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handling per shipment (Yes! Shipping and handling for any number of
Camp Ooolation! CDs is still $3!) These CDs cannot be ordered online. Send us a check made payable
to Ooolation! at 1111 E. Wylie St., Bloomington, IN 47401, and we'll
send you the CDs.
EASTERN SIERRAS, CALIFORNIA
Friday, July 23 – Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Ooolation! is a camp where two of the most fun things in the world happen: being outdoors and singing. The young people who attend Ooolation! share a wide-open enthusiasm for diverse musical traditions. Whether they read music or learn quickly by ear, whether they are singers who like to move, dancers who like to sing, actors, instrumentalists, poets, artists, or athletes, they all share a passion for music making. Ooolation! is where they can live, eat, and breathe song.
Our camp sessions are kept to a small ensemble of 18-25 singers so that individual voices are heard and everyone’s natural musicality can come into play. Campers work directly with artists as they bring new compositions to life. From day one, music is pulled off the page and put into moves that gradually replace the need for scores. Learning sessions, large, small, or individual, are organized around the specific needs of our repertoire.
Five or ten minute silences are scheduled into rehearsals to save the voice and sensitize the ears. Singers are then brought back together with a story, song or group improvisation. Work continues as the ensemble creates a show featuring vocal techniques, movement and drumming from all over the world.
At the end of one week singers go on tour performing songs that have been sung in the trees, stepped in circles, warmed by the fire, and polished until they have a life of their own. The sheer vitality and musical range of our culminating handful of concerts brings an audience to their feet. Campers leave brimming with stories, poems, songs, long lasting friendships and new ways of looking at things.
Due to an often-limited supply of electricity in our remote settings, we get up at sunrise to maximize our use of daylight hours and capture those magical moments of the dawn. Everyone shares in the cooking and cleanup. A culinary coordinator will organize incredible edibles and Mr. Mal Dal, the mad pie chef, will occasionally disappear into a noisy cloud of flour. If you don’t oversleep you might even be able to catch some of his scrumptious buttermilk apple flapjacks.
Eastern Sierras, California Malcolm Dalglish (hammered dulcimer, voice, movement) Naomi Dalglish (voice, movement) Joshua Stephen Kartes (voice, language) Jeff Fellinger (voice) Friday, July 23 – Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Ages 13 - 21 (with flexibility)
Nestled in a meadow of aspens just east of Yosemite National Park overlooking Mono Basin is a private nature preserve owned by Dale and Suzanne Burger, our generous hosts for this session. This region is the cradle and cathedral of some of the most varied and powerful natural wonders in the world - an ideal setting for our music! Our staff brings a vast array of exquisite singing styles from other times and worlds, and their amazing song writing craft is matched by their joy of teaching. Come sing in the aspen grove where we'll put together a show with high-spirited moves, and spine tingling harmonies. We'll perform at a 9000-foot high stone lodge in Yosemite, an old ghost town, and along the shores of Mono Lake. Our music making will once again be nourished and inspired by the gourmet mountain cuisine of Linda Dore and our hikes to remote alpine meadows, peaks, lunar landscapes of pumice, and the moonlit faces of granite domes.
Tuition, Music, Learning and Concert CDs, plus all expenses: $1000
Ooolation!
Staff:
Malcolm Dalglish attended The American Boychoir School at age ten and graduated from The National Outdoor Leadership School at fifteen. He's a choral composer, director, and raconteur who plays hammer dulcimer, spoons, bones, and his face. A founding member of the popular folk trio Metamora, Malcolm has made over 12 recordings, including solo offerings on the Windham Hill Label. He strives to create songs that are "playgrounds for singers". Audiences are engaged by the storytelling, poetry and theater of these works. Choirs throughout the world have commissioned his music, and he performs with them everywhere from schools and festivals to Carnegie Hall. His folk choir, The Ooolites, is known for its earthy, ethereal sound. He's been called a pied piper of youth choirs (and his flair for pie making hasn't hurt his reputation either!).
Naomi Dalglish can't remember a time when she wasn't singing. She has toured with Northern Harmony, and her clear, bell-like voice graces most of the tracks of Ooolite CDs. Having recently graduated from Earlham College, where she studied ceramics, and completed a year building wooden boats at the Carpenter's Boat shop in Maine, and has now made her place in the craft community of Penland North Carolina. She is very excited to continue exploring the addition of visual elements to her musical career.
Joshua Stephen Kartes, a New York City–based freelance composer and performer, has been working with Malcolm and the rest of the Dalglish family since meeting Malcolm in 1998 at his high school in Muskegon, Michigan. He graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2004 with a degree in Music Composition and Piano Performance, and worked as a freelance musician and director for four years in Chicago before his recent move to New York. Joshua is a seasoned composer, arranger, performer and clinician, and has had many opportunities to work with a variety of ensembles. Most recently, Joshua co-created, musical directed and premiered a new musical review featuring the music of French/Belgian folk singer Jacques Brel. Joshua was awarded a Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical Direction for his work on a previous Chicago production of "Cabaret". During his time in Chicago, he was also on staff at Columbia College Chicago, the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and Northwestern University.
Jeff Fellinger is a carpenter from Burlington, Vermont who moonlights as the mechanic, medic, and cowboy song sharer when Ooolation! time rolls around. Jeff's mom tells the story that at age two and a half he sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to his great grandma, and he's pretty much been singing since: high school madrigals, college a cappella, tours with Vermont's Northern Harmony, and his current tenure with the Burlington choir Social Band, as well as the Old-Tymey Trio Soaked Oats. To Jeff, there is no greater magic than bare voices crossing harmonies to the great wide sky. He has been helping Malcolm and the Ooo! Crew wrangle, feed and water campers since 2003.
Ooolation!
Application
for Summer 2010
Timeline: Monday, March 29: Deadline for First-Decision Applications. Campers will be notified regarding their acceptance. Applications will be accepted after this date on a rolling basis if spaces are still available.
Friday, April 30: A non-refundable $250 deposit (or full tuition amount) will confirm your spot. Camp Information Packet will be sent out to campers. Please make all payments in the form of a check made out to Ooolation!
Tuesday, June 8: Camp tuition balance is due along with all necessary completed forms. Sheet music and learning CDs will be sent out to campers after this date.
Tuesday, June 15: All information packets and music will be sent out along with all necessary forms.
Friday, July 2: All forms due back in office.
Friday, July 23: Campers arrive. If flying, book flight to arrive no later than 1:00 p.m. in Reno. Vans will transport to camp (3-4 hour drive). If driving to camp, plan to arrive in the afternoon before 5:00 p.m.
Friday, July 30 – Sunday, August 1: Ooolation concerts will be performed. Parents and friends may want to plan a trip to the mountains to enjoy these concerts.
Tuesday, August 3: Campers depart. If flying, book flight to leave Reno no earlier than 1:00 p.m. If driving, plan to be picked up in the morning before 11:30 a.m.
The applicant alone should fill out this application. Please fill in the online application below or copy and paste this application into your own word processor and then mail the information. Or if you would prefer we can e-mail this application to you.
APPLICATION FEE
Mail a $20 check to cover the application fee, payable to: Ooolation!
1111 E. Wylie St.
Bloomington, IN 47401
Or, pay the $20 fee with a credit card via the following link:
Our camp sessions are kept to a small ensemble of 18-25 singers so that individual voices are heard and everyone’s natural musicality can come into play. Campers work directly with artists as they bring new compositions to life. From day one, music is pulled off the page and put into moves that gradually replace the need for scores. Learning sessions, large, small, or individual, are organized around the specific needs of our repertoire. 
Nestled in a meadow of aspens just east of Yosemite National Park overlooking Mono Basin is a private nature preserve owned by Dale and Suzanne Burger, our generous hosts for this session. This region is the cradle and cathedral of some of the most varied and powerful natural wonders in the world - an ideal setting for our music! Our staff brings a vast array of exquisite singing styles from other times and worlds, and their amazing song writing craft is matched by their joy of teaching. Come sing in the aspen grove where we'll put together a show with high-spirited moves, and spine tingling harmonies. We'll perform at a 9000-foot high stone lodge in Yosemite, an old ghost town, and along the shores of Mono Lake. Our music making will once again be nourished and inspired by the gourmet mountain cuisine of Linda Dore and our hikes to remote alpine meadows, peaks, lunar landscapes of pumice, and the moonlit faces of granite domes.
