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Greenfield Harmony| Choirs | Greenfield Harmony | River Singers | Zora Quartet | Hallowell | Village Harmony | Wow! This is Greenfield Harmony, a powerful chorus of voices that manages to get your blood pumping even when you're just listening. -- The Greenfield Recorder.
Of particular interest to Mary Cay is music from the Balkan countries of the former Yugoslavia where she spent two and a half years on a Fulbright Scholarship in ethnomusicology. Ritual songs, love songs, dance songs as well as liturgical chants from the orthodox, islamic and sephardic spiritual traditions of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia are regular features of the Greenfield Harmony repertoire. The choir also explores the vocal traditions of various African countries, the Republic of Georgia, the British Isles as well as many American folk traditions - from shape-note and Shaker music in the Northeast to gospel, bluegrass and Appalachian in the south. Greenfield Harmony is a non-audition choir. Members come from all walks of life and musical experience. Some are professional musicians with years of choral experience while others learn primarily by ear and repitition.Greenfield Harmony welcomes all into this singing community. There's tremendous energy and dynamic intensity from the singers, many of whom learn the material by ear rather than by reading it. Miracles happen each week when 80 singers show up week after week and burst into song! Greenfield Harmony singer Ray Sebold describes each rehearsal as "limp in, leap out". There's a lot of good breathing and singing - and we laugh a lot! Audio Clips (requires Flash player)
Links to Greenfield Harmony members websites: Regina St. John - http://www.chenarivermarblers.com
Walt Cudnohufsky - http://www.wcala.com, http://www.cudnohufsky.com
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Greenfield Harmony is a multigenerational 80-voice community choir founded and led by Mary Cay Brass of Saxtons River, Vermont. The choir sings lively, soulful songs from many community-based traditions around the world. 