Ágról Ágra

Hungarian Folk Songs

Saturday April 20th
7:30pm

Adults $15 - $30 Suggested
Kids $8 - $30 Suggested


Ágról Ágra: from Branch to Branch is a unique and dynamic a cappella program of Hungarian folk songs presented in their traditional forms and as arrangements by contemporary composers Song Yi Jeon, Guillermo Klein, and Libero Canto’s own Marisa Michelson, and Sara Serpa, alongside original songs by Béla Bartók, one of Hungary’s most revered composers and folk song collectors.

Ágról Ágra is a project of the Libero Canto School of Singing. Libero Canto™ is a holistic, process-oriented approach to vocal pedagogy originally developed in Hungary in the 1930’s by Lajos Szamosi. It’s name comes from “la via al libero canto” (the path to free singing).  The Libero Canto Approach helps people to release excess tension and effort, so that they can make music through singing with freedom, honesty, and joy.  For more information, please visit liberocanto.org.

Libero Canto is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Agrol Agra Webpage: https://liberocanto.org/agrol-agra/
Libero Canto Webpage: https://liberocanto.org/

KINGA CSERJÉSI is the associate artistic director of the Libero Canto School of
Singing in New York City. She has a master’s degree from the Liszt Ferenc
Academy of Music in Budapest, and a postgraduate degree from the Brabants
Conservatory in the Netherlands. Kinga studied singing with Heent Prins and
Edvin Szamosi. She has sung internationally as a soloist and as a member of
various choruses and vocal ensembles, including Gächinger Kantorei, Ensemble
Organum, Ensemble Kantika, L.E.O., La Compagnia Amarilli, Constellation Chor
at Lincoln Center in 2018, The River Voices at Carnegie Hall in 2019. She is a
founding member of the Hungarian vocal ensemble Bartók’s Roses. From 2013 –
2015, she taught with Deborah Carmichael at the Il Cuore Canta workshops in
Upstate New York.

DEBORAH CARMICHAEL is the Artistic Director of the Libero Canto School
of Singing. She studied singing with her teacher and mentor, Edvin Szamosi, and
received a diploma in piano from the Mannes College of Music Extension
Division. Since 2007, she has sung with Kinga Cserjési in New York City and the
greater New York area, and in Europe, including concerts in Vienna, Budapest,
Pisa, and Florence. Deborah has been teaching singing since 1994, and in 2012
founded the Il Cuore Canta workshop series for young opera singers. Deborah is
the executive producer of the feature documentary film Libero Canto, Voice is
Breath by award-winning director Andrea Simon. Deborah holds a B.A. in
Comparative Religion from Princeton University.

MARISA MICHELSON is a singer, improviser, educator, and composer of Musicals, Choral Works, and Music-Theatre. With her ensemble, Constellation Chor || an immersion in voice, movement and spirit, which she founded and directed, she has collaborated with Lincoln Center, Spectrum, The Kitchen, National Sawdust, Pioneer Works, Claire Chase, the New York Philharmonic, Harvard Art Lab, Maria Popova, and Paola Prestini. Her off-Broadway musicals and oratorios include Tamar of the River (two Drama Desk Nominations), One Thousand Nights and One Day and Naamah’s Ark, an oratorio for five choirs. Awards, grants & residencies include: Jonathan Larson Award, National Endowment for the Arts, New Dramatists, Eric Salzman Award for Music-Theater, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, National Sawdust, MacDowell, Ucross, Modern Accord Depot, New Dramatists. Marisa is also an active somatic voice practitioner with many students on Broadway and pursuing other careers in the healing arts. www.marisamichelson.com

MARGOT BASSETT SILVER (she/her) is a vocalist, songwriter, and performance-maker based in Minneapolis. She has toured internationally with Emily Johnson/Catalyst in addition to performing Off-Broadway and in Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension at BAM. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, a BA in Dance from Wesleyan University, and has studied at the Juilliard School and the European American Musical Alliance in Paris. Margot makes and records music as Silversmith; she released her first album, soft skills, in 2022. Her voice can be heard on the theme song of the new podcast, Feminist Files, which traces the origins of Title IX.

Spring Tide

Two opportunities to experience the beautiful and original duo, a singing workshop AND concert

Sunday April 7th
Singing Workshop 3:00 - 4:30pm
Concert 6:30pm

Stick around for a picnic dinner before the concert!

Music Workshop $15 - $25 Suggested
Concert $15 - $30 Suggested
Workshop & Concert $25 - $50 suggested

SpringTide is Elsie Gawler (cello), Ethan Tischler (guitar), and Willy Clemetson (fiddle) - musicians, songwriters, and emissaries of the Mid-Coast Maine fiddling scene. We combine a love of high energy traditional Celtic and Scandinavian fiddle music, heartfelt original tunes and songs, and spacious creative improvisation to produce our unique trio: SpringTide. We aim to lift audiences with the music of the landscapes we come from, drawing inspiration from the tidal rhythms and creative energies of the coastal land we’re grateful to call home. 

elsiegawler.com
ethanstokestischler.com
elsieandethan.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv69ML5F0fc

Appointment required.

Join us for a fun community night of dancing happening the first Saturday of every month!

No experience is necessary as all dances are taught

Easier Dances in the beginning of the night

ALL WELCOME!

For More Info Contact:
Aldo Lavaggi: lavaggi.aldo@gmail.com

Guitar Poems

by Séamus Maynard

All invited to this unique artistic offering of original compositions curated for an enlivening experience of music. Truly, not to miss!

April 5th

7:00pm

$20 - $30 Suggested Donation

When it comes to music, Séamus has always explored a blend of genres and styles. He studied classical guitar and composition with guitarist and composer Ed Flower and classical acting at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His integration and understanding of both music and drama brings a unique expression to his performances in both art forms. Séamus has worked for many years at developing his own style of writing, performing, theater making and creating music. The backdrop of his original music arises from a variety of influences, including, Americana, Spanish guitar music, classical, bluegrass, jazz, finger-style, Celtic, and folk.

A Family/Systemic Constellation Workshop with Lucian Schloss, MA, LMHC, LPC

Family and Systemic Constellations reveal and heal hidden dynamics in families, groups, and the individual soul.

For More Information contact Lucian Schloss: lucianschloss@gmail.com

Offered by Sanga of "Gather in Oneness"

Friday March 22
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Donations Welcome

Please bring blanket and yoga mat if possible

 Sagna has studied various meditative and metaphysical practices throughout her life. In 2022 she was certified as a Medicine Person with Teaching Spirit whom she had worked with for a decade. Also in 2021 Sagna did extensive study with TOSA, “Self Ascension”. Both of these immersions opened up the further gateways for the Sound bath mediations.  that have been present in group form as well as individual clients. 

“Sagna has a passion for serving others to heal, grow and flourish. I have benefited from private sessions and small gatherings with Sagna in which I consistently felt grace and peace in her presence and afterwards, for many days that followed.  Honestly, I can’t recommend her strongly enough! “
-Danette Koke, 2022 

For More information Contact
Betsy Cashen
betsy.cashen@yahoo.com

Celebrate St Patty's Day!

Celtic Music Concert
w/ Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira

Saturday March 16
7:30pm

Adults Sliding Scale $15 - $35
Kids Sliding Scale $10 - $20
No one will be turned away!

Catch them in concert for an evening of high-energy tunes and soulful songs, with nuanced fiddle-cello interplay, vocal harmonies, lively step dancing, and French Canadian foot percussion. 

Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira are a dynamic
North American fiddle & cello duo. 

Their new album,  All It Brings, is hailed as:

"Dazzling!" FolkWorld Magazine

& "Simply exquisite!" Folk London

Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira Website | Link to Music
jocelynandellen@gmail.com

For more information: events@mettabeefarm.com  

Experience traditional music from Uganda with two special offerings:

Live in Concert 
&
Kids Winter Music Camp

Concert
Saturday February 10th
7:00pm

Kids Music Camp
February 19 - 22
10:30am - 3:30pm

Christiana Wall for more details: c.wall.email@icloud.com

Sing to the Mettabee Garden, the Bees and the Animals

Sunday December 24

Song packets provided!

All ages welcome!

Community Reading of 'A Christmas Carol' 

Sunday December 17


Followed by book inspired potluck! 
 

Reading of A Christmas Carole by Charles Dickens hosted by Laurie Portocorraro. Followed by a book inspired pot luck. Come in your best Elizabethan-like outfits! We will have costume pieces and play scripts also! Readers and listeners of all ages welcome. Children must be able to listen quietly. The story can be terrifying for children. 10 years and older suggested. 

Contact laurieportostoreis@gmail.com or 518.567.6766

A Family/Systemic Constellation Workshop with Lucian Schloss, MA, LMHC, LPC

Family and Systemic Constellations reveal and heal hidden dynamics in families, groups, and the individual soul.

For More Information contact Lucian Schloss <lucianschloss@gmail.com>

Waltzing at 7:30, Contradance 8:00 - 11:00
With Caller Dereck Kalish

Dance Admission:
  Adults: $15-20 (sliding scale)
  Students: $10
  Children 0-10 years old: Free
  Family Rate - $30

Bring a friend or come alone, no partners necessary. Hope to see you there!

Swing Dance with The Lucky 5

Friday November 24th

The Lucky 5 is a hard-swinging jazz band that blends 30’s and 40’s style swing with gypsy and Parisian flavors to create a unique blend of music that stands by itself. Combining originals and creative reworks of old standards, The Lucky 5 continues to be a favorite among music lovers young and old alike.


For More Information Contact: Oliver <ogkress@gmail.com>

Neil Pearlman Concert
“Tremendous pianist”
–Bruce MacGregor
BBC Radio Scotland, Travelling Folk

“Dazzling piano chops … Fingers absolutely soar across the keys”
–Portland Press Herald

Tuesday, November 21st
7:30pm


Tickets for Sale at the Door
Adults $20 - $35 Suggested
Kids $10 - $20 Suggested

For More Information Please write :
events@mettabeefarm.com

Neil Pearlman
Multi-instrumentalist, step dancer and host of the TradCafe podcast, Neil Pearlman is a vital and distinctive voice in contemporary traditional music. Described as “a tremendous pianist” on BBC Radio Scotland and “a force to be reckoned with” by WGBH’s Brian O’Donovan, Neil is best known for his groundbreaking approach to the piano in Celtic music. Motivated by a deep musical curiosity and a love of collaboration, his playing is continually evolving and spontaneous without losing its roots in the traditional piano styles of Atlantic Canada, New England and Scotland. He has appeared at major festivals across North America and Europe including the Newport Folk Festival, Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Celtic Colours in Cape Breton, the Orkney Folk Festival, and has recorded, performed or otherwise collaborated with such artists as Natalie MacMaster, Darol Anger, Seamus Egan, Alasdair Fraser and many more. 

Growing up in a musical family, Neil was immersed in Scottish and Cape Breton music and dance from the start. He began dancing at the age of 3 and the piano followed soon after. Joining his parents and siblings on stage as the family band Highland Soles, Neil learned the art of performance early at festivals and concert halls across New England. At the age of 11, he appeared several times as a dancer in Natalie MacMaster’s high-powered show alongside his mother Laura Scott and a few years later released his first album with his father, fiddler Ed Pearlman. Already at that age he was exploring a passion for other styles of music, especially a lifelong love of jazz that has always played a role in his creative voice. 

Today Neil’s musical projects run the gamut from deeply traditional to refreshingly contemporary. His podcast TradCafe is a series of conversations and collaborations with traditional musicians from around the world. In 2021 TradCafe launched a video series featuring one-off musical collaborations between Neil and artists such as Troy MacGillivray, Jenna Moynihan, Begona Riobo, Anxo Pintos, Yann Falquet and Alasdair White. His 2020 release Burden Lake with acclaimed Shetland fiddler Kevin Henderson received 5 stars from The Scotsman. He tours regularly with Kevin Henderson, Katie McNally, The Pine Tree Flyers, and as a solo pianist, while playing more irregularly with a wide variety of side projects featuring top Celtic, Americana and Jazz musicians.

Holiday Ball with Live music!

Saturday December 17
7:00 pm

Waltzing & Contra Dancing
Dress in fancy, formal attire! 
Bring dazzling holiday deserts to share! 

All Ages Welcome!

For More Information: events@mettabeefarm.com 

Jutta & The Hi-Dukes
A World Music Concert & Dance

Sunday, November 19th
4:00pm

Concert followed by dancing and a pot luck dinner!

Please join us at any part of this event!
All ages are welcome!


This world music band from Chicago will play their unique, eclectic mix of ethnic music followed by a joyful community dance where the band will teach and lead simple traditional line and circle dances from many different cultures.

All proceeds to benefit the Rudolf Steiner Library. Please come even if you do not know about the library!

Potluck dinner after dancing.

This will be an afternoon of great music for a great cause!

For More Information about the event and/or the library, please contact:

Zoi Doehrer
director@rudolfsteinerlibrary.org

The sweat lodge is an ancient Native American purification and healing ceremony where we enter the 'womb' of Mother Earth as a way to heal and to pray, as well as to heal, honor, and connect with our ancestors. Our lodge is heart-centered and held in a traditional Mi'kmaq way, passed on to us by Mi'kmaq/Alonguin Elder, Grandfather Albert Ward.

All are most welcome to join us.

Schedule

1:30pm
Arrival, welcome circle, preparing for ceremony

2pm
Ceremony begins, fire starts.

*As many of you may already know, it is difficult to define an ending time for a ceremony.
It seems most ease-ful to clear the day, and to count on being finished
around dinnertime---perhaps even a bit after.

Following our lodge, we will have a potluck meal together in the beautiful Mettabee hive/community kitchen. Please bring along a prepared dish of any kind to share.

For anyone traveling from afar, there is ample beautiful space for camping out on the land at Mettabee, and some indoor overnight space may be available as well. Let me know if you need more info about that.

Please RSVP

grandmothersacredlodge@gmail.com

More info about our sweat lodge, what to bring, etc. read bellow.

Feel free to email or call with any questions!

Looking forward to being in Ceremony together!

About the Sweat Lodge Ceremony

The sweat lodge is an ancient Native American purification and healing ceremony where we enter the 'womb' of Mother Earth as a way to heal and to pray, as well as to heal, honor, and connect with our ancestors.

The lodge structure is created by harvesting and bending young tree saplings together to create a kind of large basket or wigwam. This structure is then covered with many colorful blankets to create a womb- like, darkened space, like a big pregnant belly. Inside of the lodge, there is a dug-out pit in the center of the lodge ground. This is where hot stones are placed, which are then splashed with water to create a kind of earthen steam bath. Inside the lodge, we pray together, we hear and share stories and prayers, traditional songs are sung, and wild plant medicine/incense is placed on the hot stones for healing. A sacred tobacco pipe ceremony is held inside the lodge, with plenty of water and rest given to all in between each of the 4 prayer rounds. The sweat lodge is a very beautiful and healing ancient ceremony. It is conducted in a traditional, heart-centered, and sacred manner.

This particular form of Sweat Lodge ceremony has been passed to us by spiritual elder Grandfather Albert Ward (Mi’qmac/Algonquin) from the Mirimichi region in New Brunswick, Canada (1941-2021), in the spiritual lineage of Grandfather Albert Lightning (Cree) from Ontario. Grandfather Albert was a well-known, much-loved and gifted healer and spiritual teacher who traveled extensively throughout the US, Mexico, and Canada for over 30 years sharing teachings and healing ceremony with people from all over the world. After studying with Grandfather Albert and the community that surrounded him for over 20 years, ‘Grandmother’ Elizabeth was given the teachings and spiritual preparations through her Elder to carry and continue with these ceremonial practices, leading sweat lodges, talking circles, and other traditional healing ceremonies. All ceremonies are conducted in a heart- centered and sacred manner, honoring the Mi’qmac traditions that Grandfather Albert came from and shared with us.

What to Bring

-Pipe tobacco (8-10oz. each person)
-One towel for each lodge
-1/2 yard of plain cotton cloth in 7 different solid colors : red, white, yellow, black, green, blue, purple (*optional, but good to have on hand):

-1 gallon of water (for lodge/community) -A snack to eat before lodge

-Personal water bottle
-Warm clothing and sturdy outdoor shoes that can handle mud, forest, all elements of nature
-Dry change of clothes for use after each sweat lodge

Lodge Attire & Preparation

Women: long, comfortable skirt and t-shirt or long dress, head scarf Men: swim trunks (no metal zippers), head bandana

*Important: In preparation for entering the sweat lodge ceremony, all

participants are invited to refrain from the use of any alcohol or recreational drugs at least 4 days and 4 nights prior to attending.

-Women on their ‘moon time’ (cycle) do not participate in the sweat lodge ceremony, but may participate in Circle.

(*Please free to ask any questions about any of the traditions around ceremony. )

Exchange

—$75/day is requested in support of the retreat upon registration. This helps cover costs of firewood, blanket laundering, offerings, and supplies.

—Honorarium for lodge-keeper is by donation.

—Registration and donations can be sent electronically, or with cash/check placed in basket upon arrival. (*Venmo: @mama- lama 845-443-6650/ Paypal: mamalama777@aol.com)

—No one is turned away for lack of means to contribute financially. Please inquire if needed.

Food

—We will have a community potluck meal after the ceremony. Please bring an already prepared main-course dish for sharing in the post-sweat lodge potluck. Something simple that can just be warmed/tossed/easily assembled etc. is great!! (ex. casserole, soup, salad, etc.)

—Feel free to bring along a bagged lunch and snacks for the day.

—There is refrigerator space available, and an oven/stovetop to warm meals as needed.