Salon Phoenix is coming

I’m very excited to announce my new project, hot off the presses! A few minutes ago, I sent this email to my friend at SoulSpeak:

Great talking to you yesterday!! I found myself inspired and sparked into other possibilities afterward. I’m looking at my 100%–what do I REALLY want to be doing? Do I want to be teaching classes and workshops right now? No… I’m not ready for that, and perhaps it’s not really my path. I seem to be experiencing great resistance around it. I want to be teaching, yes, but I want to have fun with it and have it be fun for people. I want to teach through singing and talking. My house concert on Saltspring was lovely–the discussion afterward was stimulating, lively and very enlightening, and I was the ‘host and moderator’, facilitating and guiding the talk which was inspired by the content of the songs. And there was talk between songs, too. It really worked.

Then I recalled the very first remark that was written in my little comments book after my first house concert last fall, which began (caps hers) ‘This was a perfect evening or ‘SALON’” and a light went on… I wrote down, ‘Salon Phoenix’.

I’d like to reserve Tuesday evenings for this and do regular informal salons in which I will sing, talk and be stimulating (as I can!). This will benefit me, because I really need a regular venue, at least once a week in which to polish my songs in front of people, and it will also give others a chance to get to know me and my material and what I have to offer. Somebody mentioned to me recently a study that showed that people have to be exposed to something new a minimum of seven times before it sinks in.

I would love to try this, starting next Tuesday… I will show up and play my music, with no amp or mic, just informal me and my guitar, and I’ll put the word out to my network and create something for you to put the word out too. It’s possible no one will come for the first time or two, but I want to start it anyway, open the space and vibration and create magic with my intention and love.

This would be different from the bigger, more formal house concerts like the one we’re planning at the end of May; it is a sort of prepare-the-ground time for that, to generate interest and to give me the experience I need.

She responded immediately in the enthusiastic affirmative, so we’re on! I’ll post more details as I know them, and I’ll be creating some promo material soon too. I love spring.

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