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“Now I Get It – Music Works”
Everybody has music in them that wants to come out, and we can ALL make music together because music is a common language that everybody is born to speak. I swear it’s true!
This weekend I graduated from a 4-year training program with the most wonderful organization in the world (just saying), Music for People. I’ve been learning a fabulous set of skills – how to lead groups of people (any group; musicians along with non-musicians using any combination […]
Do What You Want to Do!
You know how when you get home from a workshop you’re all hyped up and excited? Well, that’s me today, and I want to share!
It’s so important for us to do what we really want to do. When an opportunity arises to support us in doing what we really want to do, even if it’s a stretch, why don’t we always seize the moment. Why do we wait? Why do we hesitate to grab it and run with it?
These were […]
Play is Serious Business!
How Businesses & Organizations Can Benefit from the Arts
“For those who would ask, ‘… and just how does art benefit my business?’, I would offer, ‘If your business has important, pioneering work to do, then develop artful capabilities in your associates just as well as technical skills, else you’ll work at half-strength at best, and risk losing all the benefit of their passion.’ Now, there is a connection between art and the bottom line.” –Albert Gibson, R&D Manager, U.S.-based Multinational Food & Beverage Company
Drum Circle / Music Improv: 1st & 3rd Thursdays at 6:30
Here’s a little movie to give you a sense of some of the different things that have happened during our Thursday night jams. If you’re in the area, please come join us! Email me at nancy@salwen.net to get directions!
Rovena Talks About Her Progress
I’m going to share a little movie that shows one of my students and I talking over Skype. She is located in Western Canada and I am in New Hampshire, so this is a little bit of a miracle.
When Rovena started she had a hard time singing more than one or two notes at a time on pitch, and she was confused about the whole idea of how to sing higher and lower, and how to find the note she […]
Drum Circle / Music Improv – Twice Monthly
This is something we do: 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month we get together and improvise music together. We start Drum Circle style and then see where the magic takes us. You never know!
What’s really cool about this is that musicians, and people with absolutely NO musical experience can play together. The games and forms that I lead, and the ideas that participants come up with, are accessible to everyone, and yet have the potential to be rich […]
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What People Are Saying —
“I just want to let you know how much I am enjoying the singing lessons. I haven’t had this much pure fun since I was in the third grade. It really is liberating for an old codger like me to just cut loose and make joyful noise like I did back then.”
– Brian, Adult Singing Student
“As a private lesson student with Nancy, with a lot of fear of singing, I found after just one session my confidence grow. I attended a birthday party, and when the candles on the cake were lit, I immediately led the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday”! You have no idea what a big step this was for me!”
– Melanie, Workshop Participant and Private Student
“My mother, Charmian, called me this morning pretty euphoric. She said that she “finally felt free”. That she’d thought all her life that she was only capable of making a croaking sound but, instead, had heard herself sing one high note and one note in the middle that was really a tone. She’s always had fifth chakra issues, sore throats, laryngitis, power speaking, etc. This week, when she goes to her meditation meeting, she’ll join in the ‘oohming’ part for the first time.
She said that the workshop ‘changed her life’ after 94 years of being shut down/out.
This was an enormous breakthrough for her. Your program was so well structured and led with such enthusiasm and joy. Congratulations to you. What a gift for everyone there.” With gratitude,”
– Cathy (Daughter of 94 year old workshop participant!)
“The lessons made me feel a lot more comfortable with my voice, and singing in front of people. Also, I think that I’m better at staying on pitch, and getting the pitch right the first time. Plus lessons were just a lot of fun! I really enjoyed them! Thank you again. Hope to see you next summer!“
– Ruth, Teenage Singing Student
“It surprised me how easy it was most of the time, to let go and just sing and make sounds. One thing I really like about Nancy’s teaching is that she brings a straight forward can-do energy to the group, allowing for fears and nervousness but not focusing on those.”
– Workshop Participant