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Mt. Retreat’s Music Week | Highlands, NC
Written By: Mary Jane McCall | Issue: April - 2022
The hills are alive when The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center stages its Music Week, April 10-15. For more information and registration please visit themountainrlc.org/ music-week.
The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center is hosting Music Week April 10-15. Participants will have daily opportunities for group and individual participation and instruction in songwriting, guitar, voice, ukulele and more with event coordinators and leaders, Aidan Quinn and Christine Stay of Friction Farm and Tret Fure.
You can venture in lightly, explore something new, or dig in deeper and hone your craft. There will be plenty of music appreciation sessions: history through the lens of song, discovering fun, unexpected musical connections across genres, song circles and concerts. We will also incorporate music into morning reflections and make musical connections to nature and art.
Friction Farm combines storytelling, social commentary and humor to create songs of everyday life, local heroes, and quirky observations. Their lyrically rich, harmony-driven songs earned them spots as Kerrville New Folk Finalists, Falcon Ridge Emerging Artists, and South Florida Folk Festival Songwriter winners. Friction Farm’s latest CD, Evidence of Hope, which debuted at Number 10 on the Folk Radio Chart, witnesses the collision of strong political polarity with personal kindness, the intersection of fragility and breathtaking beauty.
Tret Fure began her professional music career in her teens. By her twenties, she was playing guitar and touring with Spencer Davis. Her solo career blossomed as she became well-known in women’s music. Tret is a prolific writer whose heartfelt lyrics and impressive fingerpicking keep her songs on the folk radio charts.
They are also looking forward to John McCutcheon’s Songwriting Camp, set for May 22-26, so make plans now to check that out as well.
For more information and registration please visit themountainrlc.org/music-week or call (828) 526-5838.
