Your Recorder Community

3/22/2025
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Central

Workshop

Join the Chicago chapter of the American Recorder Society for our next recorder workshop on Saturday, March 22, 2025.  This event will feature music making both for recorder and for Renaissance wind instruments.  For the first time we are holding our biennial workshop at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and the School will sponsor and advertise the workshop as one of their official teaching events.  Registration starts at 8:30 AM.  Bring a music stand and your instruments.  Lunch will be provided.

Register at the Old Town School of Folk Music web page:

https://www.oldtownschool.org/classes/detail/?courseid=7740 
 
We are welcoming Liza Malamut as the workshop director for the first time. Liza is the artistic director of the celebrated Newberry Consort in Chicago, and she plays sackbut, teaching the instrument at Indiana University.  In June of 2024 she joined the faculty at the Early Music Festival at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, offering a class in Renaissance loud band.
 
As Liza is a specialist in Renaissance brass and wind music, we will host a broader recorder workshop than have in past years. In addition to recorder players will also welcome for music making for people playing sackbut, crumhorn, shawm, dulcian, and other Renaissance instruments. We figure that the same sort of folk who enjoy Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger would also brake for John Dowland and Orlando de Lassus. We should have a natural draw from people who hang out at the Old Town School, and the Newberry Consort audience would appreciate our music as well.

Setting: In-Person
Old Town School of Folk Music
4544 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625

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Mark Dawson
(phone: 312 576-7282)

Sign in starts at 8:30 AM.  Lunch is provided.  The fee for the day is $100.
 
Several parking lots are available, besides street parking. We would also encourage you to consider public transit.  Walk to the Old Town School from the Western Avenue L stop on the Brown line.  If you can reach the Chicago Loop on Metra it’s easy to make your way to the Old Town School from there.
 
If you have any questions feel free to reach out to Mark Dawson at msjddawson@sbcglobal.net.
 

• https://chicagorecorders.org/recorder-and-renaissance-wind-music-workshop/

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