Location

near Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Specialisms

Full Voice workshops and trainings, community song circles

Additional information

Greetings, all — I am a voice coach, singer/songwriter, community song leader, speaker, and author living in a small river town in Wisconsin, USA. I’ll be coming to Scotland in Sept 2024 and look forward to leading some song circles and voice workshops while I’m there.

Most of my works focuses on voice coaching and training using my Full Voice method. I wrote a book called Full Voice in 2011 which outlines my approach using the elements of earth, fire, water, metal, and air to open up more flexibility, power, and pleasure in singing, speaking, and living.

I am now training people to carry this work. There are currently 20 Full Voice coaches and 40 Full Voice trainers around the world with more lining up for training.

For the past 25 years, I have been gathering ordinary folks to sing in circle — no paper, no performance, no perfection. These gatherings are generally used to raised funds for good causes; most recently we donate the money we gather to bring healthy food to the indigenous elders in our region. I’ve written dozens of easily learned community songs, some of which are on my website.

I’ve also released eight solo recordings of my music, which has been described as acoustic, jazz-inflected, and positive without being smarmy.