Threshold Choir

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from the Threshold Choir home office! ~Leeann, Carrie & Priscilla

11/17/2025

Fantastic article in The Guardian this week about the Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, chapter and the origin of Threshold Choir.

A worldwide movement to sing gentle songs to the dying provides comfort, peace and release to both the suffering and the singers

05/14/2025

Enjoy this video about the Sonoma County Threshold Singers singing at a memorial on May 3rd, 2025, for the 35 unclaimed folks who were buried in their county in 2024. This video was created by a reporter from the Press Democrat.

https://youtu.be/Ydy-ZEenebc?feature=shared

04/17/2025

On March 22, 2025 the San Francisco Threshold Choir celebrated the 25th anniversary of Threshold Choir and the release of "Rest Easy: Songs of Comfort From the Threshold Choir" with a program at the beautiful San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home. Enjoy this full recording!

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Threshold Choir 25th Anniversary celebration on March 22, 2025. Songs featured were from the collection "Rest Easy: Songs of Comfort from the Threshold Choir...

03/11/2025

This new Threshold Choir in Walpole, MA created a video describing the bedside singing experience and what draws us to it. Featuring "Rest Easy" by Marilyn Power Scott and "Walking Each Other Home" by Kate Munger.

A five minute mini documentary about the Threshold Choir. Their mission is to bring comfort to people nearing the end of life.

02/24/2025

The Brisbane Threshold Singers spent a wonderful weekend with the Ballina Threshold Singers members to celebrate 25 years of kindness made audible internationally across the world through The Threshold Choir. We also connected with the Sydney Threshold choir via zoom. We sang, walked, swam, chatted, laughed, ate, hugged, smiled, slept, made new friends, got to know each other better, learned songs and shared heart felt kindness with each other. We sang to a friend who was experiencing her own threshold time in her life....this was special as singing for those experiencing tender thresholds in their lives is what we do with love and care.

01/10/2025

Heart of the Valley Threshold Singers singing “Calming, Resting, Breathing” written by Patricia Hallam.

12/17/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pv7v0Y5S4A

Threshold Choir chapters around the world touch thousands of lives every year. For Pam Espinosa, Threshold Choir leader and chapter founder twice over, this mission is fundamental to her daily work.

“At times this work can be difficult, but it is such an honor and privilege,” Pam said. “We bring comfort and peace to people through music. We strive to make the journey a little lighter, and while we are giving with our voices and hearts, we receive such blessings in return.”

Pam’s commitment to giving back to her community via music is fundamental to who she is. She has taken Threshold Choir with her around the world, coaching chapters on Zoom from Ecuador and supporting fledgling chapters from Florida to Indiana and Massachusetts.

Recently, the Boca Raton chapter, one of the chapters founded by Pam and her daughter, Monica, had the opportunity to share their gifts during a bedside sing. Watch the video to see a snippet of the impact a bedside sing can make.

Threshold Choir is the passion of incredible leaders like Pam around the world. Will you join us in expanding this mission by making a gift to the Blanket the World with Song campaign? Please visit our website to donate today.

11/28/2024

Wishing you all a restful holiday! ~Sarah, Carrie & Priscilla

11/22/2024

Kate Munger's beautiful song "Can I Stand Here For You" sung by Melanie DeMore

11/19/2024

Walking Chip Home

I felt right at home when I became a part of the Vashon Island Threshold Choir last year. It was a perfect fit because singing has given me solace for over 70 years. When a few weeks ago, I heard my high school folk singing partner Chip was in hospice, I knew I needed to sing at his bedside. A mutual friend, Marie (not a singer), suggested we travel from Seattle to San Antonio together to visit him, and so we did.

Before leaving home, I reached out to the San Antonio Threshold Choir, and they immediately responded. A trio could be arranged, and we quickly came up with a bouquet of common songs. Deborah, Bill and Melissa met me at Chip’s house late one hot afternoon. As we tuned up together in the living room, I knew without a doubt that our voices would be a balm for Chip. But when we sang at his bedside, his response was a balm to us all and a very special moment for me. I got a huge grin and a long hug.

So, I extend that hug to everyone who made that moment possible. As for Marie, who had been skeptical about the whole choir thing, upon our return she graciously reported to all Chip’s friends that experiencing a Threshold Choir in action is nothing short of elysian - a blissful experience. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Liz Illg, Vashon Island, WA TC

08/08/2024

This was a video aired by PBS affiliate KQED eight years ago. It does a beautiful job explaining the Threshold Choir mission and sharing some of the music we sing at bedside.

Threshold Choir founder says music serves as a bridge “from the purely physical temporal body experience ... to what lies beyond.”