I was at the Village Harmony concert last night. They blew my socks off. They are on tour in Canada the rest of the week. Go Here for more information about this group of mostly high school students who sing mostly a-cappella music from Republic of Georgia, Bulgaria, U.S. both old and new & Renaissance western Europe.

• Tuesday, April 22, 7:30 PM, London, Ontario, St Michael and All Angels Church, 397 Springbank Drive. (519) 471-7780


• Wednesday, April 23, 7:30, Durham, Ontario, Trinity Anglican Church, 519-369-2471 Friday, April 25, 8 PM, Toronto, Ontario, First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair Ave. West. (416) 924-9654


• Saturday, April 26, 7:30 PM, Ottawa, Ontario, Glebe-St James United Church, 650 Lyon St South. (613) 236-0617


• Sunday, April 27, 3 PM, St Albans Vermont, First Congregational Church. (802) 524-4555

Village Harmony is an unusual ensemble of young singers and instrumentalists drawn from throughout Vermont and neighboring states. The program features traditional music from Bulgaria and Caucasus Georgia, contemporary and traditional shape-note songs, portions of a 14th century Easter Mass, and a commissioned work by Vermont composer Erik Nielsen. Village Harmony commands a wide range of vocal styles, ranging from the cutting "hard-voiced" sound of Balkan village music to the darker sonorities of Georgian singing to the sweetest bel canto.

This is a chance to hear a single ensemble sing in a very wide range of different styles and to encounter some musical styles that are well removed from traditional Western musical experience. The concert will include extreme close harmony singing from Bulgaria, with its characteristically brilliant women's choral sound, Georgian liturgical music based on a very non-western understanding of harmony, and New England's own uninhibited singing school tradition which was the first musical style to emerge in the New World.