In Season 5 of The Power of Singing Podcast, Joseph Gárate leads The Santosha Voice Group in an exploration of the songs and artists that influenced them as young musicians and helped guide them toward the creative lives they lead today. The music people connect with at a formative age can shape everything from their artistic sensibilities to their professional pursuits. Has a song, album, or artist ever had that kind of impact on your life? The Santosha Voice Group invites listeners to reflect on the music that continues to inspire their creativity, inform their artistry, and resonate throughout their lives.

In the second episode of Season 5 of The Power of Singing Podcast, soprano Heather Fetrow reflects on how a challenging work by Poulenc helped her find her footing in the rich, demanding, and ultimately sublime world of classical music. She also shares why Norina's aria from Don Pasquale feels like it was written just for her.

Thank you for listening!

Joseph Gárate, host and producer

Original music by Joseph Gárate

Heather Fetrow, Lead

Susan Mohini Kane & Rich McKinney, participants

Santosha Voice Group

Poulenc "Sanctus" from Mass in G Major - RIS Kammercorps  conducted by Marcus Creed 1996 Harmonia Mundi

"Norina's Aria" from Don Pasquale (Heather Fetrow, soprano, Tom Sheehan, piano)

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Power of Singing: Living, Listening, Finding a Voice - Episode #1: Yes it is

In Season 5 of The Power of Singing Podcast, Joseph Gárate leads The Santosha Voice Group in an exploration of the songs and artists that influenced them as young musicians and helped guide them toward the creative lives they lead today. The music people connect with at a formative age can shape everything from their artistic sensibilities to their professional pursuits. Has a song, album, or artist ever had that kind of impact on your life? The Santosha Voice Group invites listeners to reflect on the music that continues to inspire their creativity, inform their artistry, and resonate throughout their lives.

In the first episode of Season 5 of The Power of Singing Podcast, Joseph Gárate reflects on how an obscure Beatles B-side he discovered in his teens inspired him to begin making his own music with little more than a musical ear and some modest recording equipment.

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Welcome to the long-awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.
 
This episode features Heather Fetrow who tells the story of singing for her grandfather's funeral, sings the song she sang, and asks the group how purpose has shaped their singing and careers. We hope you enjoy it

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The Santosha Voice Group lead by Heather Fetrow creates a beautiful BONUS episode for our 4th season: The Power of Singing with Purpose. Hosted by Heather Fetrow, the Santosha Voice Group (Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, Joseph Gárate, and Joyce Wells) this season was so beautiful that we wanted to share one more episode to show our gratitude for our listeners and for music. Sing along!

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Welcome to the long-awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.
 
Episode #4 features Joseph Gárate who shares his story about singing for a friend's wedding with laryngitis, the song that he sang, and his question for the group about feeling purposeful about performing.

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Welcome to the long-awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.
 
 This episode features Joyce Wells as she tells the story of singing throughout her childhood, shares an original song she wrote and sang for parents expecting a baby, and asks the group a question about doing whatever good we can do through singing. We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome to the long awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.
 
Episode two features Susan Mohini Kane with her heart-breaking yet also inspiring story and song about healing from abuse as a teenager. Her question inspires the group to think about their own healing through singing.

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Welcome to the long awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.

Episode one features Rich McKinney with his story of "singing" without vocal cords, his challenge for the group to sing like children and his question for us about working with people who are "tone deaf". We hope you enjoy it!

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This final episode for Season Three starts the new year of 2024! We are already in production for Season 4: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH A PURPOSE. In this episode featuring Heather Fetrow of The Penelope Project, we explore creativity and expression of children when they sing. And the group explores how their voices own were described by other people when they were children resulting in a surprising discussion about identity.

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Welcome to Season #3 Episode #4: Why. Children Love Singing Together - featuring Joyce Wells of Enjoy Your Sound. A perfect episode to be released on Christmas Day. Joyce shares her memories of singing together with her siblings as a child and a recording of her conducting a very large group of children singing together. The group discusses their memories of singing with others as children.

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