May 25, 2021
Thank you NY Times for the recent shout-out for the series I’m involved with, Sing With Carnegie Hall.
11 Days to In.Verse!
Saturday, June 5 | 8pm ET
Join Moving Star for In.Verse, an evening of new, original works that merge improvisation and composition through the prismatic lens of poetry from the 13th century to the present.
The program proudly features the poetry of a diverse array of poets, including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, William Blake, Mary Oliver, Matsuo Bashō, Langston Hughes, and many more. All of the music is created and sung by the members of Moving Star: Mark Etttinger, Onome, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Thomas Cabaniss, Emily Eagen, and Tim Kiah.
In addition to a performance featuring live, synchronous singing, the program also highlights original, poetry-inspired video works from the past year of virtual performances, including Falling Into Place, 7 Ways of Seeing ‘I Will Wade Out,’ and Change.
Through the technological and personal challenges of the past year, Moving Star has persevered. We’ve actively rehearsed, created, and performed online, utilizing new and unique creative methods that have yielded works of great beauty that probably would not have emerged at any other time. We are excited to share In.Verse with you before going back to live, in-person music-making this summer and fall.
Suggested donation for this event is $10 and up. Your tax-deductible donations support our work. Contributions can be made through Venmo and Paypal by clicking here for the Moving Star fiscal sponsor, World in One Arts.
Voke
As I mentioned during the livestream, I’ve created Voke, a personalized program in which I offer a powerful container for you to use your voice and creativity to discover, express, and deepen your alignment to your purpose. Voke is an immersive, experiential coaching series in which the power of your spoken, sung, written, and embodied voice is invoked to manifest your deepest desires, heighten consciousness, gain intuitive clarity, and optimize well-being. This program is designed for people who are interested in the power of the voice as a tool to heal, empower, and catalyze positive changes in people’s lives: music therapists, public speakers, somatic practitioners, energy workers, artists of all mediums who are looking to expand their creativity. All music skill levels welcome.
Send an email to lushtongue@gmail.com with the subject heading “Voke” to schedule a session.
You can listen to past episodes of Lush Tongue: Sound Meditation and Musings here on Youtube and here on Facebook. And please make a contribution to support this work at any of these platforms. Thanks!
Thanks for your support!
Onome is a vocalist, creativity catalyst, facilitator and interdisciplinary artist of Urhobo heritage in the Niger Delta. She incorporates improvisation into her practice as a tool to expand consciousness, creativity, and personal development. Through her audience-interactive performances, workshops and sound installations, Onome embodies joy, enchantment, and infinite possibility. She is a partner artist at Carnegie Hall as a core member of the vocal improvisation ensemble, Moving Star.
She has performed at hundreds of venues nationally, recorded soundscapes for podcasts, and created vocal film scores. She received her MFA in Performance Studies at Pratt Institute. She is the artistic director for Lush Tongue, a vocal improvisation project where sound, creativity, self-discovery, connection, and joy converge through singing—via sound healing sessions, workshops, vocal coaching, retreats, and concerts. She leads Soul Incites, a women’s self-development community. She got her start in spoken word poetry and opera via Nuyorican Poets Cafe and New York University, and now facilitates community vocal immersions at concert halls, conferences, galleries, museums, schools, cultural centers, shelters, prisons, parks, churches, online, wherever voices gather.