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BODY MUSIC WORKSHOP with Evie Ladin & Keith Terry
BODY MUSIC WORKSHOP ~ Sat. Oct. 1 ~ 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Workshop admission: $15-55 sliding scale (please be affordable and generous)
Innovative musicians/dancers with a quirky neo-trad soul, Oakland, CA-based Evie Ladin & Keith Terry throw down original folk songs and deep interpretations of old songs, with the kinetic thrill of percussive dance. Truly entertaining acoustic performance for any age!
Using the oldest instrument on the planet — the human body — we clap, snap, step and vocalize our way through some very fun and funky, original and traditional rhythmic music. BODY MUSIC is an effective way of internalizing rhythmic work, which enhances the development of time, timing, phrasing, listening skills, independence, coordination and ensemble awareness. There are many traditional Body Musics in the world, from African-American Hambone and Flamenco Palmas to Sumatran Saman and Ethiopian Armpit music. Since 1978 Keith Terry has developed a contemporary style of Body Music based on his training as a jazz drummer, as well as his years of intensive study and collaboration with world rhythmic systems. Evie Ladin’s style is grounded in Appalachian repertoire, exploring all the cultural influences that are contained in those traditions. BODY MUSIC is a useful tool for anyone interested in deepening their rhythmic skills, and is accessible to everyone, no experience needed.
Fri. Sept. 30 ~ 7:30 p.m. ~ House Concert in Pine Lake
Sat. Oct. 1 ~ 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ~ Body Music Workshop in Pine lake
Check out Evie & Keith here:
https://evieladin.com/projects/evie-ladin-keith-terry/
Listen here: https://evieladin.com/videos/
EVIE LADIN
A prolific singer-songwriter, percussive dancer and square dance caller, the polyrhythmic heat of Evie’s clawhammer banjo has been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Celtic Connections, Lincoln Center to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Born and raised on Southern music, from inner city Baltimore to Oakland, she has taken home ribbons at stringband contests and won awards for albums.
She can write, she can sing, and she pulls back from the saccharine brink with wit – a sharp intelligence. –Grant Alden, No Depression
Ladin sings and plays infectious clawhammer banjo, while Terry is a master percussionist. It was Appalachian string band music pared to the absolute minimum of accompaniment, but packed with an orchestra’s worth of rhythm. – Music City Roots, Nashville
KEITH TERRY
Trained as a jazz drummer, Keith Terry brings tonal percussion to stand-up bass, is a renowned percussionist/rhythm dancer, the founder of the International Body Music Festival, and a collaborator with a host of inventive performers from Bobby McFerrin, Tex Williams and Robin Williams, to Turtle Island Quartet, Charles “Honi” Coles and Bill Irwin.
Mr. Terry in action is like visiting an anatomical carnival, where hands, feet, fingers, engage in a musical ballet. – Wall Street Journal