Sample Sounds
Listen to short mp3 files from many of our albums. More albums to come!
Village Harmony
Best of Village Harmony 2003-2004
Listen to samples from live recordings from both the traveling summer sessions and from the school year group from 2003 and 2004. Spirited performances by twelve different ensembles, with music from Bulgaria, Georgia, Corsica, South Africa, Nigeria, Germany and America.
Endless Light
Tracks from a fabulous one-time collaboration of over fifty singers and instrumentalists from the Village Harmony year group past and present, featuring some of the most exciting voices we've ever sung with. The Endless Light album is characterized by an impressive range of compositional and singing styles, especially the hard-edged vocals of the New England shape-note tradition.
Northern Harmony
Northern Harmony: Live at St. Asaph, Wales
Listen to the full concert set from Northern Harmony’s March 26-June 3 tour of Europe, including American shape-note singing and Appalachian harmonies; village songs from Caucasus Georgia and the Balkans; sacred and secular harmonies from the Corsican oral tradition; South African folk songs; and lively villancios from renaissance Spain.
From Pole to Pole
Listen to samples from a lively set of contemporary shape-note compositions by Don Jamison, Toby Tenenbaum, Seth Houston, Moira Smiley and Chandler York; traditional Shaker and shape-note tunes; as well as a rich selection of songs from Bulgaria, Republic of Georgia and South Africa.
Where Everything is Music
Listen to poems by Emily Dickinson set to music by Neely Bruce, poems by the Sufi mystic Rumi set to music by Toby Tennenbaum, and three pieces by the 15th-century Italian poet-composer Leonardo Giustiniani. Also enlivening the CD are songs from Bulgaria and the Caucasus Republic of Georgia, and -- breaking new ground -- a stunning set of Corsican songs.
Crossing Boundaries
Sample an exciting, eclectic mix of musical traditions: music from Caucasus Georgia and the Balkans, shape-note tunes from the late 18th century New England singing school tradition and unorthodox renditions of baroque works (by Bertali, Mayr, and Cavalli).
Heavenly Meeting
Listen to an eclectic yet related collection of 'folk' tunes: shape-note, English West Gallery, gospel, and Balkan village music.
Bayley Hazen Singers, Village Harmony and Friends
Songs from the Northern Harmony
Listen to tracks from the anthology of recordings from the now out-of-print albums Honor the the Hills (1989), Northern Harmony (1990) and Emerald Stream (1992). All songs are taken from our songbook of old & new shapenote songs -- the Northern Harmony.