The Red Tent Singers
Teacher Bio: Ashley Storrow is a song leader, songwriter, and social justice educator. She currently serves as the Program Director at Main Street Arts and also has been teaching music for 6 years at Vermont Academy. She is half of the duo, The Early Risers, whose debut album, “Making Life Sweet” went to #1 album on the national Folk DJ Charts in November, 2019. She lives in Putney with her husband, two young daughters, a slew of chickens, and a wildly large vegetable garden.
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The Red Tent Singers is a space for women of all ages to gather, connect, and sing. Women need intergenerational spaces to connect, to learn from one another, to heal from oppressive systems, and to strengthen their individual and collective voices. Gathering to create music is integral to the work of creating a more just world, one voice and one gathering at a time.
Rehearsals will begin with 20 minutes for connection, conversation, tea, and snacks, followed by 40 minutes of singing. Music genres will include: folk, gospel, soul, and carefully selected contemporary pieces. There will be a heavy emphasis on harmony and a capella singing with occasional guitar or piano accompaniment. Rudimentary singing skills encouraged, such basic sight reading and harmonizing, but not required. No auditions. Open to women identifying individuals, ages 13 and up: Daughters, mothers, grandmothers, and elders are all welcome. When we say women we include those of both cisgender and transgender experience, non-binary trans femme, intersex and gender-expansive people.
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