Hello Dear Ones!
It is such an honor to be
hosting these two incredible
women and leaders in our
song circling communities!
We are in for a treat!
I hope you'll join us!
Sisters in Harmony Global
with Melanie DeMore & Kate Munger
Monday, February 21st @ 7pm PST
(yes, there will be a replay sent out to all registrants)
Singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore has a remarkable voice,
weaving the fibers of African American folk music
with soulful ballads, spirituals, and her own original music.
DeMore beautifully brings her audience together
through her music and commentary.
She has toured extensively, singing at festivals,
universities, coffee houses, and concert halls.
Her recordings, "Share My Song" and "Come Follow Me,"
are both heartfelt collections of her music.
In addition to her solo work, DeMore facilitates
vocal workshops for professional and
community-based choral groups
and has taught her program called
“Sound Awareness” in schools, prisons,
and youth organizations in the
US, Canada, Cuba, and New Zealand.
From Inverness CA, Kate Munger has devoted herself
for over 40 years to creating non-hierarchical,
collaborative models for spirited group singing,
joyful community building, and deep fellowship
through rounds and parts singing.
Kate has written hundreds of singable, swinging,
deep songs that remind us of our best inclinations and intentions,
and are sung accompaniment to and medicine for our lives.
She has loved returning home to Inverness
after 9 singing trips to Bali, 6 to Thailand
(and the Elephant Sanctuary where we sang to and with Elephants),
and one each to Russia and Spain in the past three decades.
Just as the Pandemic arrived,
Kate returned from a month in New Zealand
with 13 singers where they offered their sung prayers
to the community of Christchurch
as they remembered the devastating earthquake of 2011
and healed from the horrific shooting
at the Muslim Mosque in March 2019.
She deeply believes that singers are the
best ambassadors of peace on our planet;
we show our neighbors our best selves
when we travel in their land and appreciate their people,
their culture, and their tragedies
and show that appreciation through our singing.
In 2000 she founded the first of now 220
Threshold Choirs worldwide for choral singers
who are called to sing at the bedsides of people who are dying,
in a coma, newborns, children in hospital,
and with folks who are grieving and who are incarcerated.
In honoring its innovative mission,
the Threshold Choir has re-imagined what true service can look like;
healing the giver as it offers comfort, presence, and ease for the receiver.
Now retired from running the business of the Threshold Choir,
Kate lives, swims, works, and sings along the shores of Tomales Bay,
monthly at San Quentin Prison and most recently in Chico,
a Healing Community Sing for survivors of the Paradise Fire.
Heather
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