1) Cantando la Vida is a communal singing gathering; it is not an opportunity to give performances, nor to create an audience.
2) The singing voice is the primary focus. All musical instruments are in service to the voice.
3) It is understood that the passage of songs from one tradition, lineage, or culture, to another involves the need for permission. Unless otherwise stated by the originator of a song, or made explicit by a tradition, this permission is considered to be implicitly granted by those, native to that culture, who share and teach songs.
4) With the caveat of permission recognized, this event offers a safe space for anyone to sing any song from any spiritual tradition with which they are humbly moved to connect. To honor this soul call, we acknowledge that such appreciative engagements with songs are primarily matters between the person and the spiritual agencies that call them.
5) We agree to honor the working premise of this event, that there is no ultimate ‘right’ way to sing a song. Outside of helping a song sharer to remember a melody or lyric, or with pronunciation and translation, one cannot ‘correct’ a song that is presented at our event, one can only, respectfully, offer another version(s) of that song.