“Music is so important up here,” Clarkson said. “To get that type of energy, knowledge, and that type of person without extreme research - it was just meant to be.”Įven though this year’s six-week program is wrapping up, it won’t be the last goodbye for Clarkson, as she will be returning to North Island in the summer to instruct a week-long program for Wild Heart Music. “We are extremely fortunate we have had Joey for this amount of time and she has created this energy that builds every year and now we have a spring board with Ali,” said Murray. “She came up and shadowed for a day of teaching, really loved the program, and wanted to do something on the North Island anyways, so she is going to be stepping in to this role and she’s going to fly with it,” added Clarkson. Singer-songwriter Ali Romanow, who Clarkson has known since they were both five or six-years-old when they used to sing in a choir together, will be taking over the reigns. “I love living in Europe, and I want to be in Europe - I miss it right now, but my heart is always on the island and with the kids up here,” said Clarkson.
“She’s been tremendous, but the life that she’s living has to move forward,” said Wild Heart Music Board Member Deborah Murray, adding, “We are moving forward, but we are so fortunate we have a new person to facilitate the program.”Ĭlarkson moved to London a year after Wild Heart Music began (she currently lives there with her husband), and has flown back three different times to instruct the North Island school’s programs. “It’s by far been the busiest year,” said Clarkson, explaining that the program, which started in 2012, has been continually expanding with new schools jumping on board each year. After four years of bringing music into the lives of North Island children through the Wild Heart Music Program, Joey Clarkson is getting ready to say goodbye.Ĭlarkson currently travels from Europe to the North Island every year to facilitate the free six-week music program that brings choral and song-writing instruction into schools, reaching roughly 350 kids throughout the North Island.
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