We all have a voice, and so we are all singers! This workshop is a growing and healing group vocal experience that combines playful vocal warm ups, improvisational vocal experiences, and light yogic movement with sound optional , that allow us to be fully of aware and present in the moment through observing and creating sounds. Will will unlock the chakras through sound, mantra, vocal vibrations, exercises in laughter, and play.
We will also explore group singing using Pauline Oliveros improvisational templates, and dipping into song for social change. Cat has honed these exercises over time with groups at all levels to create a buzzing and vibrational group energy. Some age old stereotypes can truly apply, like if your too sweet and laid back you might not be taken seriously, and if you stand up for yourself some man might be threatened by a strong woman.
Oh yea, there have been moments, Ha! I was the only woman on tour with 17 men. I was well respected musically, once they saw I knew my gear and could play, everyone was so kind.
Except at the start, only one I won't name names had trouble figuring out just why I was there. In the morning he asked me for a massage, and if I'd make them all pancakes, and wasn't quite kidding. I think he thought I was supposed to be the groupie. But I learned to throw it back with humor. After one show he was like, what are you going to do now, and I said I was doing mouth exercises and waiting around for them all to finish loading out so all 17 of them could line up for me to give them BJ's.
That was funny and shocked him. Then a couple days later, I was kicking his behind in a game of pool, and he came up to me and was like, ""Ohhhh, I get it, your like, Our Sister!!!!
I was a real tomboy growing up, I was the only girl at lunch that was allowed to play soccer with the boys. But sometimes I like to clean up nice and play dressy up purty but feel, hey so what either way.
We have different days, different moods. New School Do you see differences between generations of women musicians? Patti, Joni, Dolly, Liz Phair. Even over the past few years, it is so much more common for a girl to learn guitar as their first instrument, where that felt more rare in the past. Those girls had to be pretty tough cookies. Someone like Annie Clark of St. Vincent is an obvious example of the newest generation of women that went to Berkeley Music school and can rock any male guitar player under the table, sing, write, record and mix alone digitally, WoW!
But that is not to say I think that is the ultimate goal or always best results to do it all. Sometimes retaining a purity is nice.
Meaning, all circumstances and using what you got are perfect. For example, my friend I sing with, Sharon Van Etten, her music would not be so real and human and as beautiful as it is if she had high class pro training. That is not to say she does not have mad skillz, but a lot of hers comes from instinct and doing and writing with pure heart.
What advice would you give to a woman musician just starting out? They always arrive during some late-nite writing attempt, just when I think it's time to pack up and get a ""real job"". I save them, they say, ""Don't waste your time or unique genius"". Another says, ""F-U-N is number one on the priority to creating magic! I would and have said to young women I have taught and mentored many , Just Go for it!
Have fun! Don't get in your own way! You have everything you need to be a unique talent. Practice, learn, be curious, write, write, write. I especially tell them to learn about the business side early on, because that is empowering, and I am still catching up. Bartending hours stink and get a singer sick to often. Being financially stable and independent is key and some clear and even tough advice at a young age in that direction would have been sweet.
Who knows, maybe someone said it and I didn't listen;. It's too late for me now.
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