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. |
| Rachel Schlafer-Parton's first musical experience began at an early age when she crawled into the kitchen, opened the bottom drawer of the stove, and started playing the pots and pans. She has been playing everything she can get her hands on ever since. As a sign language interpreter she also uses those hands to sing. Her performing experience, (vocal, instrumental, and movement) ranges from early music to jazz ensemble, classical trio to theater, and mime to modern dance. As a magician's assistant, she is likely to disappear or levitate at any moment! Rachel is perhaps best known for her performance on the syringe on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. These eclectic experiences have enhanced her artistic sign language interpreting for theater, concerts, opera, and other artistic productions. Venues where Rachel has performed range from the National Gallery of Art to the Blue Bird Cafe. At Bonnaroo, she interpreted for a number of Rock artists and was also an instrumentalist with the Band of Humans. As an RID certified interpreter she interprets in the Knoxville area where she lives with her husband Joel and their menagerie of goats, bees, cats, and dogs.
| 
|
|
|
|
|
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 the June Lake Loop Mountain Music Festival, a party potluck North of Mono Lake, the Mono Lake Visitor Center where we sing to the whole Basin as far as the eye can see, and a 9000-foot high stone lodge in Yosemite. 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. 
