News 2020
11th-13th December 2020: Tune into Faeriecon Live From Home. The new date accommodates legendary poet troubadour again, Donovan and his muse-wife, Linda! Flower power lives on, with proceeds to eco-spiritual charities. Yay for whimsy and grace! Faeriecon is the East Coast answer to the West Coast festival Faerieworlds, by the same hosts based in Oregon. I've been involved with this fey community a long time and recommend their presentations, whether in music, storytelling, literature, illustration, puppetry, workshops, costumery or vendors’ wares.
Hob and Bud, a digital album - sequel to Wisp and Sentinel - is beaming at Bandcamp. It features remaining songs from my Faerieworlds Live From Home 2020 set ('The Seagiant', 'Tree', 'Blackbird', 'Birch Wandering', 'I Am the Djinn' and 'Waterwood'), plus a rendition of 'Blackbird' with my niece Lucy singing in English and French. Other bonuses are 'Shed No Tear', never on CD (my melody to Keats' poem 'A Fairy Song') and 'Hobnob' from a future album.
Wisp and Sentinel, a digital album, is at Bandcamp. Inspired by Faerieworlds Live From Home in which I performed recently, I gathered songs by producers we’ve worked with for three decades.
21st-23rd August 2020: Thrilled to be invited back into the annual Faerieworlds festival. Based in Oregon, USA, Faerieworlds is the world's largest, longest-running fairy festival, established 20 years ago. Catch the music via PORTL free, donate to an artist or eco-charity, or purchase a $50 V.I.P. ticket. Faerieworlds: Music, Art, Imagination, a gathering of tribes, who revel in costume to the call: 'Live your Legend!' dubbed a 'bonnaroo for Middle Earth', a shindig for Elfland, a carousel of elementals, a Faerie Rade! Amidst the world's strife and sorrow, it is worth pausing to refresh our souls. Rekindle our kindred kin. Uplift our spirits. There are more struggles ahead. Battles to save endangered forests, species, democracies. True faerie lore is not escapist. It’s about delving deeper into life - falling in love with the world. PORTL, the Faerieworlds Live From Home platform, welcomes you. Let Faerieworlds be your portal (pun intended) to a new way of gathering fey tribes. Long live the Faerie Realm!
