Tuneful Tuesdays

  • Vocal Improv

    Collaborative Vocal Improvisation: Co-create vocal music in the moment with others. We’ll warm up the voice, us it to express ourselves, co-create music, sing our pain about the harm paradigm, call in a better world. Support one another. Raise the roof. Calm down and rest. It will be different teach time. It’s improvisation.

  • Monthly in Devon

    At Staverton Village Hall, usually the second Tuesday of the month. Oct 7, Nov 11, Dec 9, Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10, April 14, May 12, June 2.

    Led by Briony Greenhill, “one of the world’s leading proponents of Collaborative Vocal Improvisation (CVI)” - The Guardian

  • Tuesdays 7.30-9pm

    Please arrive 10 mins early, we’ll start promptly. Leave time to find a parking space in the village. All levels welcome, but you need to be able to sing in tune, keep a beat, and want an adventure. It will be mixed level teaching, so experienced improvisers can do soaring solos and ripping rhythms while beginners play safer parts until they feel more ready.

I want to come!

Led by Briony Greenhill

Briony has been teaching CVI for over a decade and is one of the main people who brought the art form from the US to the UK. She’s studied with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, as well as David Eskenazy in France and Atul Upadhye in India. She’s co-founder of the UK Vocal Improvisation Festival, The Well Global Vocal Improvisation Network, and The Guardian recognises her as “one of the world’s leading proponents of Collaborative Vocal Improvisation (CVI)”. Briony has released 4 completely improvised albums and been a performing singer since she was 11 years old. Students have called her “the Rolls Royce of voice teachers”, a “master” whose work is “life changing”.

Fun, Depth, Learning and Play

Sometimes, we’ll do music theory. Sometimes we’ll lie on the floor all night doing the Resonant Body. Sometimes we’ll weave Sound Baskets from interlocking patterns and harmonise and solo. Sometimes we’ll surrender in totally free improvisation. Sometimes we’ll work with lyrics and poetry. Sometimes we’ll sing our prayers.

Vocal Improvisation