Laurence Cole's 84th Birthday Song Circle
Join us in Grass Valley for this special evening of community singing with Laurence Cole: beloved elder, song leader and grief tender.
This is a very precious opportunity: Laurence will be celebrating his 84th birthday doing what he loves the most!
We'll sing his original songs, weaving in moments of silence and storytelling.
This is a non-performative, safe space where all bodies and levels of musicianship are welcome!
Families are most welcome, teenagers 15 years old and under come in free of charge: if you bring them, please tend to your young ones and make sure they're well behaved.
We'll have an area for them in the back of the room.
From Laurence:
¨Part of my mission is to re-acquaint people with their birthright and natural ability to make beautiful and meaningful sound together. Most of the songs I’ve written are short, easy to learn, chant-like songs with several layers that fit over and around each other in interesting and pleasurable rhythmic and harmonic challenges that make them fun to sing.
Group singing is one of the most ancient and primal “technologies of belonging” that we humans have been using since our earliest times, possibly before speech itself. When we make joyous and passionate song together, it nourishes our souls and offers an enlivening gift back to the natural world that made us and gives us our sustenance and our very being. When such an exchange is genuinely made, and the song finds its natural ending, often there is a sweet, lively silence in which we simply stand and hold the “enchantment,” the sense of deep and genuine communion amongst each other and with the whole living world.¨
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Sliding scale fee $25 - $35
(teenagers 15 y.o. & under come in free of charge).
At Unity in the Gold Country Spiritual Center
180 Cambridge Ct.
Grass Valley, CA 95945
6pm - 8pm
Laurence's webpage to access his songs:
https://www.laurencecole.com/
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