Our Songleaders

Ritual artist & song-carrier 🌕🌑Student of earth, myth & wildness 🌈✨Check out EP, “Water & Bones” (see link) 💧⚡️

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Melanie DeMore is a 3 time Grammy nominated singer/composer, choral conductor, music director, and vocal activist who believes in the power of voices raised together. In her presentations, DeMore beautifully brings her participants together through her music and commentary. DeMore facilitates vocal and stick-pounding workshops for professional choirs, and community groups as well as directing numerous choral organizations across the U.S, Canada, and beyond. She is a featured presenter of SpeakOut!-The Institute for Social and Cultural Change, the Master Teaching Artist for Music at UC Berkeley/ CalPerformances; works with everyone from Baptists to Buddhists, and was a founding member of the Grammy-nominated ensemble Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. She is Music Director for Obeah Opera by Nicole Brooks and will be touring with the company to South Africa. She is a charter member of Threshold Choir founded by Kate Munger , a mentor to the Jerusalem Youth Chorus and conducts song circles with an emphasis on the voice as a vessel for healing. In her own words: “A song can hold you up when there seems to be no ground beneath you.”

Tobirus Mozelle arrived on the house music scene in 2013 after moving to the SF Bay Area from North Carolina. With a background in gospel, alt. rock, accapella ensembles, and R&B he brings a soulful, funky, and brassy dynamic to the tracks he graces. He has found a home with the Moulton Music label out of Oakland/SF and it the vocalist for the nu disco/deep house crew, The SyntheTigers. He has started to garner international attention with his vocal stylings and collaborations with a litany of house djs who have remixed his tracks or featured them in prominent radio shows. He puts his heart and soul into every track he is a part of and deeply believes that "music is the essence of life!"Tobirus Mozelle arrived on the house music scene in 2013 after moving to the SF Bay Area from North Carolina. With a background in gospel, alt. rock, accapella ensembles, and R&B he brings a soulful, funky, and brassy dynamic to the tracks he graces. He has found a home with the Moulton Music label out of Oakland/SF and it the vocalist for the nu disco/deep house crew, The SyntheTigers. He has started to garner international attention with his vocal stylings and collaborations with a litany of house djs who have remixed his tracks or featured them in prominent radio shows. He puts his heart and soul into every track he is a part of and deeply believes that "music is the essence of life!"

https://soundcloud.com/tobirusmozelle

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Our Big Sing organizing team is gathering a motley group of fabulous friends to lead us in a few wholehearted singalongs. Amongst us there are some serious musical chops (ex: Troy wrote the theme song to the Beijing Olympics) and experience curation chops (ex: Oprah said of the workshops we lead, "This is how we change the world") but mostly we're a community of friends here to sing, laugh and enjoy soulful good times.