Singing In Circle: a Women’s Retreat
With Terry Garthwaite, Kate Munger, Becky Reardon and Melanie DeMore
Wednesday, August 20-Sunday, August 24
Cost: $440-$600 Sliding Scale for full retreat
Wednesday evening program only plus dinner: $35

Welcome to a weekend of singing in circle and learning songs, recognizing and immersing ourselves in the healing nature of circle singing. We will be singing songs of celebration, ceremony and community; songs celebrating the earth, our own spirit and creativity, songs of healing and passage, songs of playfulness and joy. Come raise your voice and heart in song!

Terry Garthwaite (www.terrygarthwaite.com) with a voice both "sassy and touching", has been creating infectious music since the '70s in the Joy of Cooking band. She cooks with rhythm. Terry writes and teaches music to lift your spirits and tune your heart. Her classes, recordings and books reflect an awareness of the healing nature of music with songs of hope and heart that encourage empowerment and delight.


Kate Munger (www.thresholdchoir.org) has devoted herself to creating non-hierarchical, creative, collaborative models for singing, community-building and fellowship for over 30 years.  In 2000 she  founded the first of over 35 Threshold Choirs all over the country and in Europe for women who are called to sing at the bedsides of people who are dying, in coma, newborns and incarcerated women. The Threshold Choir has recorded to CDs "Listening at the Threshold" and "Tenderly Rain: Songs of Gratitude, Remembrance and Keeping Watch.”

Becky Reardon
(http://homepage.mac.com/beckyreardon/rounds) is a singer/songwriter whose jazz-influenced rounds and songs are sung in singing circles all across in US.  She has taught singing workshops nation-wide, and at the Gay and Lesbian spirituality conference at Lama, and leads the on-going Joy of Singing class in Taos, NM.  She has recorded two CDs: “Follow the Motion” and “Songs for a Walk.”

Melanie DeMore has a remarkable voice, weaving all the fibers of African American folk with soulful ballads, spirituals and original music. She has toured extensively, and facilitates vocal workshops for professional choral groups, and teaches a program called "Sound Awareness" in prisons. She works extensively with youth choirs and is a founding member of the Grammy nominated vocal ensemble "Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir". Melanie says "a song can keep you in your feet when there seems to be no ground beneath you".