A Village Harmony Teen World Music Ensemble is performs at the York Street Meeting House in Lyndon on Saturday, August 11, at 7:30 pm.

Renowned South African choir director Matlakala Bopape, along with three accomplished young Village Harmony alumni – Avery Book, Lysander Jaffe, and Sinead O'Mahoney – lead 24 teen singers from six states, South Africa, and the Republic of Georgia. The ensemble will deliver an eclectic mix of South African songs and dances, traditional secular and sacred songs from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, Corsica, and Sardinia, shape-note songs, and songs of struggle and resistance. They will accompany some songs on folk instruments.

Village Harmony is an umbrella organization based in Vermont and dedicated to the study and performance of ethnic singing traditions from around the world. Each summer ensembles of both teen and adult singers in New England and abroad develop their own unique sound with international leaders. Their concerts all share common traits – a powerful, natural, vocal sound as appropriate to the many varieties of ethnic and traditional music.

This concert is presented byLyndon's Upright Steeple Society in their beautifully renovated church concert hall. Admission is on a sliding scale from $5-$15.