« Welcome to join my workshop, to sing and explore songs I have been privileged to learn from my colleagues from Africa, South America and Finland. During the days we work with one song from each of these countries: Senegal, Tanzania / Finland, Mali, Brasil and Cuba. As a choral arranger and global music lecturer, I have wished to write and provide these songs on paper with love and respect, expressing the transcultural inspiration from my own background and the song´s origin.
If we feel like it, we can also add more songs from these countries to our days, which you will then be learning as we go, by ear. We will also be jamming and grooving around, wishing to get closer to the rhythmic aesthetics of the tradition behind the songs. Singing, stepping and using our bodies to internalize groove and the joy of the music. I’m looking forward spending inspirational, relaxed, joyful and focused time with a group of curious minded people from any aesthetics. » Merzi
