Holly Ebony is a vocalist, composer and teacher with many years experience.
After graduating from Dartington College of Arts, she performed extensively both as a singer-songwriter and as a soloist with vivacious performance choir Glorious Chorus.
Having always lived in the edges and hedgerows, Holly has a deeply rooted connection to the land and an endless sense of delight and fascination in the phenomenonal details and extraordinary complexity of living things and Earth, this precious planet.
" In the dominant culture of the society in which I live, singing is commodified, voices are idolised, scrutinised and judged until ordinary people are silenced.
I feel an extraordinary resource is being wasted.
All that supposed celebration of singing, distorts its very purpose and nature and is so far removed from the visceral experience of singing.
For me it is primal and fundamentally human to sing. The adaptations that have enabled us to speak and to sing are one of the great evolutionary leaps of our species!
Singing together with other people, particularly with the joyful, playful dance that is harmony and rhythm, is one of the finest experiences life has to offer. Reaching resonance together as singers is a sublime experience.
Besides all that, singing is just plain good for you. All that breathing supports us!
As a mother, the opportunity to be immersed in song, has felt a valuable gift for my child, so I wanted to create opportunities to make it happen and so Wild Birds Singing was born.
Parents sometimes arrive with stories about being dismissed at school or in choirs as children and having their voices stifled from a tender age. I feel so passionately about modelling generous hearted singing experiences for our growing children. There's so much to be learned about through singing in community; stories, messages, language, music, unity, cooperation and cohesion.
Watching the development and growth of the children who attend Wild Birds Singing is awe-inspiring and it just FLOORS me when they join in with a bit of a song, some groovy moves or a bit of stick percussion.
From out of the mouths of sleep deprived, run-ragged parents and babes has poured forth such beautiful, tender song and heartfelt harmonies.
Combining song and celebrating our wildness is the point at which all my passions converge."
After graduating from Dartington College of Arts, she performed extensively both as a singer-songwriter and as a soloist with vivacious performance choir Glorious Chorus.
Having always lived in the edges and hedgerows, Holly has a deeply rooted connection to the land and an endless sense of delight and fascination in the phenomenonal details and extraordinary complexity of living things and Earth, this precious planet.
" In the dominant culture of the society in which I live, singing is commodified, voices are idolised, scrutinised and judged until ordinary people are silenced.
I feel an extraordinary resource is being wasted.
All that supposed celebration of singing, distorts its very purpose and nature and is so far removed from the visceral experience of singing.
For me it is primal and fundamentally human to sing. The adaptations that have enabled us to speak and to sing are one of the great evolutionary leaps of our species!
Singing together with other people, particularly with the joyful, playful dance that is harmony and rhythm, is one of the finest experiences life has to offer. Reaching resonance together as singers is a sublime experience.
Besides all that, singing is just plain good for you. All that breathing supports us!
As a mother, the opportunity to be immersed in song, has felt a valuable gift for my child, so I wanted to create opportunities to make it happen and so Wild Birds Singing was born.
Parents sometimes arrive with stories about being dismissed at school or in choirs as children and having their voices stifled from a tender age. I feel so passionately about modelling generous hearted singing experiences for our growing children. There's so much to be learned about through singing in community; stories, messages, language, music, unity, cooperation and cohesion.
Watching the development and growth of the children who attend Wild Birds Singing is awe-inspiring and it just FLOORS me when they join in with a bit of a song, some groovy moves or a bit of stick percussion.
From out of the mouths of sleep deprived, run-ragged parents and babes has poured forth such beautiful, tender song and heartfelt harmonies.
Combining song and celebrating our wildness is the point at which all my passions converge."
