Welcome Fall and welcome to the future Agile Vocalist guests and episodes! Over the coming months, we explore sound in lives of these and other guests. Fall Episode Highlights These creators use sound while: at Burning Man and hanging on trapezes, working on the...
Vocalist, Mary Ford. The power of singing gospel music helped lifetime vocalist, Mary Ford re-set her life priorities into the arts after a near-fatal accident. Mary shares her story about the transformative power of sound and shares a psychologist’s perspective...
When Covid-19 arrived in 2020, many industries were able to shift to online operations and resume a semblance of “business as usual.” For the performing arts, business was anything but possible because of the internet gap which makes creating sound in...
Thank you so much for joining part 2 of my conversation with music-thanatologist, writer and poet, Jennifer Hollis: Jennifer Hollis and her harp. Listen to Jennifer sing and play. Experiencing emotion: the unacknowledged labor of feeling feelings Music is effective...
It’s not common to think about the performing arts when you think about the end of life. Enter music-thanatology, a little known field where trained, accredited practitioners play harp music and sing in medical settings for terminal patients. Listen as I...
Thank you so much for joining part 2 of my conversation with Jazz and Blues Queen, Pamela Rose! We talk about the history of women in the blues and how music shifted when women rose up (and out) and came to the microphone to sing their stories. :16 Why don’t we...