“Why Sing” with Roberta Kirn

Roberta Kirn is a song leader, percussionist, and dancer who has been leading community singing on Martha’s Vineyard and around the world for over 25 years. She is the founder of BeWellSing and The Song Exchange Project, through which she brings singing in community to as many people as she can. Her most important teachers have been Ysaye Barnwell and Bobby McFerrin. Roberta has traveled to Haiti, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Brazil and Europe as part of her Song Exchange Project, teaching and collecting songs to share at home and wherever she travels. She has recently become certified as a Community Health Musician by the Berklee College of Music.
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