Jess Baker
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In this episode, I interview Jess Baker. Jess is a community musician based in West Yorkshire, in the UK. She works across a diverse range of settings including prisons (with people living on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway), community singing groups, universities and schools. Jess is a board member on the Natural Voice Network and works for Hoot Creative Arts.
Jess Baker: musician, singer, songwriter, and Natural Voice practitioner
“Community musicians are a bit like a Swiss Army knife. You have to be a very good musician, and very flexible. You have to have a toolkit ready because you can turn up, and you don’t quite know what you’ve got.”