Vocal artist Rachel Bagby, founder of Choral Earth, has received the 11th annual $10,000 AHN Award for excellence in the field of art and healing. The Arts & Healing Network honors Bagby, who in 1986 pioneered vibralingual practices that help people form vocal communities for ecological and social healing. In 2006, Bagby founded Choral Earth’s Sing Your Part™ initiative "to inspire choirs and their audiences to exercise their power to create sonorously vital — i.e. environmentally just and healthy — communities." Historically, says AHN, choruses have proved influential in movements for social change in South Africa, Chile and England and the U.S. Today an estimated 28 million people regularly sing in a chorus or choir. Choral Earth offers training materials and programs that help choristers green their communities and raise their voices proactively in the current struggle for environmental balance." [LINK]