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If you’re in the Twin Cities, we have a rich community singing ecosystem: you can see all the other folx I know of regularly leading song-work here.
Community song circles aren’t like a formal choir: you don’t need to “know what you’re doing” or “be a singer” or read sheet music or anything (though if you are a musician, we love a solid harmony stack!) We teach all the songs call and echo, you just need to be able to breathe, open your mouth, and call it back.
It’s not singing for performance or to impress anyone, it’s singing for connection, aliveness, grief, and joy. It’s because the singing changes us.
Ongoing projects:
I’m the founder of 🏳️🌈 THE SUNDAY MORNING HERETIC SING 🏳️⚧️ Open to all, and especially holding space for queer and/or ex-religious folx who might have a lil baggage around Sunday mornings, but wanna show up and sing with their whole selves. We’d love for you to join us, 10:30-11:30 am on 1st and 3rd Sundays at Anam Cara House backyard, 3612 Bloomington Ave, Minneapolis.
You can see what Conie and I are up to as GOOD TROUBLE here 👀 (aka Retrain Your Lizard Brain, Songs for Tending Your Hearts + Grief Work, and our ongoing Songleader Incubator at CTUL/IX….)
I direct StreetSong, a choir for those who have experienced homelessness and folx who care about them; you are very welcome to join us Mondays for a community meal at 11:30 and singing at 12:15!
I sing and play percussion with BRASS SOLIDARITY, the street activist brass band anchored in George Floyd Square. Any Monday evening you need to lift your spirits, come on down to 38th+Chicago at 5:30 pm and join the dance party while we rehearse. (We’ll probably hand you a tambourine and tell you to have at it.)