Sing4All

RESOURCES FOR Sing4All™ MEMBERS:

The resources here are ones that I value highly and have a direct relationship with – either as an associate, colleague, former student or participant. These resources include those who have been guests on Sing4All™ on iRadio and all provide the highest quality in their work and products. I’m proud to know them and proud to connect you with them.

Robin Kissinger

SINGERS/SONGWRITERS/VOCAL FACILITATORS

Julie Blue: Julie Blue is a global artist who has performed on five continents with her ensemble of world-class musicians. She founded the Singspiration Creative Empowerment Programs in 1989 and has touched thousands of people through her Healing Sound and Songwriting Performance courses. Blue also writes music for and directs a 70-voice gospel choir, “The Singspiration Singers.” Julie has six CD’s of beautiful and empowering music. http://julieblue.com

Cornflower: Cornflower is a vocal-instrumentalist whose music is a fusion of World, Funk, Soul, Dub, Electro-Pop and Beatbox. Cornflower creates memorable musical grooves and inspirational mantras that lift you up while getting down! http://www.cornflowermusic.com/

Jocelyn Rasmussen: Jocelyn Rasmussen has performed in opera, art song, oratorio and orchestral works as well as popular and jazz repertoire. Through this experience she has developed and teaches a vocal technique that functions for any style of singing as well as for speaking. Her CD, Just Love Away, will carry you to deep places of the heart. www.morethansinging.com and www.morethanspeaking.com

Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell: Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell is a commissioned composer, arranger, author and actress. She appears on more than twenty-five recordings with Sweet Honey In The Rock and others. For decades Barnwell has led the workshop Building a Vocal Community – Singing In the African American Tradition. : http://www.ymbarnwell.com/ and http://vocalcommunity.com/ and http://www.sweethoneyintherock.org/

Nancy Krebs, Lessac Master Teacher: Nancy Krebs has been teaching the Lessac Kinesensic Training for over 28 years and attained Master Teacher status in 2002 from Arthur Lessac himself. She has been the Senior Voice Instructor and Vocal Coach for the Theatre Department at the Baltimore School for the Arts since 1981. As a singer/songwriter, she has 7 albums of original meditation music. http://www.nancykrebs.com/

CHOIR AND CHORAL DIRECTORS

Dr. Mary Goetze: Mary Goetze’s professional life focus has been choral music, multiculturalism, teacher education and children’s singing. Dr. Goetze’s initiative resulted in an on-going series of DVDs, Global Voices Interactive and Global Voices Comprehensive. http://www.music.indiana.edu/department/musiced/Goetze.shtml

Hugh Ballou: Hugh Ballou is a conductor and a business strategist. He has over 40 years experience as a pastoral church musician with advanced conducting skills. He has special expertise in building harmony through group activities. Hugh founded The Singer Link, an online choral community for singers and choral conductors to connect. http://www.hughballou.com or http://www.transformationalstrategist.com

SINGING ACTIVISM

Diane Wittner: Diane Wittner is an adjunct professor in integrated arts education. She currently partners with Maryland’s Coalition for Health Security and the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics. Her work seeks to get ideas through into the halls of power by the “Trojan Horse” of using humor in songs. http://chesapeakecitizens.org/

Cliff Tasner – Billionaires for Wealthcare: Composer/Lyricist Clifford J. Tasner sees himself as an artist/activist. He writes and produces the music for The Billionaires, a nationwide political satire, street theater group. He works in the Film Industry, orchestrating big Hollywood movies and scoring smaller ones. http://www.thebillionaires.org

ESOTERIC VOCAL PRACTITIONERS AND INDIGENOUS VOCALISTS

Zacciah Blackburn: Zacciah shares authentic trainings in the nature of human consciousness, explorations into the shamanic worlds of Earth energies and awareness, and teachings on sacred sound practices. www.thecenteroflight.net He also offers musical instruments of sacred sound cultures, & sound healing tools, at www.sunreed.com.

Joan Henry: Joan Henry is a vocalist/composer/lyricist/percussionist and actress and dancer. Ms. Henry is both hahesh’kah (lead drummer) and traditional song-carrier and a Native Women’s Traditional dancer. She works with indigenous women & youth in the US & Canada and directs youth programs in NY State. http://www.earthsinger.net/

OTHER SOUND HEALING

Don Campbell: Don Campbell is a recognized authority on the transformative power of music, listening, and The Mozart Effect®. He is Acoustic and Musical Director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, an innovative company that provides quality music environments to healthcare facilities. Contact: http://www.aestheticas.net

Tami Simon, Sounds True Publications: Tami Simon is the founder and publisher of Sounds True, a 23-year-old multimedia publishing company dedicated to disseminating spiritual wisdom. As a meditation teacher she carries on the lineage of Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. www.soundstrue.com