Circlesong School Bobby McFerrin & more Aug 15-19

	August 15, 2022
	8:00 am
	Berkeley
	Freight & Salvage
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CONCERTS & EVENTS
Circlesongs Performance
@7:00 PM with Jam Session until 10:30 PM
Monday 15 | Tuesday 16 | Wednesday 17 | Friday 19

The Unbroken Circle (24 hour event)
Starts : 12 Noon Thursday 18th
Through : 12 Noon Friday 19th

If you love to sing, you are welcome to join Circlesong School 2022 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 and Gimme5, his Circlesongs concerts celebrated all kinds of music, like Americana or classical, R&B, gospel, folk, pop, rock, beatboxing—combined with any sound he could imagine.

Bobby McFerrin | Circlesong School 2022 will be hosted by The Freight and Salvage, a nonprofit community arts organization in the heart of Berkeley, California, founded in 1968 to support music artists and creators. We are honored to be able to host Circlesong School 2022 here with their support.

The Circlesong 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), Christiane Karam (Lebanon), Gaël Aubrit (France), Zuza Gonçalves (Brazil), Tiago “Rizumik” Grade (Portugal), Varijashree Venugopal (India) ,Sofia Ribeiro (Portugal), Juan Andrea Ospina (Colombia), Goussy Celestin (Haiti), and Daniela Plattner (New York).

MONDAY
ENTERING THE CIRCLE

8:00 am to 8:45 am

Session 1 – Warm-up and Welcome

9:00 am to 9:45 am

Session 2 – Topic Group

10:00 am to 12:30 pm

Main Session 1

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Lunch

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

Lunch Session

2:00 pm to 4:30 pm