Herdeljezi Festival Balkan Romani Singing Workshop with Carol Silverman
Schedule
Sat May 04 2024 at 01:45 pm to 03:15 pm
Location
Ashkenaz Dance Studio | Berkeley, CA
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Kitka is pleased to partner with Voice of Roma to co-present a very special Balkan Romani Singing Workshop with Carol Silverman as part of Voice of Roma's 23rd Annual Herdeljezi Festival at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center in Berkeley.Balkan Romani songs offer a wealth of modal, melodic, and rhythmic challenges. This workshop will focus on style, vocal production, pronunciation, ornamentation, and phrasing, with special emphasis on discovering your own interpretation. Carol Silverman will provide a great deal of cultural context for the songs, including historical information, performer biographies, and multiple versions of songs.
Materials will be drawn from Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, and Kosovo. Students will learn by ear, although some notation will be distributed. Singers of all levels, genders, ages, and backgrounds are welcome to participate.
Tuition is pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation of $20 for the workshop. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.
Carol Silverman has been involved with Balkan Romani music and culture for over forty years as a researcher, teacher, performer, and activist. An award-winning Professor Emerita of cultural anthropology and folklore at the University of Oregon, she focuses on the relationship between music/dance, politics, ritual, gender, and human rights among Balkan Roma in diaspora. Her 2012 book Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Oxford), won the book prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and her 2021 book Balkanology (Bloomsbury) traces the politics and artistry of Bulgarian wedding musicians. Her numerous articles analyze the globalization of “Gypsy” music, specifically its performance, consumption, and production in relation to issues of representation and appropriation. Carol
serves on the Board of Directors of Voice of Roma and is curator for Balkan music for the digital RomArchive.eu. As a vocalist and teacher of Balkan music, she toured with the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble for over ten years and performed on several albums with the ensemble.
Admission to this workshop is pay-what-you-can (suggested minimum donation $20), with no one turned away for lack of funds. Please pre-register so we know how many people to plan for!
For the full Voice of Roma 23rd Annual Herdeljezi Festival Schedule, visit: bit.ly/RomaFest
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Where is it happening?
Ashkenaz Dance Studio, 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA 94702-1021, United States,Berkeley, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
