The performers who grace our stage come from
different paths and traditions and offer up their artistry as a part
of the magic of this Festival. The Pagan Alliance is grateful for
their contributions to our day.
Double Rising: Singing & Music -- Double Rising is a recently formed
loose-knit group of Bay Area women who have come together to sing
magickal traditional and modern sacred music in celebration, to
honor the Earth, and promote peace and unity. - doublerising_at_gmail.com
Eileen Hazel: Singing & Music -- Berkeley-based singer songwriter
rooted firmly in the garden-variety pagan tradition. Her songs mix
folk, country, and rock to soothe and inspire you. -
www.eileenhazel.com
Fontain's M.U.S.E.: Music -- Fontain's M.U.S.E. pursues the art
of celebrating diversity, spirituality, culture, world peace,
freedom of speech, expression and humor. We perform Electronic Dance
Grooves, Eastern Instrumentation, Indian Percussion with Vocals in
English, Persian, Hindi, French, and Spanish. - www.fontainsmuse.com
Mahal: Dance & Drumming -- EthnoFusion music is rooted in
indigenous music from the Philippines, blending voices, lutes,
gongs, and bamboo percussion with modern and other world music
instruments. Powerful and inspiring messages of peace, environmental
protection, as well as women's and children's issues. - AumMahal_at_aol.com
Moh Alileche and Danse Maghreb: Music / Street performance --
Promoting Amazigh (Berber) culture of North Africa. The Berbers or
Imazighen who speak Tamazight, are the first inhabitants of North
Africa. They are the majority in Morocco and Algeria, where they
conintue to struggle to maintain their identity. -
www.flagoffreedom.com - www.dansemaghreb.org
Sub-Rosa Belly Dance: Music -- Sub-Rosa Belly Dance is a Middle
Eastern dance duo that infuses a timeless art with modern flavor.
Paying tribute to their ethnicity, Suzan Reuah of Turkish descent
and Ariellah Aflalo of Moroccan descent, have performed throughout
the Bay Area for the past 4 years. - ariellahk_at_hotmail.com
Tansy Brooks: Belly Dance with Snakes -- Snakes have special
roles in many traditions and myths, and they have a special place in
Tansy's heart. She adopted her first snake many years ago, and
learned bellydancing so she could dance with him. - tansy_at_sonic.net
Temple of the Hebrew Goddess: Singing / Music -- Jamie Isman is a
singer songwriter, Hebrew/Jewish priestess, and founder of Temple of
the Hebrew Goddess. She writes and performs music as devotion and
prayer to the Hebrew and Middle Eastern Goddesses, the goddesses of
her ancestors. - www.jamieisman.com
Vessel: Dance -- Zachary is a Butoh Student who has studied under
Shinichi Moma Koga (SF), Yuko Kaseki (Berklin) and Paige Sorvillo
(SF). - www.vesselstudio.com
Walter Thompson III: Dance -- Walter Thompson III is a dancer
poet and recording artist who has recorded Pagan spoken word LPs
internationally. He is a Witch and is of the Wiccan Tradition. -
www.thunderstormwitch.com
BEMBE YA: Music - This group presents music honoring Earth
spirits known as Orishas in the Santeria tradition. It is sung in
the Lukumi language of the Yoruba people who came to Cuba as slaves
from West Africa. Bembe Ya is led by Carolyn Brandy who is joined by
some of her students.
Brook: Drumming and music, Reclaiming and Feri tradition -
www.magicbrook.com
Dandelian Dance Theater: Dance - princessnpea_at_homtail.com
Sam Webster, M.Div., Chief Adept, OSOGD - www.osogd.org
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