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Spring Session Begins March 4th!

Living Room Choir Spring 2021 Session!

Thursdays 7 – 8:30pm on Zoom March 4 – May 20 (12 weeks)

  • Kaitie will be co-leading with Sara Stutz
  • Sliding scale $240-120; no one turned away for lack of funds
  • Open to all – newcomers, non-singers, all ages etc!
  • We will sing some on-the-spot songs, and some longer ones we can sink more deeply into over the course of the session
  • This is a cumulative session, meaning that we will not be advertising the nights individually, but at this time we don’t have a virtual concert planned. We’ll do something cool to wrap up the session together, though!
  • Register for the Spring Session: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodO-gqT8sGNZ8G2zK4pd9iLdg72FiuMwP 
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
  • After registering, please send payment to paypal.me/kaitiety (please select “Sending to Friend” or “Friends and Family” to avoid fees)or Venmo: venmo.com/KaitieTy-Warren
  • Check payments, adjusted tuition scale, and other options are available. Contact me to arrange. Dollars are not the only way to contribute to this community, and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

It will be fun, dynamic and, as always, good for the soul!

Perhaps now more than ever,
being part of a caring community to regularly experience life together through music, dance, and fellowship is imperative to our well-being.
Singing is also great for your health – it boosts your immune system, lung capacity and more!

We have found, even on Zoom, the importance of having a weekly, joyful practice together.

Living Room Choir continues to offer weekly gatherings, now online!

Come be part of this fantastic musical community!

Kaitie Ty Warren

Upcoming (Virtual) Spring Session!

Living Room Choir Spring Session!

Thursdays 7 – 8:30pm on Zoom

March 4 – May 20 (12 weeks)

  • Kaitie Ty’s long-awaited return to Choir! Kaitie will be co-leading with Sara Stutz
  • Sliding scale $240-120; no one turned away for lack of funds
  • Open to all – newcomers, non-singers, all ages etc! 
  • We will sing some on-the-spot songs, and some longer ones we can sink more deeply into over the course of the session
  • This is a cumulative session, meaning that I will not be advertising the nights individually, but at this time we don’t have a virtual concert planned. We’ll do something cool to wrap up the session together, though!
  • Register for the Spring Session: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodO-gqT8sGNZ8G2zK4pd9iLdg72FiuMwP 
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
  • After registering, please send payment to paypal.me/kaitiety (please select “Sending to Friend” or “Friends and Family” to avoid fees)or Venmo: venmo.com/KaitieTy-Warren
  • Check payments, adjusted tuition scale, and other options are available. Contact Kaitie to arrange. Dollars are not the only way to contribute to this community, and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

It will be fun, dynamic and, as always, good for the soul!

Kaitie Ty Warren

Maternity Leave – but Choir continues!

Hello friends!

Our beautiful Zoom Summer Session ended the other week, but we continue to gather. Last week we met just long enough to pray/meditate/sing together with one song: O Water, sending the chant out to cool ourselves, our collective community, and of course, most importantly, the raging fires that are causing so much distress and crisis in our hemisphere. We welcome you to sing along with the tracks, and if you listen to “Just the Chant” you can easily pour whatever melody or prayer you like over the top of the chant, which is what we did. Listen to, and sing along with, O Water.

We’re sending our prayers for everyone’s safety at this time.

Despite the tumult, we feel strongly that gathering (even on Zoom) to sing and be together in a musical heart space is incredibly healing and powerful. With that, we invite you to join Living Room Choir this fall from anywhere in the world, via Zoom:

Our upcoming schedule:

Living Room Choir Director Kaitie Ty Warren will be on maternity leave September-December, 2020.

However, Kaitie’s amazing choir counterpart Sara Stutz will be holding the community open with drop-in singing September 10-December 3rd!

  • Thursday nights 7-8:30pm PST
  • September 10-December 3rd (minus Thanksgiving)
  • on Zoom
  • It will be organic and exciting, and other song leaders are likely in the wings as well!
  • Every night will be a Drop-In, so come to one or come to all!
  • Sliding scale offering; no one turned away for lack of funds.
  • Please email Sara <smstutzpt@gmail.com> to receive details and/or sign up for her announcements!

Make sure to Contact Us if you want to get on the mailing list for future announcements about when Kaitie will return!

(Below) Hope Lingers On (trio rehearsal) by Lissa Schneckenburger and Low Lily, led by Sara Stutz (left)

Kaitie Ty Warren

Kaitie will guest lead at Sacred Heart Choir, June 10th!

KarlyKarly Loveling is holding you from afar through Singing Heart online until we can safely hug and harmonize once again! Every week Karly leads songs on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday nights, with guest song leaders joining in once a week. Wednesday June 10th, we’ll be joined by Kaitie Ty Warren of Living Room Choir, who took the Community Choir Leadership Training with Karly as well as attending several Songleading events together throughout the years since. Kaitie and Karly are a dynamic duo that will also be leading with Heather Houston this month in her online series: Sisters in Harmony Global. Join Singing Heart any time by signing up for the newsletter at http://singingheartchoir.com/.

To join Kaitie and Karly Wednesday June 10th, use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81680823837  from 7-8pm.

Contributions are appreciated at https://PayPal.me/LovelingSong.

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Kaitie and Karly pic

Karly (left) and Kaitie (right) have been singing and leading together since 2016

Kaitie Ty Warren

Sisters in Harmony Global with Heather Houston, June 15th

Sisters in Harmony Global with Heather Houston, Karly Loveling & Kaitie Ty Warren

Virtual Singing Circles for all those identifying as women

Mon, June 15, 2020

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

About this Event

Sing your griefs, gratitudes, prayers, and praises.

Learn heart opening songs for the journey.

Feel fortified, connected, and uplifted.

Let’s feel the power of our global community!

Heather, Karly and Kaitie offer you a pocket full of heart medicine songs for these times. We’ll dive into vocal meditation and collective prayer, mantra, heart opening songs, soulful songs, fun songs, and songs that make us want to dance!

Please bring an item for the altar and a candle to light.

 

Donations/Registration:

Thank you so much for your donations. This is a tough time for many, and musicians are no exception. Heather offers a 60/40 split to her guest artists.

10% off the top donated to the Navajo Nation Covid 19 Relief Fund

More info

***The ZOOM LINK will be sent out in the initial reply email, and then again TEN MINUTES prior to the event, TO THE EMAIL YOU USED HERE ON EVENTBRITE. It will be sent FROM EVENTBRITE. *** Please check your spam folder.

CALLS WILL BE RECORDED – a replay will be sent out to all ticket holders.

More info on Eventbrite

Kaitie Ty Warren

San Francisco Free Folk Festival – Online this year!

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San Francisco Free Folk Festival

Saturday, June 13, 2020
Online this year!
Run by the San Francisco Folk Music Club

Offers:

SongCircle: Living Room Choir

Kaitie Ty Warren
5:00 – 6:00pm PST
Saturday, June 13, 2020
FREE OF CHARGE

Live on Zoom on Festival Day!  Pre-registration required.  Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMuc-yprTMpH9bzQ2bsNjmhD7rke8fi5pZH .

Insta-choir: just add people, and make a musical community online! Living Room Choir uses simple yet lush harmonies to build the teaching of songs, live, over Zoom, and create a communal experience using music as a vehicle. Leader Kaitie Ty Warren teaches original songs, as well as songs from around the world, in the oral tradition – no musical experience necessary! – and although we will mostly be muted (since Zoom won’t allow us to sing in sync) we will be psychically and visually connected through song. Come with an open mind and be ready to sing, dance and/or listen in harmonic community; all ages welcome.

Kaitie Ty Warren has been leading Living Room Choir and communal singing workshops since 2014. She is part of the Ubuntu Choirs Network, an international web of choirs that believes it’s everybody’s birthright to sing. She writes original songs and also teaches folk songs from around the world, continually studying in a worldwide network of songleaders to pursue integrity and accuracy when teaching songs from other cultures. She had tremendous respect for music as a community vehicle, and believes in inclusivity and diversity in musical practice. During shelter-in-place, she continues her community building song-centered workshops and Living Room Choir online.

 sffolkfest.org/events-2020/songcircle-living-room-choir/

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Kaitie Ty Warren

Summer Session (Online) begins Thursday!

Choir Sessions – Online!

Check out this great Highlights Video from our Spring 2020 Session, after it moved onto Zoom!

9 Week Summer Session:
June-July on Thursday Evenings

Perhaps now more than ever,
being part of a caring community to regularly experience life together through music, dance, and fellowship is imperative to our well-being.
Singing is also great for your health – it boosts your immune system, lung capacity and more!

We have found, in the Spring Session (which started in-person before COVID-19 hit) the importance of having a weekly, joyful practice together.

So as we move into the Summer, Living Room Choir continues to offer weekly gatherings, now online!

Come be part of this fantastic musical community!

Thursdays 7-8:30pm PST
On Zoom

June 4
June 11
June 18
June 25
July 2
July 9
July 16
July 23
July 30

Cost:
The full cost for 9 weeks is on a sliding scale: $180-270
Reduced cost for those who need it: $135
If you are under extreme financial hardship due to COVID or any other reason please contact me and let me know what you can contribute for the session.
No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

Ways to Pay:

You must enroll in order to receive the Zoom link.
You can enroll either by sending payment or by emailing me.
Please do so before Thursday afternoon, June 4th, to ensure I have time to get you the link*.

*Yes, it’s okay to join the following week if you miss the first!

About Living Room Choir Online:

Living Room Choir is a culture of joy, stress-reduction, and meaningful connection with self and others.

Living Room Choir uses simple yet lush harmonies to build the teaching of songs, live, over Zoom, and create a communal experience using music as a vehicle.

We practice harmony in community while practicing harmony in song.

Leader Kaitie Ty Warren teaches original songs, as well as songs from around the world, in the oral tradition. No sight reading or musical experience necessary. You will receive recorded teaching tracks of many of the songs we practice, so that you can sing along at home between rehearsals.

Although we will mostly be muted as a group (since Zoom won’t allow us to sing in sync) we will still be psychically and visually connected through song.

We are part of the Ubuntu Choirs Network, an international choirs community which believes its everybody’s birthright to sing.

Come with an open mind and be ready to sing, dance and/or listen in harmonic community.

All ages and newcomers are always welcome – no musical experience necessary.
Join us!

~We look forward to singing with you!~

Info from the SPRING HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO above:

Featured songs:
Vamudara – a Shona story song
Vocal Improv – Roy Willey
One Day (We Will Gather Together) – Sara Stutz
Be Open – Debbie Nargi-Brown
Vocal Improv – Kaitie Ty Warren
Hineini Chant – Kaitie Ty Warren
Bambelela – a Zulu children’s song
Surrender – Kaitie Ty Warren
Angel Wash – Aimee Ringle and Mia Kelley, Rafe Pearlman and Saphir Lewis
All the featured audio you’re hearing in this video is either Kaitie Ty Warren, Living Room Choir during previous sessions, or the guest artists Roy Willey and Debbie Nargi-Brown, live over Zoom. This is how it sounds in “real life” when we practice together on Zoom.
Kaitie Ty Warren

Song Village Sampler this Sunday!

All are welcome!

Song Village Sampler

Sunday, May 17, 2-4pm Pacific Time, online!

Join 16 song leaders from up and down the west coast in a very special 2-hour songfest. Although we can’t meet in person for the weekend-long Song Village, that will not stop us from meeting!

Song Village is usually held as a weekend-long camping trip in the Santa Cruz mountains; I am delighted that, despite covid precautions, it’s not deleted completely, but instead will be represented in this online form. And I’m delighted to be one of the song leaders!

All the events details be found here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-song-village-sampler-tickets-103153139818

We’ll see you there!