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Pyeng Threadgill (vocals/keys) + special guest

Dec 8
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8:00 PM EST
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Vocalist/songwriter Pyeng Threadgill will perform excerpts from her recent album/multi-media project "Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song" as well as introduce the mindful movement method known as the Alexander Technique. She will discuss the ways in which the Alexander Technique has influenced her practice and process as an Embodied Artist and helped to develop her method of teaching voice and movement. Attendees will have a brief experience of the method as well.

About Pyeng

Pyeng Threadgill is a vocalist/songwriter and voice & movement teacher. She has been described as “charmingly eclectic" by St Louis Today. Singing ‘New Porch Music’ she crafts an intimate journey through folk and Jazz with Afro- electronic inflections. In her fourth solo album and multimedia project entitled "Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song", Ms. Threadgill shines a light on hair, adornment, and ancestry and the political well as spiritual implications of race, hair and identity.Pyeng is a recipient of the fellowship in music composition from New York Foundation for the Arts for her album "Portholes To A Love & Other Short Stories". In 2018 she was featured by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment on "A Day's Work" showcasing the work of three working musicians living in New York. And in March, 2019 Pyeng's narration for the audio book Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham was named Best Multi-Voiced Performance by the Audie Awards.In her teaching Pyeng Threadgill approaches the voice with an emphasis on slowing down and offering accessible and healthy vocal technique for all styles of music. Ms Threadgill guides aspiring/professional singer/songwriters to refocus on the joy and pleasure of singing rather than self-judgment. By connecting to the breath, body and movement students develop a holistic voice practice thereby eliciting each individual's Soul music and what she calls The Embodied Artist Method TM.Pyeng currently works and teaches from her home in Brooklyn, NY where she lives with her daughter and husband.

Follow Pyeng

https://www.instagram.com/pyengthreadgill/

https://www.facebook.com/pyeng.threadgill/

https://pyengthreadgill.bandcamp.com/album/head-full-of-hair-heart-full-of-song

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