The workshop showcase performance of “Runaway Home” was powerfully successful. It was an amazing, bewildering, stressful, beautiful, scary 9 days … way too hectic to report on at the time. But I’m back and this will be my report on the journey of a thousand (million?) steps we took from threads of chaos to tapestry…. Read More » about Runaway Home a hit in Bristol!
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Stage Fright… extreme condition
This is the 3rd in a series of posts on Stage Fright. If you haven’t read the previous posts, they are: Stage Fright – What Is it? Stage Fright – Changing Stinking Thinking Extreme stage fright can be a truly debilitating condition. Sometimes knowing that your thinking stinks is not enough to conquer it. To… Read More » about Stage Fright… extreme condition
Stage Fright – Changing stinking thinking
This is the 2nd in a series of blogposts I’ve created on Stage Fright. Here are links to the other two: 1. Stage Fright – What Is It? 3. Stage Fright – Extreme Conditions One huge and most usual form of stage fright comes from stinking thinking. The good news is, we can change that…. Read More » about Stage Fright – Changing stinking thinking
Stage Fright – What is it?
I get a lot of people needing help with stage fright. So here is the first of my series of posts on the subject. Here are links for the following ones: 2. Stage Fright – Changing Stinking Thinking 3. Stage Fright – Extreme Conditions First, let’s define the problem. What is stage fright? Wikipedia says it’s… Read More » about Stage Fright – What is it?
Karaoke singing lands a career
Who knew karaoke singing could land you an artist career? I got an email from my old friend, veteran music reporter Steve Zimmerman. What he told me makes me want to say… don’t underestimate karaoke singing! In Steve’s words: I am going to be interviewing Tommy DeCarlo the new lead singer for the rock band… Read More » about Karaoke singing lands a career
Performance is not a vocal exercise
OK, I’m going back to my novice training in golf (bless my poor husband) to bring out yet another golf/vocal parallel: There is an important difference between vocal exercises and performance. A singer must make this distinction clear to turn a performance into a heart-moving event. Vocal exercises, like other athletic skills training, do two… Read More » about Performance is not a vocal exercise