Jacinta Whitcome: Jacinta Whitcome

Jacinta Whitcome - Bio

Singing WordSMITH and SouNd Philosopher

With the release of her first full length album, Blue Slate Zephyr, in July of 2006, Jacinta Whitcome has accomplished the first step of a long journey with many first steps and no particular destination. The material contained on the album illustrates Jacinta’s craftsmanship, intuitive lyrical ability, and innate emotional intelligence. A true alchemist at heart, Jacinta strives to find or create gold from the shadows of life. She is always learning and working with different styles of music as well. She began writing songs at an early age discovering that when one truly listens, the hearing does not simply occur within the ear; the resonance is experienced throughout the entire entity of the human being. As an avid listener Jacinta Whitcome has experienced this throughout her entire life, seeking to recreate this extraordinary connection for others as well as to find her own expression of it.

With the encouragement and edification of the network of artists, actors, musicians and writers around her, she delved into an infinite universe of songwriting. As a performer Jacinta creates intimacy and understanding between the listener, the music, the words and herself. She is always seeking, with humble gratitude, to unwrap the grace and humor in every aspect of life. Her focus as a performer is on deriving beauty from the mundane, humor from the ever-feared “mistake” (musicians like to call it improvisation) and to cultivate the seed of calm amidst the thrashing denial of completeness that we humans like to call life. Jacinta returned to western New York in 2005 after living in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area for seven years and Colorado for 2 years. While in Massachusetts she focused on performing and songwriting. She honed her talents on the songwriter circuit of Cambridge, and neighboring cities.

She eventually chose to experience life from a perspective other than that of the Cheshire songwriter, ever-observing the strange happenings around her. She decided to dive into life by working on a lobster boat where she heard the tales of the sea and experienced a dying breed of old school lobstermen. She mingled with painters, writers, musicians and street-folk, all the while collecting stories and the sounds of life. In 2003 she traveled to Boulder, Colorado and lived there for two years to attend Naropa University seeking a degree in expressive therapy. Eventually she realized that no matter where she went or what she did she would never live happier or give more than by listening to and expressing the intricacies and omnipotent beauty of the life around her.

Venues

I have had the pleasure of playing many great venues as well. A few of these are: Club Passim, Cambridge, MA; Naropa Universtiy, Colorado, MA; and the Great Blue Heron Music Festival (main stage), Sherman, NY.

Thanks

There are many who have mentored me and helped me along the way. I would like to mention them here:

My parents Lee Whitcome and Jari Poulin and their significant others Charmain Grimm and Rob Karpman;My husband Kenneth Hansen; my brother and sisters- Xavier Whitcome, Aayla and Jenna Yasav; My teachers: Paul Psathas, Fredrick Dixon, Eric Pearson; Betsy Siggins, Matt Smith, Karen LaCompte, Community Rehab Care, Newton, MA; Tara Lamont Eastman; Cindy Haight; Jeff and Alex and the Labriynth Press Company; Infinity Performing Art Program-Shane Hawkins  and there are many, many more, thank you all.