Our new album, Thinkin’ of You, has been a labor of love. Spiral Rhythm is excited to share our new music and celebrate spirit with song. We supported each other creating an album through a pandemic and the loss of our dear bandmate PJ Seale. We have grown with learning, creativity, and experimentation. We have …
I have finished my Thanksgiving dinner with family and am now in the long process of making enough turkey soup to last a long time. I make very good turkey soup…. The 22nd annual Woodchopper’s Ball benefit for the Homeless is done for this year, I’m off the road till Spring 2024 and only have …
I do not celebrate Thanksgiving, I haven’t in over a decade. It simply is a fact. I don’t mind if everyone else does. I won’t hurl your turkey through the air, or dump your gravy boat. I just don’t celebrate it. What I do celebrate is Friendsgiving. I imagine a good sized handful of y’all …
I spent my first years in the Pagan musical community hiding from my fellow musicians every time they asked for folks to sing, play or otherwise contribute to something that they were working on. Why? My reasons might be different from others, but what it came down to was imposter syndrome and my belief that …
Like so many of my “born again pagan” friends, I was raised in the Christian church. Very early on, I realized that I needed a place to put my spirituality, and church was the only place I knew. I became very involved, attending on Wednesday evenings and Sundays to sing in the youth choir and …
A powerful temporal landmark within the wheel of the year, there is magic and transformation in ‘The Fall’. Of course there is, we all feel it! Samhain/Soween/Calan Gaeaf is the third and final of the three pagan harvest festivals, a time when our ancestors would have harvested and prepared a variety of foods and essentials …
The celebration of Samhain (pronounced Sáh-wen) is an ancient Celtic festival that has been practiced for centuries. It marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark half of the year and winter. It is celebrated on October 31st and is considered to be one of the eight modern Pagan Witches’ …
“She’s getting no rest, she just failed her pregnancy test. How’s she gonna care for a little child? She can barely feed herself, no food’s left on the shelf. Frustration makes her rage and scream and cry.” I wrote Nothing Holy but the Blood for The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights, to add another step on …
I’ve always gotten along best with the “honestly promiscuous.” If I belong to a “tribe,” we’re all easy, and happy about it.
Frequently, musicians are confronted with the question, “What’s your process?” For a Pagan musician, that process is often tied to our spirituality. Instead of sitting down to write a song, and then work out the melody and chording, Spirit taps us on the shoulder and starts whisper-singing a new piece in our ear! It had …
