Carrie Baum Love has been a musician for over 30 years and has varied experience creating music for bands, dance, theater, and film as well as teaching songwriting and guitar. Her latest solo show “You Can’t Play guitar When Your Dead – An Ironic Optimist’s Guide to the Universe” was part of the 2011 DIVAfest at the EXIT Theatre. She is also the artistic director of Supersonic Theater, and the composer/director of ”Exit Sign: A Rock Opera” which won “Best Musical” at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival.
Carrie holds a certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Sound, Music, Voice & Healing and has studied with leaders in the field, including Silvia Nakkach, Pauline Oliveros, Pat Moffitt Cook, John Beaulieu, Clive Robbins, Glen Velez, Christine Stevens, Louise Montello and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. She continues to study and practice the integration of music and wellness.
Carrie is also founder of Music for Empowerment, a non-profit program of Discover the Sound of YOU @ SoundSpace! MFE has given songwriting workshops and creative sound coaching to three organizations: Maitri (hospice), Seven Tepees Youth Program (inner-city youth) and Art For Recovery (an art program that is pat of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center) The Music For Empowerment program is based on the principle that people need to self-express in all circumstance and stages of their lives. This exciting program is in its initial stages of development. Please feel free to inquire if you would like to be involved!