The Essential Prayers Project offers familiar prayer set with new music. Prayers, not for religion or god, but because they are communications between humans about what's important, sometimes across great distances of time and culture.

A cappella, acoustic, simple. We want to sing small. Small, personal audiences in small, personal settings. Homes. Unique. Individual. As our music. We want our audiences to help us create our event together. Whether singing or listening, every individual in the room is "heard."
We want these concerts to be available to all our guests free. After singing we pass the hat. We want the donation to be a personal choice, not a required amount. Then we eat and talk. Together.

I, Kitty Brazelton, am the composer and initiator. This fall, our house concerts have been everything I hoped for. They've done what I think is so radical in our time—to value each of our selves. Each one has cost me—for my musicians' salaries in the main, for food for some, and travel and accommodations for another— on average $1000. 

We have 12 invitations for spring 2020—in upstate New York, Vermont, Western Mass, Connecticut, Cape Cod, Maine and further to Chicago, Austin TX, Virginia, Seattle, Florida and nearer, hometown NYC. We will work out the feasibility and choose 10. Group them geographically and time-wise into a clusters of 2-3 on a weekend run-out. 3-4 weekends and my musicians are safely back home to their day jobs here in the city.

I am asking for your participation in "Essential Prayers sings 10 house concerts in spring 2020" campaign, so that we can continue this vital person-by-person, concert-by-concert, home-by-home process.