![]() ![]() Everyone was nicer than nice,” she says.Īfter Woodstock, Marcia was discovered by producers who were looking for cast members for a new production of stage musical Hair in Sydney. It embodied how hippies used to treat people. “The music was outstanding! It was like a summer concert on steroids! It was also fascinating from a social point of view. The mother and daughter left early, but Marcia stayed. Then, a neighbour asked if Marcia could babysit her daughter at the concert. She didn’t like singing opera and left after three months, but it taught valuable lessons: singing posture and how to warm up her vocal chords.Īt 16, Marcia desperately wanted to go to Woodstock. Marcia didn’t have singing lessons until she was 14 when she won a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. Her mother brought home a 45rpm record and asked Marcia if she’d sing that song. She first performed at a church mother-daughter banquet at ten. I once made an album from eavesdropping,” she says. We are storytellers, so we need to listen. She already knew the importance of listening. Marcia would, as she calls it, ‘church hop’ visiting other churches from the Catholic and Baptist Church to the Synagogue just to hear the music and acoustics.
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