Headlining at the Warm Winter Singing Camp in Chicago

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Posted by jesse on January 7, 2010 at 5:09 pm

I’ll be the featured singing master this weekend in Chicago, IL at the Warm Winter Singing Camp, held the day before the 26th Chicago Anniversary Singing. The singing school will also feature instruction by Richard DeLong, Judy Hauff, Ted Mercer, and Lisa Grayson.

For more information, visit the Chicagoland Sacred Harp Singing web site.

Hope to see any of you who might be in the Chicago area this weekend.

Sacred Harp Singing at Bennington

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Posted by jesse on January 4, 2010 at 8:12 pm

I’m happy to announce that the Sacred Harp Singing School I taught at Bennington College this fall will continue in the Spring as a full-semester course. The weekly class will feature instruction in the practice, traditions, and history of Sacred Harp singing.

Once again I’ll be at Bennington as a visiting singing master. Bennington College students can register for the class for credit, but the singing schools will be open to the general public as well.

The course is listed on the Bennington College web site, and you can contact me for more information as well.

Bennington College Singing School

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Posted by jesse on October 12, 2009 at 9:55 am

This fall I’ll be teaching a class on Sacred Harp singing at Bennington College in Bennington Vermont as a visiting singing master at the college.

The course will have an enrollment of 30-40 undergraduates, but is open to the public as well, so this is a great opportunity to learn about Sacred Harp singing for anybody in the area.

Please contact me for more information.

Singing School at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music

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Posted by jesse on September 20, 2009 at 7:58 pm

Lauren and I will be traveling to Potsdam, NY later this month to teach a two-day Sacred Harp singing school. We’ve been invited by the Potsdam Community Chorus and the Crane School of Music and will be teaching a variety of sessions for the community, the choral group, and Potsdam students.

Please contact me for more information.

Cambridge Singing School

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Posted by jesse on January 4, 2009 at 7:59 pm

Beginning later this month on the 3rd Tuesday and continuing every month until October I will be teaching a singing school in Cambridge, NY in the Lovejoy Building at Hubbard Hall. The singing school will begin each month at 7 pm and last for about an hour. We’ll then take a break, followed by singing from the Sacred Harp until 9 or 9:30.

This singing school is an opportunity for individuals in the Cambridge area to learn more about Sacred Harp singing in advance of the New York State Sacred Harp Singing Convention, to be held at Hubbard Hall on October 17-18, 2009.

Visit the New York State Convention web site for more information.

Under Island Performance and Singing School at GAS

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Posted by jesse on January 8, 2007 at 7:09 pm

Join me and Carrie Dashow on Thursday January 11, 2007, for a performance of Under Island and a shape note singing school at Gigantic ArtSpace in New York. The singing school will be held from 5-7 PM and the performance begins at 7:30 PM.

Singing school participants will learn the basics of shape note singing and will learn original shape note songs that will be featured in the performance later that evening. Carrie Dashow will join the singing school to give an introduction to the Under Island story and the practice of subliminal history.

During the performance of Carrie’s Under Island story, the singing school class will join Carrie, Jesse, and the audience in singing several shape note songs, from the workshop.