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HOUSE OF SONG GEELONG

Please email:
​marciahowardmusic@gmail.com for private vocal sessions/Professional Development..

POSTPONED due to Covid 19
Saturday April 11th Vocal Workshop 4-5.30 pm The Door Gallery Cafe, Fyansford, Geelong. 'Solid Rock'. Cellar.
6.30 pm Dinner and Show, The Door Gallery Cafe, Geelong. Bookings Trybooking.
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Focus of this workshop, Vocal Masterclass.
Sharing songs, harmony, vocal yoga and sound bath for vocal strength and building your voice.

Vocal Workshop PD with Marcia Howard.
House of Song Geelong. 6.30-8.30 pm every fourth Thursday of the month. All singers welcome.

Next session Thursday October 24th, 2019 at 6:30pm
LOCATION: House of Song Geelong
email: marciahowardmusic@gmail.com
Belmont, Victoria 3216
CONTACT DETAILS: CONTACT EVENT ORGANISER
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A Certificate for two hours Professional Development Accreditation will be issued to each vocalist.
TRYBOOKING

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yaama-ngunna-baaka-corroboree-festival-2019-tickets-66436388025
​Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroboree Festival Bus Tour 2019 secure your seat on the bus.
Come with us on the Corroboree Yaama Ngunna Baaka 2019 bus tour to participate in a roving corroboree festival (ringbalin) and learn first hand about the crisis of our rivers.
This will be a trip of a lifetime: you will sleep on the river banks of the Baaka (Darling River) and eat bush tucker.
The return trip bus tour leaves from Sydney, picks up people in Katoomba and Dubbo and then travels to Walgett, Brewarrina, Bourke, Wilcannia and Menindee Lakes.
There are two departure dates and one return date. The buses leave at 6 am both days from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Thomas Street and Jones Streets, Ultimo. The bus returns to UTS between 11 pm on October 3 and 1 am on October 4.
Bus 1: Saturday September 28 to Friday October 4
Bus 2: Sunday September 29 to Friday October 4
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Mothers Milk Bank Concert artists, Marcia Howard, Nadia Sundae, Zardi Cunningham and Estampa.
​The Mothers’ Milk Bank Charity (MMBC) along with sponsors, The Australian Breast Milk Bank (ABMB) have been invited to join the YAAMA NGUNNA BAAKA CORROBOREE FESTIVAL over three days 28th - 30th September.
 
This event provides a wonderful opportunity to engage with First Nation families with the launch of the Ruby Hunter Concert shows, incorporating music workshops and the sharing of information. The Mothers Milk Bank Ambassadors/Artists all feel passionately about continuing The Ruby Hunter legacy to support First Nation mothers with diabetes.


We are pleased to be able to announce that we are now able to provide processed donor breast milk, with a shelf life with no expiry date. This health prevention initiative supports any mother with diabetes in pregnancy by providing donor milk “Just in Case” before and then after birth. Mothers often struggle feeding their baby in the first week of life, due to the effects of Diabetes itself. Breast Milk is the healthy food that protects babies from diabetes.


The MMBC is proud to work with the following Artists/Ambassadors who have been long-time supporters of the Mothers Milk Bank.
 
Marcia Howard (Goanna Band/ The Voice).
Marcia was a member of the legendary Goanna Band during the 1980’s whose song ‘Solid Rock’ was ground- breaking. During this time Marcia was introduced to Aboriginal Australia and this connection has influenced her connection to place and is reflected in her song writing and academic work. Marcia has five solo albums. Her songs have been recorded with many legendary artists including Irish singer, Mary Black. Marcia is an original, compelling and charismatic songwriter, performer and music educator who regularly takes vocal workshops. She hopes by sharing her deep love of song, she will help people embrace their own unique voice.
 
Nadia Sunde
Acclaimed for her powerful stage presence, warm and soulful tunes, is an accomplished songwriter, cabaret artist, theatre actress, comedienne and former radio presenter, who effortlessly creates moments and connections with her audience.
 
Zardi is a singer songwriter with a voice of pure beauty, experienced in Jazz, blues and folk genres of music. Zardi has been a devoted volunteer with the Mothers Milk Bank since its inception.
 
The artists will conduct song and voice workshops, working with community, listening to the stories of country and working closely with local song women, ‘the keepers of the songs’ to sing up country! These workshops will be incorporated into the Ruby Hunter Concert Show.
 
             
             “The Milk of Human Kindness: A beauty in our culture to be cherished”.
 


House of Song, Geelong Presents:
https://www.trybooking.com/535155​
Professional Development, 'Build Your Voice' Workshops with Marcia Howard. Every 4th Thursday of the month, 6.30-8.30 pm.
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Bookings: Trybooking 


I will be running the workshops every fourth Thursday of the month until November 2019, 6.30- 8.30 pm. Bookings can be made for these sessions on Thursdays during the year at the trybooking link above. Please email: marciahowardmusic@gmail.com (for directions, invoice orders and Skype sessions).

This session is suitable for audience members, singers with no prior experience including classroom teachers, public speakers, actors, music educators, students and anyone who relies on their voice professionally or just wants to sing and learn how to project and use their voice. Participants will receive a certificate verifying completion and attendance of the training workshop. Completing the course teachers will contribute two hours of PD addressing the standards as listed from the Australian Professional Standards for teachers towards maintaining proficient teacher registration in Victoria. Teachers who complete the modules / professional development will understand that this learning will assist in addressing the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: 2.1 3.2. 3.6 2.1 2.4 3.5 4.1 6.3 6.4 7.4

Marcia is a composer and a music educator. She is currently a casual lecturer in Music Education at Deakin University and has taught Vocal Masterclasses as a part of the Music Performance Degree at Collarts in Melbourne. She has been a Performing Arts specialist at primary and secondary school level for over twenty years as well as a performer on the world stage for over thirty years.
Enquiries email: marciahowardmusic@gmail.com
VIT registered.


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Marcia Howard on the Voice 2016.
Team Delta's top 8.


"In my 5 years as Casting & Music Producer on The Voice Australia, I've come across thousands of Australian singers, and Marcia Howard is among the finest of them all. Her musicality, connection and depth of experience are beyond comparison. It was an absolute pleasure and delight to be able to meet, work with and learn from Marcia during her time on The Voice Season 5."
Rachel Rigg, Music Producer, The Voice, Season 5, 2016.


"The PD, Build Your Voice Workshop at House of Song, Belmont, Geelong was really enjoyable. I really learnt a lot about singing at the session and we sang songs together. At the end of the session I received my own individual House of Song PD certificate. We had teachers, public speakers and singers at the PD. A great mix"! Penny Martin
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"Marcia's voice workshop was great. Pre-service teachers need to learn to use and care for one of their most important teaching tools – their voice. The Victorian Department of Education and Training recognises that voice care is essential to teachers’ professional and personal health and wellbeing. However, voice projection and protection is sometimes a neglected aspect of teachers’ professional learning. This workshop enables pre-service teachers to practise using their voice in different ways, understand how the voice works and how to care for it and learn how to use the voice and non-verbal communication to develop a safe and supportive learning environment (AITSL Standard 4). It does this in a fun and interactive way."
Rebecca Cairns, Deakin University, MALT Education Lecturer. 
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MUSIC  EDUCATOR

Marcia Howard, Music Educator
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Marcia’s experience as a Vocal Director, and Performing Arts teacher over the past twenty years, combined with her professional music career as a singer-songwriter for thirty years has given her a great breadth of experience as both a music educator and performer. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and understanding of singing and songwriting in both her vocal and songwriting masterclass sessions at festivals, concerts, schools and conferences. Marcia has a Research Master’s Degree in Education, Monash University (her thesis and C.D of five songs are about songwriting and belonging to place through song). She has also released five solo albums.
 
Marcia has worked at Collarts in Melbourne, for the past three years as a part of the Music Performance Degree, teaching and developing the vocal masterclasses with Phil Bywater. She is a casual lecturer in Music Education at Deakin University, and IKE, Geelong. Marcia is trained in using the Estill vocal method, which looks at using the anatomy of the voice for vocal production and how to use the voice to create different vocal sounds. Vocal yoga breathing and various warm-up methods are employed in her sessions and she will teach you two, three-part harmony songs to sing with her in a live performance.
 


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Holy wells to Waterholes, belonging through song.  Book & CD (Five songs). Research Masters Thesis. Monash University.

 
Celebrating, culture, roots, the deep listening in place, where music and stories rise from the deep well of ancestral folklore and memory.

Using the processes of song writing Marcia Howard’s thesis, Holy wells to Waterholes, belonging through song, explores the notion of belonging and place and the ways in which practices and beliefs around water connect us to place. In the context of the politics of location it engages with personal stories that bring together understandings of the experiences of the Irish Diaspora in western Victoria in relation to colonisation and Indigenous communities in Australia. The songs that comprise the thesis draw on the meaning of family, loss, hope and identity. The thesis offers pedagogy of possibilities and hope.
 
 The research for this educational thesis on song writing is located in Marcia’s family background and her experiences in music making with indigenous communities in Ireland and Australia. The work encourages others to be reflexive in relation to their own ancestors and the land that they build their lives upon. The five songs that the research is based upon were written by Marcia and recorded by her in her home studio. The songs are beautiful and relate to the political, to family and to place. The lyrics are emotive and the harmonies together with her voice and the different instruments evoke wonderful images for the listener. The mixing and recording process has been an additional task of the production of the thesis that Marcia has mastered. She has expressed her heritage and responses to injustices through her talent as a beautiful music maker. This is a very important thesis. A wonderful, enlightening and stimulating set of songs and stories.
Dr Nerissa Albon, Monash University.
 
Abstract
I explore issues of belonging to place, through the medium of song writing. I interrogate the historic social effects of colonisation and what it is that connects me to place in relation to my Irish immigrant ancestors and their subsequent relationships with the local Gunditjmara people whose land they were now occupying. My songs tell the story of my geographical location combining folklore from our area, memory and connectedness that has unearthed stories for me from an historical Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspective. As a songwriter I enter the liminal space of the song in order to put myself in the emplaced world of the song. I forge an imaginative engagement with place; just as Indigenous song creators and singers have always done in the Australian landscape. I discover how a shared history of oppression between local Indigenous people and my own Irish ancestors has affected my life and the choices I’ve made as an artist. My experiences have all influenced and informed my relationship to place, my identity and sense of belonging. I am writing about the complexity of the human experience in place by documenting my personal ancestral family stories in the context of South West Victoria, historically referred to as “a distant field of murder (Critchett).

 
Two Sisters Dreaming.
©Marcia Howard.


C.D & Book AVAILABLE email marciahowardmusic@gmail.com

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​​'’From the well where the song is sprung,
the land and the sea were sung
and the sunset it was pink 
and I saw the bluest water and the blackest stones
It was the place where I was given my name,
My country, Nunagini, Nangala,
Two sisters dreaming place.”
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What the Session's Include
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MEd Monash University (Research Masters. Belonging Through Song).
Dip T. ACU, 
Cert IV Music, VIT registered. Estill Vocal Method, level 1 & 2. Grade 6 Voice, A.M.E.B. Grade 5 piano, Trinity College, London.
Experience
Vocal masterclass 
Vocal Yoga classes
​Live performance sound and visual presentation classes.
Preparing a stage plan.
Using 'pro tools' software recording for live work and songwriting process.
Music publishing, protecting coyright.

The Business of Music and putting on a show and getting an audience, promotion and publicity.
​Harmony. Reading music and improvisation of parts for live and recorded performance.
Classroom music teacher year prep-12.
​Classroom drama teacher, year prep to Year 11.
Voice lessons, piano and guitar lessons
Director of school musical productions
Choir Director
Music Theory.
Deakin University, Geelong and Warrnambool, Music Education lecturer.
Vocal Masterclasses, Collarts Melbourne, Music Performance Degree students.
Judge Battle of The Bands.
Kool Schools.
Rock Eisteddfods
Eisteddfod and school choir director and piano accompanist.
​Vocal Director for school musicals and piano accompanist.
Songwriting workshops, secondary & tertiary students.
Working with indigenous artists in an educational setting creating pedagogy with music song dance and story.
Vocal workshops using sheet music, improvisation, harmony and singing in local languages. Festivals and concerts.
Creating methodology and course content using relevant pedagogy for performing arts content, primary, secondary and tertiary.
VET music teacher, Year 11.

Performing Arts Teaching.

John Pujujangka Pirin School, Mulan, Great Sandy Desert West Australia. 1991.
Bellarine Peninsula Schools 1997-2001. 2015-2018.
Institute of Korri Education, Deakin Uni Geelong (1998).
Emmanuel College, secondary school, Warrnambool (2005-2014)
St Joseph's primary school, Warrnambool (2002-2005).
Caulfield Grammar Wheelers Hill, 2018 (Songwriting workshops, Year 8).
Northern Bay College Corio, Geelong (Performing Arts. 2017).
Collarts, Music Performance Degree, Melbourne (2015-2018) Music Education.
Deakin University, Geelong & Warrnambool ( 2017-2018). Music Education.

Aspire Geelong. Indigenous music composition workshops (2018).
Kaleidescope, soundscape, movement and indigenous story workshops with primary schools, Blakiston Theatre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre (2018).
St Leonards Primary School. Musical Director, 'Cinders' (2018).
Primary School Teachers voice care workshop (Deakin Uni 2017).








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"Dear Marcia,
Cinders was amazing and I want to say a big thank you for directing it. Thank you for working with the rest of the staff throughout the term to develop the wonderful performance by our kids that we saw last night. 
Your expertise and clear view of what needed to be done to ensure that every child felt supported and happy while performing was a key to our success. To be able to achieve what we did in one term was astounding and we have all learnt so much from you – children and adults.
There has been a wonderful buzz in the school today and many positive comments and messages of congratulations from parents as well as from kids and teachers. It has been a pleasure to work with you Marcia.
Thanks again and best wishes".

Jenny Cowburn, Principal St Leonards Primary School (2018).
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