Do you love to sing songs of protest, passion and celebration in glorious, uproarious harmony? Then lend your voice to Easter RiSING- Songs of Resistance & Social Change, a singing workshop with visiting choral activist Kirsty Martin. Kirsty is a choral director and composer from Brighton England. She’ll be sharing an eclectic musical repertoire both contemporary and classic, radical and reflective, clarion call and celebration - songs that evoke and encourage progressive change. In Brighton she directs Hullabaloo Community Quire and Tubthumpers, and co-leads the GLOWChoir. She also directs Raise the Roof in London, and is well known for her energizing, empowering and deeply funky approach to community singing. In her own words: “I am passionate about the natural voice and a founding member of the Natural Voice Network – a movement that seeks to re-establish singing in community, without judgement through audition, without a need for ‘formal’ training or the ability to read music, and with a passion to nurture the natural voice – the untrained, free voice that we speak with, and as a natural progression, sing with. I love the sound of people’s natural timbre as they sing, without affectation or inhibition and the raw power – and empowerment – that that holds. I love the nakedness, naturalness and normality – not to mention the ancestral history – of a group of people singing together. It’s our heritage and a simple tool for happiness!”

The workshop will be held in Montpelier at Trinity Methodist Church, 137 Main St, on Saturday, April 15 from 10:00-5:00. The cost is $50 in advance ($40 for those with financial hardship), or $60 at the door. There will be a break for lunch, which can be enjoyed at any of Montpelier’s great restaurants, or brought in. For more information and to register, contact John Harrison at 802-778-0881 / johnmarkharrison@gmail.com. / www.johnmarkharrison.com. See you there!

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