Living Room Choir hosts Vocal Playground with Kid Beyond at Grace Lutheran Church – El Cerrito, CA

Living Room Choir is excited to welcome Kid Beyond as our guest leader this January! Kid B is bringing his Vocal Playground workshop right to our side of the bay.

You’ll learn the secrets of vocal percussion and other instruments… then we’ll pour your new skills into a heart-opening song circle — with Kid B’s soulful songs, and new ones we’ll make up together.

All voices welcome! Side effects include: Vibrant aliveness, serendipitous magic, radical gratitude, universal love…

About Kid Beyond:
Kid Beyond is soul singer, songleader, soul guide, and Buddhist teacher of heartfulness and mindfulness. He offers music as medicine — a vibrant alchemy of heart, soul, play, connection, and healing.

He’s played Coachella, and opened for James Brown, Ray Charles, the Neville Brothers, Imogen Heap, Michael Franti, LL Cool J, and many more.

He has led circles and workshops in vocal exploration and embodiment for over 30 years, at venues worldwide. He leads SF’s Song Circle Magic, with his beloved Elise Divine.

A 2-time Jeopardy! champion, he’s the only person ever to beatbox with Alex Trebek.

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About Living Room Choir:
Living Room Choir was founded in 2015 and is part of the international Ubuntu Choirs Network. Founded by Kaitie Ty Warren and now co-led by Kaitie Ty Warren and Sara Stutz, LRC meets weekly in El Cerrito and also mixes and mingles with the global singing community. Over the last decade LRC has hosted many wonderful songleaders (see our guest leader archive here). We have choir events year round and always encourage newcomers to join us – no musical experience necessary!

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Event details at a glance:
Saturday January 17, 4-6pm
15 Santa Fe, El Cerrito (indoors with ventilation: please wear layers!)
Suggested $10-35 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF (reserving ahead helps us plan! You can reserve for free and pay what you can at the door.)
Kids welcome (Kids Corner will be up and running)
No musical experience necessary
Please be familiar with our Wellness Safety Guidelines
We can’t wait to see you there, and we are SO EXCITED to host Kid B!

Please join us. All ages welcome. No sight reading necessary.

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This event is hosted by Kaitie Ty Warren and Sara Stutz of Living Room Choir, and with Living Room Choir members from across many years. Here are some things to know about Living Room Choir culture and logistics:

• Kids’ Corner available (crafting for all ages, suggested $5-15 donation)
• all ages welcome; there are changing tables and toddler sized toilets available in the bathrooms
• no musical experience necessary; everything taught by oral tradition
• we are essentially a non-binary choir: folx of all genders are welcome to pick the vocal parts that work for them, rather than being assigned to high/low sections
• please come scent free (some members are highly sensitive)
• snacks always welcome
• please adhere to our Wellness Safety Guidelines for Covid and other illness
• masks available, and optional
• the church is 1 mile from El Cerrito Plaza BART station
• there is plenty of free street (residential) parking. There is no designated handicap parking on the street, but we manually put out two disabled placard signs to save spots near the entrance for those who need it
• the church is wheelchair accessible
• Living Room Choir is part of the international Ubuntu Choirs Network
• Living Room Choir meets and sings on unceded xučyun (Huichin) home territory (what is now known as Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville and Albany, California). The Chochenyo speaking Lisjan Ohlone people, have lived on this land for thousands of years. Choir leaders pay voluntary Shuumi land tax, and you can too: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
• We can’t wait to sing with you!