Reclaiming Calliope: In-Person Book Launch
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive Six: A Request, and an Interview
Hello all!This is a missive of requests. I hope you don’t mind and thank you in advance… If you have bought the book on Indigo or Amazon and you liked it could you please review it on their websites? IndigoAmazon And as always can you pass on news about the book to those who you
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive 5: The Full-Blown Beauty of Anger
I loved my early voice study with Richard Armstrong, loved the permission he gave me to let loose big, rage-filled sound. Thick multiphonics rumbled around within my chest and splayed their way up through my sinuses, many pitches all at once in areas used to being much tidier. I reveled in the tussle of aggressive,
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive Four: Yawning
Early this morning I listened to Chapter One of Breath while walking through downtown Toronto. As the heat tumbled in around me author James Nestor explained that aeons ago human mouths, throats and noses became less robust through the eating of softer, cooked foods and although this proved to be a better adaptation for speech
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive Three: Room to Breathe
IF YOU WANTED to join my vocal studio, I would ask you to take an introductory private lesson. In that first session you would learn that air wants you to thrive, that it does not discriminate between individuals, that it is not out of reach. As our first hour progressed I would focus on your
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive Two: Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Lake Nipissing’s churned up water crashes wave after wave onto a beach only meters from the rustic cabin within which I am prepping my teacher’s training summer module. Books by Betty Martin and David George Haskell bring to the surface what is shared between the acts of giving and receiving and the acoustic history of
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Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female Voice Through Undomesticated Singing
My book Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female voice through Undomesticated Singing is
being released August 2nd.
Writing it took ten years; the journey was both humbling and thrilling. I thought it would be easy
as I had been singing and teaching for over 25 years when I put pen to page. But the truth is I
had so much to learn through articulating my life with voice.
I am going to share excerpts over the next 7 weeks leading up to the launch.
Today’s content includes 1) the Cover, 2) the Table of Contents and 3) two endorsements from
the praise page.
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