circle singing

Fast forward to when I was... decently after college and chose to do a sound voice and music healing certificate program at CIIS in San Francisco.

That was the first time I connected with someone who does circle singing.

And at the time that was Vernon Bush.

Okay.

And circle singing being this lineage from Bobby McFerrin and more improv based.

And I, I was really inspired to see what it could summon of, of group energy and, um, When I went back to Central Oregon after that program, I started bringing little circle singing events and my friend Ian Carrick, who had already been quite woven into this emerging community singing movement, basically pointed me to all these wonderful folks doing song in this way that is more oral tradition.

And when I found myself finally at a gathering at Esalen, led by Elisa Littlebird, I think it was 2018 or 2019, I literally met all these people that I'm still in relationship with that are either elders, pioneers, or colleagues in this song leading world.

And that was like Lawrence Cole, Maggie Wheeler, Melanie Damore, Lydia Violet, Lindsey Scott, T Martin.