Let’s Sing! Vocal Improv + Body Music Workshops with Zuza, Dave, and Keith

Join us on Sept 8 for a full day of singing, vocal improv, and body music workshops! We have three amazing teachers to learn from all day, and a big community of lovely folks to sing with, and a great venue (East Bay Community Space). This is going to be great!

Zuza Gonçalves, of Música do Círculo, is coming to the Bay Area, and we’re using that as an excuse to organize a full day of improvised music and singing together! Luckily for us, he’ll be joined by Bay Area musical legends Dave Worm (of Bobby McFerrin’s “Voicestra” and “Gimme 5”) and Keith Terry (an extraordinary practitioner and teacher of body percussion), for a series of workshops throughout the day.

Zuza Gonçalves is a musician and teaching artist focused particularly on vocal music and body percussion, Zuza has explored alternative ways in collective music making for the last 20 years. Co-creator and director of Música do Círculo, he is a part of the faculty at Bobby McFerrin's Circlesongs School and travels internationally for festivals and workshops on Música do Circulo.

David Worm, a founding member of Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra, has remained a regular performer with McFerrin, featured on recordings and touring internationally. A founding member of the a cappella group SoVoSo, the improvisational trio WeBe3, David Worm has more than 50 recording credits as a session singer, vocal percussionist, and songwriter.

Keith Terry is a percussionist/rhythm dancer whose work encompasses a number of allied performance disciplines — music, dance, theater, performance art — which he brings together to create an artistic vision that defies easy categorization. As a self-defined “Body Musician,” Keith uses the oldest musical instrument in the world — the human body (his own) — as the basis for exploring, blending and bending traditional and contemporary rhythmic, percussive and movement possibilities.

This all-day event has a Sliding Scale Cost of $60-120. The minimum ticket price is $60.

Please pay what you can for this full day of advanced facilitation and music workshops. . We need an average ticket price of at least $80. If you have the means to pay more (full-time employment, a big savings account, family wealth, etc.), please pay more! If you can only afford $60 - that's fine; we'd love to have you :)

If you cannot afford a $60 ticket and still want to attend, please email me directly at [email protected].

Eventbrite will allow you to enter any ticket price. If you enter a number below $60 without talking to me first, I'm going to refund your purchase and cancel your ticket. Honor system, please!

9-9:30am: Registration, coffee and snacks

9:30-9:50am: Opening

10-11:30am: Breakout session 1: Zuza in Main Space / Keith in Telegraph Room

11:40-1pm: Breakout session 2: Keith in Main Space / Dave in Telegraph Room

1-2:30pm: Lunch (lots of options w/in walking)

2:30-3:50pm: Breakout session 3: Dave in Main Space / Zuza in Telegraph Room

4-5pm: Closing flow

5pm+ Hang! (Location TBA)

Host or Publisher The Downbeat