the popular Northern Harmony shape-note songbook. Larry is an inspired organizer with an unerring eye for good repertoire and a unique knack of pulling together interesting combinations of singers and letting them shine.  Larry has led Onion River Chorus in Montpelier since the late 1970s, and is well known across the US and internationally for leading stunning periodic ad hoc incarnations of Northern Harmony, a semi-professional tour group made up largely of veteran Village Harmony singers.  Recently he has been devoting increasing time to teaching Balkan folk dancing.

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HEIDI WILSON is a singer-songwriter with a passion for sharing songs inspired by and in service to community and the wild world.  She has been leading a cappella singing groups for the last twelve years with the aim of uplifting courage, beauty, and connection.  Heidi currently leads singing at the Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture, the Plainfield Community Sing, seasonal Interfaith Sacred Sings, and with the Central Vermont Solidarity Singers. 

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Village Harmony alumnus Jeremy Carter-Gordon is a teacher, performer and scholar of traditional music and dance. After studying ethno-choreology at Bard University, Jeremy spent 2011-2012 studying sword dancing in Europe on a Watson Fellowship.

Jeremy completed the his MA in the Choreomundus Program in 2015, holding an advanced degree in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage. He teaches traditional dance and harmony singing at folk camps around New England, and tours with the Windborne Singers (a Village Harmony alumni ensemble) and is part of the vocal duo, Far Distant Shore. Jeremy also plays the banjo when on tour.

This will be Jeremy’s second year teaching at Village Harmony’s teen residential camp.

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Northern Harmony’s brilliant young singers always share in the teaching at workshops.   Many of them have participated in Village Harmony and Northern Harmony tours since their young teens, and many have studied traditional vocal styles first hand in Georgia, South Africa, Corsica and the Balkans.  Their strong voices supporting each vocal part makes the teaching and learning particularly efficient and gratifying for all.