Francesca Genco is a singer, sound healer, interdisciplinary artist and teacher. She has been singing and playing music since she was a wee tot. From the age of 6, her parents would often find her writing songs at the piano on little pieces of paper with a red pencil. Being quite prolific, she would sometimes write up to 7 songs a day! It is her great pleasure to create music with both professional musicians and those who simply love singing and playing with the cosmos and all beings in it. She has been leading improvisational chanting and sound healing circles and embodied singing workshops for 10 years. Francesca is the founder of Song of the Body, which offers classes, workshops and retreats in sound healing, yoga and creative expression through voice, rhythm and movement. She has received several grants for her projects and performances, including a grant from the San Francisco Foundation in 1996 to create and lead GIRLS RULE!, an arts-based empowerment group for teenaged girls. She was also a co-founder of the Philadelphia Contact Improvisation Dance Festival, which she co-directed with Leah Stein for 3 years. Her private practice is in Berkeley, CA. She also facilitates workshops and private sessions on the East Coast and in Europe.

Numinous River

Tagged as: World, New Age, Indian Influenced.

1. Luke Gartner-Brereton: music for minds
2. Laura Inserra: the Hang, a new instrument from Switzerland
3. Beth Quist: electro-Balkan / Indian meets New Age.
4. Kammen and Swan: a bright edge to traditional Celtic tunes
5. Lisa Lynne: Inspirational, uplifting, gentle, and soothing Celtic harp, World flutes, guitar and more.
6. The Dimples: Relaxing music for the heart and soul
7. Shira Kammen: early folk and celtic music.
8. Jamie Janover: innovative hammered dulcimer
9. Kitka: Eastern European women's vocal music
10. Cheryl Ann Fulton: World-class performer and teacher of Medieval, Baroque, Welsh triple, Celtic and Concert harps.
11. Aryeh Frankfurter and Lisa Lynne: Two Worlds, One Music
12. Mundi: Early music meets global folk at the Penguin Café
13. Viviana Guzman: virtuosic flutist
14. Ensemble Al Asdeka: spicy and hypnotic melding of Arabic and Jazz
15. To Life!: Music as a journey through tribal landscapes, rhythmic dance, hypnotic trance.
16. Hans Christian: new age meets Indian cello
17. Yumi Kurosawa: melodic and mixed world tunes on Japanese Koto
18. Ken Bonfield: Calling Bonfield a guitarist is like calling Michelangelo a painter
19. Viva La Pepa: Spanish, Sephardic and French traditions served on a bed of drones
20. Jeremy Moyer: Erhu music bridging Eastern, Western, Contemporary and Folk traditions