Spend A Week Singing at Voice Works

If you love to sing, we hope you can come to Centrum June 27 – July 3, 2011 for Voice Works, a week devoted exclusively to singing on the heavenly campus of Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.

The combination of world-class artists and passionate participants results in one of the most inspiring weeks of the year at Centrum. Day and night, you’ll soak up styles, songs and stories in a wide range of vocal traditions with some of the finest vocalists in the hemisphere.

Cajun Repertoire and Honky Tonk with Courtney Granger
Bluegrass and Harmony with Jenny Lester
Vintage New Orleans Jazz, and Swing with Meschiya Lake and Casey MacGill
Country Duets with Laurel Bliss and Cliff Perry
Traditional Southern Singing Styles with Alice Gerrard
Roots Singing with Pharis Romero
Eastern European Singing wtih Mary Sherhart
World Choir with Daniel Steinberg

Meschiya Lake, pictured above, will be working with participants on Vintage New Orleans Jazz and Swing. Dan Baum of The New Yorker writes about Meschiya:

“Meschiya Lake rocks back on her heels, lifts her chest, and opens her throat like an air raid siren to croon in a thrilling pre-microphone style that…can make you feel by turns as though you were shivering around a campfire in a railroad (yard) or drinking in a Budapest nightclub in 1938.”

Her music was noted by NPR as one of the highlights of 2010. If you love singing, we are confident that spending a week with artists like Meschiya will be a highlight for you as well.