Eco Choir

Welcome to Eco Choir! Facilitated by performer and facilitator Holly Rowan. You are invited on an epic journey to discover the harmonized voice of the Southeast Melbourne community. To sing songs with love and celebration of the natural world. Holly will guide you through fun and connecting vocal exercises and you will have the opportunity to learn a mixture of Holly's original songs and folk choral arrangements. Which were created in and about their special relationship to the British land and the seasons. Holly specializes in harmonies, in-the-round style and wacky choral arrangements. They believe that collective singing is an ancient medicine and a balm to the disconnection in our modern-day society, and they facilitate in such a way that naturally encourages kinship and personal growth. 

Minimum donation is $10 per session. If you have any financial barriers, please contact Holly and we will work something out! Your donations will contribute to creative and logistical costs for Holly's current theatre project called 'My Budding Entropy' which premieres in Melbourne and Adelaide fringe in February 2025. You can be part of our creative process by following @hollyrowilderbeans and discover more about the show you're supporting. 

About your Facilitator:

Holly Rowan is a British performer, facilitator and lover of community who has lived in Melbourne since 2023. They are a true polymath artist and an active member of Melbourne Actors Guild; one of their many creative flairs is their community choral facilitation. Their first choral virtual arrangement of "I Have A Voice" with 28 participants raised over 1000 pounds, for a UK Domestic Violence relief charity, at Christmas 2021 during COVID lockdown. Since then, Holly has developed and arranged 9 original songs as an ode to the British land and has run seasonal day singing retreats for their community in London in 2022. Holly then repeated these day events in India and Nepal and eventually moved to Australia. Here in Melbourne, they have been teaching Pilates and Swimming and have been developing their theatre show. The creative development has been seen in Melbourne Fringe 2023 and Adelaide Fringe 2024 and an expanded iteration is underway with rehearsals at Melbourne Actors Guild!

Holly acknowledges the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation as the Traditional custodians of the land on which they work and play and pays their deep respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.