Shows
Photo: Melissa Schelling
June 20, 2008: Summer Solstice Festival, 3:00pm, Salt Spring Island Vineyard
January 5, 2008: Renewal, concert with Richard Lee, 7:30pm, Ken & Mary's house, Hilo, Hawaii
January 6, 2008: Renewal, sacred Sound workshop for women, 2:00 pm Ken & Mary's house, Hilo, Hawaii
January 17, 2008: Winter Tales, 6:00pm, Honaka'a Public Library, Honaka'a, Hawaii
January 18, 2008: Winter Tales, 3:00pm, Hilo Public Library, Hilo, Hawaii
January 19, 2008: Winter Tales, 2:00pm, Kailua Kona Public Library, Kona, Hawaii
Review of Earth Magic by RIchard Diamond of the Kauai Oversoul
Glastonbury Tor Photo by Wilda Collins
February 1, 2008: Concert for Candlemas, with Richard Lee, Adele Wynn and Boaz at the Mystic Garden Party Festival, 7:30pm, Coco's, Kapoho Hawaii
April 26, 2008: Stories of Spring, 10:00am, BC Museum, Victoria, BC
Last night I attended one of the sweetest and most moving of concerts. Oona McOuat, harp player, is a genuine songbird / diva. When she sings one is moved to close their eyes and contemplate beauty, and, at the same time, attend to her powerful message of Earth Magic and Healing. The music is "a unique multi-cultural soundscape to honor the Earth's spring awakening, performing a mystical blend of traditional, original and improvised music sprinkled with some Celtic springtime lore."
Her accompanying artists, all accomplished in their own right, blend together beautifully to present a heart-felt, beauteous and healing concert. The music, in its gentleness, has the power to activate deep centers of unfelt feelings and memories of genuine Magic and supports the reconnection of our consciousness with the Faerie realm.
If great art has the power to evoke the profound in the observer, then this concert qualifies as Great Art.
Kendall Ross, also a great musician, is a 4th generation mandolin player. Kendall looks like a leprechaun to me; unfortunately he is 6' 5" so, perhaps, he is the tallest leprechaun in the universe. He provides a powerful complement to Oona with his musical talents and rich deep voice.
Kimba, whose depth of musical art and talent is well known on this island, provides deep and harmonious support with her masterful didjeridu playing; she adds the Native American flute, Celtic flute, Tibetan and crystal bowls to her repertoire. She also recites some beautiful poetry from memory, her words flowing effortlessly from an ongoing fountain of creativity. And, finally, Stephen Ross, who plays Shakuhachi flute, zither and dumbek, a Middle Eastern drum rounds out the troupe.
Truly, in the Presence of the music, one cannot help but access a deep part of themselves that is One with the dimension of Magic and Faerie.
This neo-celtic concert utilizes music as a stream of consciousness, enabling us to access ancestral and archetypal memories of our heritage where the elemental kingdom was fully Present as a complement and completion to who and what we are.
This music is also a Prayer, an statement to supports us all in allowing Reverence to be present at the core level and to open to the reemergence wisdom of the Goddess, as we as a species birth to the next level.
So - leave your TV sets, your radio, movies, and other stimuli / media and treat yourself to the possibility of deep healing; attend and support our incredibly talented local (and Big Island) acoustic musicians. Everyone wins!
If you go, be sure you request Oona's latest song creation, "Magic Is Nigh", one of the most beautiful love songs I have ever heard.
Looking out onto Avalon from the Glastonbury Tor
Photo by Wilda Collins