Tasmanian Winner, 2024 Telstra Best of Business Awards.
For years you’ve been asking and (finally) Alli is creating an In-Real-Life singing group in her home town of Wynyard, Lutruwita (Tasmania).
A Gathering of Voices™ is an award winning, non-performance based singing experience. We don’t rehearse, we don’t practice, we don’t perform and there is no requirement to have any musical experience or to feel confident in a singing situation. As anyone who is part of the AGOV online community will know - there is never any obligation to sing! Every singer needs listeners, people to hold space for their voice and words to be heard, and that’s an important job all on it’s own.
If you feel a spark of interest in the idea of being part of a singing group, but aren’t ready to sing in front of others, you are still welcome!
Think of our gatherings as more of a therapeutic experience.
A Gathering of Voices™ is a singing group that sings melodic mantras (single phrase affirmations and statements) and song seeds (short songs, or chorus like songs). There will be no need to learn lyrics or sing in perfect harmonies. You will be guided by Alli to sing freely and the result and feeling that this brings will allow for deep creative expression, emotional release and will completely fill your cup.
Meet Allison Davies, (BMusBEdMasMusTher)
Alli is a former Neurologic Music Therapist who stepped out of the allied health system after 2 decades and now focuses on enacting societal change by dismantling harmful musical myths.
She is currently authoring her first book and is an international speaker on trauma informed music experiencing and music as a regulatory tool.
Our Western world pedestal’s western music, which comes with high expectations and standards to be considered ‘good enough’. But music is more than the education and performance industries and should not require commitment and skill to exist.
For the most part, unless our parents could afford piano lesson, or we joined a band at school or we can read music we tend to identify as ‘non musical’. The truth is that the brain is a musical organ.
To be human is to be musical. And once we step into our full power as musical beings our lives will transform in ways we never knew were possible.
A Gathering of Voices™ will be held at the Wynyard Cricket Club (the blue building next to the show ground), 59A Jackson St. Tuesdays 6.30-7.30pm
We will come together for 4 terms a year and our terms will revolve around the seasons (not the school term).
AGOV will run weekly however Alli is an international speaker with many interstate and overseas events so there will be weeks that we can not meet.
Please regularly check for updates and session cancellations at the @Allison Davies - Music and The Brain FB and insta pages
Spring Schedule - 2024
Tuesday Oct 1st, 6.30pm
Tuesday Oct 8th, 6.30pm
Tuesday Oct 15th, 6.30pm
Tuesday Oct 22nd, 6.30pm
Tuesday Oct 29th, 6.30pm
Tuesday Nov 5th, 6.30pm
Tuesday Nov 12th, 6.30pm
Tuesday Nov 19th, 6.30pm
Tuesday Nov 26th, 6.30pm
Session costs - $10
Pay cash or tap on arrival, or purchase a 10 session loyalty card ($100) which will give you an 11th session for free.
NDIS receipts can be issued for loyalty cards only, not individual sessions.
No need to reserve your spot - just show up!
We are a trauma informed and neuro-affirming community
There will be opportunities to sit on the floor, sit in chairs or stand. Our room is wheelchair accessible.
You are welcome to come and hold space, no pressure to sing
Children over the age of ten are welcome.
I (Alli) as an individual, and on behalf of Allison Davies Pty Ltd, acknowledge that I live and work on Tommeginne country, Lutruwita.
I pay my respects to Lutruwita elders past and present and extend this acknowledgement to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People accessing this resource. I recognise the ongoing collective and ancestral trauma resulting from stolen generation, deaths in custody and other forms of systemic violence in so called Australia.
I acknowledge the resilience, strength and commitment to reclaiming sovereignty in the face on ongoing colonisation and pay my deepest respect to the oldest continuing culture in the world. These lands, waterways and culture were never ceded.
