Daytime Events
10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.*, Center for the Arts*Registration: 9:30 A.M., Center for the Arts Lobby
Tickets: $7 online, $10 at the door; one ticket entitles the bearer to attend any or all of the planned workshops.
Daytime Schedule for the Vermont A Cappella Summit
*Times subject to change9:30am
Registration in the lobby of the Center for the Arts
10am-noon
Vocal Improvisation with Philip Hamilton.
Hamilton leads a vocal workshop designed to increase participant's ability to improvise sounds in group and solo settings. This workshop also utilizes breathing exercises designed to increase one's awareness of the voice and its range of possibilities. He has worked with some of the leading musical minds of our time including John Cage, Donald Fagen,(Steely Dan) Pat Metheny, Gilberto Gil and Vernon Reid. This is a two hour workshop.
Noon
Lunch
1:30-3pm
Masterclass with celebrity panel
Each group will perform 1-2 songs, receive feedback from our celebrity panel (members Voices, Philip Hamilton, Ben Stevens and others!), perform again, and then hear from the audience. It's an educational experience, on and off the stage.
3pm
Essential Listening with Ben Stevens
What should we listen to, and how should we listen? A critical and creative approach to the contemporary a cappella canon, or: Alexander technique for the innerest of ears.
More to come...