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The Music of Gaia's Voice
Our repertoire reflects the diverse community we serve. It is our intent to act as a vehicle for the wide range of music written by those in the community and by our members.
We enjoy the challenges of an intricate choral arrangement as much as the complexity of a multi-rhythmic chant.
http://www.gaiasvoice.org
It is
my personal goal to pass the wisdom from the past on into the future.
Shanti is the Sanskrit word for peace and I promote
planetary survival, the arts, healthy living, community
service, and a positive sense of humor.
It may come through caring for your children in my beautiful
home, teaching you the folkloric dances from around the
Mediterranean or through my creative writing.
Enjoy!
For fans of the edge of music that escapes trends, defies categories, and captivates - this is it. Foreign tongues spoken in reverse, banned chants, obtuse percussion, stirring dual male/ female vocals, and a vision that touches somewhere on the horizon of insanity.
The Painted Fan is a dance group grounded in the Feri Tradition and in American Tribal Style Belly Dance. Using improvisation as well as traditional middle eastern movements, we seek to honor and explore the sacred. Approaching dance as ritual and sacred myth telling, we create an exciting and entrancing experience.
M.
Macha NightMare, long active in the Reclaiming Collective in the San Francisco
Bay Area, is co-creator, with Starhawk, of The Pagan Book of Living and
Dying and author of Witchcraft and the Web: Weaving Pagan Traditions Online,
ECW Press, Montreal. She has been active in the Covenant of the Goddess
(CoG) at all levels since 1981, and is a ritualist and presenter at festivals,
stores, colleges, radio and TV throughout the U.S. Her work has appeared
in Reclaiming Quarterly, PanGaia, Green Egg, The Pomegranate, Hole in
the Stone, and other publications.
www.MachaNightMare.com
Tempest
is a visual artist, dancer, writer, and Tradsitional Witch. Although
she enjoys what belly dance tradition has to offer, Tempest loves exploring
the dance through
unusual music and creative costuming, pulling on her visual arts background
to "paint a picture" with the dance. By working outside of
the box, Tempest engages the
audience through dramatic embodied storytelling, passionate expression,
and sensuous,
mezmerizing movement. Tempest performs regularly at festivals and events
throughout the Bay Area, and beyond.
Mahal
Making music is the passion of Mahal and in just under five years Mahal has had performances for nearly 33,000 people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Our music is a magical blend of voices, guitars, flutes, indigenous gongs and bamboo percussion and rhythms from the Philippines, with Brazilian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Afro-Latin elements, creating a unique style of ethnic and world fusion music. Instruments vary from small and large bronze gongs and flutes and lutes to Middle Eastern drums, rainsticks and llama toenails. We perform songs in English, Pilipino, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages to celebrate diversity and cross-cultural experiences.
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Walter represents a new breed of poet performers who dances the imagery of his poems in an artistic expression conveying strong emotions which serve as platforms for the continuation of old myths and the celebration of new Pagan awareness. Walter also uses his poetry as a backdrop for his experimental and sacred cinema work that touches on these same themes. Examples of his award-winning work include "Roof Top Ritual", "607", and "Shadow Dancer"
Sam Webster, M. Div., Mage, trained at Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago and Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He is an Adept of the Golden Dawn and a sovereign of the Chthonic-Ouranian OTO, as well as an initiate of Wiccan, Buddhist and Hindu lines. He directs Academy Arkadia, a school of the Pagan Magickal arts, and serves the local Pagan community principally as a priest of Hermes.
Artemisia is a singer and instrumentalist who specializes in witches' music. Although she enjoys playing anything from medieval melodies to improv blues, her favorite thing is music to make magic by. She is an acknowledged Bard of the Church of All Worlds and has taught classes on ritual chants and the Wheel of the Year in traditional song at a number of festivals and gatherings. Listen for Celtic tunes, seasonal songs, and chants to turn the tide or at least to pass the time.