Regenerate! Singing Circle with Clay Gonzalez

Join Michigan-based composer and folksinger Clay Gonzalez for an hour of inclusive music-making. Clay’s workshops are inspired by the American shape note tradition— a kind of community singing dating back to the early 1800s. All voice types welcome, as are those who would prefer to just listen. No knowledge of reading sheet music is necessary.

J. Clay Gonzalez is a composer, director, and producer specializing in music that engages communities in collaborative sound-making. In 2025–26, Gonzalez will serve as a McKnight Visiting Composer, developing a residency focused on engaging communities in Minnesota’s North Shore. Gonzalez directs Regenerate!, an organization that produces community music events in Michigan, Maryland, and across the U.S.

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The Tallgrass Artist Residency is a program of the Kansas Arts Commission and is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. All programs are free and open the public. Learn more at https://tallgrassartistresidency.org/

You may also like the following events from Tallgrass Artist Residency:

• This Friday, 20th June, 07:00 pm, Shapeshifting senses, spirals, and ecosomatics: Craft talk on embodied poetics with Rachel Atakpa in Matfield Green
• Next Saturday, 28th June, 02:00 pm, Of the Prairie: A Community Storytelling Event with Jason Reed in Matfield Green

Also check out other Arts events in Matfield Green, Workshops in Matfield Green.