Name: Bobby McFerrin Circlesongs
Start: 2022-07-24T12:00:00
Location: Stanford University

Bobby McFerrin

Stanford Jazz Festival

Stanford Jazz Workshop

For this very special event, Bobby will involve everyone in the SJW community — including you! — in his Circlesongs program. An immersion in sound and creativity, Circlesongs challenges all participants to play, sing, invent, imagine, and explore. Together, the audience and Bobby will make music, build trust, take risks, and embrace life to the fullest. Every song, every voice has a place in the circle. The improvisational singing technique called Circlesongs was created by Bobby over a lifetime of groundbreaking vocal exploration. These spontaneously composed choral pieces invite the deepest listening and sensitivity, using all the vocabulary we know — call and response, global rhythms, soaring melodies, lush harmonies, funny noises, invented language, silence, prayers, and laughter.