Los Angeles (California), USA - The Sounds of the Sacred, Songs of
the Earth Festival & Sunset Concert will be held Sunday, September 18, 2005 from Noon to 10:00 PM.
The festival will take place at Topanga Community House and Sacred Chumash Grounds,
located at
1440 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga (California) in the metropolitan area of
Los Angeles.
The all-day festival is part of the World Festival of Sacred Music. The festival will promote peace, featuring cross-cultural experiences through participatory performances in music, dance & theatre. Among the daytime performers scheduled to appear are:
Kabbalah Bach & Florence Riggs' Tibetan Sounds of the Earth "Gaia Mama";
Llanto, The Flamenco Cry of Life Dance & Music of Jan Zeitlan & Robin
Brown; Maria Bodmann's Balinese Shadow Theatre; The So Cal Association of
Tibetan Dancers' The Sacred World Dance Journey: Jo Cobett; The Sound
Journey of Marla Leigh & Richard Grossman; Cosmic Dream Tribe & The Sound
Healing of Dijeridoo Experience: Evan Perman & Anjelica Ma; The Kirtan
Experience: Michele Krolik & Andrew Behla; The Dance of the Whirling
Dervish: Aziz, Eva & Hilal; Tone Poetry and Music with DJ Rylan Peery; Joel Harper "All the Way to the Ocean"; World Beats and Modern Fusion
with DJ Osmua; Ann-Marie Solo, Music of the World Soul; Middle Eastern
Rhythms & Motion: Jamie Pappish & Melanie Kareem and Sephardic Ladino
Sounds by Stefani Valadez.
Evening Performers include: John Densmore founding member of the doors to
perform with his band Tribaljazz; Tibetan 'Terton', 76 year old Kunzang
Rinpoche with The Monks & Nuns of Zangdokpalri; Sufi 'Ney' Master, Omar
Faruk Tekbilek & Ensemble; Middle Eastern World Music of the Hani Naser
Band with Walfredo Reyes Jr., Armand Sabal-Lecco and Craig Eastman; Spanish
Flamenco pianist
Pedro
Ricardo Miņo; The evening's ensemble with Special Guest Artists will perform a World Premiere 'tour de force'
composed for this night by Richard Horowitz to name a few.
Tickets, covering the entire day's events -- both the Festival and Sunset
Concert, are available for only $30 for adults and $10 for children at www.inhousetickets.com or by calling 1-866-384-3060. More information is
also available online at www.soundsofthesacred.org.
The "Sounds of the Sacred Festival, Concert and Awards Gala" are programs of the Living Wellness Foundation. Founded in 1997, the Foundation presents numerous, community-based programs throughout the year that promote World Peace through its Sacred World Arts, Healing and Cross Cultural Programs.
[Photo: Omar Faruk].
World Music Central
http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/20050905094550914