Singing workshop in Conway MA: The Hagiography: A Musical Pilgrimage through the Lives of the Saints

Tiny Glass Tavern presents:
Tiny Glass Tavern Singing Workshop in Conway MA: The Hagiography: A Musical Pilgrimage through the Lives of the Saints

Wednesday Feb 14th 2024 from 6:30pm to 8pm, in Conway MA: 46 Delabarre Ave, Conway, MA, 01341

In preparation for their concert in Northampton on Friday Feb. 16th, the artists of Tiny Glass Tavern invite you to a singing workshop, giving you the opportunity to explore this program's music for yourself, from within.

Open to all levels, music will be taught by ear and with scores or word sheets, sent in advance. Music reading ability is not required, but will be helpful. 

The theme of the music lead during this workshop will be the real and mythologized lives of ancient Christian Saints, and will cover original music influenced by folk, pop, baroque, and medieval music. It will be lead by Tiny Glass Tavern musicians Sophie Michaux, Adam Simon, Fiona Gillespie, and Paul Holmes Morton.

General admission $20, Student/Low income/Starving Artist $10

These workshop and concerts are funded in part by the Amherst, Conway and Massachusetts Cultural Councils.

More information about the Feb 16th concert

Inscrutable and clarion, violent and tranquil, mad and sane, worldly and hermetic, carnal and chaste, temporal and astral... far from being unrelatable, the arcane but very human lives of the ancient Christian saints are rife in wild legends and fascinating factual past with which to orient ourselves in the constellation of Western history and culture. 

Tiny Glass Tavern, mid-Atlantic area Celtic folk band The Chivalrous Crickets, and New York-based composer, poet, and bassist Doug Balliett join forces to present "The Hagiography: A Musical Pilgrimage through the Lives of the Saints". Begun in the fall of 2020, this project presents a corpus of songs written throughout the pandemic for weekly mass at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan where Doug Balliett is composer-in-residence, and expanded upon now with additional material by Fiona Gillespie, Adam Simon, and Paul Holmes Morton. 

Richly researched and vividly produced, The Hagiography illuminates the real and mythologized lives of Saints James, George, Margaret, Michael, Nicolas, Patrick, Genevieve, Brigit, Valentine, Sebastian, Joseph the Hymnographer, Cecilia, Joan of Arc, and more through original songs influenced by folk, pop, baroque, and medieval music.

Musicians:
Fiona Gillespie, soprano, whistle

Paul Holmes Morton, theorbo, banjo, baroque guitar, guitar

Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano

Adam Simon, mandolin, guitar, voice

Doug Balliett, bass

General admission $20, Student/Low income/Starving Artist $10

More information at: www.tinyglasstavern.com