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20160725_121811 The new Fender acoustic, compliments of Brian Henke!
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20160725_121811 The new Fender acoustic, compliments of Brian Henke!

20160725_121811 The new Fender acoustic, compliments of Brian Henke!

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Jul12

The Starwood Festival

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 @ 7:00PM — Monday, July 18, 2022 @ 7:00PMTue, Jul 12, 2022 @ 7:00PM — Mon, Jul 18, 2022 @ 7:00PM

Wisteria, 39825 OH-684 , Pomeroy, Ohio

Hey Guys! GUESS WHAT!!!

Starwood 2022 is going to be Bad ASS this July!!!!!

Featuring:

VELVET HAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!

SONA REUNION!!!!

Brian Henke! 🎵🎶🎸🪘

And!

The Troubadoors of Divine Bliss, Lin Sanders, Mama Gina Lamonte, Maevyn Stone, Michael Kelsey, Dreadlock Dave, Awen, Root & Branch, Phat Man Dee and the Social Justice Disco w/Liz Berlin, Rustbelt Ragtops, Guaracha, Milly Raccoon, Monkeystik, Djobe Ensemble, THE PUFFERDOME, rituals, workshops, The Dig Dome, THE BONFIRE!!! And MORE!!!

Here a discount code for you magnificent people, and my fans, to save $25 off of your advance admission to Starwood!!!! YEAH!!!!!

Use Code: SPELLBELL when registering!!!!

See You This Summer, at STARWOOD!!!!!

Reawaken, Renew, and Expand at The Starwood Festival America's Longest Running Transformational Festival!

With Beltana Spellsinger, Velvet Hammer, Brian Henke, Troubadoors of Divine Bliss, Lin Sanders, Mama Gina Lamonte, Maevyn Stone, Michael Kelsey, Dreadlock Dave, Awen, Root & Branch, Phat Man Dee and the Social Justice Disco w/Liz Berlin, Rustbelt Ragtops, Guaracha, Milly Raccoon, Monkeystik, Djobe Ensemble, PUFFERDOME, rituals, workshops, The Dig Dome, THE BONFIRE!!! And MORE!!!

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Jun19

Pagan Spirit Gathering

Sunday, June 19, 2022 @ 7:00PM — Sunday, June 26, 2022 @ 7:00PMSun, Jun 19, 2022 @ 7:00PM — Sun, Jun 26, 2022 @ 7:00PM

Pulaski County / Fort Leonard Wood Shrine Camp, Pulaski County / Fort Leonard Wood Shrine Camp, Waynesville, Missouri

Come out and enjoy eight days of community, music, workshops, rituals, festivities, and more under the Summer Solstice Sun! With Performances by Beltana Spellsinger, Wendy Rule, Arthur Hinds, Spiral Rhythm, Meren King, Krista Chapman Green, Louis Garou, special guest presenters, vendors, workshops, and more!

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Apr16

Wheel of the Year Spring Festival

Saturday, April 16, 2022 @ 5:00PMSat, Apr 16, 2022 @ 5:00PM

Wood's Woods, 129 Harris Grove Rd, Humboldt, TN 38343-8448

Join us for the 5th annual Wheel of the Year Festival, a free overnight musical camping event. Wood’s Wood in Humbolt Tennessee will be hosting a lineup of of musical acts, fire performance, drumming and trance dance. Bring your camping gear, chairs, drinks, and friends. All are welcome! This is a public event open to anyone, and will be held rain or shine! In the likely event of a monsoon, the festivities will continue in the covered garage. We will have plenty of chili dogs for everyone, but please bring a dish to share at the potluck if you are able. We will have croquet, badminton, and volleyball! There are 5-7 acres to camp on, so bring your gear and get ready for a good time! Carpool if possible to reduce need for parking. Reach out to event host if you’re interested in volunteering for parking.

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The members of SONA met in 2000 as they attended the Starwood and Sirius Rising music festivals in New York. Beltana had a lucid a dream about meeting a mandolin player and a guitarist the night before meeting the Joes. The next day she, she went in search of them. She met up with Joe Credit III carrying his mandolin in a field, and introduced herself to him. (And eventually, his father, Pappa Joe.) As soon as they started singing and playing together they found the combination of their voices to be extraordinarily magical. The next day they were in the bardic pavilion show on the main stage performing one of their original songs, "Land of the Sidhe," together for the first time ever... before a crowd of over 500 people. That night they also played again at Tate's Tavern, a pub in the midst of the woods. It all happened quickly, and from the seed that was sprouted, a tree grew together.

Word spread quickly and the three were invited to perform at the Festival at Tara at Camp Gaia near Kansas City, Kansas. On the way to this concert the three discussed Buddhist philosophy, and Joe Credit III told the story of the lute player and the Buddha. This parable describes how the Buddha taught a lute player how using our energies to find enlightenment is like bringing the lute's strings to just the right tautness so that the instrument will be in tune, and so, as we keep our energies in balance we will be in tune and find enlightenment.

Not long after this discussion, Papa Joe found a book of Buddhist teaching which revealed that the lute player's name was Sona. When the three of them got together at Wolvenwold, Beltana's home, Papa Joe shared this information with Beltana and Joe Credit III and the band decided to adopt the name SONA for themselves. The use of all capital letters for SONA was to distinguish the band from the Buddhist lute player, and later, from other groups of the same name.

SONA's music is hard to classify because their songs drew from so many musical sources. The band was self-described as "Folkadelic" - a combination of their modern folk acoustic style with psychedelic and ethereal vocals. However, the band also dipped into bluegrass, jazz, rock, gospel-style, Celtic, and other genres and tempos which gave their concerts a sense of variety which led to a wider appeal among their listeners.

Songs written by Beltana often expressed a psychedelic bent or a soft to hard rock sound. Joe Credit III preferences include grungy world music and jazz chord progressions, but also Paganized Gospel. Papa Joe showed a variety of singer-songwriter styles from folk rock and Carribian music to Texas swing and polka, adding some fun and humor to much of the music.

The contributions of Trickster (from Loke E. Coyote) in the studio should not be ignored when speaking of SONA's musical style. Trickster recorded and produced SONA's Spoonwalk CD in 2002, in Texas. Their second CD, "acousticnakedladyland," was recorded the following year, in St. Louis, by Bel's husband Johnny, at Magyar Magick Studios.

Pagan musical influences on SONA include: Velvet Hammer/Dreamtrybe, Darwin Prophet, Ginger Doss and Lynda Millard, Green Crown, Emerald Rose, Loke E. Coyote, S J Tucker, Gaia Consort, Sede, The Druids, The Raft, Spoonfed Tribe, Gretchen McMahon, Michelle Mays, Burning Sage, and so many others that they crossed paths with while on the road together.

SONA is coming together once again, for the first time in well over a decade, to perform an exclusive reunion at STARWOOD FESTIVAL July 12-18, 2022 along with other special guests: Brian Henke, The Troubadoors of Divine Bliss, Lin Sanders of Burning Sage, Mama Gina Lamonte, Maevyn Stone, Michael Kelsey, Dreadlock Dave, Awen, Root & Branch, Phat Man Dee and the Social Justice Disco w/Liz Berlin, Rustbelt Ragtops, Guaracha, Milly Raccoon, Monkeystik, Djobe Ensemble, and a VERY special, (also rare) reunion, of their friends and one of their greatest inspirations, musically, the most beloved VELVET HAMMER!

SONA will be playing at happy hour on The GreenMan stage, on Saturday evening. Their music can be found in the music section of this website.

Don't miss this.

This will be a unique, once-in-a-lifetime event. We all hope to see you there.

https://www.starwoodfestival.com/

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