Village Harmony Dinner and Concert to Benefit Heartbeet Lifesharing

Village Harmony Dinner and Concert at the United Church of Christ in Greensboro on July 4,
Benefit for Heartbeet Lifesharing.

Supper features gourmet risotto and salads and desserts featuring local ingredients. Concert features Latin American and other world music performed by Village Harmony.

Dinner at 6:00. Reservations required.
email: clare@heartbeet.org • or call: (802) 472 3285
Concert at 8:00
Dinner and concert: $25 • Concert only: $12, $6 for students.
All proceeds benefit Heartbeet.

Heartbeet in Hardwick is a vibrant lifesharing Camphill community and licensed therapeutic residence that includes adults with developmental disabilities and interweaves the social and agricultural realms for the healing and renewing of our society and the earth. Community members live and work together in beautiful extended family households, forming a mutually supportive environment that enables each individual to discover and develop his or her unique abilities and potential.

The dinner features many fresh ingredients from the Heartbeet farm and gardens.
This group of Village Harmony includes 25 brilliant teen singers ages 12-18, from nine states plus France, led by Larry Gordon, Suzannah Park, and special guest conductor Carlos Jurado from Colombia, South America. The program especially features traditional songs and choral arrangements from Latin America, plus South African songs and dances, American Appalachian and shape-note songs and several renaissance works.
Carlos Jurado, from Pasto, Colombia, is an expert in latin American choral repertoire. He and his choirs hosted Village Harmony’s select touring group Northern Harmony for a week in Pasto last year in what turned out to be a most auspicious collaboration. He will lead a variety of traditional and composed pieces from Colombia and other South American countries, featuring sweet harmonies, intricate syncopated rhythms, and percussion accompaniment.

The remainder of the program celebrates the distinctive sounds of other world singing traditions. The South African songs all have accompanying dances and feature a rich and mellifluous vocal timbre and catchy call and response melodies. Gordon and Park have both traveled numerous times to South Africa to study those musical styles first hand. Park comes from a family of three generations of professional traditional singers and she is a brilliant arranger and teacher of Appalachian ballads and gospel songs. The shape note songs, both old and new, feature lively counterpoint and stark poetry. Rounding out the evening will be two movements from a mass by 16th century south German composer Gregor Aichinger.

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