WORDLESS SONGS: Round Robin

WORDLESS SONGS

Round Robinwith MOLLIE STONE, NICHOLAS WILLIAMS, AND MÁIRÍN UÍ CHÉIDE
Saturday, December 19 | 3-4:30pm | Jesup Memorial Library

Who needs words when you have a voice? In this round robin, our featured singers take turns sharing mouth music from around the world, including Québécois, Gaelic, Swedish traditions and more, where melody, rhythm, and vocal sounds carry all the meaning. These songs have long been a way to make music for dancing, working, and celebrating with nothing but your voice. Without words to learn, everyone can jump right in and sing along.

Mollie Stone is Director of World Music at the Chicago Children’s Choir, where she grew up singing, and Assistant Director of Choral Activities at the University of Chicago. She is a teacher with Village Harmony and co-founder of the Brooklyn and Chicago World Music Choruses. Mollie holds a doctorate in choral conducting from Northwestern University and studied at the University of Cape Town, researching how South Africans adapted anti-apartheid choral music to address HIV/AIDS. She has produced teaching DVDs on South African, Georgian, and Bulgarian music, and leads workshops across the United States and Europe.

Nicholas Williams has been exploring musical traditions, and the ways music brings people together, for over 25 years. Deeply immersed in the traditional music communities of Québec and New England, he is a performer, teacher, producer, and recording artist who has toured North America and Europe with Genticorum, Traverse, The Kehler & Williams Duo, and Crowfoot. He studied world music, composition, and improvisation at York University in Toronto, and with tradition bearers in North India, Sweden, and Ireland. Since moving to Waterville, Québec in 2011, he has focused on building a local singing and music-making community.

Máirín Uí Chéide was born in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in Ceantar na nOileán in the Conamara Gaeltacht, where she is a native Irish speaker. Based in Boston since 1986, she travels across the country teaching and performing sean-nós singing, and a collection of her recordings is held in the Burns Library at Boston College. She has won many awards from Oireachtas na Gaeilge, including the coveted Corn Uí Riada, and was inducted into the North American Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Hall of Fame for her championing of Irish cultural traditions. She has taught music in the Archdiocese of Boston for over 25 years.

All singers and listeners welcome!

Round Robin: $20 · Included in the Saturday Pass and Weekend Pass | 50% off for BAMU students and Kitchen Junket members with code. Youth 18 and younger are free (please register)