Voice | Emily Eagen | All Levels | Period 3 | Week 4 (July 27-31, 2026)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (stepmother to Pete, mother to Mike and Peggy) was a composer, archivist, and passionate advocate of incorporating American folk song into our schools. She and husband Charles traveled through and collected songs from every region of the U.S. These Seeger meticulously notated and arranged for everyday use. We’ll move through as many as we can, including animal songs, play songs, dances, lullabies, Christmas songs, and much more. Come ready to sing, sing, sing! Check out more about Emily’s class in the video below!
About the Instructor
Emily is a singer, songwriter, and teacher based in New York City. Her work as both a singer and creative artist crosses many genres, and she is interested in exploring the spaces in between. Emily has performed with artists such as Meredith Monk, Annie Dorsen, Betsey Biggs, and Bang on a Can. Most recently, she wrote and co-wrote music for the 2025 installation We Will Sing by artist Ann Hamilton in Bradford, England, where community voices echo in the space of a former wool factory. Emily is a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall, where she leads songwriting workshops for parents and families in the Lullaby Project, hosted the video series “Sing with Carnegie Hall,” and is featured on Carnegie’s “Great Music Teaching” series. As part of a Carnegie Hall commission, Emily co-wrote Nooma (2019), an immersive opera for babies ages 0-3, and co-wrote songs for the album A Colorful World by Falu, which won a Grammy for Best Children’s Album in 2022. A specialist in early music, Emily is the Assistant Festival Director at Amherst Early Music, and weaves elements of medieval and renaissance music into her original work. She teaches vocal harmony and technique at the Jalopy Theater and School of Music and is a professional whistler and two-time International Whistling Champion. Emily can be heard with the vocal improvisation ensemble Moving Star, the close-harmony trio Up At Dawn, and on her forthcoming album produced by Jalopy Records of songs for the young and the young at heart.