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RHIANNON LONG BIO
Rhiannon is a vocal artist with a vision of music as a vehicle for innovation, healing, transformation, and social change. A vibrant, gifted singer, performance artist, composer, and master teacher, Rhiannon has been bringing her unique and potent blend of jazz, world music, improvisation and storytelling to audiences for four decades.
From her stellar collaborations with the all-women jazz ensemble Alive! to a cappella ensemble SoVoSo’ to Bobby McFerrin and Voicestra to her groundbreaking solo and ensemble performances, Rhiannon has paved a unique path as an independent artist. In recent years she has continued to refine her improvisation work by performing in 2 ensembles: a cappella trio WeBe3 with Joey Blake and David Worm touring and teaching with Bobby McFerrin in Europe during July of 2012, and with renowned instrumentalists Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuña, Otmaro Ruiz and Jetro daSilva in an ensemble known as Spontaneous. Both groups tour internationally, giving completely improvised performances. In 2012 Rhiannon Music will be releasing Spontaneous, a live improvised recording.
Rhiannon's most recent collaboration is with dancer and singer Shizuno Nasu of Volcano Village, Hawaii and Tokyo, Japan. Their performances are rich with the cultural mix of the ancient dances of the Shinto temples and the raucous blend of jazz, soundscape and world music. Bridging cultures, they meet in the universal world of improvisation. They perform in Hawaii and will tour Japan in 2012.
The powerful body-based vocal improvisation and sound healing process that Rhiannon teaches internationally in workshops and retreats is a result of living in these times as an artist on the cutting edge of music and theater. She now offers a year-long training called All The Way In.
Rhiannon’s long-awaited book about her life and teaching methods, The Vocal River, will be published in 2012.
Rhiannon is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Berklee College of Music in Boston and when she is not touring lives the rest of the year on her small Leo Nani Farm on Hawai’i Island, growing food and cultivating the arts through farming.
Rhiannon—Short Bio 2011
Rhiannon is a vocal artist with a vision of music as a vehicle for innovation, healing, transformation, and social change. From her stellar collaborations with the all-women’s jazz ensemble Alive! to a cappella ensemble SoVoSo’ to Bobby McFerrin and Voicestra, Rhiannon has paved a unique path as an independent artist. In the last years she has continued to refine her improvisation work by performing in a cappella partnership with WeBe3; Joey Blake and David Worm, both 25 year members of Voicestra with Rhiannon, and with renowned instrumentalists; Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, Otmaro Ruiz and Jetro Da Silva in an ensemble known as Spontaneous. Both groups tour internationally, giving completely improvised performances. Rhiannon’s new book about her life and teaching methods, The Vocal River, will be published in 2012 as well as a new cd of live performance called Spontaneous, and a documentary about the process of group improvisation. The powerful body-based vocal improvisation and sound healing process that Rhiannon teaches internationally has now been extended to include a yearlong training called All The Way In. Rhiannon is currently Adjunct Faculty in Vocal Studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston and lives the rest of the year on her small farm on the Big Island of Hawai’i, cultivating the arts through farming. http://www.rhiannonmusic.com/
