Hi, my name is Penny Stone and I’m a songleader, teacher, singer and composer.
As a community musician and songleader I have a breadth of experience working with open access community singing groups and radical music groups. I facilitate singing with groups of people living with shared experiences such as addiction, navigating mental health support services, and surviving violence and abuse. I also use singing to support people living with chronic health conditions such as Parkinson’s and dementia.
I am committed to working for peace and social and environmental justice, helping to free people’s voices through listening, singing, campaigning and writing. I write and perform music, as well as facilitating others music making, with the same aspiration of speaking honestly about the world around us in firm belief that another world is possible.
Everyone Can Sing
As a Natural Voice Practitioner, I believe that everyone can sing, and everybody has the right to use their voice. We all experience things that silence our voices in the short or long term, and as diverse and individual as our voices are, we all take different routes back to using our voices again. No-one’s voice is the same as yours, and your voice is valuable.
Resources
This website contains a lot of song resources – there are lots of learn and singalong videos, many of them songs I’ve written for groups to sing together. Information about various events and regular groups are also logged here. There is info to help guide you if you are interested in commissioning a song or a lullaby. There is much more as well, so do use the menus above to explore other resources and info.
Copyright
I feel similarly to Woody Guthrie when it comes to the singing and sharing of my songs. Woody printed this in a lyric booklet in the 1930s:
“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”
That said, I do have bills to pay, so if you’re able to contribute to my work, you can do so below.
The songs I have made available here are free for you to sing and share. Please do. If you publicly perform any of my songs (with choirs as well as solo), please remember to log the info to PRS so that I can get the royalties – every little helps!
Penny Stone 