Singing through Sorrow, Change, and Joy: A Singing Rabbit Invitation

Katherine Eid Wild

Katherine Eid Wild is a Lebanese-American storyteller, singer, and teaching artist whose work weaves together ancestry, memory, and the power of reconnecting to the voice.

Her storytelling blends poetic language with grounded emotion, drawing audiences into a rich inner landscape. She is known for drawing on her Arab roots with her “stories within stories”. Her signature show Miroth has been featured at Bioneers Conference, Oregon Country Fair, and the National Storytelling Network’s Fringe Festival.

Having grown up with professional voice training, she left the music world feeling broken. The journey to reclaiming the joy of her voice has brought her to want to share it with others. Her approach is deeply influenced by her training in group facilitation based on Hakomi principles. She sees each group as a living system, where every voice matters and where compassionate presence and deep listening create a safe and transformative container.

Through her work in voice and story, Katherine helps others find the courage to share their voice – not for perfection, but for true expression.

Sarah Burgess

Sarah Burgess loves to share songs, to introduce others to community singing, to help people feel at ease with their voices and to celebrate the connections made through singing together. Sarah is a songleader, teacher and musician in Madison, WI. She helps lead WisconSing, a 4-day, 100+ person intergenerational community singing retreat. Sarah hosts visiting songleaders in Madison and loves the opportunity to sing with others wherever and whenever she can! She finds singing together to be a wonderful way to create community and deepen our connection to ourselves, each other and the natural world. Singing together can be a balm, a vessel where we feel both held and free, where we can find space to heal, celebrate, grieve and experience joy! Sarah sings with anyone, anytime, including at home with her four children. She hopes to sing with you!

Conie B (she/they)

Conie listens and moves at the confluences of the past, present, and not yet; Asian-European ancestry; and the Misi-ziibi and Mni’sota Rivers with training in music, Dances of Universal Peace, and spiritual direction. In addition to being the Lead Public Heart Artist at Points of Light Music where they explore the role of storytelling and community with transdisciplinary projects like Freeing Refrains and Biracial and Rural, Conie is half of the songleading duo GOOD TROUBLE with Liz Digitale Anderson and Executive Director of Music that Makes Community, a binational organization that trains, resources, and encourages folks and communities in the art of paperless community singing.

Monica and Micha

Monica and Micha Frayne met in 2020 and quickly bonded over their love of stories, plants, music, and the shared desire to remember how to be human. Micha has loved music ever since he was a child, and has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music and performance. Micha’s main work in life is singing to and with his little boy, and tending home by learning from and singing with hand tools and wood. Monica’s love for all things wild led her to singing as a practice of connecting with the earth. After growing up in choirs, she found her true passion for singing with groups around the fire in the forest. She has led song circles in North, Central, and South America; was a song leader at the School Forest Medicine in Portland, Oregon; and taught music along with handwork at a Waldorf-inspired forest school. Monica and Micha live and sing with their one-year-old son in Columbia, Missouri.