If you love to sing, you are welcome to join circlesongschool 2023 with legendary vocal virtuoso Bobby McFerrin and his inspiring team of master teachers for a workshop full of joy-filled improvised music-making and audience art, fun and games for singers of all levels of experience.
First developing Circlesongs as a solo a cappella performer, when Bobby needed other voices to help manifest his musical ideas. He gave the audience parts to sing, layering harmonies and rhythms, using call and response, conducting and composing his spontaneous inventions. During his years of worldwide touring, evolving along with his groups Voicestra, Gimme5, and MOTION, his Circlesongs concerts celebrated all kinds of music; Americana or classical, R&B, gospel, folk, pop, rock, beatboxing—combined with any sound he could imagine.
Bobby McFerrin | circlesongschool 2023 will take place at Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco, a world renowned Episcopal cathedral with a long history of fine choirs and musical excellence.
the circlesongschool 2023 faculty includes internationally acclaimed and diversely gifted teachers who have sung or taught Circlesongs with Bobby over many years: Rhiannon (Hawaii), Judi Vinar (Minnesota), Joey Blake (Rwanda) & David Worm (Oakland), Destani Wolf (Berkeley), Bryan Dyer (Oakland), Tammi Brown (Santa Cruz), Tiago “Rizumik” Grade (Portugal), Sofia Ribeiro (Portugal), Juan Andrés Ospina (Colombia), Goussy Celestin (Haiti), Christiane Karam (Lebanon), and Manuel Linhares (Portugal).
The Circlesongs improvisational adventure with Bobby and the Circlesong Faculty builds confidence and trust, nurtures our creativity and deepens individual and communal musical expression. The program features lots of opportunities to lead Circlesongs in sessions that might include harmony, body percussion, music theory, freestyle language, vocal embodiment techniques, exploration of musical styles and much more, for experimentation at all levels of experience.