The Naked Voice

Juliette Bigley

Juliette has been involved in music as a performer all her life. More recently, she has trained with leading international practitioners of voicework and is dedicated to bringing voicework to people through community organisations and the voluntary sector. She works with a range of groups and individuals in the UK and Ireland, including women's groups and people living with HIV.

Margot Boerma

Born in the North of The Netherlands, Margot has been studying voice facilitation both alone and in the community for over 10 years. She facilitates voice work on a one-to-one basis and in ongoing voice and chanting groups. Her work includes shamanic sounds and voice work, community voice facilitation and performance with the “Oya” project, “Global Rainbow” and Kerry Mantra Choir. Margot is available in Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands and USA.

Margot is based in Co Kerry, Ireland and can be contacted on 00353-863478038 or margotboerma1@eircom.net

Tadd CharetteNunn

Tadd has nearly 20 years of professional experience singing with others.  His practice has focused on working with Elders and "Differently Abled" and is now intergenerational. Sessions provide healing support with music and movement. He sings spirited simple, traditional, well known songs, his own songs and improvisations which are interactive and uplifting. He also plays guitar, didgeridoo and the shakuhachi flute.  People living with dementia often sing along and he has had much success with those who are non-verbal and in need of total care.  During music sessions, clients smile, laugh, cry, reach out to hold hands, respond with body language and express sounds of joy and delight.  In addition, Tadd has supported many people in their dying process.

Tadd is looking for collaborators; people interested in a new type of "performance" that is interactive, flowing, juicey, wild and deeply devotional in the love of this earth. A little listening...... a little sing-a-long.... an experience that results in the action of love and acceptance of all our varied ways of expression.

Tadd is based in Clinton, Washington, USA and can be contacted on 206-898-6035 or taddeusz@whidbey.net

Siobhan Daffy

Siobhán has 8 years experience as a community musician and group facilitator. Siobhán first came to rhythm and voice work through special needs children with whom she spent 2 years learning and sharing skills. She has since expanded to include community and youth groups, schools, women’s and men’s personal development groups, community development programmes, and rehabilitation and healing centres. Using African drums and percussion instruments, voice work and movement, Siobhán creates a safe, exploratory and fun environment for expressing ourselves. This work is deeply beneficial for strengthening community, increasing confidence and finding new ways of listening and communicating. Siobhan is also a performance poet, combining poetry with percussion and playing Kamal-Ngoni to accompany herself.

Stella Davies

After her Theatre/English degree in 1990, Stella trained as a Dramatherapist, working in prisons, family centres, schools and in the fields of learning disability and mental health. From her later work as a sexual health trainer and advocate, Stella became more fascinated in movement, sound and song as forms of healing and empowerment, and after diving deep into 5 Rhythms dance for several years, she encountered the Naked Voice practice and became one of Chloe Goodchild's 'Naked Voice' facilitators in 2000. She trained with the British Academy for Sound Healing in 2005, learning to incorporate other tools of sound healing into her work as an individual and group facilitator. Stella works intuitively with her groups and students, and with great humour, celebrating the creativity of their voices and deep inner wisdom as it unfolds. Previously performing and offering workshops all over the UK, Croatia and Greece, Stella now lives and works in California with her husband Bill and step-son Shaun. She lead sings with the Cosmic Kirtan Connection in Los Angeles, offers individual sessions, workshops and groups in Naked Voice, Harmony Singing, Overtoning and Chanting. She has recorded two CDs and another one is on the way. Stella can be contacted on Stella_Davies@theheartofvoice.com and her website is www.theheartofvoice.com.

Gavin Frank

Gavin has been involved in music all his life, from choirboy to B.A. Hons Music Degree. He has been facilitating voice workshops for 7 years and has worked with people from all walks of life including children, people with cancer, in physical pain and drama students. Gavin has been studying with the Naked Voice for nearly eight years. His workshops vary in length ranging from weekly voice groups, chanting sessions, individual sessions, day workshops and weekend residentials. As ‘Madrum’, he performs his own compositions with Lawrence Kelson. They have recently released their debut album “SOMA” and are currently working on their next album.

Gavin is based in Totnes, Devon, UK and can be contacted on 01803 866138/ 07881434467 or gavin@listentothevoice.co.uk
www.listentothevoice.co.uk www.madrum.com

Hilary Franklin

Hilary Franklin specialises in the field of self-awareness through “voice and movement”. Hilary believes that we can ”change the world by changing ourselves” . In her own healing journey from a serious illness over the past 15 years, she discovered that the wisdom we require to manage and develop our lives is deep within ourselves. She works in the field of “Personal Development” both in the private and public sectors offering people an opportunity to explore who they are in their world and offering personal support in these challenging times. Hilary’s healing practice is in Bradford on Avon and Bath where she holds workshops and one to one private sessions. She is also available upon invitation to facilitate workshops to all parts of South & Middle England.

Hilary can be contacted at sound@hilaryfranklin.com or visit www.hilaryfranklin.com for more information.

Nanina Ghelfi

The inner call of moving beyond using the voice merely as an instrument led way to her first contact with the Naked Voice. Growing up with a love and passion for music, singing, dance and theater, 12 years education at the Rudolf Steiner School saw that unfold. With a background of classical choir, theater, film and work with various bands, 1992 she stepped into a professional musical carreer as a leadsinger with her own band, moving national and international. Since 1997 Nanina has established herself as a singing teacher and vocal coach. Now also working with voice, music and movements at various schools. Deeply touched and inspired by the teachings of Chloe Goodchild, Masashi Minagawa and Nicholas Twilley, Nanina went through a personal transformation, which brought her own singing and work with musicians, students and singing groups into a completely new light.

Nanina is based in Switzerland and can be contacted on nghelfi@bluewin.ch www.klangfeld.ch

Sarena Mason

Sarena has over 16 years experience as a therapist and educator. However, it is the last eight years that have transformed her life and work when she began her journey into the healing power of music, sound and voice. Her studies have taken her to America, India, Ireland and the UK. Her love and passion for this work is infectious and she inspires people from all walks of life to find their true voice, and develop a vitality that can only come from the magic of sound!

Sara McCarthy

Sara specializes in the field of changing your life through sound and fitness. She feels very strongly that people need every opportunity to fully engage with their health, their bodies and their spirits. Sara is passionate about sound as the best tool for this – reaching places that nothing else can. She particularly enjoys the way sound can bring us back to our simple sense of playfulness. Sara is musical by nature and plays guitar, piano and harmonium. She enjoys listening for songs. One of her major interests in working with people and voice, is witnessing people’s musical lineage and bringing them into an awareness of that for themselves.

See www.performancefrequency.com for more information.