Collaborations, Organizations & Causes
Newcomer has collaborated with a range of musicians in performances and recordings. She also has collaborated on performances, presentations and efforts with authors, academics, activists, and organizations.
Newcomer is a member of the National Advisory board of the Beuchner institute of King college.
Newcomer collaborated with author Parker J. Palmer to create the presentation "Healing the Heart of Democracy."
"Transforming Stories" was a presentation by Newcomer and Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor a neuroantomist and author of the book My Stroke of Insight.
Newcomer also collaborated with authors Scott Russell Sanders, Philip Gulley and J. Brent Bill for the PBS special Festival of Friends: An Offering in 4 Quaker Voices.
Newcomer has collaborated with Jim Wallis. Jim Wallis is the author of the New York Times best selling book God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It,
Newcomer has toured the United States, Europe, Africa and India including performances with Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter David Wilcox in shows based on spiritual story, Amjad Ali Khan, Barbara Kingsolver, Parker J. Palmer, Jill Bolte Taylor, Scott Russell Sanders and Philip Gulley.
Newcomer gives a percentage of her album sales to charitable organizations including the Interfaith Hunger Initiative American Friends Service Committee, America's Second Harvest, The Center for Courage and Renewal, and Literacy Volunteers of America.
In September 2012, the collaboration An Evening of Reflection, Conversation & Song: Taylor, Newcomer, and Sasso was hosted by the Athenaeum Foundation. It included Newcomer, Sandy Sasso and Jill Bolte Taylor with the objective of providing stories and music exploring the ideas in Parker J. Palmer's book "Healing the Heart of Democracy' for those in search of ideas on how to "Reclaim our capacity for civility and community".
Her albums also contain collaborations with a range of other musicians.
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