Juneberry Music

Recording Jordan Mudd's song, "I Am Listening," with a roomful of vocal improvisers was an absolute joy! We were at the Omega Institute for Back to the Well, five days of vocal improv guided by Rhiannon, Dave Worm, and Zuza Gonçalves -- incredible!!!! You'll hear folk begin to explore harmonies and gradually break off into all kinds of sound as they follow what they hear the song calling out of them. You get to sing with us and listen for what you want to sing -- the core of the song? A rhythmic pattern? A harmony? You sing you!

Join us at https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/244-i-am-listening

Art by Patty Piotrowski

The amazing crew of singers: Laurie Ellington, Suzzette Ortiz, Eileen Webb, Linnea Dolf, Patti Shaffner, Roy Willey, Giovanna (Gio) Velino, Rosi Amador, Onome, Paola Faoro, TatiAnah Thunberg, Carisa Wilder

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What is calling you? Tune in this Wednesday to tap into your inner wisdom with Jordan Mudd's "I Am Listening". Recording this episode was sheer joy -- I was with a community of vocal improvisors at Back to the Well at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY and I shared the Jordan's song with a small group of us who were free one afternoon. Please sing with us!

What is so very cool about this week's song, "Mountain River" is that Kjersten has found a way to embody the river... the upper part light and reflective, swirling with an eight-measure pattern; the lower part slow and steady, rise and fall in a twelve-measure pattern. Hearing the two together, you experience, you become the shift and motion of a river in flow.

Find the episode on abreathofsong.com or wherever you listen.

Artwork by Patty Piotrowski.

I absolutely adore the way Kjersten Hallin's song, "Mountain River" embodies the river by having a low, slow undercurrent that lasts longer than the bubbling, swirling upper layer -- and the two layers sound different on top of each other in different places. Tune in on abreathofsong.com this Wednesday to sing along.

For Jan's final song choice of the week, we delve into themes of home, belonging, dreams, and more with MaMuse's "In This House". From Jan: "I love to sing this song when gathering with friends/family in their homes!"

Find "Episode 210. In This House with guests MaMuse" here: https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/210-in-this-house-with-guests-mamuse

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Coco Love Alcorn's soothing song, "The River" is Jan's second pick for Listener's Choice week. Jan says, "I love the song 'the river'. I sing it often!" So do we!

Want to learn it too? Find the episode here: https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/218-the-river

Welcome back to Listener's Choice week!

Thank you to Jan for sharing her picks with us. Her first choice is Episode 235: "Road Trip: Minneapolis with guests Sarina Partridge and Annie Schlaefer" because, as she shares, "Minnesota is my home. Community singing has flourished here!" How wonderful!

Listen to the ep here: https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/235-road-trip-minneapolis-with-guests-sarina-partridge-and-annie-schlaefer

Vermont summer: tubing, canoeing, or kayaking down a river is a favorite pastime. Let the river carry you far enough, you wind up in the Atlantic ocean, riding tidal waves. As I'm going through this shift in my body, figuring out how to be with pain and adapt to reduce it, I've been singing a lot of water-river-ocean songs to myself, especially to help me feel river flow in my body... and so we've got a "Down the River" ribbon of song this week, which includes songs by Scott Kalichstein, Coco Love Alcorn, Moira Smiley, and Kate Valentine.

Listen to the episode at www.abreathofsong.com or on any of your preferred streaming platforms and join me this Sunday, July 26th at 4-5pm (bonus song starting at 3:45) to sing and gather on zoom. Register here: www.juneberrymusic.com/ribbons-of-song.html

Artworks by Patty Piotrowski.