BIO


Becky Reardon’s voice is familiar to the millions of people who heard her singing on the Charlie Brown TV specials in the 1970’s and ‘80’s. She was a regular performer at acoustic venues in the San Francisco Bay Area in those days, as well as a studio singer for many national TV and radio commercials. She teamed with Judy Munsen in The Amelia Earhart Survival Band to release an album of original pop-disco music: The Love Reaction.

Drawn to New Mexico in the early 90’s, Becky left the city to camp and hike in desert canyons and the high mountains. She began to respond to the beautiful world around her by singing back to the moon and stars, to the rocks and canyon walls, improvising with the calls of birds and the sound of high-country streams. Out of these joyful experiences she created songs and rounds for community gatherings celebrating the solstices and other ancient holy days, and for theater groups and women’s circles creating ceremonies of passage to the underworld, rebirth, transformation and affirmation.

Sister songwriter/teachers Kate Munger, Terry Garthwaite, Elise Witt and others have spread Becky's songs and rounds to singing circles all across the US and British Isles, where they are treasured for their ability to move singers and listeners to ancient places of pleasure and healing in themselves and in the community created by singing together. In 2008, she was invited to teach her songs at the NASA-sponsored Institute for Astronomy Educators at Chaco Canyon.

Becky lives in Taos, New Mexico, and teaches an on-going class, The Joy of Singing Harmony, and is cultivating the use of improvised singing and movement to illuminate and resolve conflict.

Her songs and rounds are collected in three cds: Follow the Motion, Songs for a Walk, and
Natural Rhythms (a collaboration with Terry Garthwaite).