LarryFest Vermont’s choral community comes together this weekend to celebrate the life and legacy of Larry Gordon (pictured), founder of Village Harmony and a giant of the Green Mountain State’s community choir scene, who passed away last fall. The two-day outdoor music festival features a full day of free programming on Saturday, including Larry’s favorite — shape-note singing — as well as Balkan and English country dancing, opportunities to jam and make art together, and a funeral march by Bread and Puppet Theater. A benefit concert follows on Sunday, featuring performers from around the state and beyond; proceeds from tickets with sliding-scale prices benefit Village Harmony’s diversity scholarship fund and memorial online music library.
LONDONDERRY — The young musicians sauntered into their two-room studio and took their seats in a circle of chairs, surrounded by instruments. Dressed casually in jeans, sweatshirts, sweatpants and T-shirts,
Onion River Chorus Up until beloved singer and Village Harmony founder Larry Gordon passed away in November, he was still leading rehearsals of the Onion River Chorus, the Montpelier community choir that he cofounded in 1978. The group’s winter concert has arrived and is a testament to Gordon’s vision and a celebration in his memory. The Onion River singers perform Estonian composer Urmas Sisask’s Magnificat, as well as four pieces in the American shape-note tradition — a nearly forgotten style of singing that Gordon is credited with reviving almost single-handedly in New England. Proof of vaccination is required.
However many years “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn” lasts – and it’s about to hit 19 – there’s little doubt that the 2020 and 2021 editions will loom large in the collective memories of those involved in the music-song-dance-and-storytelling production, perhaps none more so than the show’s creator and guiding spirit, Brian O’Donovan. In 2020, with Covid-19 an overwhelming concern,
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