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We interweave tech with ancient vocal practices to connect people with themselves and each other. Visit www.juneberrymusic.com for more information.

Juneberry Music encourages people of all ages to find their voices while enjoying an eclectic mix of music from many centuries and styles. Students choose First Class or Choir Class and work together for 10 weeks to develop good singing techniques, learn some music history and theory and have fun singing. Graduates go on to a variety of choral groups in the Upper Valley or come back to sing more with no performance pressure.

09/25/2026

What if there are other stories we can tell ourselves, other ways to protect ourselves? What if it doesn't mean what we think it means? The kind of flexibility that asks of us -- the openness to consider that the solution our mind is so neatly presenting might actually not be the most accurate or the most helpful? Explore these questions on abreathofsong.com with "Doesn't Mean" by Ríomas and tune in next week for a conversation with them!

09/23/2026

"Finding my way through the hole in the soul," is what Patty Piotrowski said when she sent me the art for Ríomas' song, Doesn't Mean. I worked to be able share this song with you! When Ríomas first said they thought this was the song they wanted to share, I listened and thought, "I can't do that! I'm not good enough..." But I listened again and again and let it seep into my body until I could really feel it in my core -- and how deeply satisfying it became. "What if it doesn't mean what you think it means?" has become a seriously helpful refrain for me....

Learn it with me at https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/249-doesnt-mean
and then go sing it with Ríomas on their Bandcamp!

Art by Patty Piotrowski

09/21/2026

This week on A Breath of Song, I'm honored to share "Doesn't Mean" by Ríomas.

Ríomas (RiYo or Río for short, they/them), previously known as Shireen Amini, is a q***r, trans masculine, Puerto Rican-Iranian artist and immigrant settler based in Portland, Oregon creating at the intersection of music, healing, and cultural change. Drawing upon pop and folk soul textures, gratefully and respectfully from Black and Afro-Latin lineages, they craft artful, participatory songs that invite realness and transformative energy. Bridging contemporary music mediums with ceremonial ways and resistance efforts, Ríomas creates soulful and joyful community singing experiences that reconnect people to their power and place. In spring 2026, they released their first community song album, Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation. Learn more about Ríomas here: https://shireenamini.com

09/18/2026

For this week's final hidden gem, we share episode 54: "Surrender" by songwriter, songleader, writer, collage artist, cartoonist, minister, and performing artist, Kaitie Ty Warren. This song reminded me of how I find the most strength and power and freedom in myself at the moments when I surrender to how I feel, how my body is in the moment, and my limitations.

Listen at https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/54-surrender.

Art by Patty Piotrowski.

09/16/2026

Our second song for A Breath of Song Hidden Gems week is... "Sanctuary with Singer Joy Tru" (episode 61) with words and music by me and...you! Sanctuary is a zipper song that I wrote while on vacation with my dear friend, Joy Truskowski. This song helps me to not jump ahead to the future or gnash over the past -- that I can be right here, right now, and usually that's a pretty good moment.

You can listen at https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/61-sanctuary-with-singer-joy-tru.

Art by Patty Piotrowski.

09/14/2026

This week we're featuring some hidden gems from the A Breath of Song catalog, starting with "Penobscot Nə̀pi (Water) Song" by Gabriel Paul of the Crow and Eel Clan of the Penobscot, whose homelands are located along various waterways in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. The song is a song to thank and honor water.

If you missed it, you can listen anytime at https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/8-penobscot-nepi-water-song.

Art by Patty Piotrowski.

09/11/2026

"Lay it down, let it go. Soften all the holding.
Soft and tender is fierce and strong.
Knowing here is where we belong."

A song of release and surrender... join me on abreathofsong.com to sing along.

09/09/2026

Every time I think Patty Piotrowski has made all the beautiful paintings she could possibly make for A Breath of Song, she stuns me with a new one.... and this one for my very own song, "Soften"! I've been a long time learning the strength and sustainability to be found in softness and letting go... and now that my body is under siege, I've been singing this song to myself more and more often, bringing me back to here, trusting the resilience of loosening.

Join me? https://www.abreathofsong.com/p/248-soften .... or find A Breath of Song wherever you like to hear podcasts.

Art by Patty Piotrowski

09/07/2026

This week I'll be sharing "Soften." I caught this song more than a year ago, but it's been back in my brain, claiming space and being a helpmeet -- so I thought I'd share it with you. A reminder to release, to be present -- and that in that very softness is a fierce strength and belonging to help meet whatever moment you're in.

Tune in on abreathofsong.com this Wednesday to learn and sing.

09/04/2026

"Journey far
Climb that mountain; cross that desert, swim the ocean wide.
Take your love through the unknown
To who you'll be on the other side."

As I sing Kate Sutherland's "Journey Far", I sense that the love is there still at the end of the journey, no matter who we've become, amazingly. I feel that the more we're connected and aware of that love, the wider it radiates: an inexhaustible source of energy and connection. I feel the love in my body as I adjust to this illness, this aging, this world in polycrises. My awareness of that embedded, embodied love brings a capacity for kindness, for presence, for delight in this day's moments.

Listen to the full song on abreathofsong.com or wherever you receive your podcasts.

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1162 North Avenue #3
Burlington, VT
05408

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https://juneberrymusic.com/, https://abreathofsong.com/

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