Sing With Marv

The Spring '26 Joyful Voices Chorus Big Sing Photo Gallery is up! (Pictured: Guest Songleader Heather Houston Music) **See Comments below for the link** [Photo credit: Sharon McCarthy]

Several awesome humans who have been Guest Songleaders in our groups will be there, like Melanie DeMore, MaMuse, Lydia Violet, and Kele Nitoto (in WildChoir), plus many other favorites like Emma's Revolution, Aaron Johnson, and Aly Halpert. Details/Tickets: ourfreedomfest.org

What a treasure Heather Houston Music is! We all felt so blessed to have her with us at our Joyful Voices Chorus’ Big Sing. Check out all of Heather’s offerings — 9 places left at her month-end retreat! — at heatherhoustonmusic.com.

SATURDAY! It's your last opportunity to sing with us for awhile -- at our open-to-everyone Big Sing! You don't need any singing experience, there's no music to read, just easy-to-learn songs of hope, resilience, belonging and joy sung in gorgeous harmony. And a rare visit to Marin by the voice-of-an-angel songleader and songwriter Heather Houston Music, our Guest Songleader!

So come on out to the First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo's Duncan Hall, 72 Kensington Road, Saturday 4:00-6:00, $15-$25 sliding scale.

** For tickets and song examples, see Comments below, or get your ticket at the door **

Released today, the new album by Julianna Zarzycki. Some of you may have sung her song Leave The Rushing at my Song Village song circle 3 years ago when she was with us. (h/t to Lyndsey Scott for introducing me to Julianna's music) Highly, highly recommended -- see Comments below for the Bandcamp link.

COME SING SATURDAY IN MARIN! A rare visit by the amazing Heather Houston Music, joining the Joyful Voices Chorus community choir for easy-to-learn songs of hope, resilience, belonging, and joy, all sourced from the modern community singing movement, especially Heather's incredible songs! We get the entire room singing in gorgeous harmony!

** Song examples, details, tickets in Comments below **

It's a community singing celebration! Come sing easy-to-learn songs of hope, resilience, belonging, and joy, all taught by ear -- no singing experience is needed, there's no music to read, it's just plain fun! With a whole bunch of wonderful humans!

Our Joyful Voices Chorus community choir will teach a song or two, and then we'll turn the rest of the day's songleading over to the the astonishingly talented songleader, songwriter, and voice-of-an-angel singer Heather Houston Music -- a rare visit to Marin by one of the best!

So come on out and sing with us (or just hum or listen, no pressure 😀) on Saturday, June 6th, 4:00-6:00 in San Anselmo! To hear some of Heather's incredible songs and get tickets: tinyurl.com/JVCSpring26Tix

Joyful Voices Chorus -- Spring '26 Season -- San Anselmo Joyful Voices Chorus in San Anselmo: Come Co-Create the Magic!

A deeply moving and connecting “field trip” today by members of our Joyful Voices Chorus community choir to ‘Etcha Tamal — the first land in our community that has been rematriated into Coast Miwok hands.

Our host, tribal elder Sky Road Webb, kindled the ceremonial fire by hand, taught us Coast Miwok songs, demonstrated how to launch an atlatl, and talked about the tribal council’s plans for the land. And, we sang Laurence Cole’s song, Humbly, while walking around the ceremonial circle — land on which the Coast Miwok people have lived for 10,000 years.

To support our Coast Miwok kin’s work on the land, and to hear Laurence's song, see Comments below.

Stay tuned for a report on our Joyful Voices Chorus community choir's first-ever field trip to the 26 acres of land in 'Etcha Tamal (aka Nicasio) rematriated into Coast Miwok hands for the first time in Marin County's history!

We continue to express our deep gratitude to our Coast Miwok kin that we sing on unceded Coast Miwok land and we benefit from their displacement. And we continue to help heal -- through our words, our relationships with Coast Miwok kin, and our financial contributions -- the continuing harms done to indigenous peoples through colonization and so many other heinous acts.