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Village Harmony Editor’s note: Larry Gordon passed away on November 9, 2021.
Northern Harmony In recognition of his achievement of this region conference perfor-
mance invitation, we are including his bio below.
Northern Harmony
is the highest level per- Larry Gordon is the founder and director
forming group under the of Village Harmony, an organization ded-
umbrella of the world icated to the study of traditional singing
music organization Vil- styles from throughout the world. He has
lage Harmony. Since led Village Harmony study and perfor-
1993 they have toured mance camps working with native tradition bearers in
and performed widely South Africa, Georgia, Corsica, Bulgaria, and Macedo-
throughout America and nia. Since 1993 he has led 20 European tours with his
Europe to great critical acclaim. Not a permanent year- select touring ensemble, Northern Harmony. He is also
round group, the ensemble is constituted specifi cally for founder and director of Onion River Chorus, a non-au-
each extended performing tour or shorter term project. ditioned classical community choir based in Montpelier,
Many of the members have sung with Village Harmony Vermont. He is the editor of Northern Harmony, a volume
since their young teens, and most have studied traditional of 140 shape-note songs from the New England singing

singing styles first hand with native teachers in South school tradition.
Africa, Bulgaria, Corsica, and Caucasus Georgia.

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