TRIBAL WORKSHOPS
BAMBOO
CEDAR OAK
July 12 Saturday 10am-5pm followed by evening concert
in Postbridge includes vegetarian organic lunch &
workshop materials. A very unique opportunity to spend a day working with the Bamboo Cedar Oak brotherhood of flute players in a workshop intensive following on from their recent project Songs of our Grandfathers and which features a deep journey through the musical and spiritual traditions of three ancient cultures, each deeply connected with the earth and with the honouring of our ancestors. Through sacred circle and simple ritual, much of it around the hearth fire of the ancestor roundhouse, participants will learn how each land has shaped its people and their lives. By sharing the music of the flutes and the creation of sacred totems, we will explore the connection that runs through all the people of earth and the threads of our common humanity. The workshop is a profound and joyous meeting of tribes and a sharing of our stories and myths. It includes teachings about the traditions of flute, drum and rattle (the three sacred instruments of all cultures); Aztec ritual dances; Shinto and Buddhist ceremony and prayers; and deep Celtic meditations connecting us to this ancient land. Guillermo Martinez is a master instrument-maker from California and native Tarascan, a tribe from the highlands of Michoacan, Mexico. He is a highly regarded teacher of the traditional methods of making and playing sacred instruments, a gifted storyteller and a teacher of traditional Aztec dances. Hiroki Okano is a former Shingon Buddhist monk and one of the most highly respected ambient composers in Japan. He plays a great variety of ancient, traditional Japanese and contemporary instruments and travels the world working as a peace ambassador for Japan and creating deep ceremony based on Shinto & Buddhist traditions For more information and booking forms please contact Seventh Wave on 01822 880301 or email Seventh Wave Music.
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