Jesse teaches private music lessons, facilitates group music workshops, and offers holistic music sessions in Western Massachusetts and beyond. Read more…
Upcoming Workshops
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Private Lessons
Want to pick up a new instrument? Expand your musical knowledge? Hone your skills?
With over 20 years professional experience teaching, composing, and performing around the world, I can guide you in your musical journey. My specialties are drums/percussion, guitar, bass, songwriting, voice, and audio production/recording. I approach teaching holistically, focusing on all aspects of musicality and personal development. All ages and levels of experience are welcome.
Rates are $40/50/60 for 30/45/60 min. lessons. Sliding scale is available. Lessons take place at my studio in Montague, MA, at your home, or via Zoom.
Contact tangledmusic@gmail.com or (510) 387-0765 to find out more.
Embodied Singing Workshops
A deep dive into breath, body, sound, and song.
When we sing, our bodies are our instruments. Our breath and bones resonate with the expression of our inner worlds, connecting us to the rich stories embedded in song. In this workshop, we will deeply investigate these connections. Through improvisations, physical explorations, listening meditations, and songs, we’ll discover new forms of experience and expression. We will:
- Find ease, freedom, and expression in our voices through awareness and somatic practices
- Learn to listen and sing together in a group, blending our voices in harmony and balance
- Sing beautiful, simple songs from various traditions, as a vehicle for self-expression and deeper connection with community, history, and a sense of the sacred
- Improvise with our voices and bodies, journeying together through the ocean of sound
- Express and transform our deepest emotions -- joy, longing, sadness, love, peace, anger -- in a safe and supportive environment
No experience necessary!
About Jesse
Jesse Olsen Bay has been performing, composing, and teaching music in New England, the Bay Area, and around the world for over 25 years. His interdisciplinary, genre-spanning work explores music’s potential to facilitate human connection across histories and cultures. Bay grew up in a singing family, steeped in folk traditions, before studying at Bennington College with legendary percussionist/healer Milford Graves. He now leads and performs with several groups in New England, and collaborates frequently with dancers and choreographers. Jesse has received honors from the American Composers Forum, New Music USA, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, Ucross Foundation, and the Isadora Duncan Awards. He currently teaches in the Music and Dance Department at Umass Amherst, and is pursuing a credential in music therapy.