Join world-renowned singer-composer Moira Smiley from the US in Bath for a full day singing workshop… incredible old songs and inventive and joyous new sounds. To round off the day we will become the audience for a solo concert by Moira. Concert-only tickets will also be available.
10am – 3:15pm SINGING WORKSHOP with Moira Smiley
Discover and develop flexibility within your own voice and range – both technically and artistically. Moira will lead warmups, musical games, and the singing of new and old folk songs in rich vocal harmony. The workshop is open to singers of all levels and ages.
4 – 5pm CONCERT by Moira Smiley
Singer, composer, and song-collector Moira Smiley has sung in arenas, cathedrals, kitchens, back porches, sound stages, and on glaciers. She has performed with the likes of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tune-Yards, Tim O’Brien, Eric Whitacre, Los Angeles Master Chorale, New World Symphony, Solas, and The Lyris String Quartet.
“An impeccable musician, gracious, collaborative, kind and open”
Moira has led vocal workshops and residencies at countless universities, colleges, high schools, conservatories, and musical organizations including the LA Master Chorale, Savannah Acoustic Music Seminar, Vancouver Youth Choir, Yale, and Oxford. Moira’s academic specialty is Early Music, and she has developed parallel experience with various folk traditions – especially early American, Irish, and Balkan vocal styles. By exploring the particularities of traditions, styles, and periods, she’s found something uniquely her own.
This is event is hosted by Jane Harris, Songways in Bath.
