I Sing because I'm Happy.
I Sing because I'm Free.
His EYE is on the Sparrow... so he must be watching me.
"As a Performing Artist, I wholeheartedly believe I am being guided by a divine source
to share My Experience, My Story and My Talent in ways that I previously had not imagined.
I am grateful and humbled by my life... and I try my hardest with what I have been given, Everyday.
I have a song in my heart and I hope to share it with
YOU." Mari Green
Welcome
Having performed in just about every type of venue imaginable, I believe my artistry had the most growth when I was forced to adjust to the confines of an unusual venue. This kind of "coping and adjusting" outside of the theatre, revealed talents I didn't know I had.
So, over the past few years I have honed these talents to produce vignette style performances that fit any type of setting.
These "Micro Musicals" are meant to launch an event with verve or bring it to a close, poignantly.
They can be custom designed for your fundraising event, memorial service, or conference.
So, please scroll through and see what I have to offer...
A heartfelt welcome to my Boutique Production Studio which offers custom musical programs for Individuals and Group Events.
CREDITS
Mari became a featured soloist with the Boston based Opera Company “Opera UnMet” in 1996 and has sung with the musical group for 21 years. Singing such roles as:
Papagena in "The Magic Flute,"
Cherubino in "The Marriage of Figaro,"
and
Clara in, "PORGY & BESS"
She also toured throughout Latvia and Russia while becoming a formidable Slave Song and Spiritual Concert Artist.
The Boston based musical singing group is best known for the incomparable annual performance celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, “Ties that Bind.” Including performances in prestigious venues as the JFK Library, The Cranbrook School, The Dizzy Gillespie Theater, The Hatchshell on the Esplanade, Boston Symphony Hall, and Gallier Hall New Orleans.
Ms. Green has also been a featured singer/dancer and actress at the famed Hunterdon Hills Playhouse of New Jersey, Performing in more than FIFTY musical productions and revues.
Her regional/off Broadway credits include: "The Philadelphia," Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys," "Blithe Spirit," "Cactus Flower," "George Washington Slept Here," "The Late Christopher Bean," "To Kill a Mockingbird," Andrew Lippa’s "The Wild Party," "Hair," and "Ragtime." The incomparable Sister Mary Hubert in NUNSENSE starring JOYCE DEWITT of Three's Company, as Mother Superior.
In 2019, Mari premiered the role of Countess Maximova in the musical TAKE ME AWAY which was voted Best Regional Musical of New Jersey that year.
Mari now prides herself on "Boutique Style" Performing. Which are custom mini-productions for any type of event or affair, otherwise known as the "Micro Musical."
When a theatrical element is needed to elevate an event, Mari has been called to ensure a seamless professional presentation. Custom designed to be on theme with the event of day, and raise the energy of the audience experience.
Her collaborations thus far include,
Opera UnMet Boston, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance of Washington D.C., The Sokofa Collaboration of New Jersey, New Jersey Grounds for Sculpture, The Naacp of New Jersey, Hunterdon Symphony Orchestra and Greenwood Gardens as a Concert Artist.
MY PURPOSE
IN MY OWN WORDS
In September of 2017, I was busy tripping over my musical life with my new roles as a wife and a mother when a stunning interruption came. I say "tripping" because all that I had deemed important re-shifted in priority when I was diagnosed with Ductal Carcinoma in my right breast. It was an interruption that I didn’t want, but did not know I needed. It was a huge wake up call to what I was thinking... about myself, and about my world.
Ductil Carcinoma in SITU is the earliest stage breast cancer... Stage 0. At this stage, abnormal cells have begun to group together forming small tumors inside the milk ducts. Some women are able to have that area cut out with a lumpectomy. However, for me it was through out each duct in my right breast... which meant the whole breast would have to be removed. At that point, the verdict was still out on the small spots they found in my left breast.
As with any diagnosis, statistics and facts, along with the decisions that need to be made based on them, are thrown at you hard and fast. Reasoning through the lot while trying to manage terrifying emotions, a toddler, and family... is exhausting. Somehow, with Gods grace, I was able to compartmentalize and reason through these decisions. Unfortunately, one thing that became painfully glaring to me as I jumped into personal research were the disparities between African American woman and Caucasian women and their treatment of breast cancer. The unfortunate truth is more African American women ARE dying at a much higher rate from breast cancer. That is because it is being found and/or treated at such a late stage.
So, that fateful 28th day of August, 2017, as I walked off stage and entered my dressing room, I realized in that moment that I had to act on the pervasive thought that something did not feel right. I picked up the phone and made the call.
How very fortunate I was to have questioned and acted on that feeling that something did not feel right to me. I called my Ob/gyn and she signed off on a mammogram with an ultrasound. As it would turn out, it would be my first and ONLY mammogram and I was 42 years old. I underwent a double mastectomy on October 27th, 2017.
Truth be known, it is only now am I finding my true voice with which to speak and sing with. Through EARLY DETECTION and the grace of God, this early stage of cancer had not gone into my lymph nodes. My GRATITUDE is the basis of my newest endeavor TRIPPING OVER GRACE. I am letting my life speak to this cause, and the importance of self examination as well as the follow up after early detection. I want my life to sing to my sisters of all colors everywhere on these points.
I hope to have the opportunity to inspire others with my story and my song. If you would like
for me to speak and sing my story to your group, please contact me through this site.
Gracefully yours,
Mari Green
Music from the Heart
Enjoy this special edition album recorded with Ted Brancato on Piano.
Musical
Life
Celebrations
This custom designed musical service is an intensely personal program that celebrates a life that is coming to an end or has already ended.
The design of this memorial service is based on the personal soundtrack of ones' life.
This unique Life Celebration can be designed non-religiously or spiritually...
but it is meant for the person who would like to be eulogized with melody.
ONE on ONE VOICE WORK
I'm excited to be offering an array of
individualized vocal services that lean into the healing power of the voice.
Sometimes we have a hard time living free of the daily challenges affecting us. Whether aphasia, fatigue or dysphoria, the voice can be a source of power or an instrument of insecurity.
In my work, I use several exercises to begin to release tension and insecurity to reveal the joyful expression of your unique voice.
The human voice can be used as a medium to healing whether singing or speaking. I take my unique performer experience as well as honed vocal technique and build a scaffold around
your voice.
If you are a person facing Vocal Dysphoria, Aphasia, or need to strengthen the mechanism of your speaking or singing voice, I would love to work with you.
I am a vendor with NJ Public Partnerships! So if you are a caregiver that would like to add joyful singing that can stimulate to your loved ones life, please read more about Song Sessions!
Singing is a Sound
Healing Method
As with any type of healing modality, singing can bring lasting change in both the mind and physical body.
Melody and Music can interrupt our cyclical thoughts and
stimulate the Vagus Nerve! Even if you are only able to listen - the benefits still can permeate and lift your soul!
If you or a loved one are living on the spectrum, on Hospice, Disabled, Housebound, Bedridden, lonely, or just want to sing... then Song Sessions is for you!
Gender Affirming Voice Lessons
When I graduated from college one of my goals was to truly know my own voice... and put in practice a vocal regimen. I was extremely fortunate to have had the life experience as a performer for more than 20 years that supported that effort. So...
I want to share my expertise with those seeking voice training in their gender expression goals. I can assure those seeking this tool, that I whole heartedly offer a safe empowering place to affirm who YOU are.
I offer clear guidance for your vocal transition, as well as secure relationship that does not expect you to conform to cis standards of gender expression. I will gently assist you on your journey to becoming your most authentic self.
These lessons are Online Only
Song Sessions
The Sing Healing Method
If you are a caregiver in need of some time to yourself...
If your loved one needs to be uplifted, motivated, and stimulated
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This is an ideal solution for you as well as time well spent for your loved one.
TEACHING ARTIST
Continuously concerned with what her musical contribution is to the world, in 2007, Mari began developing school performance programs. Merging her experience as a Concert Artist of Spiritual Slave Songs with a love of historically-based fiction, Mari wrote two shows that celebrate Black History. These beautifully performed musical programs, along with historical information can serve school curriculum anytime of year.
OVER THE MOUNTAIN
AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STORY
Live Performance
“Over the Mountain,” is a school age program for grades 4-7. Copyrighted in 2008, this tells the story of a fictional slave girl who manages to steal a way north to freedom. Her story is woven around the factual life story of Fanny Kemble, a British actress who marries an American man, unbeknownst to her, one of the largest slave owners in the Antebellum South.
This performance program features a study and curriculum guide and is available for performance only or artist residency, in which Ms. Green visits the classroom discussing the Underground Railroad, slave, and code songs.
This performance is a 50-minute program.
Cast: Singer, Pianist, Narrator - Mari Green.
JUNETEENTH!
A HISTORY TIME NEVER KNEW
“Juneteenth” is a celebration of the emancipation of post - Civil War slavery. June 18th is the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, some two years AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Union General Gordan Granger received orders to take possession of the state and enforce the emancipation of its slaves. Thus, the name “ Juneteenth. “
Through the spiritual songs of African American slaves, this performance is ideal anytime of year, September - the anniversary of Lincoln's preliminary reading of the Emancipation Proclamation or February, Black History Month.
This performance program features a study and curriculum guide and is available for performance only or artist residency, in which Ms. Green visits the classroom discussing the Underground Railroad, slave, and code songs.
This performance is a 50-minute program.
Cast: Singer, Pianist, Narrator - Mari Green.
Snapshots of my Performing Life
Take Me Away
In March 2019, Mari premiered the role of COUNTESS MAXIMOVA in TAKE ME AWAY
Sherlock Holmes,
THE CASE OF THE SPRING LOVE.
Above Princess Maximova in Take me Away and Sister Mary Hubert and Mother Superior in NUNSENSE! I was so proud to sing with the incomparable Joyce DeWitt of Three's Company Fame! She can Sing!
Sherlock Holmes
