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Sing with the Choir of the Community
This Saturday, May 19, 9:30 - 11:30, River Garden, for the S. Vermont AIDS Project Walk for Life
Feast of Singing 2012
A day-long choral song-fest with Peter and Mary Alice Amidon and Kim and Reggie Harris
Saturday, June 2, Randolph, Vermont
Kim & Reggie are two of the most exciting musicians and singing leaders we know; they will be leading Gospel style songs of faith, freedom, hope, healing and social change. Mary Alice and I will be leading our favorite sacred & secular a cappella SATB songs. We will also be singing at least one Reggie/Peter collaborative arrangement. The day will alternate between singing by ear and from written music. Lunch is included in the fee.More information at feastofsinging.org
Rich Traditions and New Creations
Four-day, three-credit course for elementary school music teachers at Hartt Summerterm (Hartt School of Music, West Hartford, CT): "everything the Amidons know about: traditional dance, song, storytelling, literature/picture books, songwriting, and more.
For more information:
or to the Summerterm website:
Harmony of Song and Dance
a new Country Dance and Society Week at Pinewoods Camp for "singers who love to dance and for dancers who love to sing".
For more information go to:Amidon Workshops
or to the CDSS website:
Post-Session Notes for 1-19-12 Oklahoma MEA Traditional Dance Workshop
Post-Session Notes for 1-19-12 Oklahoma MEA Storytelling/Picture Book workshop
Post-Session Notes for 1-20-12 Oklahoma MEA All-School Sing Workshop
Post-Session Notes for 1-16-12 Wyoming MEA Traditional Dance Workshop
Post-Session Notes for 1-16-12 Wyoming MEA Storytelling/Picture Books workshop
The Amidons Listening Room and Sheet Music Downloads
Over fifty Amidon song arrangements and compositions with more coming: sacred SATB (Christmas, Easter, other), secular SATB, children’s choir, songs for hospice singing, songs Amidons have written, and songs from Peter’s musicals, all for listening and purchasing (instant online sheet music download) with more on the way!
Please go into the Listening Page:
A Song in My Heart: 25 Years of Amidon Favorites
A CD compilation of Peter and Mary Alice Amidons’ favorite songs for children. Read More >>
New CD: Hallowell Love Call Me Home
Hallowell, southern Vermont's hospice singing chorus, is pleased to offer this second collection of songs for hospice and healing...Buy it here >>
About the Amidons
Peter
and Mary Alice Amidon are versatile and widely respected performing and teaching
artists who for the past twenty years have dedicated themselves to traditional
song, dance and storytelling.
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New Music
From a Seed in the Ground
The book
2010. Arranged by Peter Amidon
This is Peter's first published collection of children's choir arrangements, ranging from a simple a cappella grace (this is actually an original composition first composed for the Stearns/Amidon musical "Truth") to a playful, through composed 5-page arrangement for piano and treble voices of Connie Kaldor's marvelous song "From the Seed in the Ground.