Elise Witt and Friends Concert
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
Description:
The Floyd Country Store hosts Elisa Witt and Friends in a special free concert on Sunday, June 9th.
Singer-guitarist Elise Witt has been working as a singer, composer, recording artist, educator, and community activist around the United States and the globe since 1977. She has crisscrossed the United States with her Global, Local & Homemade Songs™, from Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, to national festivals, local coffeehouses, the Open Door Community, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change.
She has nine recordings on the EMWorld Records label. Her original songs have been used in several documentary films, and many are available as choral arrangements by Michael Holmes. For 20 years Witt sang with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus under the direction of choral master Robert Shaw, and with the Robert Shaw Singers. Witt has studied extensively with masters of improvisation Rhiannon and Bobby McFerrin, Pan-African vocal specialist Dr. Fred Onovwerosuoke, cellist David Darling and his Music for People; and Sweet Honey in the Rock’s Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, all of whose pedagogy she incorporates into her own teaching. In addition to performing and recording, Witt is a masterful singing teacher, and has taught at festivals, arts camps, schools, and community gatherings around the United States.
For more information on this event, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/0217-CFA-VAMF-Elise-Witt-community-activities-handout_R2.pdf
For more information on the Floyd Country Store, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com or call: 540-745-4563.
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