Nancy Pitkin, Composer
Nancy Pitkin is a featured songwriter and composer for Audiosparx/Radiosparx, a company that distributes music for commercial purposes. Originally, she began her musical journey as a music teacher in the public schools in Connecticut, but soon after that, she headed to Nashville to perform and hone her songwriting skills. Along the way, she has recorded CDs of music for older adults that have been distributed nationwide by catalog companies. She is a certified Sound Healer and leads Sound Therapy workshops, while also performing in other venues.
She is excited to be a part of the Charis community and hopes to use her skills to help in some way.
Here are some of her songs.
These short chants were written for the annual retreat of the East Coast communities of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion. Music by Nancy Pitkin and Lyrics by Trish Sullivan Vanni.
Dale O’Brien, Composer
Dale O’Brien is an accomplish liturgical musician, recording artist and published composer, and currently is supporting Charis Community with his many gifts of leadership of prayer and song. Most recently he composed an original song, Roots and Wings, for the 2020 Synod of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion.
Dale has been singing and playing guitar since he was 10 years old. He traveled the country for 13 years playing at colleges, nightclubs, conventions, and churches and even opened concerts for major acts such as John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, and others. Dale served in two Catholic communities as Director of Liturgy and Music for 35 years until his retirement in 2015.
Over the years, Dale has composed numerous psalms, hymns, pop and contemporary folk songs as well as recorded four complete music collections.
Here are the songs you can find on I Turn To You, one of Dale’s albums!
To reach Dale:
Email: dale@daleobrienmusic.net