Heather is passionate about freeing voices, uplifting hearts, and transforming lives through the power of singing. She is not only a successful recording artist, but spreads her magic through her Yala Lati women’s choir, her 20 plus years of international song circle leading, and her on-line coaching and training programs. Heather is in the recording studio working on two new albums of original material.

"Loosen" album: https://alyhalpert.bandcamp.com/album/loosen
For more: https://alyhalpert.com

Aly writes songs for community, collective liberation, & visioning different worlds. 

For contact, email akhalpert @ gmail.com

singer songwriter from northern California, mother, teacher, friend

Barbara is a singer-songwriter, voice coach, speaker, and the best-selling author of Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011).  She has released 8 CDs of mostly original songs that occupy the genres of jazz, blues, gospel, and folk.  Her lyrics encompass many moods:  smart, poignant, irreverent, boisterous, and tender.  Her voice is clear, powerful, and nuanced.  Barbara's full catalog can be accessed on iTunes or through her website.

"Devilishly catchy folk-pop tunes and melodic ballads, exuberantly heartfelt lyrics...infectious joy"
- The Valley Advocate

I write, sing, and share music and songs.

"Slappy Void.When they asked me to write a paragraph or two about Slappy Void,initially I thought “Sure,no problem”…but how do you sum up Slappy fucking Void in a paragraph ot two?You could write a novel about the Void.Completely unique in approach and style.Nothing else could be so ebb and flow,limp and biscuit,yin and yang,corn and Korn. Miramax can go fuck themselves. They simply do not understand.The Void is how it is because that’s what it is.Nothing more and certainly nothing less.I mean,where do you think anyone has ever gotten the idea to do anything at all?Slappy fucking Void,that’s where.It’s not even anything at all,it’s fucking everything!Dry as a popcorn fart one second,then saturated like a pair of depends at D’youville Pavillion the next.I remember scrubbing floors at the Sabattus Street Can’t –A-Ford listening to the very first Slappy Void on a walkman,laughing hystericallynight after night.People looking at me like I’m the one that’s crazy.So what if I’m just one of those guys from Lewiston that gets on the news…big fucking deal!Slappy Void will do that to a person.It has an effect on you.It changes one’s perspective.Everything is really completely stupid,cupid.I’ve got a beard to trim;I’ve got a cross to bear.They don’t know me.They don’t know Slappy Void and they don’t know Nota!There’s immaturity in Slappy Void,a cocksureness that is more a foible of youth than of men who have experienced much in nearly a decade.It leads to excess,overindulgenece and a constant dancing in defiance of normality.As much in the same way that children defy parents,Slappy Void defies convention.And that,perhaps more than what they’ve accomplished musically,is what seperates them from anything you’ve ever heard.A boisterous,persistent rebelliousness for all to see!So what more can one say about the tenure of Slappy Void?Plenty,but time and space are simply limitations beyond my control.I think Jason Fogg said it best when he said”If you liked Slappy Void One,and you liked Slappy Void Two…and you liked Slappy Void Three…..than you’re going to like Slappy Void Four!”So sit back,adjust your undergarments and prepare to experience the psychoglamicpryoclastic cloud that is Slappy fucking Void. Sinceriously Retarded,Flower Punk" - Reviewed by Shane Pelletier ( Columnist for Slappy Void Magazine 2010)

Juliana Murphy co-tends the Tucson Community Song Circle, and is a co-founder of the Monsoon Seed Choir. She comes to our circle with a lifelong love of singing and a library of original and collected songs that connect us to ourselves, nature, and the cycles and rhythms of being a human on this planet. She brings a deep desire to sing a more beautiful, inclusive, loving, sustainable, and delightful world into being, and is a graduate of the Littlebird Songleader Flight School for community songleading.

Sarah S. Bentley is a song catcher and song carrier, based in Austin, Texas. She facilitates down-to-earth, heart-centered, and powerful sacred singing circles. Sarah gracefully weaves the art of embodied singing, mindful movement, ritual, and communal prayer into her circles.

Sarah started singing as a child and has performed as a singer/songwriter. She draws on her studies in integrative medicine (qigong, yoga, meditation), health promotion, behavioral science, and community resilience to provide a rich and healing experience for her participants. Her intention is to spread peace in the world by sharing the wisdom of movement and heart songs to harmonize our communal resonance and raise the vibration of the Earth and Her inhabitants.

April 2021: I am new to Soundcloud, but making music is something I have been doing a real real long time.  Nice to be here.  Thanks for listening.

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