Voices Ensemble

Our Beginnings

TheVoices! ensemble emerged during the COVID lockdown of 2020-2021, as a more performance-focused subset of OneVoice CircleSingers. At that time, our monthly circlesings and workshops, and our annual Sing for Your Life celebrations were on hold. The whole world tried to figure out how to improvise our way through that disorienting time. We were all learning about viruses and PPE and social distancing along with everyone else, but we still wanted to sing!

We found, along with every other musician on Earth, that Zoom just didn’t work for us. Especially since we craved relationship, along with the music. So we began tentatively to gather, masked and distanced, in David Worm’s driveway. There, we learned more about the inner workings of circlesongs – the building blocks, the song forms, and most of all the trust and vulnerability of stepping into the center and letting our hearts speak through our voices.

Soon, we were singing and recording, and even making videos, with the help of our good friend and fellow singer, David Creech. We named ourselves Voices in a New World, and began, along with everyone else, the slow re-emergence.

As Voices in a New World, we envisioned a collective that could encompass more than the music we share. We welcome poets and writers, visual artists, dancers and theater performers – and quite a few people still awakening their creative gifts in whatever form those might take. All that’s required is a willingness to hold each other in stretching our creativity beyond what we already “know” – and of course, to improvise!

Our intention was and is to “change the world with our breath” because we had already seen a change in ourselves from this work together.