Biography

Contact Linda for programs such as: “Folk Dance as Community,” “Healing Power of Music,” “Cymatics,” and more. Linda is a gifted teacher/facilitator, and will get the audience participating, singing harmony, playing instruments, moving, etc. Programs can be regular gigs, or a mix of music and presentation.

Biography

A singer/songwriter/teacher with a passion for life, music, nature and transformation, Linda writes songs that stay with you. Haunting, energizing, inspirational or gutsy, her songs of personal awakening, social commentary, vision, and love blend in a rich and mellow repertoire. More the ‘straight guy’ than a standup comic, she nevertheless manages to bring the audience to chuckling - if occasionally by accident.

Comments: “as I sit listening to your CD ... how grateful I am you came into my life.” “I could’ve listened for many, many more minutes!” “Love is an Ocean...is ..like a meditation for me.”

** All comments are from written notes to Linda

CD Released Her first CD, Diamonds & Moose, released late summer 2001, features original works such as “What if Music is the Answer?” “Hey, Wal-Mart!” “I Am Your Child,” “Love is an Ocean” and more. The CD can be purchased through this web site by clicking on the title above, or by contacting Linda at songs@lindachubbuck.com.

Comments: “the songs are from your heart” “you have a future as a songwriter!” “Fantastic! Powerful lyrics!” “a soft punch .... feminine but gutsy” “Good vibes.... it energizes!”

Life Experience - Adventure or MishMosh? An adventurer by nature, Linda has deep prairie roots. Her life experiences include raising three children, teaching K-12 music, being a writer, journalist, stained glass and watercolor artist, traveler, stockbroker, third generation grain business owner/operator (yes, I really DID run a grain elevator as a single mom - check out the photos) - and more. A lifelong rural Kansan, Linda found singing and songwriting wouldn’t leave her alone.... so she’s sung and written professionally since 1983.

the Kids Woven through the years was teaching.... 4-H leader, parenting classes, stained glass. (You name it, I taught it.) She, however, conscientiously avoided public school until necessity required a return to teaching in 2002. After the shock wore off, Linda’s high energy and passion began to connect with the isolated rural K-12 music students she is now teaching - through drums (the World Music Drumming curriculum), folk dance (Chimes of Dunkirk and Scenic Roots), and high school vocal music, where her students brought home two Superior ratings from State Contest in the spring of 2004.

Comments: “you’ve touched a special place in their hearts...” “he’s really blossomed this year!” “you have opened so many avenues to them!” and the favorite..... “are we going to dance today?”

Programs, Presentations: Harmony, Circles, and more A 2004 recipient of the Salina Arts and Humanities Lana Jordan Developing Artist Grant, Linda is studying a cappella harmonies and arranging with Deke Sharon, founder of the Contemporary A Cappella Society and the House Jacks (rock band without the instruments), and at the Swannanoa Gathering Sing, Swing and String Week in Asheville, North Carolina. She will be offering a workshop for singers to practice a cappella and harmony in the fall of 2004, as well as harmony retreats at the Tallgrass Retreat Center.

Linda initiated and hosts Circles of Song, a monthly music as meditation group, in 2001.

Comments: “Through the Circle YOU are a bringer of peace...” “You are a special person and a blessing” “(you) brought me back from the brink of the abyss and made me remember there is always hope.”

Other noteworthy items Brazil - a favorite spot where Linda spent a month in 1998 as a Rotary GSE Team member. She maintains contact with friends there and intends to return with more music. Nicaragua, Belize, England and Canada are also favored spots from her travels.

Comment: “My (baby) son listens to your song about every day - he gets very calm when he listens to you...” (from Silena in Brazil)

Linda is a CMP - Certified Music Practitioner. A graduate of the Music for Healing and Transition Program (MHTP), Linda has extensive training in the healing power of music and in selecting and singing appropriate music at the bedside of those who are ill or dying.

Lessons - both conventional and not-so-conventional. Linda teaches voice and piano using chords, sight-reading, notation, folk, classical, etc. to private students, adult and youth, beginner or advanced.

For further information or to participate in any of the above activities, please contact Linda at songs@lindachubbuck.com

“For no one hears the song of Heaven and remains without a voice that adds its power to the song, and makes it sweeter still.” from A Course in Miracles