Colorado Friends Of Old Time Music And Dance
Patricia Peterson Music & Dance Workshops PDF File
English Country Dance Workshop and Dance
featuring Pat Petersen from North Carolina.
Saturday, March 6th,.
There will be a special afternoon workshop and evening dance on March 6th,
featuring Pat Petersen from North Carolina. The workshop will be from 3 - 5 pm
and the cost is only $5. There will be a break for dinner, and the evening dance
will be from 7 - 10 pm, $10 ($8 for CFOOTMAD members or workshop participants),
with music provided by Rodney Sauer, Barbara Coeyman, and Steve Winograd.
Pat will also be leading a workshop for recorder players during the day, and
musicians from that workshop will play for a few of the dances that evening. So you
can have the opportunity to dance to a full Baroque Ensemble! Don't miss this! Download
pdf with detailed information about
the Recorder Workshops, and about Pat's dance workshop. The afternoon workshops are
sponsored by the American Recorder Society
(please consider registering ahead of time -- see pdf)
and the evening dance is sponsored by CFOOTMAD. Both
will be held at the Berkeley Community Church, 3701 West 50th Ave. in Denver.
Patricia Petersen holds an MFA in Early Music Performance from Sarah Lawrence College. A Director
Emerita of Amherst Early Music, she is a regular faculty member at Amherst's and many other workshops,
and currently directs the Mountain Collegium early music workshop in North Carolina. She performs on
recorder and other early winds, and has appeared with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She has coached
early music ensembles at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She
founded and directed the small vocal ensemble Fortuna, recorded on the Titanic label, and conducted the
Amherst Festival Choir on a CD of the music of Heinrich Isaac. An ARS certified teacher, she teaches recorder,
early music, and English country dance in North Carolina and at workshops around the country. An avid
English country dancer for many years, she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Country Dance
and Song Society. Her passions range from playing from facsimiles of early 15th-century music to English
country dancing to playing old-timey music on banjo-uke.