Music as Medicine

There are precious moments when a song reaches you and invites you to be still, to feel safe enough to listen with your full being. We are extending the invitation for you to join in a night of community filled with heart-centered music, story, and Spirit.

Our intention is simple and heartfelt: to open our voices, our instruments, and our hearts in relationship with the plant teachers who've so generously shared their wisdom with us. We believe music is not meant to be performed, it is meant to be received, like a subtle melody heard between leaves, like a rhythm the body remembers before the mind does. When we remember this together, we create a space where all of us are held and honored.  In this space, the medicine of each distinct voice can be heard, and together we create the harmonious sound of a loving community.

We are not hosting a concert. We are inviting you into a co-creative field where your presence is welcomed, felt, and honored.

The Evening Arc

1. Big Ol' Warm Welcome and Grounding Meditation

2. Two Opening Icaros (traditional Shipibo medicine songs) as a tender introduction to this beautiful lineage of vocal medicine

3. Song-sharing arc following the four directions and their elements, with each artist offering songs shaped by their own relationship with plant teachers:

   1. East as Air

   2. South as Fire

   3. West as Water

   4. North as Earth

4. Closing the circle the way we opened it: in connection together

ADDITIONAL REALLY GREAT NEWS!

Cups o' cacao will be served on site by Gil Nelson to nourish your heart even more (yumma!)

Check out his Instagram page here!

Christopher Henry

Christopher Henry is the closest thing found on this majestic earth to bluegrass embodied.  Raised by his parents Murphy and Red Henry, he toured and played music with them from the time he could walk, learning it all by ear with not a single sheet of music in sight.  His path has since meandered through hip hop, punk rock, and years of leading his own bluegrass band, but lately his greatest fascination lies in the soul-stirring melodies of traditional Peruvian healing songs called Icaros.  Since his first trip to the Amazon in 2016, working with medicinal plants and trees has enhanced his whole being- body, voice, mind, heart, and soul- in immeasurable ways.  He and his angelic wife now apprentice under renowned Shipibo curandero Papa Gilberto Mahua, and together facilitate healing retreats here in North Carolina.

Check him out here! https://www.noyamountainmusic.com/

Kerry Mac

Kerry Mac is a pediatric occupational therapist by day, and curious nature explorer and song crafter by dusk, who believes our nature is to love and our bodies are designed for inexplicably blissful connection.  She's endlessly drawn to singing with any creature or plant willing to listen, and to creating spaces like this one where all beings are encouraged to share their truest expression of living- the most tender gift one can offer any space.

Follow this link to learn more https://www.thehoneyhivecollective.com/about

Tickets are offered on a sliding scale honoring the four directions. Please choose what most comfortably aligns with your capacity at this time- no tier holds more value than another.