Remembering Meg - A postuhumous showing
of Meg Hannan's Fabric Jewels and Early Paintings
- Postponed due to the virus -
Please click here for show details & photos of Meg's life and work. 
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Singing from the Heart's Courage
Drop-In Summer Chorus 2022
Singing Wednesdays Via Zoom once in a while
please contact K to be on mailing list for next session 

Bodies, Voices & Spirit Zoom Chorus
Drop In Summer Chorus 
Wednesdays at 7 pm eastern time
$20 suggested donation
or sliding scale from zero to whatever 
To be on the mailing list for the zoom link and lyrics,
please contact Kathleen


To pay for Chorus by venmo, check or paypal click here.
I deeply appreciate your support towards scholarships. Thank you!

If you are new to chorus, please drop me an email at merpig@juno.com
to get on the chorus e-mail list so you'll get the lyrics
and the zoom link before your first session.


Chorista testimonials and more Chorus details are at: 
www.bodiesvoicesandspirit.weebly.com


I hope to sing with you soon!
Love, Kathleen 

Please contact me if you have any questions.
Kathleen Hannan
​919-695-5032     merpig@juno.com

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 Please visit the Songs for Our Journey song blog for lots of songs to sing!
Order CD's here.  Information about The Work of Byron Katie is here.

For ​​Climate Rally Chant Lyrics Click Here

​Also, if you would like to be on our Justice Sings mailing list
for being notified when we lead singing at rallies supporting social,
environmental and economic justice please let me know!  

​ Human To Human outdoor song & circle dance meetups
which will happen once in a while. 

Indoor Human To Human workshops and retreats
​also happen from time to time. 

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These gatherings are open to people of all genders and ages.  If you'd like to be on the mailing list for future meetups, you can  sign up through the Human to Human website:    www.humantohumancircledanceandsing.weebly.com 
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In evening workshops and weekend retreats, Kathleen guides groups
in deep listening with our ears, our bodies and our hearts.
Out of that listening arises connected and joyful
community song and dance that is both remembrance
and expression of the truth of our One Heart.
Information about Human to Human workshops and retreats
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The Work of Byron Katie individual sessions with Kathleen
I invite you to join me in exploring one of ​the most
​profound human questions: "Who would I be without  my story?"
When we are caught up in stressful thinking, the Work is a remarkably
effective way to discover whether those thoughts are actually
true for us.  As belief in our thoughts lets go, our minds and hearts
automatically open.  It's a very sweet way to live.  

​ I am available  to do the Work in sessions on the phone,
or in person in my living room in Hillsborough, NC.  
I love the Work, and I would love to do the Work with you!
More information about working with Kathleen here.  
 
For information about Byron Katie and  The Work,
please visit  Byron Katie's website:  www.thework.com 

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Justice Sings are  friends of all genders who bring singing to the streets in support of environmental, economic and racial justice.  We invite you to walk and sing with us!   If you'd like to be on the email list for future events, please drop me a note and I'll let you know whether we're carpooling or riding a bus together and where to meet up. And please let me know if there's a rally where you'd like some singing to happen! 
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12.6.19  Kathleen, Meggan, Miriam and Amy led singing in Durham at the climate strike rally and march. Here we're singing Lean On Me, and discovering that marchers of all ages know and love that song. 

9.20.19  Kathleen led singing at the Climate Strike Rally in Belfast Maine

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3.24.18   We sang with people at the Durham March For Our Lives Rally
​while young people all around the country changed the world.  

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 4.22.17 Three of us walked and sang with the March for Science in Raleigh.  We were joined in singing with lots of different people along the way and I felt energized and empowered to see so many people coming out for science and scientists.  Here are Marilyn Grubbs and I that day!  

​In the fall of 2017 we made up a song at a  rally in support of  the  Standing Rock Sioux and their allies.  It's called Wni Wiconi, which means Water is Life in the Lakota Sioux language. I  recorded the song later with chorus friends, and made a slide show with photos of the brave people at Standing Rock.  Click here to see the video. (Please feel free to sing  Wni Wiconi anywhere you go.) Although oil is now flowing in the Dakota Access Pipeline, the fight for  tribal  sovereignty  is strong, and  has moved into the courts.    You can read about that and find out how you can help  on the Lakota People's Law Project  website.  

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Kathleen's Song Blog
Songs for our Journey
I'm excited to have this space to share some songs that I love to sing as I'm walking along.
Some of the recordings are just after I wrote them, some are beloved chants we sing in chorus,
some are recordings of the Chorus singing the songs for the first time, some are tracks from my album. 
​I'm hoping you might like to sing some of them on your travels too!

Self Inquiry  with Kathleen
 ​​The Work of Byron Katie & the  Enneagram map of personality
are tools for Self discovery that I love sharing with people in individual sessions and in groups.
Read about the possibilities here.

Becky Jaine  Interviews Kathleen
​Becky runs a beautiful on line course called Joyfuel.  We had a lovely time speaking about joy in music on the grass at Ayrmount in Hillsborough this past fall.  Here's the video link:  https://youtu.be/3Dh_AgMi_x0

Kathleen on the Radio!
I had a fun  time being interviewed  by Lee Anne McClymont on her  Courage Cocktail Radio show in Carrboro, NC 
on WCOM FM. We talked about chorus and we even sang together!  You can listen or download the podcast any time here:    
​ Kathleen's interview with Lee Ann McClymont

Seen & Unseen; Songs from the Light of Midlife CD

Orange County
Arts Commission
Award Winning Album  

NC Arts Council 
Award Winning Songwriter 
Kathleen Hannan

17 Songs from the Heart

Order CDs 




​"Kathleen makes music that
makes community." 
The Independent, Durham, NC
 
What Folks Say About The Music 

“Congratulations! Your CD has been playing all weekend, 
and I have been weeping, smiling, laughing, singing, 
and loving every bit of it. It sounds so good!  
I can hear all of the singers, your voice is front and center, every instrument is clear and well-balanced.......you and the engineer did an amazing job with the mixing/mastering. 
You must feel soooo good about it.”
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“ I LOOOOOOOOOVE your CD. It feels like the music penetrates every cell, particle, molecule... of my awareness - and whoooosh, blown away out into the ethers
​and into the obsidian mystery. Thank you a gazillion times for the gift of it!
Yowza! All is love - yeah baby!”
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"Your music is a wonder.  Dang, it's soul food!  Thank you!"
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"I love Kathleen's music, because there's so much space in it. 
People can live in that space." 
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"I have been listening to your CD in my car,
and I have to keep pulling over to the side of the road as I weep.
​Thank you so much for your beautiful music!"
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"I have been singing Izumi Shikibu's poem "No Part Left Out" all day.
Kathleen, I love your heart, your voice--our heart, our voice." 


Order CDs Here! 

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The Seen & Unseen CD release concert at Motorco in Durham was a night shimmering with Love which I will always remember.  We were a full house of 16 people on the stage and 220 people in the room. The sound of all those beautiful humans singing together was so moving...we felt the reverberations of the music down in every cell of our being. 
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As Sharon Blessum wrote, "One Heart singing in 200 voices."  Thanks to everyone who was there in person, and thanks to those of you who were with us in spirit.  I have heard from lots of folks that they are singing the songs along with the CD as they travel down the road and in their homes.  My heart is  very happy knowing that these songs are living with you. 
Lyrics and credits      
Order CD's
Photos of the concert and whole project
Information about Bodies, Voices & Spirit Chorus 
Information about Dances of Universal Peace in North Carolina 
Contact Kathleen

THANK YOU EVERYONE! 
Thanks to the tremendously generous support of 140 individual donors and an Orange County Arts Commission grant, we met our original goal of $11,000!  17 songs were recorded, mixed and mastered, thanks to the great love and commitment of ten musicians and 31 singers in total. Thanks to Jerry Brown at The Rubber Room Studio for a beautiful job from start to finish, both in his excellent technical skills and in his ability to support and connect with every musician and singer on the project.  Thanks to my partner, Jude Spacks, whose love, support, humor and deeply creative nature keeps me sane and surprised. Thanks to the Bodies, Voices & Spirit Choristas who have loved, sung and shaped these songs for so many years. Thanks to all of you who came to the CD release concert, where we
​collectively rocked the rafters with Love.  I feel like the luckiest person in the world, and I am deeply grateful to each of you who helped made this happen.   

Click on image to order CDs

Check out photos of the musicians
and singers in the studio sessions.

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These songs are about Love in the largest sense.
Check out the lyrics.

I'm feeling amazed and so very grateful for the deep Well 
 that has created, rehearsed, played, sung, recorded, funded 
and supported these songs and this project in hundreds of ways.
What a miracle that collectively we are that ever-flowing water!
Thanks to all of us, the world has 17 more Love songs to sing! 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!  
Love & Namaste Y'all

                                        

Where Do These
Songs Come From?

In a terrified moment of a midlife health crisis
17 years ago, I stumbled into self-inquiry, 
asking my heart direct questions about my deepest fears.

To my complete amazement, the Heart responded,
​opening a door to awareness of a profound peace 
I hadn't known (or hadn't remembered)
is inside me, and inside of everyone and everything. 
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That surprising, ancient, good news expresses
as music - songs about Love in the largest sense.

I am deeply grateful to the singers of the
Bodies, Voices & Spirit Chorus, who have
loved and developed these songs with me
as we've sung them together over the years.
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 Thanks also to the wonderful musicians,
who donated their time and love
to rehearse and record this album.
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And thanks to the community of
friends and supporters who have sung
these songs with us at benefits, in churches,
at interfaith celebrations, while dancing,
walking on beaches, doing the dishes,
& rocking babies to sleep.
 

 
Please click here
   to order CDs.
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Thanks so much!
​ Love, Kathleen

Being in the Music with you is pure joy in my life.
In Love and Gratitude, Kathleen Hannan

Contact Kathleen

Photo of Kathleen & Marilyn at the Science March is by Dorothy Tom.
​Group photo of musicians by Ron Moss.
Photo of dancers is by Val Moura. 
Photo of Kathleen is  by Amy Kellum.