As always, we invite you to partake and add your voice to the magic that happens when we join together around the virtual hearth to share music, hear master mythteller and beloved teacher Daniel Deardorff beaming in from the archives, and “feed the stories” and the mythic experience which so deeply feeds us.

On Weds Oct 15th one of the great ancient myths will be told!

We meet around the Zoom "Virtual Hearth" to listen as Daniel Deardorff (1952-2019), one of the finest mythtellers of his time, beams in from the Mythsinger archives. Your hosts Judith-Kate Friedman and Audrey di Mola will bring live music and poetry. Everyone in need of a story is welcome.

Myths hold wisdom distilled over millennia. They help us navigate the foibles of life: love, desire, treachery, oppression, heroism, and grief. Mythic tricksters teach us to live in connection with the Living World, with kindness, humor, cunning, and grace. They deepen our sense of what it means to be human, animal, and victoriously alive. Daniel Deardorff brought these Oral Tradition stories to life like no other mythteller of his time. As we sit together in circle after the story is told, we feed the story, each other, and the mythteller with our insights, questions, and gratitude. Join us!

Register Early to Reserve your Space via email by sending an inquiry to mythsinger. You'll receive the Zoom link upon registration.

On Weds Sept 25th one of the great ancient myths will be told!

We meet around the Zoom "Virtual Hearth" to listen as Daniel Deardorff (1952-2019), one of the finest mythtellers of his time, beams in from the Mythsinger archives. Your hosts Judith-Kate Friedman and Audrey di Mola will bring live music and poetry. Everyone in need of a story is welcome.

Myths hold wisdom distilled over millennia. They help us navigate the foibles of life: love, desire, treachery, oppression, heroism, and grief. Mythic tricksters teach us to live in connection with the Living World, with kindness, humor, cunning, and grace. They deepen our sense of what it means to be human, animal, and victoriously alive. Daniel Deardorff brought these Oral Tradition stories to life like no other mythteller of his time. As we sit together in circle after the story is told, we feed the story, each other, and the mythteller with our insights, questions, and gratitude. Join us!

Register Early to Reserve your Space via Eventbrite. You'll receive the Zoom link upon registration.

On Weds Sept 25th one of the great ancient myths will be told!

We meet around the Zoom "Virtual Hearth" to listen as Daniel Deardorff (1952-2019), one of the finest mythtellers of his time, beams in from the Mythsinger archives. Your hosts Judith-Kate Friedman and Audrey di Mola will bring live music and poetry. Everyone in need of a story is welcome.

Myths hold wisdom distilled over millennia. They help us navigate the foibles of life: love, desire, treachery, oppression, heroism, and grief. Mythic tricksters teach us to live in connection with the Living World, with kindness, humor, cunning, and grace. They deepen our sense of what it means to be human, animal, and victoriously alive. Daniel Deardorff brought these Oral Tradition stories to life like no other mythteller of his time. As we sit together in circle after the story is told, we feed the story, each other, and the mythteller with our insights, questions, and gratitude. Join us!

Register Early to Reserve your Space via Eventbrite. You'll receive the Zoom link upon registration.

Myths are made for challenging times. They hold wisdom distilled over millennia that help humans navigate the foibles of life: love, empire, desire, treachery, poverty, oppression, loss, heroism, grief. Myths and mythic tricksters teach us to live in connection with the Living World, with kindness, humor, cunning, and grace. Daniel Deardorff brought these ancient tales to life like no other mythteller of his time. Join us Wednesday, Odin’s Day, June 26th around the virtual (Zoom) hearth to hear and share in one of the great old stories told by this master teller, mythsinger, and beloved teacher (via video) with live music and more from your hosts Judith-Kate Friedman (songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years) and Audrey di Mola (storyteller, space-holder, and creative facilitator) of the Mythsinger Legacy Project.

Register Early to Reserve your Space via Eventbrite. You'll receive the Zoom link upon registration.

Myths are made for challenging times. They hold wisdom distilled over millennia that help humans navigate the foibles of life: love, empire, desire, treachery, poverty, oppression, loss, heroism, grief. Myths and mythic tricksters teach us to live in connection with the Living World, with kindness, humor, cunning, and grace. Daniel Deardorff brought these ancient tales to life like no other mythteller of his time. Join us Wednesday, Odin’s Day, June 26th around the virtual (Zoom) hearth to hear and share in one of the great old stories told by this master teller, mythsinger, and beloved teacher (via video) with live music and more from your hosts Judith-Kate Friedman (songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years) and Audrey di Mola (storyteller, space-holder, and creative facilitator) of the Mythsinger Legacy Project.

Register Early to Reserve your Space via Eventbrite. You'll receive the Zoom link upon registration.

Join us on Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 27th at 6-8pm Pacific Time as we gather together round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to savor our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2024. One of the ancient stories which Daniel Deardorff—beloved mythsinger, master teller, and teacher—carried will be told! Judith-Kate Friedman—songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years—will add live music into the mythic mix.

Join us on Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 27th at 11-1pm Pacific Time as we gather together round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to savor our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2024. One of the ancient stories which Daniel Deardorff—beloved mythsinger, master teller, and teacher—carried will be told! Judith-Kate Friedman—songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years—will add live music into the mythic mix.

Leap into Love on February 29th, 2024. Judith-Kate Friedman hosts a watch party for the full concert screening of Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff at 11am (Pacific Time). This event blends a classic concert video (filmed on Valentine's day, 2015), plus new love poems and music from Judith-Kate and time for conversation.
These events will be held on zoom.
Donations benefit the Mythsinger Legacy Project.

Leap into Love on February 29th, 2024. Judith-Kate Friedman hosts a watch party for the full concert screening of Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff at 11am (Pacific Time). This event blends a classic concert video (filmed on Valentine's day, 2015), plus new love poems and music from Judith-Kate and time for conversation.
These events will be held on zoom.
Donations benefit the Mythsinger Legacy Project.

On February 15th, 2024, Judith-Kate Friedman hosts Love Dogs - Part I - the first hour of a two-hour Valentine’s Day concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event with live music will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video, Judith-Kate performing new poems and a song or improvisation, plus sharing conversation with all who attend.

On February 15th, 2024, Judith-Kate Friedman hosts Love Dogs - Part I - the first hour of a two-hour Valentine’s Day concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event with live music will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video, Judith-Kate performing new poems and a song or improvisation, plus sharing conversation with all who attend.

Join us for a deep dive into the resiliency and power of the old story and song.
At this time in the world the wisdom in ancient myths is more important than ever.
Creation myths have teachings for us to hear and share together Now.

Join us for a deep dive into the resiliency and power of the old story and song.
At this time in the world the wisdom in ancient myths is more important than ever.
Creation myths have teachings for us to hear and share together Now.

On Sunday Feb 12, 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific - the day Daniel Deardorff was born - Lailani of The Magickal Solution podcast talks with Judith-Kate Friedman about his book, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche. How can myths - the ancient stories - support us to address Otherness, and the experience of being “othered”? How does living mythically and ritually help us heal wounds of racism, classism, able-ism and other oppressions? Amidst great division, violence, and grief, how can myth re-awaken us to a whole-hearted way of living, re-connecting with our true selves and in concert with the Living World?

Featuring Creation Stories from Many Lands and Re-Kindling Daniel Deardorff’s Olympic Peninsula Tradition for Entering the New Year with music by Judith-Kate Friedman and ASL interpretation by Annie Clark.

Myths awaken memory and stir our senses with sound, rhythm, story, and image allowing us to recall the ancient resonances of Oral Tradition tales that have been gifted from generation to generation for tens of thousands of years. On December 29th, 2022 from 7-9pm PST, the Mythsinger Legacy Project (MLP) re-kindles mythsinger and storyteller Daniel Deardorff’s annual year-end community custom of sharing three very different Creation myths: one Norse, one Sumerian, and one from the Toba of South America.

Each story will unfold truths about need, renewal, loss, sacrifice, possibility, courage, beauty, and love. Each will open the imagination, showing us ways to re-member and re-store ourselves and our love and care for humankind and the Living World. The online magic of the Zoom platform will allow us to come together around the virtual hearth from near and far to hear Daniel Deardorff, albeit posthumously. Although he “flew out of this story into the next” in 2019, Deardorff’s music, his storytelling and his voice via a live recording will give all who are present an opportunity to hear the man who the poet Robert Bly called “a true inheritor of Joseph Campbell” and of whom the mythologist Martin Shaw said “Deardorff was the greatest storyteller I ever saw.”

The event will be held on Zoom, tickets are available at Eventbrite. Advanced registration is encouraged, all ages are welcome. Suggested donation is $20-$45 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Read on for more information about the event.

Join Judith-Kate and Mythsinger Legacy Project’s crew for an online Solstice party full of song, dance, story and interactive fun. Come hear what Songwriting Works and the Mythsinger Legacy Project have in store for 2023. [This is the evening session] Read on for more info and link to join.

Join Judith-Kate and Mythsinger Legacy Project’s crew for an online Solstice party full of song, dance, story and interactive fun. Come hear what Songwriting Works and the Mythsinger Legacy Project have in store for 2023. [This is the matinee session] Read on for more info and link to join.

The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche is released today in the UK! Join Judith-Kate Friedman + special guests on Instagram Live at 10am, noon, and 1pm, and YouTube Live at 3pm and 5pm PST.

#GivingTuesday is taking place at our fundraising platform MightyCause. Join Judith-Kate Friedman for a celebration of story and song including The Other Within book tasters and Thanksgiving treats throughout the day on YouTube and Instagram Live.

Join us for The Gift of Story in celebration of the publication of Daniel Deardorff’s The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture & Psyche.

In this interactive event Judith-Kate Friedman, Mythsinger Legacy Project steward and Daniel’s life-partner and Quanita Roberson, author of The Inner Ground Railroad and longtime colleague of both Friedman and Deardorff, will explore the power of Oral Tradition stories/myth-making and feature short readings from the expanded 3rd edition of Deardorff’s book and discussion.

North American Book Release of The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche!

Live streaming ‘taster’ readings by Judith-Kate Friedman at 10am (on KPTZ radio), noon, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm Pacific Time on YouTube Live.

An online mythtelling event featuring the work of mythsinger Daniel Deardorff benefitting aid to Ukrainian refugees. (Zoom)