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Lead with Love! Community Sing with Melanie DeMore – free and open to the public!
May 18 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join us for an amazing and free community event with multi Grammy-Award nominee Melanie DeMore! This community singing and social justice workshop is open to everyone who loves music, regardless of age or experience. The event will be from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, May 18th in the Fellowship Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland, located at 21600 Shaker Boulevard in Shaker Heights, OH.
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 fun and interactive presentations for community groups and choirs, DeMore beautifully brings her participants together through her music and commentary. Melanie DeMore 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 the 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 Melanie’s own words: “A song can hold you up when there seems to be no ground beneath you”.”
