“The Musicianship and Leadership Program is Liberating. Humanizing. Creative. Supportive. Transformative.”– Prana Rising Prana Rising, Founder and Director of Sound Artist, is a handpan artist. He teaches online and in person, offers lessons and workshops, …
Inspiration & Delight: Music for People Good Reads
We asked our MLP Grads for some of their favourite MfP-adjacent books; books that blend in with our philosophy and approach to music and humanity. What they came back with covered books about the brain …
Inspiration and Delight: Playing with Steady State
David Darling used to say it was a great gift to offer someone a steady-unchanging-consistent rhythmic or melodic ostinato. It’s not an easy gig—to stay with one pattern, to simply “stay with” a pattern. We …
Inspiration and Delight: Learn to Beatbox
Add something new to your vocal improvs! When was the last time you were a true beginner at something? When you started right at the beginning, being ‘wrong’ and making all kinds of beginner mistakes? …
Inspiration and Delight: Honoring Cris Dersken
Indigenous cellist and composer. Genre-defying, world opening, trail blazer. As a child, Cris Derksen wanted to play flute, then sax, then double bass. She played piano and clarinet at a performing arts high school in …
Inspiration and Delight: How to Play a Paper Bag
Here at Music for People, we invite ALL the instruments. Sometimes we think that it has to be a ‘real’ instrument in order for it to matter. We are here to say that is not …
Carbon Fiber Instruments: A Solution for You?
Long time MfPer (author of Return to Child, co-author of Simple and Daring and creator of Music Doctor Improv Cards) Jim Oshinsky has been exploring Ireland for the past 12 years, ever since taking a …
Inspiration and Delight: Angine de Poitrine
Yes, the name of the group in English is Angina Pectoris and this Québecois duo is now on the first leg of a North American and European tour, selling out stages, after footage of a …
40 Reasons to Come to the Art of Improvisation Workshop
If you are a professional musician, this will transform you. If you are a human being this will transform you even further. ~VM This is a community that pulses and sustains- allows, invites and encourages- …
Balancing Our Creativity- Part 2: Yang Energy
Balancing our Creativity, a series written by David Darling, has him thinking aloud about some of MfP’s original, core ‘mantras.’ In our last newsletter, we offered David’s take on the Yin energy. You can find …