ABOUT ME
“So many people spoke of the spirit of gentle peace, relaxation and oneness that they experienced from you.”
— Liz B - Care for the World Team, Wheatley URC
Hello and thank you for visiting. I am Paula Tait: singer, musician, healer and teacher of transformative sound practices. For more than 30 years, I have shared music, song, chant, story, poetry and pure sound with concert audiences and students around the world.
MUSIC
As a professional singer and harpist, I have performed on television, radio and in concert throughout the UK, Europe and Australia. Some of my more unusual audiences include The England Football Team and playing an example of a stolen harp for six million viewers on BBC1’s Crimewatch.
Alongside my formal music career, I have spent many years learning and playing a variety of instruments from Eastern and Western wisdom traditions.
WORD
I am also a speech artist. Having studied Steiner’s speech formation at Artemis School of Speech and Drama and storytelling at The School of Storytelling, I continue to incorporate spoken word into my Word and Music Concerts.
As a songwriter, I explore the mythic quality of the British Isles through imagined folk songs. These are often sung by characters from history, literature and legend who still inhabit the inner Britain of the Imagination.
“We were deeply moved by the intensity, sincerity, artistry and professionalism of your performance today. And it was clear that others were similarly deeply moved.”
— Keith Chatfield - Author and TV Presenter
HEALING & TEACHING
I am a qualified voice and sound healer and, following a four-year training with the International Therapy Harp Program, I graduated as a certified healthcare musician. Some of my most fulfilling experiences have been playing therapeutic music in the children’s intensive care ward of a Dublin hospital and creating an anxiety-reducing interactive performance for vulnerable prisoners at HM Prison Bullingdon.
As a nāda (sound) yoga teacher (RYT-200) and facilitator of transformative sound practices, I have been invited to lead workshops and courses for organisations such as The Lake Eerie Institute, Therapy & Nature UK and Zenways.
SOUND WISDOM
Whether performing, healing or teaching, my guiding intention remains the same: to support, inspire and encourage others to live lives of harmony, through the deep and abiding wisdom of sound.
APPEARANCES
BBC1 Television
4EB and FM99 Radio (Australia)
National Botanic Garden of Wales
Yunus Emre Institute (Turkey)
The Woodland Trust
The National Trust
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
The Lake Erie Institute (USA)
Therapy & Nature UK
The Federation of Holistic Therapists
Zenways
Lesvos Solidarity (Greece)
North Devon Folk & Blues Festival
Lechlade Festival
Portsmouth Festival
Sutton Environmental Fair
Hounslow Folk Festival
Twickenham Folk Club
Bracknell Folk Club
Aylesbury Folk, Acoustic & Blues Club
Bunjies Folk Cellar, London
Chequers Folk Club, Bucks
Trades Music Club, Yorks
Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
Celtic Tea Rooms, QLD, Australia
Milton Keynes Irish Centre
Music Maker Magazine Feature