CONCERT PROGRAM - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2026

Thank you, San Diego! We loved singing with you.

Wholehearted Chorus was founded in 2014 by Artistic Director Lisa Littlebird and now has more than 260 singers between the two chapters, San Diego and Carmel, CA. Our mission is to create a more harmonious world by singing together. In our concerts, we aim to dissolve the barrier between singer and audience by sharing a real-time singing conversation.

Humans of all ages and experience are wholeheartedly welcome here, and there is no audition. We do not use sheet music, instead learning the songs in the old way– by heart, through repetition. The songs tend to be contemporary and address inquiries of our time. We treat these songs as sacred, tranformational technologies that become allies for life.

We sing not just to perform, but to investigate and embody the lyrics– casting them as modern spells of healing and upliftment. Singers are invited to contemplate the songs and weave them into their lives, sharing them with their families and communities.

This season, Wholehearted offered a book club to deepen our work with the songs. Many members of the choir read The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho Tutu. We also have a podcast, called A Song for All of Us, where we share deeper conversations with the composers and other respected guests. Lisa had the privilege of sharing one episode this season with Mpho Tutu van Furst to talk about forgiveness.

Special Guest Songwriter Lyndsey Scott:

Hailing from Iowa, Lyndsey Scott is an artist, songleader, and ritualist who catches and carries Song as a force for radical trust, collective expression, & mutual liberation. She supports emergent ceremonial design as a leader with Earthkeeper Wisdom School. She composes and records mantra music with a beat for the national community singing movement with widely-released albums. She collaborated with incarcerated musician Tony Rhodd to write one of our songs this season, Over/Under, a potent anthem for deconstructing enemy images. Find out more and listen at www.lyndseyscott.earth. We shared three songs this season from her recently released EP, Work of Love.