HEY! I want in too! Could be the Byzantine hymn, but I'd like to learn about the music as well.

Charlie Baum sings some Balkan songs, n'est ce pas? I'd love to learn about Balkan harmonies as well, and I'd love to try singing them. I'm becoming fascinated with what I call "weird" minor harmonies and dissonance. The only thing with dissonance is that you have to convince people you did it on purpose and then hope they won't hurt you.

An idea, Al Groko (better then "Greco" eh? No? Oh. Never mind) might be to have a big group break up into appropriately sized groups, with, unlike pirates, all the parts represented, perhaps more than once. People can't find the pitch with a map and a flashlight, people won't sing, or try to sing dissonantly on purpose the night before and, although expected to make a full recovery, haven't yet departed the hospital.

For Balkan music, I'd love to be one of a whole bunch of folks, sorta like the "Quasimodal Chorus."

These are different things that what has gone on when I've been to the Getaway in previous years, and I'm getting a bit excited by that.