Sue Ribaudo's Website

Click here for “La Paloma”, Puerto Rican lullaby

You may be looking for something to do this summer that’s out of the ordinary. How about a summer camp for adults (actually, all ages)? With music of all kinds and lots of great people to meet from all over? Here are some suggestions of some music programs; one where I will be teaching, and others where I have been a student and a teacher in the past.

This summer I’ll be teaching at Common Ground on the Hill in Westminster, MD. Check the website (see “Favorite Websites” here on the right) and go to the info about Week 2 (July 11-15).

I’ll be teaching two classes:
“World Cruise” -Stretch your vocal horizons with rhythms and harmonies from around the world.

“South African Songs of Protest and Praise”:
We will immerse ourselves in the polyrhythms and rewarding harmonies of these songs of celebration and of speaking to power.

Common Ground is located on the campus of McDaniel College. There are lots of instrumental classes (guitar, banjo, harp, Irish drum…), singing classes, fine arts (painting, jewelry making…) and discussion of topics pertaining to peace and social justice. The Director, Walt Michael, gathers a staff who are the best in their field.

Other programs I recommend are Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia, and the Country Song and Dance Society‘s programs in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and West Virginia. At all of these programs I have really enjoyed the community and the comraderie that comes together during five music-filled days.

It feels good to be recording again! I’ve been collecting lullabies from the US and around the world for years and I’ve been told my voice is well-suited to singing soothing lullabies. So I decided that an album was in order. I started recording recently and will post some unpolished results here. My good friend and gifted musician Don Mulvaney is engineering.
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This past fall was a first – the first September in many years where I didn’t go back to school in some way. I miss the students and the LREI community but I am enjoying the freedom. The possibilities are endless, which can be overwhelming, but I’m finding my way back to getting the creative juices flowing. Hence, the recording project. I’m also planning to record songs and activities that I used as a teacher of young children and create a resource suitable for both teachers and parents.

In September, Vic and I celebrated my retirement and his hard work with an exciting trip to France. We spent a fabulous week in Paris and then an adventurous week on a boat cruising the countryside on the Canal-du-Midi.

Sue and Vic

Great food!

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The Threshold Choir is busy rehearsing and singing at two hospitals. We usually sing at the bedsides of patients in groups of two or three. This winter, we are also planning to sing as a chorus for groups of patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

I’d love to hear from you (see “Comments”).
In harmony- Sue

Sailor Sue

Soak up the beauty

Hi Everyone-

I want to update you about where I am and what I’ve been up to.  After eight fabulous years in Baltimore (performing with my trio “Hot Soup” and doing residencies in schools and teacher training for Wolf Trap Institute), Vic and I moved to New York City in 2001.  I’ve been teaching music classes at LREI and enjoying the challenge and reward of singing with terrific students.  Vic enjoys his job as an administrator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  Our sons are grown and on their own, Dan in Brooklyn and Adam in Boston.

My other main activity has been singing at the bedsides of seriously ill patients and hospice patients.  Three years ago, I became Music Director of the Threshold Choir of New York City.  We rehearse as a choir of 30 women, and then break into small groups to sing at bedsides.  It’s a wonderful community of caring women.

I’ve made a decision to retire from teaching after this year, hence the new plans and new website.  I hope to do some more recording soon, with preliminary plans for a lullaby album.

Look around and you’ll get info about my recordings (click “Recordings”) and my choir and other activities (“About Sue”).