With the emergence and spread of COVID-19 we are taking each day as it comes. We’re updating details here regularly and will find a new flow together as we’re able.
Take care of each other and make space to sing, dance and stay healthy.
Love ~ Suzannah
Suzannah is a playful and gifted teacher that can coax complex harmonies from her singers and has immeasurable belief in each singer’s abilities. Her infectious love of music and community creates a welcoming and vibrant space in her workshops and safety and ease in her one on one lessons.
Suzannah comes from a family of three generations of traditional singers, storytellers and dancers. She has been touring and teaching for the past 20+ years, both in the US and abroad. A native of Asheville, NC she is delighted to home in these old mountains, teaching and working for social and environmental justice.
Wanting more singing in your life or looking to feel more confident
with your voice?
Supporting people to find the ease and joy in making music with
their whole being, is what I do. Teaching voice is something that I love.
I would be honored to work with you and sculpt a path towards
your musical goals together.
Have you ever wanted to speak out in a meeting, or speak up with your family, or at school? Do you want to sing with more confidence and ease and feel more grounded and brave with your music? Have you ever wondered if these are related?
As Joan Baez said, "Music has the power to transform people and situations."
Blending together my love of music and activism with my work as a counselor I've designed this vocal life coaching work. We'll explore and weave together your vocal and life goals and fine tune this work so that your whole being is resonating.
"It has filled my heart with song and joy to study with you. You are an incredible woman and it has been such a pleasure to get to know you and sing with you. I count you as one of the finest educators I’ve ever worked with. You are a treasure!"
- N. Richard
"Suzannah helps students free their voice with more than techniques. She knows that sound comes from the physical, emotional and spiritual levels. She can lovingly support you as you explore these levels. She has done this for me."
~ Meredith Balgley
Do to the spread of COVID-19 I've canceled or postponed all in person workshops at this time. If you are interested in any of these offering as online events, please reach out to me and we'll see what we can make happen.
Limited to 15 participants this
powerful and intimate workshop
is for singers and those wanting to use their voices in a more dynamic way.
We focus on the tools needed to
move through physical, energetic
or emotional blocks.
sliding scale $45 - $100
4.5 hour workshop
Singers & Wind Instrumentalists,
Have you ever wanted to
sing with a more
relaxed, resonant, full-bodied voice?
Do you wish you could
sing longer phrases
with more dynamic range?
Would you like to
confidently blend
in with fellow singers/musicians?
This workshop is for
singers and brass players
and is co-led by
Suzannah and professional tr
Singers & Wind Instrumentalists,
Have you ever wanted to
sing with a more
relaxed, resonant, full-bodied voice?
Do you wish you could
sing longer phrases
with more dynamic range?
Would you like to
confidently blend
in with fellow singers/musicians?
This workshop is for
singers and brass players
and is co-led by
Suzannah and professional trombonist, Nick Garrison.
sliding scale $30 - $100
3 hour workshop
The harmony of notes crashing and swirling together is a wonderful thing to participate with and is something to practice, play and explore.
In this workshop we delve into music making and explore with notes, deep listening, making "mistakes"
and doing it again.
This workshop is about the joy of singing and not focused around
theory or reading music.
sliding scale $30 - $100
3 hour workshop
In 2017 after Suzannah arrived home from supporting the water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in ND, she stepped in as program director for local non-profit, Community Roots. They are championing the Rights of Nature here in NC and are organizing a grassroots campaign to get the Climate Bill of Rights on the ballot in 2022.
Suzannah leads marches, dance parties in the streets, works with local residence, artists, businesses, police officers and politicians and promotes and engages in dismantling all systems of oppression and division.
In 2008, Suzannah and her singing partner, Nathan Morrison, began the Wild Asheville Community Chorus (WACC) as a fun hometown project. It started with twelve friends singing in their living room and has since grown to 100 singers per season. They co-led WACC through 2017, at which point Nathan moved on to other projects and is now a fabulous artisanal sourdough bread baker.
Due to Covid-19 the choir has paused their regular season. Suzannah is still offering one-off online WACC events and singers from around the world are welcome to join us.