Summer Gazebo Singing Series

🎶 SUMMER GAZEBO SINGING SERIES 🎶 Woohoo it's gazebo season!! Come sing outside in the beautiful Welles Park Gazebo this July!! This is a 5-week singing series of connection and community through fun and beautiful singing in the oral tradition. No prior singing experience necessary. All voices welcome! Can you come if you are only able to make 2 sessions (or 1 or 3)?? Yes you can! You can prorate the amount you pay to make it work for you. “Singing is the language of grief and praise, wonder and wisdom; we sing the world we want to inhabit, and we sing to understand the world we live in now.” -Sarina Partridge WHEN AND WHERE? 4 Wednesdays July 8th-July 29th 7:00-8:15pm @ Welles Park Gazebo 2333 W. Sunnyside Ave. WHAT IS THIS? This 4-week series is rooted in the contemporary community singing movement. We will learn the songs orally, no sheet music, standing or sitting in a circle rather than in formation. Our focus is the felt experience of group singing rather than perfection and technique. We will be together for an hour and fifteen minutes which will include a simple opening song, a moment to connect with a neighbor, and then the rest of the time we sing. WHAT SONGS WILL WE SING? Most if not all of the songs we will sing are sourced from the contemporary community singing movement. We will sing songs that honor the natural world as well as the human experience. We will sing songs that layer melodies and harmonies and divide into different parts. We’ll also sing simple unison songs, rounds, and more. Meeting every week for 5 weeks means that we can build more complex layering songs over the course of our time together. Some of my favorite songwriters spent time in cultures that have ancient polyphonic singing traditions. They are catching and writing songs with beautiful complexities that are so fun to learn and sing together. Your registration includes links to practice tracks of the songs we sing and their parts! WHO IS THIS FOR? Anyone who wants to sing! From new singers to shower and car singers to former choir singers looking for a relaxed environment to sing again. “There is no good or bad singing, only free or less free.” -Orion Johnstone. Not sure if this is for you? Contact me with any questions: megan@rootedinthestars.com REGISTRATION: Cost is $60-100 sliding scale. If you can only come to 1 or 2 sessions you can absolutely prorate what you pay! When you sign-up for more than 1, your registration will include links to recordings of the songs we sing, even when you are not there. You can pay by Venmo @rootedinthestars or Zelle to avoid fees. Need work trade or scholarship? No prob, just reach out! Email megan@rootedinthestars.com. ABOUT MEGAN: Megan Eberhardt is a community songleader and cultural activist dedicated to fostering aliveness, belonging, and connection within and among us and with the natural world. Some days this looks like leading a song circle, some days it’s facilitating community grief ritual, some days it’s teaching stargazing under dark skies around the midwest. And most days include singing up the sun, a good amount of heartache and joy, and homemade soup! Did Megan spend her whole life in choirs and music rooms?! No she did not! Megan discovered group singing 10 years ago and the community singing movement in 2019. It's been a journey of heart, passion, and courage to get here. Megan's been leading community singing for 4 years, 3 years at the Old Town School of Folk Music. She's been teaching the stars to people for nearly a decade and more recently has begun facilitating community grief ritual. Sign-up for Megan's email list here [https://tr.ee/2JaXxX7Kxe] and check out her website here [https://www.rootedinthestars.com].