Music & Dance
COMMUNITY SINGING
Led by Ray Kamalay, Rev. Robert B. Jones and Sally Potter
Saturday Aug 14, from 6pm- 8pm at the Talkers and Tellers Stage
Community Singing and Song Festivals
Across America, in living rooms, churches, family reunions, campgrounds, bars, stadiums, and community centers, people have long gathered together for the simple pleasure of joining voices in song. Today, a newer version of this gathering of amateur songsters is growing in popularity.
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| Singers at the 2003 Mid Winter Singing Festival rise to sing "We Shall Overcome" |
New York Times writer Ben Ratliff notes that these events-called song circles, community sings, sing-alongs, or singing festivals- "draw together the average-voiced and bring old songs into common memory." In our increasingly digital and sometimes alienating world, the act of singing with others is both an immediately satisfying personal experience and a powerful tool for building community.
Here, in East Lansing, musician, producer, and educator Sally Potter, founded the annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival. Sally has now organized this community singing program at the Great Lakes Folk Festival.
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| The Rev. Robert B. Jones, shown here at the Singing Festival, will be one of the song leaders at the Great Lakes Folk Festival |
She will be joined by experienced performers and song leaders; Ray Kamalay from East Lansing and the Rev. Robert B. Jones of Detroit.
Please join us in song. You don't need choral experience or a great singing voice, just the simple desire to join others in making music together.
Photos on this page by Roxanne Firth
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