Saturday, February 1st, 2025
at the Taborspace Sanctuary, 5441 SE Belmont Street,
Doors at 5:30pm, Concert at 6:30pm
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If you long to connect with nature, the turning seasons, and observe Imbolc, if you love to witness live harmonic singing, then this concert is for you.
This concert will feature music guided by fungi, with traditional European polyphonic influence. Tightly woven voices with layered harmonies and rhythms that honor the earth and bring our community together, like mycelial strands connecting trees.
With performances by:
Earth Women
Performing ancient European, polyphonic, earth worshipping songs, Earth Women sing to reclaim their raw and authentic voices. Their songs travel from distant lands, reminding us of how our voices feel and sound when they remain feral, not blending, and in tune with the elements.
Performing Izgrela Mi, Bulgarian song for the Samodivi, at Lunasa Cascadia festival, bonfire ritual, August 2024
Sung in Serbian, Bulgarian, and Lemko, Earth Women will share ancient earth messages, through their wild feminine expression. Themes include mountain reverence, urging pine trees to grow, mourning in the tall green grass, and revering the fearsome feminine forest nymphs.
Earth Women Imbolc Concert 2024, Photo by Russell Bohr Photography
Directed by Ayla Realta, Earth Women consists of American singers who are making the effort to connect to nature through this ancient music. This group is modeled after Polish singing group Laboratorium Piesni, who reclaim their wildness, and sing songs that are in reverence to our shared planet. Performance videos are available on YouTube, or follow @earthwomenpdx on IG for more songs and videos.
Oj Wersze, Mij Wersze, Lemko song for the mountains, sung by Earth Women at the Beltane Concert, May 2024
Hyphae
Hyphae is trio of mycologist singers including Koby McConnell, Anna Wilson, and Ayla Realta. They come together through the symbiosis of human and fungi communication using polyphonic vocals and etherial themes to create meditative mushroom music.
They sing as the High Fae, of the hyphae- this most fundamental aspect of fungi. Hyphae are the single cell strands that come together to make up mycelium in fungi. Each member of hyphae maintains their personal physical relationship with fungi, through cultivation and medicine making, which inform their hyphal music.
Sara Tone
See an early version of Sara’s newest song “Pining for Terpenes” here
Portland based musician, educator, and activist, Sara Tone shares her love songs for the Earth as a multi-instrumentalist. Expressing herself through voice, guitar, bari-uke, kalimba, ocarina, and an assortment of percussion instruments.
Her style ranges from deep heart rooted soul, world folk, with an undeniable hip-hop approach. (Read: dorky choir kid with a strong ear taught herself lots of instruments to try to express and share the nature inspired symphony she hears and feels intensely). You’ll often find her building musical ideas and passions into sonic reality through loop based harmonies and beat-boxing.
More than songs, there's an intentionality and vibe created and held with the collective power of presence and gratitude that the music emanates and amplifies, a prayer, a spell...a Roots Transmission!!
