May 19 2022
Dear singers,
I greet you in these unprecedented times with the challenge to sing the exalting power of music.
Especially spontaneous music, drawn from your experience, from your skills, from your lives.
I am more determined than ever to gather…
Dec 7 2021
GREAT NEWS
RHIANNON's NEW CD will be recorded in 2022 and 2023.
Rhiannon is diving into a project called Stories. These are songs of hers, never before recorded or recorded with new instrumentation and arrangements. Also a couple of songs…
Aug 30 2021
Aloha to all of you.
I am in the healing process after two retinal eye surgeries.
Because this detachment was chronic, had been happening for some years, the reattachment is slow.
The retina wants to stay in the place it…
Jan 19 2021
"Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King
and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth.
Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together
in…
Sep 21 2020
When I moved to Inverness in 1989 with a broken heart, I rented a house on stilts directly on Tomales Bay in West Marin.
Then over some months back in South Dakota, my mom grew sick with cancer and…
May 16 2020
painting by Ronald Dong, husband of Rhiannon's sister, Janet
In the ’90’s I lived in a very small cottage built on stilts at the edge of Tomales Bay in Northern California. Extending out onto the bay was a simple but…
Apr 8 2020
Jan 4 2020
2019—Touring with Gimme5 and Bobby McFerrin, all over Europe, US, Canada.
In duo with Laurence Hobgood master pianist, eastern Australia.
With Margie Gillis queenly genius dancer, Montreal, Canada .
And my own teaching, reaching brave new levels of skill and…
Mar 23 2019
Over a year ago, Margie Farmer, my manager and I, decided to concentrate on creating a viable and enduring scholarship program for singers of color and working artists who want to study with me. We strive to support a diverse…
Nov 28 2018
Everything is stark contrast.
Tour with Bobby McFerrin and Gimme5 taking us to wonderful European cities.
Grand opulence in the center of each city, with performances that are artistic, challenging and big learning about focus and the musical mind of…
Mar 22 2018
In 1994 after I went to India with Fran Peavey and a group of social change activists and artists, Fran got the idea to take a group of women to the former Yugoslavia which was in the midst of a…
Nov 30 2017
Ohhh, it cracks my heart to read Laurel Murphy’s account of visiting holy places in India just now in 2017.
It has reminded me of my own time in India so I thought I would revisit some memories of that…
