A Four-Week Vocal Techniques Class with Joy Askew

Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm: 9/24, 10/01, 10/08, and 10/15

Your voice leads a song! Renowned vocal coach and singer Joy Askew joins us for a four-week vocals class. Through guided vocal exercises, we will explore the full range of our voices and grow in confidence and expression. Singing a diverse selection of songs together, will strengthen both vocal ability and performance.

Joy's approach draws on the strength of embodied singing, using gravity and movement to trigger freedom and lightness in the body, freeing the throat, tongue, and jaw, and helping singers take their sound from a whisper to a roar. You'll experiment with how your voice resonates best, try exercises to stretch to places you thought you couldn't reach, and work towards freeing up difficulties that challenge flexibility in singing. Find the true sound of your own voice and make it work for you!

Feel free to email Joy at joyaskew@gmail.com if you have any questions!

Joy Askew (https://www.joyaskew.com/) has enjoyed a stellar career playing alongside music icons like Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Joe Jackson, Rodney Crowell, Jack Bruce, and Quincy Jones. She has performed with her own band on stages from CBGBs to festivals in the UK, USA, Japan, and Europe, and has opened for David Bowie and for David Byrne. Along the way, she has sung in a choir featured on an EP by Sufjan Stevens, collaborated with a British brass band, and released a downtempo jazz electronica album.

Photo by Cristina Arrigoni

Despite the rising costs and lower funding streams that are affecting cultural institutions, Jalopy still wants to be a home for everyone seeking to learn and develop their musical practice. Therefore, this semester, we are offering the classes based on a sliding scale, inviting each student to choose a price based on their income level. Those of you who can afford to pay more than the breakeven cost, will be making it feasible for Jalopy to give scholarships to those who cannot afford the courses.

Please note that these numbers are only suggestions, and you are free to pay what feels manageable and appropriate for you based on all your life's circumstances, not just annual income. As usual, you can inquire and apply for financial aid by emailing lynette@jalopytheatre.org.

Sliding Scale Chart based on Annual income:

$0 - $20k / year: scholarship (partial or full depending on availability)

$20k-$30k / year: $225

$30k - $40k / year: $262.5

$40k -$50k / year: $300

$50k -70k / year: $337.5

$70k and up: $375

Joy Askew

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