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new testimonials

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Beautiful words received after this most recent concert, or salon (I like that word better) on Saturday night:

“This was a perfect evening or ‘Salon’. Your lyrics are a beautiful expression of complex subjects and emotions that are often difficult to put into words. Thank you for manifesting on my holodeck.”

“Thank you for this magical journey - visiting past and futures still to come and culminating with the present. What a glorious singing being you are — what a glorious singing being you are — ”

“I just want to thank you and let you know how much T and I needed an evening like this. I won’t forget you and know that we’ll cross paths. I feel like I started to breathe again.”

“Thank you for sharing your stories and journeys in your beautiful voice, soft and strong.”

“Thanks so much again for the wonderful soothing concert last night at —’s home!! It was wonderful! I look forward to enjoying your CD for many moons to come.”

heeding the call

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

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I gratefully receive magical songs that fly into my head and sing themselves to me. It has taken many years of process and practice, discovery and recovery of my voice, and the help of many amazing teachers and helpers. This has been a very long apprenticeship; now, I emerge from my chrysalis to offer myself, to fully be what I am. Yes!

My vision is to travel with my guitar and my songs and go where the wind blows, play in peoples’ homes and share my muse and heart, travelling in true troubadour fashion called forth by those who seek what I offer. I need no roots. I am not a homebody. I am subject to a holy wanderlust I have only recently learned to name, and it only grows stronger the longer I live.

The road is calling me. Your couch is calling me. I come to sing for my supper, and I spread the beloved word as I go.

Imagine a circle of friends curled up in your living room, snuggling and journeying to an intimate sharing of songs. I break the paradigms of performer and audience, musician and fans. I seek to become, I am a vessel for the nourishment of hearts and bodies, minds and spirits, and this is my bliss, to give, to live.

The business of music is no business of mine. I am not about business. I am all about playing my part in facilitating the evolution of all personkind, including the great Person which is this living planet and the Person who is the Whole, greater than the sum of the parts of all that is, was, might have been or might become.

Once, I feared to show my face to the world. I shrunk from the light into the shadows, but the shadows were not safe. I am ready now, and I am still shy, still careful. I dare to risk sharing my heart with others that they may more easily open their own hearts with their beloveds and that they may, if they chooose, join my own growing and evolving circle of friends and lovers.

Rather than fans, applause or money, I seek love, new experiences and heartsharing. I am here to offer my gifts to you and to rediscover who you are as we meet again for the first time. I trust my friends, my brothers and sisters and travelers on the walk of life. We are familiars from the beginning of things, and we know. I trust the path which beckons, calls and moves forward under my feet. We are ever-growing souls in an evolving universe; the world is getting smaller because we are kindred spirits growing greater.

I am a sacred vessel, as are we all, and I am here for you now, as we are all here for each other.

The songs should be listened to with the ears and the heart and felt with the body. If you feel called to have me come to your home, email me and we’ll find a way. It doesn’t matter to me so much where you live; I will connect the dots of the places I am called and trace a trajectory around the world if it goes that far. It may take a little longer if you live in Australia, but if you want me I’ll get there somehow.

And I’ll keep writing. Have laptop, will travel. Holy Hallelujah, Batman!

Coming out as a sacred balladeer

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Yes, it is happening now. On the 15th of September, I begin my solo journey as a sacred balladeer, a genre invented by a dear friend for me. If the skin fits–wear it! My concert for the women at PWCA camp this summer was my way of ceremonially stepping-into the role, owning and claiming the name for myself.

(Standing in front of the room. Clearing throat. Ahem. Ahum.) “Hi, everybody. My name is Phoenix and I am a sacred balladeer, a chronicler of crazy truth and a life dancer. I am fifty. I’m old enough now.”

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Singing/songwriting is foremost among my passions! For many years now I’ve been the receiver of a large repertoire of magical songs that fly into my head and make me remember them. I am choosing to emerge from my chrysalis to share them with people. Hallelujah!

The songs below are mostly on the general theme of women and my relationship with the feminine principle. I have many other songs in a wide range of themes. To hear more music and see some of the lyrics, go to the band website. There is a CD available with 12 songs on it, 7 of them mine. The CD has versions of “(She Lives) In the Dark of the Moon” and “Cup of Clay”, both of which can be heard below. The following are a selection of songs recorded live at a concert at PWCA Women’s Camp on Lake Cowichan in August of 2007; click on the links to listen.

Obvious
Death to Sacred Cows
Fat Naked Woman
Drown
Cup of Clay
Women Like Me
(She Lives) In the Dark of the Moon
Midnight Flea Circus
Power Song

some of the feedback so far:

“I enjoyed and was impressed with the complexity of your poetry and music, and the challenging subject matter which you address in them.”

“Not only were your songs beautiful and the quality of your voice both tender and strong, but I think your songs are healing songs.”

“Your concert night was really enjoyable, professional and very entertaining. Your stories before all the songs made them special and personal.”

“I loved your concert. I was thrilled and impressed by your courage, your heart-revealing lyrics, your stage presence, the way your voice is opening more and more.”

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