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Songs of War |
Tried and True
Songs of Uncommon People |
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Songs of Uncommon People |
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Gender, Love and Justice in Folk Music |
Orpheus Dei is committed to the importance of music in modern culture and presents concerts exploring musical traditions and their influence on society. To request information about concerts for your organization, please send email here: info@orpheusdei.com .
CELTIC AND AMERICAN FOLK SONGS
Saturday May 24, 1997, 4:30 PM
Steven Darsey presented a program of Celtic and American folk songs at Trinity United Methodist Church on Saturday May 24 at 4:30 PM. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, Mr. Darsey sang folk songs relating to the wind and the sea, including sea shanties and ballads of woe and of love. The program also included several original tunes, including a song written this year, "The Wind and the Sea." Recognized for the character of his voice and his command of the folk idiom, Mr. Darsey is also a humorist and interlaces his programs with southern wit.
A Georgia native, Mr. Darsey is an avid student of folk music and believes in its importance for modern culture. On route to obtaining the doctorate in Choral Conducting at Yale, he wrote a thesis on Georgia's shape-note tune book, The Sacred Harp. This research led him to establish a series of worship services based on these tunes that he presents in Oxford, Georgia with renowned preacher Fred Craddock. Mr. Darsey performs regularly as a balladeer for churches and folk concerts. He and his group "Singing Wind" have appeared for the last four years in Atlanta’s Celtic Christmas.
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Balladeer
Steven Darsey presented a program of Celtic and American folk songs at Trinity United Methodist Church on Friday, November 14, 1997 at 8:00 PM. is Half the $5.00 admission went to benefit Trinity Community Ministries.
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Look Away
Songs of War
Balladeer
War, the engine of contending nations, the romantic proving ground of gallants and waiting belles and the cruel thief of joy and life, holds pride of place in the folk music repertory. Steven Darsey performed songs exploring the glory, romance and horror of war. Trinity United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall8:00 PM, Friday May 22, 1998
Admission 5.00 Benefited Trinity Community Ministries
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Tried and True: Songs of Uncommon People
| Sonny
Houston
Folk Singer |
Steven Darsey
Balladeer |
Trinity United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall
Sonny Houston and Steven Darsey will present a program of Southern folk songs at Trinity United Methodist Church on Friday, November 13 at 8:00 PM. Admission is $5.00, with half the proceeds benefiting Trinity Community Ministries.
Accompanying themselves on acoustic guitars, they will sing traditional and original folk songs, exploring the bittersweet life of common people in the American South.
Sonny Houston is an authentic folk musician, hailing from the mountains of rural Kentucky. Well known in Georgia for the haunting power of his singing and his dexterity as an instrumentalist, Sonny has been lead singer for several Bluegrass bands and is in demand as a teacher and lecturer on folk music.
A Georgia native, Steven Darsey is an avid student of folk music and believes in its importance for modern culture. On route to obtaining the doctorate in Choral Conducting at Yale, he wrote a thesis on Georgia's shape-note tune book, The Sacred Harp. Recognized for the character of his voice and command of the folk idiom, Mr. Darsey is also a humorist and interlaces his programs with southern wit.
Don’t Sing Love Songs: Gender, Love and Justice in Folk Music
Steven Darsey, balladeer Saturday, May 29, 1999, 4:00 PM Fellowship Hall, Trinity United Methodist Church map Admission $5.00, Benefits Trinity Community Ministries Order a cassette recording of this concert.Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, Steven Darsey will sing folk music exploring the much storied "battle" between the sexes. It is a commonplace that men think like men and women like women and ne’er the twain shall meet. Mr. Darsey will sing folk songs from the vantage of each gender, exploring the vicissitudes of love - courtship, deceit, tragedy, fidelity and happy union, thereby sharing something of what folk music has to teach us on matters of love. Folk music is perhaps the most truthful form of human expression. These words and music, springing from the collective experience of common people, arise in hieroglyphics far wiser than could be written by any individual.
