BONUS CONTENT: Jocelyn Mackenzie's Advice on Tapping Into Your Psychic Abilities

The musician/medium/maker discusses her many creative projects and gives recommendations of things you should read, watch, and listen to.

Jocelyn Mackenzie, photo by Ester Segretto

Last October, I published an interview with singer-songwriter-visual artist-designer-psychic medium-all around creative badass Jocelyn Mackenzie. We had a very lengthy Zoom call about her time as a member of the folk-pop trio Pearl and the Beard, her solo music, her psychic abilities, her first theatrical musical, Rutka, and her work with the Push Collective, a community of female and non-binary identifying musicians.

Now, Jocelyn is promoting Trad Wife, an album she released with Guy Capecelatro III under the band name Pumpkin Mouth. Described as an “improvisational musical collaboration,” Trad Wife was recorded as part of the RPM Challenge, an annual event encouraging artists to record an album in 28 days.

There was a lot that Jocelyn and I discussed last fall that did not make it into the published interview, so I’m sharing the outtakes now. Read on to learn more about her work with Pearl and the Beard, her tips for developing psychic abilities, and how she avoids burnout. And at the end, you’ll find her recommendations of things to watch, read, listen to, and look at.

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Interview Extras

Was there anything you learned from your time in Pearl and the Beard that you’ve carried on into your solo career?

I didn’t play any instruments before I was in that band. I was very resistant to it and slow to pick it up. I started with an egg shaker and then they gave me a floor tom, and then I had a floor tom and a snare. We joked that every year I would add a drum, which was true.