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We are ever-so-excited to be offering 2 full nights of live entertainment, featuring the bands Rising Appalachia, Tina Collins and Her Pony, and FlamencoWorldCompany –– promising two nights of deeply inspirited entertainment and heart-welling celebration. Thanks to these awesome musicians and dancers, we can count on having a truly magical soundtrack for our conference experience... performances that evoke the wondrous as well as healing capacities of nature, retelling the ages old story of a resilient human spirit for a most fortunate audience. Friday Night - 7:30 - 9:45 Event welcome and live concerts featuring the music and dance of Carlos Lomas, Gioia Tama and Friends of FlamencoWorldCompany, followed by the down home harmonies and hot licks of Nuevo-Appalachian performers Tina Collins and Her Pony. Saturday Night - 7:00 - 10:00 Inspiring personal reflection by Rosemary Gladstar, United Plant Savers founder and the fairy godmother of modern herbalism... storyteller Jesse Wolf Hardin backed by Rising Appalachia, and finally Rising Appalachia doing an entire hour of their high-energy signature tunes! Both nights’ entertainment is free for all TWHC registrants. NonRegistrants can purchase a concert admission ticket prior to entering, $15 per person for each of the two nights’ shows. You will need a TWHC hand-stamp to enter. -------------
FlamencoWorldCompany Friday Night’s entertainment begins with a performance evoking the diverse Hispanic heritage flowering in Nuevo Mexico:
with Carlos Lomas, Gioia Tama, Hasya and Chiara of the virtuoso ensemble FlamencoWorldCompany Gioia and Carlos have crafted a show focused on and in praise of the traditional nodriza, the herbera, the herbalist healer and the amazing native plants that they depend upon for the well being of themselves and their community or village. Compositions will include the memorable and moving Tanguillos Saludables, Soleares del Incurable, and Alegrias para la Salud. Gioia Tama is a heartful flamenco dancer, singer and instructor, beloved by both her students and her audiences. She is the very spirit of flamenco, with her passionate embrace of life, exacting rhythms and calls to action. Of this show, she lyrically writes in her lovely rolling accent: “in the beginning people knew about healing herbs, charms, and the magic of music songs and dances to cure the physically and emotionally sick....we are bringing you ease, peace and happiness...... passion and pain...love and loneliness....flamenco is the web of all gypsy trades.... mouldering hammering whistling singing dancing every day experience.… transmitting the art of being... wanting less .. needing less.… loving more.… spontaneous improvisation after hours of practice and inspiration... great performance for the wonderful world of healing-self-cure.... mil gracias!” Her partner in life and music is Carlos Lomas, a master flamenco guitarist and oud player who adds flavors of his own incomparable passion, sensitivity and vision to the music of the Spanish Gypsies. As a young man determined to learn the craft, he studied and played for years in both Madrid and Malaga. He’s now famous for his inventive structure as well as honoring of flamenco’s roots as a spiritual tradition that venerates not only music but also the living, healing land. All great musicians got to be so largely through an acute ability to listen, perceive, and adapt to the sonic-scapes around them. It is that ability that made Carlos perfect for playing behind and with TWHC codirector Jesse Wolf Hardin back in the 1980’s under the moniker of the “Deep Ecology Medicine Show...” and appropriately, it is a “Medicine” concert and conference where they reunite to perform again. You can download Carlos Lomas’ songs on iTunes or Amazon, and for more information please go to: carloslomas.com and flamencoworldcompany.com
Tina Collins & Her Pony
Tina Collins & Her Pony is the irrepressible Tina, a great songwriter and natural performer, along with awesome improvisational cellist Quetzal Jordan. Born and raised on the banks of the Ohio, Tina hiked the entire chain of the Appalachian Mountains and her plaintive song-stories of those of the hills themselves, rooted in timeless earth and rock. Like some flowering hillside plant, she draws inspiration and sustenance not from the air but through her roots, as the land sings through her. Her songwriting reflects the hue and emotion of traditional and bluegrass melodies, in the spirit of generations of female balladeers before her, while evincing her own personal experiences, feelings, and these contemporary times. Young as she is, her voice is that of a woman already wise for her years, experienced in communicating the low-down feeling of losing a dear lady’s love, sounding as old-timey as you can get on cuts like “Finger Bones,” and sounding fully credible in her determination to continue the “Journey Onward” on her challenging but rollicking way.
Join us in welcoming and applauding this most excellent pairing, the soulful and able Tina & Her Pony. MP3s of Tina’s debut album Journey Onward are available from iTunes, and you can also find her on the Tina Collins Facebook page.
Rising Appalachia
Incredible vocals stir more than soothe, while delighting and rewarding the listener. And as so often with the favorite new acoustic songs in their collection, Rising Appalachia’s lyrics are underpinned with transportive minor-key banjo, played by Leah more like the old South actually feels than the ways we generally hear that instrument used in traditional mountain music. And the fiddle, the instrument that closest mimics the sound of the human voice in all its range of emotions, milked for all it’s worth by an intense Chloe. It is their mission to inspire people to waken to their gifts and destinies, to become empowered in the face of an in some ways repressive political and economic system, to reach those born to care with the motivation to act on their sentiments, to stand up for whatever it is that a person believes. Last year, Leah came to visit all the way from the Southeast to our Anima School and Sanctuary in the Gila Wildlands. We were treated to an old-timey kitchen performance, above our river and with the melodic sound of its flowing waters in the background. We found in Rising Appalachia an alliance of spirits and purpose, sisters of the plant world, agents of healing... and extended Anima canyon family. TWHC participants will have the benefit of concluding their conference celebration on the wings of this kick-ass Americana set. And we warn you: in their live performance, it becomes nearly impossible to sit motionless, our hopes and spirits lifted, answering the music’s call for us, too, to rise. MP3s are available on iTunes. For more information or to order CDs, please go to: RisingAppalachia.com
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Special acknowledgment goes out to the enchanting psych-folk couple Arborea, who weren’t able to make it here this year. You are encouraged to sample their fae forest-scape sounds on iTunes as well. . . . |
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Repertorio Gitano Flamenco para la Salud (Gypsy Flamenco Health Repertoire)
To close the first night of entertainment, we wanted a roots band with attitude, capable of deeply felt ballads as well as energy-raising licks. We listened to over thirty regional acts before finding an ideal act, just to the Northeast of here in our old stomping grounds, Taos.
Tina met the busking cellist Quetzal Jordan in Asheville, North Carolina and her plaintive playing adds heart-pulling effects and at time vibrant rhythm, as well as a sonorous bottom. These two multi-instrumentalists deftly trade off on guitar, banjo and ukulele, creating a rich tapestry of earthy sounds. The combination of powerful vocals and the haunting resonance of the cello join to transport the listener on a magical journey... from Appalachia, to the Sangre de Cristos of New Mexico where they now call home. 
