MUSIC
Halim El-DabhDrumming Across the Great Rivers
A celebration of drums to evoke the rhythmic traditions from Egypt, Nigeria, Brazil, and the Louisiana Bayou! This workshop creates a connection between four great rivers: the Nile, the Niger, the Amazon, and the Mississippi, exploring their indigenous drumming techniques and expanding them with meditation enhanced by chant and body movement.
Chas Smith
Donna Boswell MM, MLT
Terry Sindar
holds a Master's Degree in Music from Cleveland State
University, where his class Roots of Rock and Soul and American Pop Culture
is the largest-attendance class offered
(over 200 each quarter), and he's just completed a text book on the subject
for Kendall-Hunt Publishing. His studies focus on composition, ethnomusic
and electro-acoustics, and he has also given a lecture series for the
Cleveland Clinic advocating alternative ideas in music therapy. Recently
nominated by The Free Times as Cleveland's Best Keyboardist, Chas directs
and plays keyboards and theremin for Einstein's Secret Orchestra and Motel
Records' glam-rock band Cobra Verde (nominated by The Free Press as
Cleveland's Best Rock Band), and has programmed ESO Swamp Radio at WCSB
89.3 FM in Cleveland since 1987.
Space Trance One
Trance music meditation seminar/Live performance, All comers
welcome... but kids should be accompanied by an adult. CSU's rock professor
Chas Smith plugs in, turns on and pulls out the stops on his analog
synthesisers and theremin for a guided meditation voyage to the stars.
Imagine our connection to those far reaches... big and small... Quasars and
quarks and strings.
Imagine how things would look at 99.9% the speed of light. Imagine walking
back down the double helix and beyond... When the Earth formed. When our
sun formed. Were we there? In some way... we were. No participation
required besides an open mind and ears. Sagan has finally arrived.
holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music, and has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, the Blossom Festival Chorus, the Annapolis Opera, and in a special appearance for the consecration of the Bishop of the State of Wyoming. A long time Chameleon, and organizer of Healers Row and First Aid for the Starwood Festival, Donna led the Chameleon Madrigals in it's early years. She has studied Soul Travel with Evan Pritchard, Magic with Ian Corrigan, was initiated by Isaac Bonewits, and is an initiate of the Chet Cabal.
Myth, Magic and Music
Many myths of the Ancients were preserved for us through classical
music. As soon as the early Christian Church relaxed its hold on music, the
late Medieval composers turned to mythology for their themes. From Claudio
Monteverdis Orfeo in the 1500s through to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in the
mid 1900s, music has invoked deities and celebrated the tales of our
ancestors. This workshop is a brief survey of some of the invocations,
myths and magic of the classical style of music, with an emphasis on the
continuing allure of the Orpheus Myth.
is a writer of Gothic/Pagan related fantasy, the author of the novel Goddess of thee Crucifixion, and a co-founder of the spiritual path "Thee Gothik Faerie Grove". He has written for Gothic, Fantasy, and Pagan magazines such as Specter Magazine, Bi-Luminescence, Through the Trees, NOX, and Shadowdance. Terry is a Reiki Master and holds a Golden Sash in Gung Fu, and practices healing combining Reiki and Shiatsu massage. He works professionally as a music therapist, and is a founding member of several bands. He plays bass, percussion (Eastern, East Indian, and North African Rhythms), and presently plays Celtic/Mediterranean/Gypsy fiddle with Dragonfly Reel.