This will be a hybrid service, online and in person!
The in-person service will be held at the Finch Arboretum Woodland Center!  

Through simple chant exercises and original compositions, Madeline will share her philosophy that the voice is an embodied instrument. By bringing mindful attention to the structure of the voice, we will better understand the soulful nature of our bodies.

For over ten years, Madeline McNeill has been an innovative voice in Spokane and throughout the Northwest combining arts, embodiment, and spirituality. She is a performing artist and composer, often combining mediums to imagine new performance and liturgy. In 2022, Madeline composed and directed “Choral Labyrinth” — an outdoor immersive choral performance set in the garden of Haystack Heights Cohousing, with themes on breath, body, and the pandemic. In 2021, she wrote and performed a philosophical musical called “Ariadne.” In 2020, she created an art film “So It Begins” with Factory Town filmmakers. Also in 2020, Madeline wrote and directed “Music Valley,” a new musical set outdoors in a story about friendship, gentrification, and the pandemic. Madeline received a SAGA (Spokane Arts Grant Award) to collaborate with dancer Maura Garcia on indigenous themes. Other works include plays, chants, opera, electronic opera, and earning an Artist Trust Grant for Artist’s Progress Award. Madeline’s education includes a BA in Music from Western Washington University where she studied opera. Madeline also participated in EPCASO (Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera) for six weeks in Oderzo, Italy in 2005. Madeline is currently in an artist residency for the West Central Abbey through February 2023 and just created a theatrical musical tribute to Tom Waits, ‘God’s Away on Business,’ a couple of weeks ago.

This Sunday morning service will be held both online, using ZOOM, and in-person at the Finch Arboretum Woodland Center Building (3404 West Woodland Boulevard Spokane)