The Bicycle Choir is a shifting collective of local performers who formed with a desire to incorporate joyous and informal music-making in their lives. They sing in living rooms, in train tunnels, at abandoned spaces, on porches, on bicycles, and in support of their community.

SINGERS

Jenna Barrett, founder

Sari Brezneau

Amie Broadsword

Valerie Holt

Anne Mathews

Carissa Morris



CONCEPT & CONTACT

I decided there should be more music in my life, so I called together the best singers I know from some of the local brilliant counterculture art collectives and asked them to sing. I about fell out of my chair when they agreed to do it.

So we formed the Bicycle Choir. We are a collective of singers that sing for the hell of it. We sing because people should sing and dance more. We sing a capella or with rhythm, at the top of our lungs; we sing so loud that last summer at Sari's the people that live across the street put lawn chairs out on their balcony and listened to us, stomping and whistling when the songs were over.

We sing songs we love. We sing Spanish and Latin American songs about personal and political struggle, we sing traditional English (and Celtic) songs of unrequited love and madness, we sing folk and traditional music from the Balkans to Africa, and we sing songs from AmericaÕs roots. We sing harmony. We sing foot-stomping, hand-clapping, roof-raising barnstormers. We sing the children in our lives to sleep. Though largely a capella, we use palmas and body percussion to compliment the style of singing, and occasionally add drumming and instrumentation.

The Choir is an ever-shifting, growing collective and we welcome those that want to sing with us. The six singers that comprise our core and longest participating members get together regularly and work on increasingly dynamic music. In the years that we have been together we continually develop our voices individually and our sound as a group. Some combinations of the six of us are available to sing for events. Please feel free to write with questions and for booking information: img

-Jenna