I'll be leading an evening of Dances of Universal Peace in Belfast, Maine on Saturday evening, September 13th.
Details are in the flyer below. If you have any questions, please write to me at [email protected], or through the contact page on this website. I hope to see you at the Dances! Love, Kathleen
Details are in the flyer below. If you have any questions, please write to me at [email protected], or through the contact page on this website. I hope to see you at the Dances! Love, Kathleen
Dear Friends,
After almost 8 years of leading the Bodies, Voices & Spirit Choruses, I am delighted to invite you to my first weekend retreat. The weekend is open to people of any gender and any amount of musical experience (including no experience!).
We'll sing original songs of mine, songs from several faith traditions, and other songs that connect us to nature and to our true nature. We'll do some simple circle dances with song as well, some dances that are quiet and inner oriented, and others in which we will rock out in joyful celebration of life, and of spring.
We will take our time to deepen into the rich soundscape around us: sounds of nature, of each other, of the beautiful acoustic piano and other instruments. We will listen deeply to our bodies as well, and to the deepest, open peaceful space within our bodies and hearts that connects us all. As we deepen into listening, the music we make will become saturated with the truth of who we are. And we'll leave the weekend renewed in the Heart that we share, and reoriented to living from that Truth.
Times, costs and venue are all in the poster above. Please drop me a note or give me a call if you'd like to register, or if you have any questions. [email protected] 919-644-1592 And if you have friends who might be interested, please pass on the website link! Thanks so much. Love, Kathleen
In Memory of Nelson Mandela July 1918 - December 2013
A friend just wrote and asked whether my song Count My Heart could be heard on line anywhere, so I'm posting it here tonight, in loving memory of Nelson Mandela and all those who have worked, lived and died for justice in South Africa. I wrote this song in 1994 after hearing a South African man and woman being interviewed on the radio as they stood in line waiting to vote in the first free South African elections. The man said, "That this has finally happened in our lifetime, I am filled with joy, like a dreaming child." The woman followed, "We only know what has gone before, we can't say what's coming now." That is always true....our minds can only know what has gone before. The great and mysterious gift of Nelson Mandela was his ability to see with his heart, to see something new coming. May we all discover in ourselves the faith that he had in us. Love to all, Kathleen
A friend just wrote and asked whether my song Count My Heart could be heard on line anywhere, so I'm posting it here tonight, in loving memory of Nelson Mandela and all those who have worked, lived and died for justice in South Africa. I wrote this song in 1994 after hearing a South African man and woman being interviewed on the radio as they stood in line waiting to vote in the first free South African elections. The man said, "That this has finally happened in our lifetime, I am filled with joy, like a dreaming child." The woman followed, "We only know what has gone before, we can't say what's coming now." That is always true....our minds can only know what has gone before. The great and mysterious gift of Nelson Mandela was his ability to see with his heart, to see something new coming. May we all discover in ourselves the faith that he had in us. Love to all, Kathleen
from the CD Count My Heart, available on CDBaby at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kathleenhannan
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Seen & Unseen
Songs From The Light of Midlife
released November 9, 2013
The CD release concert on November 9th
was a night shimmering with Love which I will always remember. We were a very full house of 16 people on the stage and 220 people in the room. The beauty of that many human voices singing together was so moving...we felt the reverberations of the music down in every cell of our being.
As Sharon Blessum wrote, "One Heart singing in 200 voices." Thanks to everyone who was there in person, and thanks 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 so happy knowing that these songs are living with you now.
Lyrics and credits
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Photos of the concert and whole project
Information about Bodies, Voices & Spirit Chorus
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 generosity 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. More credits and gratitude on this page.
Check out photos of the musicians in
studio sessions on the musicians' page. |
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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
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
The slide show above, to the sound track of the song I Know Myself
is something I made when we started the CD project.
The CD is now a reality, and I'm leaving the slide show up because I like it,
and because it reminds me of the magic of how this whole project
came together. To order the whole CD, click HERE.
is something I made when we started the CD project.
The CD is now a reality, and I'm leaving the slide show up because I like it,
and because it reminds me of the magic of how this whole project
came together. To order the whole CD, click HERE.
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