Blueswoman Laura Collins will open and close the second annual Voices of Faith event at the Vatican next month with a hauntingly beautiful ballad penned by fellow Kiwi musician Steve Cournane and accompanied on piano by Wayne Mason, writer of the 1960s pop hit Nature.
“The whole thing is pretty surreal. I’m kind of humbled really. It is hard to believe,” Collins said.
The opportunity is the result of her friendship with Cournane, a former Wellingtonian whose Peruvian wife, Rocio Figueroa, is second-in-charge of the annual event.
It was founded last year after Pope Francis called for a greater female presence in the Catholic Church. Continue reading