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of the Koad Dreamtrybe Earth
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Rose Forest
Green Gaia
Consort Robert
Gass Medwyn
Goodall Scott
Helland Jaiya Kiva Lady
Isadora Anne
Lister Llewellyn
and Juliana Bonnie
Lockhart Michelle
Mays Byron
Metcalf Nuada Point
of Ares Laura
Powers Steve
Roach Gabrielle
Roth Wendy
Rule Serpentine
Music Online Silverbranch Spiral
Dance Spiral
Rhythm The
Wyrd Sisters
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 Michelle
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The
style of Singer/Songwriter Michelle
Mays has been likened to a blend of Lorena McKennitt and Joan Baez.
Michelle's music has a distinct style that is all her own. Take a
Jazzy Blues singer, a smidgen of folk music, throw in an
anthropologist, add a bit of an Earth Mother, and refine it with a
strong sense of the spiritual and you then have a good base to describe
her music. However, when asked where her musical style comes from,
she smiles and says, 'Mother Earth'. Incidentally, in an interview on
Earth Radio International, Mark Kelly likened her music to.. Channeling
the Goddess.
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Fireleap
Read a review of Fireleap by Boudica click here.
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Kellianna is an accomplished musician and performer worldwide. Her CD's
Lady Moon and I Walk with the Goddess, are being recognized around the
globe as a must have for any lover of Goddess inspired folk music. Her
live shows are a combination of acoustic guitar songs and chants to the
God and Goddess. She is a certified teacher of SpiritSong, a powerful
tool for freeing your voice, for accessing the authentic sound that is
you, and for entering into Spirit. Kellianna was trained by Shawna
Carol in facilitating this unique approach to spiritual growth.
Kellianna facillitates chant circles at festivals and shops all over
the states She is a collector of chants and takes great joy in sharing
these chants in her circles. She is experienced in the art of ritual
chant, and uses the song to move energy, to celebrate the ancient
mysteries, and to strengthen intention.
Visit Kellianna on the web at:
Kellianna's home page Kellianna's MySpace page
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With over 150,000 Albums of their music sold Worldwide, Llewellyn
& Juliana are highly respected new age and relaxation Artists
currently signed to The New World Music Label.
Much of their work is related to healing therapies and they have
worked closely with therapists to produce the hugely successful
MIND,BODY & SOUL Series for New World Music. (Some of Their Mind
Body & Soul Titles include: Shiatsu, Reiki, Aromwatherapy,
Crystals, Pilates, Tantric Sexuality,Tai Chi 2 and Colour Healing).
The Reiki album was a finalist in the New Age Voice
Best Healing / Meditation category for 1999 and Crystals
reached Number One in The July 1999 US Mystic chart. Aromatherapy
was runner up in the 2000 Visionary Awards for Best Healing Album.
As well as their Healing Music, they are also known for their unique
uplifting and more mainstream work. As vocalists, they have been
likened to Enya and Clannad and often guest on other well respected
Artist Albums. (Medwyn Goodall's "Comet", "The
Scroll", and the Terry Oldfield Album "Across the
Universe") Their mystical album "Ghosts"
reached number 9 in the US New Age Chart.
"Moonlore" reached number 5 in the US New Age
Chart and "Celtic Legend" was voted third as
the most favourite Album on the New World Music Label.
Pure Peace (produced with Kevin Kendle) was voted by
New World Music as the top album of 2000.
If you would
like to learn more about Llewellyn and Juliana's music please click
here to visit their site.
Be
sure to visit the Secret Waterfall section of the site for some
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Emerald Rose
Emerald Rose as a musical group came together sometime in 1996, with
our first "official" performance on St. Patrick's Day 1997.
We were friends first, working together on projects that varied from
landscaping and stonemasonry to the study of ancient religions. At
night, we'd play Magic:The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, or
other such creative pastimes, and gradually we found a synergy in our
musical interests. Though our styles and backgrounds were diverse, we
all shared a love for our ancestors' Celtic traditions, and a desire
to see this musical heritage grow, thrive and evolve.
We started with a few "Silly Wizard" tunes and a few
originals, and after a number of "campfire gigs" we were
encouraged to get ourselves out in front of an audience. It wasn't
long until we realized this was what our hearts truly wanted to do,
and the band took on a life of its own...guided by the Muses of Inspiration!
Our first CD was produced in 1998 in two whirlwind studio weekends.
This CD, "Emerald Rose", was very well-received by a
growing and supportive community. CD sales (plus some serious gigging
at pubs, festivals and small venues) allowed us to fund our second CD
"Bending Tradition" in 2000. We expect this CD, along with
our MP3.com efforts, to be a "springboard" to a much larger
national and international audience for our music. We've found that
we love performing nearly as much as creating the music, and we
especially love the energy of an enthusiastic audience!
Emerald Rose is many things, a blend of musical style that's evolving
in ways even we can't always anticipate. From Celtic tradition, to
modern ballad, to folk, pop, rock & roll and even zany chicken
songs...who know's what's coming next? We all just hope it continues
to be as entertaining to you as it is to us!
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Laura Powers
Laura Powers spent much of her youth living in various
parts of the world. She studied abroad and began singing
professionally in college. She went on to land a recording deal with
Carrere Records in Paris, France where she had several successful
singles and appeared internationally on radio and television,
including Radio Luxemburg. In addition to her background as a live
performer, Powers' craftsmanship as a songwriter has made a name for
herself in the music and film industries. Her songs have been covered
by numerous recording artists, and is reaching an international
audience with her songs recorded in French and Spanish.
If you would like to learn more
about Laura's music please click here to visit her site.
For
reviews of both of Laura's releases by Sunfell please click here.
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Kiva
KIVA is a percussive, upbeat, worldbeat folk ensemble that
celebrates the magic of nature and ancient bardic traditions with
music that opens the heart and heals the spirit. The band blends
strong vocal harmonies with rich and diverse folk style
instrumentation, performing originals, traditionals, and covers. The
musicians are inspired by many cultures, spiritual disciplines, and
musical styles, including celtic-folk, folk-rock, blues, big band,
traditional chants, and jazz. KIVA is based in the Washington DC
metro area, and has been nominated five times (so far) for the
Washington Area Music (Wammie) Award.
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Spiral Dance
Pagan Celtic music in Australia?
Sure, and it works on all levels. Great narration by Vince Brophy,
who spins the yarn about early Irish folk mingling with druids and
demons. The famous "Cattle Raid of Cooley" is given a
rousing flute and accordion duel/duet with bracing bohdran and bass.
"Warrior Woman" may just be the first folk-rock feminist
pagan anthem penned in Down Under. Good musicianship and attitude
throughout on this journey across the Ulster Cycles. Horslips got
there first, but Spiral Dance is nipping at their heels. TJM Visit their website by clicking
here.
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Elvendrums
Evocative and mystical, Elvendrums songs unlock the magic of the
faerie realm. This music fits no genre, but creates one of its' own,
blending soaring Celtic harmonies with the exhilarating rhythms of
Africa and the Middle East. With thoughtful lyrics and original
melodies, Elvendrums takes you to a place where elves, fairies and
dragons are real.
Elevendrums
Website click here.
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Wendy Rule
Over the past few years, Wendy Rule has become one of Melbourne’s
most respected and sought-after artists, her emotionally rich,
enticingly cinematic songs and extraordinary voice drawing more and
more people into her musical world. It’s a world unlike any
other – often dark, always adventurous, filled with memorable
melodies, gentle textures, and dramatic power.
Visit Wendy's
website by clicking here.
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The Wyrd Sisters
We are a trio of pagan/feminist singer/songwriters. We
are noted for our lyrics and harmonies though we weave intricate
instrumentation around the voices. Our topics are spiritual and
intensely personal. We have songs like 'The Solstice
Carole'(self-explanatory),'Inside the Dreaming'(about seeing the
truth outside of accepted reality)and 'Warrior' (embracing one's own
power) between 3 recordings. What has been unusual for us is how we
have been so well recieved by mainstream public. It's downright encouraging.
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Gaia
Consort
Gaia Consort sounds like a movie sound track for the gathering of the tribes.
Imagine a thousand naked hippies dancing around bonfires in the woods to drums
the size of Gallo’s fermentation tanks. Add to that some intelligent lyrics
about evolution, sensuality, engaging the natural world, and then throw in a
string trio. Imagine Ian Anderson dropping acid with Peter Gabriel and doing a
mash-up between So and Thick as a Brick.
Christopher Bingham and Sue Tinney got themselves booked into Nudestock 97
and announced the new name, played some of the new stuff, and the crowd was on
it’s feet . In 1999 and 2001 the Consort released Gaia Circles and Secret Voices
to critical acclaim in all the major Pagan magazines and a fair number of
“mainstream” music journals as well.
Their next CD, Evolve, was released in April 2004 and it continues Bingham’s
musical and philosphical explorations within the framework of an expanding Gaian
Culture. Friends and fans donated over $17,000 by “adopting” songs to help Gaia
Consort record the disc. Evolve is as much a product of a supportive community
as it an individual vision.
Backing Bingham and Tinney are some of the Pacific Northwest’s finest
musicians. Gaia Consort’s current line up includes Larry Golding violin, Sunnie
Reed viola, Dan Ochipinti drums, Matthew Burgess on hand percussion, Jay Kenney,
keyboards, Roberta Downey and Betsy Tinney, cello, Dan Mohler, bass and Larry
Murante and Amy Read on backing vocals.
Gaia Consort has never been about making it big in the music “industry.”
Eschewing the usual venues of clubs and coffee houses, Gaia Consort has managed
to quietly build an audience that fills rooms, playing house concerts and
self-produced shows in halls around the Pacific Northwest. They’ve built enough
of a following to have been invited to play a variety of festivals and events,
including headlining the long running Heartland Pagan Festival (2000) in Kansas,
and Canada’s Wic Can Fest (2002) outside Toronto. Their concert celebrating
Evolve filled the 400 seat Meydenbauer Center.
Visit
the Gaia Consort website.
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Music to Listen For

Beltane by Jaiya

Still Chillin' by Gabrielle
Roth and the Mirrors

Mysts of Avalon by Llewellyn

Code of the Goddess by Laura Powers

Armagedon by Kiva

Notes of Being by Spiral Dance

Sin and Other Salvations
by The Wyrd Sisters

Rants and Rambles by Emerald Rose

Evolve by Gaia Consort

A Part of Me by Wendy Wylde

Instrumental Dreams by Robert Gass
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