TUCSON SONG CIRCLE
SECOND SATURDAY SONG CIRCLE
CLOSING CIRCLE AND TRANSITION CEREMONY
Thursday, August 6th
7-8:30pm
Tucson Waldorf School
3605 E. River Rd.
Grade 5 Classroom
BIG CHANGES, BIG GRATITUDE
Dear beautiful humans,
Before I get into the heart of this message, I want to begin with such gratitude for each of you. Whether you sing with us most weeks, drop in occasionally, or hold a desire in your heart to join us "someday", it has been an honor and a delight to join my voice with yours for the past 6 years. I feel so grateful for each of you - your tender, powerful, vulnerable, and sovereign hearts and voices - and I hope to continue singing together for years to come.
It is from this place - with appreciation and faith that the singing will continue - that I share a decision that feels both deeply alive and deeply tender. With great reverence and care, I'm choosing to bring the current iterations of Monsoon Seed Choir and the Second Saturday Song Circle to a close.
This magical Tucson Song Circle community means more to me than I can express, and from what many of you have shared, it means a lot to you, too. Since the community belongs to all of us, I hope that each of us will continue to find and create ways to keep singing together. I have some ideas cooking, and will share here when they are ready to take form.
The wonderful Liz Rog recently shared this beautiful map of the journey of song carriers toward service and singers toward belonging. I invite you to contemplate these paths and your own progress along them. Maybe it’s time to take the next step in your journey.
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If you are feeling called to take over the coordination and administration needed to sustain the Thursday evening and Second Saturday drop-in offerings and carry them forward, please reach out. And if you create other ways to sing together, please let me know, and I will add them to the TSC calendar.
I am planning to keep this website online as a resource, calendar, and song library for at least the next year. If you use the website regularly and would like to make a reciprocity offering to help offset the costs of web hosting and maintenance (around $400 per year), you are welcome to send financial support via PayPal or Venmo.
Stay tuned for more information about the next chapter, and please do come sing with me Thursday 8/6 for one final circle at the Waldorf School as we love up and let go of this form of Monsoon Seed Choir/Second Saturday Song Circle.
With deep love & gratitude,
Juliana
ABOUT US
We come together to sing simple yet beautiful songs in the a capella oral tradition. No need to read music. All musical levels are welcome! We focus on unison, rounds, and layered songs dedicated to the well-being of all, including you! Our intention is that communion and unity be found in this experience of community singing.
This is an explicitly anti-oppression and anti-racist circle.
Valerie Osborne & Juliana Murphy co-lead the song circle. They are both graduates of the Littlebird Songleader Flight School for community songleading.
Valerie has gathered songs from many ages and diverse places. She fell in love with oral tradition community singing in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. She is honored to share songs that bring us together into community...communion and unity with ourselves and all of life.
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Juliana comes to our circle with a lifelong love of singing and a library of original and collected songs that connect us to ourselves, nature, and the cycles and rhythms of being a human on this planet. She brings a deep desire to sing a more beautiful, inclusive, loving, sustainable, and delightful world into being.
