Singing The Bones feat. Lydia Violet, Kele Nitoto, & M’Gilvry Allen

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Singing The Bones is coming to the Palindrome! Through an evening that is part musical performance & part sing-a-long, the Singing The Bones ensemble will lead us with riveting folk music from around the world, encouraging reconnection to ancestral cultures through music and cultural legacy. Many of us grow up disconnected from our ancestral cultures, requiring us to consciously turn towards our histories and study to learn the foods, festivities, folklore, and songs that lie there. Tonight is a celebration of three American artists who have pursued this path of reconnection, sharing some of the bounties of what they have found.

Lydia will share songs from her Iranian and Armenian heritages, rich with poetry and longing. M’Gilvry Allen will share fiddle tunes and ballads from his Scottish, Irish, and Scandinavian ancestries, luring us in with rhythm and strings. And Kele Nitoto will share music from Haiti, Congo, and West Africa, drawing from his multiple generations of a musical family from Oakland itself. Through all these shares these three artists will collaborate, sharing cultural bounty through and through!

And we are so excited to have friend and special guest Aimee Ringle join us for the evening! Aimee is a prolific musician and song leader, and a light in these times.

You’re invited to come and enjoy the sounds, and learn some tunes as well! We will also teach you some songs throughout the night, summoning the joy of singing together. We hope to weave a soulful thread for that which feels tattered and longs for peace and reconnection.

Doors at 7:00: Show at 7:30 • $25, no one turned away for lack of funds

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/singing-the-bones-feat-lydia-violet-kele-nitoto-mgilvry-allen-tickets-1360925267109

About Lydia Violet:

Lydia founded and runs The School for The Great Turning, an online and in-person school that creates access to an education that will empower humanity’s life-sustaining legacy through fostering personal empowerment and planetary care. Our courses encourage personal transformation towards becoming mutually beneficial members of the Earth Community. We support learning at both individual and community levels, committed to soul work, ecological literacy, and social justice. Our courses and workshops center on empowering the legacy of Joanna Macy’s scholastic and experiential work, while expanding to cover adrienne maree brown’s “Emergent Strategy,” anti-racism cohorts, BIPOC affinity groups, ancestral myth and music studies, and music as medicine. Our scholarship fund empowers us to make our programming no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds, as we democratize access to education and healing, especially within marginalized communities. Our faculty includes Joanna Macy, adrienne maree brown, Lyla June, Leah Song, Lydia Violet Harutoonian, Amikaeyla Gaston, Kele Nitoto, and MaMuse, and we aim to offer our programming in a wide range of spaces, pivoting away from educational elitism. We believe each of us has a role to play in human awakening at this perilous time, urging us to claim our role in The Great Turning. A term coined by revolutionary thinker and resident elder, Joanna Macy, she describes The Great Turning as one name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from an Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization.

www.schoolforthegreatturning.com