Embodying the Home Song
Saturday, August 6, 10am-1pm
Cost: $50-$100 sliding scale
Join award-winning musician/teacher Jesse Olsen Bay for a deep dive into breath, body, sound, and song.
When we sing, our bodies are our instruments. Our breath and bones resonate with the expression of our inner worlds, connecting us to the rich stories embedded in song. In this workshop, you will deeply investigate these connections. Through improvisations, physical explorations, listening meditations, and songs, you’ll discover new forms of experience and expression. You will:
Find ease, freedom, and expression in your voice through awareness and somatic practices
Learn to listen and sing together in a group, blending voices in harmony and balance
Sing beautiful, simple songs from various traditions, as a vehicle for self-expression and deeper connection with community, history, and a sense of the sacred
Improvise with voices and bodies, journeying together through the ocean of sound
Express and transform your deepest emotions -- joy, longing, sadness, love, peace, anger -- in a safe and supportive environment
No experience necessary - singing is for everyone!
To register, please email programs@nohoarts.org with your name, address, and phone number! Walk-ins also welcome.
Facilitator Jesse Olsen Bay has been performing, composing, and teaching music for over 25 years. His interdisciplinary, genre-spanning work explores music’s potential to facilitate human connection across histories and cultures. Bay grew up in a singing family, steeped in folk traditions, before studying at Bennington College with legendary percussionist/healer Milford Graves. He now leads and performs with several groups in New England, and collaborates frequently with dancers and choreographers. In this workshop, he will draw specifically on his experience with traditional folk song from the United States, North Indian classical singing, Somatic forms, and his own family's musical culture, to create a unique and transformative environment for exploration and connection. More at www.jesseolsenbay.com.