Hillside Echoes presents Turning of the Year with Shira Kammen

January 4th, Hillside Club, Berkeley - 7-9 pm

This festive singing session will explore an array of seasonal music celebrating the New Year, Winter, and Twelfth Night.

The music will range from traditional British Isles Solstice & Wassailing songs, Medieval and Renaissance wintery music, Songs from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', and much more!

Shira Kammen will lead us on a musical adventure.

Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the King’s Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia and Japan, and on the Colorado, Rogue, Green, Grande Ronde, East Carson and Klamath Rivers.