Seven Sacred Pauses
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Velma Frye is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who has performed nine times on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," and in 2006 went on a 6-college tour with Garrison as his pianist and vocal duet partner. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music from the Florida State University College of Music and then performed full-time in North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Ohio, and Florida. She represented Tallahassee's Sister City Program by performing in Krasnodar, Russia, followed by two concerts in Germany. While continuing to perform and teach and write about music, Velma also leads weekly Singing Circles. These community-building skills are now featured in workshops and conferences.
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Seven Sacred Pauses
author: glenn sharron
Tallahassee Democrat......Dec 8, 2007
Singing with great spirituality
Velma Frye's new CD is a collection of sacred songs
By Sharon Kant-Rauch
FAITH EDITOR
Spiritual practice can be summed up in two words: Pay attention.
To God. To those around you. To the blessings that are showered on us every day.
But most of us have a difficult time staying focused. We get sucked into the blender of our lives, whirling around and around, faster and faster, with little or no thought to our connection to the Divine.
Longtime Tallahassee vocalist Velma Frye has teamed up with Benedictine nun Macrina Wiederkehr to help people stay aware throughout the day with the new ly released CD "Seven Sacred Pauses: Singing Mindfully Dawn Through Dark." Listeners are offered three songs for each of the seven periods of the day: before dawn, dawn, mid-morning, noon, late afternoon, sunset and after dark. Frye composed melodies for most of the songs based on poems by Wiederkehr, who lives at St. Scholastic
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