Singing on the Edge: A Community Singing Festival
With Lisa G. Littlebird, Laurence Cole, MaMuse, Melanie DeMore, Aimee Ringle | Guest Faculty, Barbara Mcafee, Maggie Wheeler, Kate Munger, Emile Hassan Dyer and Heather Houston
September 15 - 20, 2019
We are at our best when we stand together and sing. —Ronnie Gilbert
Community singing is an art of stepping to the edge together — to the edge of our own unfolding and to the edge of the conversations most needed in our collective communities. A world-class lineup of community song leaders from around the country is coming together for this celebratory property-wide singing event. We will use the power of singing together in the oral tradition to craft a recipe for our world using harmony, empowerment, connection and joy. This will be a highly collaborative weekend among the faculty, who will offer a mix of breakout sessions as well as daily gatherings with the whole group. This event is accessible and welcoming to all voices with every level of experience. Come ready to offer your voice in a potent exchange designed to sow deep seeds of inspiration, community and action on the path of justice.
($50 additional tuition per person will be added to the workshop cost)
About the Leaders
Lisa G. Littlebird
Lisa G. Littlebird facilitates group singing opportunities as a transformational personal practice, healing art and to foster community building in groups. She leads workshops internationally and has been on the faculty at Esalen since 2007. www.thebirdsings.com
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Laurence Cole
Laurence Cole has led song circles at gatherings and festivals across North America. He is an advocate for reclaiming our natural right to sing together as a most basic and primal technology of belonging and connection. Through singing we regain the enlivening power of group singing using our hearts, souls, voices, and love. www.laurencecole.com
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MaMuse
MaMuse is a decade-long musical collaboration between Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longaker that stirs an ancient remembering of kinship within the family of all beings. With five albums and total commitment to kindness, MaMuse is magical, whimsical and sublime. www.mamuse.org
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Melanie DeMore
Melanie DeMore is a preeminent vocal artist helping to preserve the African American folk tradition through song and Gullah stick pounding. She is a singer/songwriter, composer, conductor and vocal activist who believes in the power of voices raised together. www.melaniedemore.com
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Aimee Ringle | Guest Faculty
Aimee Ringle is a songleader, instrumentalist and storyteller living in Port Townsend, Washington. Her celebrated leadership and cross-pollination at various singing gatherings around the country is now honed at home with her weekly, all ages singing group, Sounding Joy.
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Barbara Mcafee
Barbara McAfee is a voice coach, oral tradition community song leader and author of Full Voice, The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence. A singer/songwriter with seven albums, Barbara founded the Morning Star Singers and gave a TedX Talk on the power of singing in community. www.barbaramcafee.com
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Maggie Wheeler
Maggie Wheeler is internationally known for her acting work, most notably as Janice on “Friends.” Co-director of the Golden Bridge Community Choir, Maggie is a singer-songwriter, speaker and teaches her vocal workshop, Singing In The Stream, in the U.S. and abroad. www.maggiewheeler.net
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Kate Munger
Kate Munger has devoted herself to creating non-hierarchical, collaborative models for singing, community building and fellowship since 1973. She founded the first of 160 Threshold Choirs, an organization for those who sing in service at the bedsides of people who are dying. www.thresholdchoir.org
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Emile Hassan Dyer
Emile Hassan Dyer is a choir director, vocalist, improvisational performer, percussionist and storyteller. He brings a multicultural perspective to music while using vocal and body percussion, drums and vocal styles of many cultures. He uses extensive chanting and vocalese in his musical creations. www.voicedance.org
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Heather Houston
Heather Houston has devoted her life to revealing the essence of love through singing. She is a spirited song circle leader, renowned vocal coach and acclaimed recording artist known for her soulful voice and passion for community building. Email Me www.heatherhoustonmusic.com
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