Welcome to People Who GET It!
Making Music Accessible
PWGI is a tax-exempt non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting, encouraging, and gathering choral and acoustic musicians who GET what music is and does.
We survive on your generosity and good will.
Your tax-deductible gifts and donations help to provide:
- Bobby McFerrin community concert
- Choir rehearsal assistance for high school vocal music teachers, churches, any choral group anywhere
- Voice and guitar lessons
- Live, therapeutic music for the ill and dying at the bedside (Certified Music Practitioner)
- Fingerstyle guitar concerts
- Acoustic Singer/Songwriter concerts
Billie Preston Fredholm in Womens Focus Magazine!
Billie Preston Fredholm is a musician who believes in the healing power of music; a vocal music instructor who creates opportunities for people to find their own voice.
After earning a master’s degree in vocal music performance at Wichita State University, Preston devoted herself to full-time musical pursuits as varied as her interests.
She teaches voice, guitar and piano, and works as a paid cantor and choir member at area churches. She once conducted the Wichita Choral Society, is a member of the Wichita Chamber Chorale and co-hosts an open mic night at The Artichoke Sandwich Bar—where she plays acoustic folk music with singer/songwriter, guitar/ banjo player Robin Roberts. The duo recently released a CD, “Pay-Day Motors” (cdbaby.com). On stage, she goes by Billie Preston, her given name, as a nod to the 1960s musician with the same moniker. In addition, Preston spends hours leading therapeutic music sessions at area nursing homes and assisted living facilities as part of her goal to become a certified music practitioner. She was the first recipient of a scholarship to become certified through Music For healing and Transition.
Oh, and she single-handedly founded a non-profit organization: People Who GET It Inc. (pwgi. org), which hosts choral and acoustic concerts, provides therapeutic music for the sick and dying, and offers rehearsal assistance for vocal music teachers. Everyone should be so focused.
~Laurie Dove
(For an online version of the magazine article, please go to http://ifocuson.com/wf_march_2010/ and type in page 49.)
As if we needed another reason to bring Bobby McFerrin to Wichita:
A documentary on the science of music collects top prize at science film festival in Paris. Bobby McFerrin performs an improvisation to demonstrate that basic elements of music--pitch, tempo, rhythm and melody--create specific reactions in our brains.
Genius in motion...
All performers, and especially all teachers of music should watch and learn from this video. What Bobby McFerrin teaches and shares in this one tiny performance, and the joy he is able to convey, changes people.
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