3rd HWMF-Community Singing: Folk Songs of Four Continents Sharing Music – Creating Harmony

What is Community Music? How can we use music as a tool to connect people together and create the sense of a community? Communities around the world have made used the simple act of singing together to boost their morale, bring each other together, and gain energy. HWMF started a Community singing project with bi-monthly sessions. The motivation is simply to feel each others' energy and understand what it is like to sing with a room full of people. It is expected that participants have a basic interest in learning songs from all over the world in different languages and historical contexts! For this reason, we have set the minimum age to 12 years. So if you are fond of singing just for the sheer joy of it, this is the place to be!

If you haven’t attended the last sessions, don’t worry – you can join any session fresh. If you have – don’t worry either – we don’t repeat repertoire or warm-ups so it is going to be new every time!

American folklorist Pete Seeger passed away on 27th January. He worked with folk repertoire from the entire world and you will recognize his work easily through the song “We shall overcome” (Hum honge qamayaab), which he helped popularize. This week we will sing repertoire from Chile, Liberia and Norway – which was in a record titled Folk Songs of Four Continents, by Pete Seeger and the Song Swappers. A popular song included in this session is “Mi Caballo Blanco” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvwVlvTNh2o

Tejaswinee Kelkar, our course director, is doing her MS at IIIT Hyderabad. She has studied an Associate Diploma in Western Classical theory and composition as well as Sangeet Visharad in Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices.

Walk in entry - 100/-