blog posts about drum circles, bonfire circles and the dances, chants and rhythms that feed them
Spiral Rhythm is a pagan band with 3 decades of history. Its growth mimics its name. In the 30 years of ritual, bonfire drumming, performing and recording, its spiral has expanded and reached out. We’ve created and shared in countless chants and rhythms, and still strive to connect to the divine through music. Rung 3 …
Pagan music is communal. It is meant to be sung in circles, chanted around fires, drummed beneath the stars, whispered as prayer, offered as spellwork, and shared from one heart to another.
Autumn is the cool, crisp, deliciously colorful taste of memories and reminders. Earthy gemstones flood the senses, amber scarlet pumpkin latte-colored leaves bounce over roads and fields, skipping, floating, flitting, dropping, tumbling into the forest’s floors like tiny dancers…twirling their last dance in a whirl, landing quietly to become food for next season’s saplings. It …
Singing around the bonfire, weaving chants into the drumming, synergizing with the dancers–for me, that’s the core of the pagan experience. The magic of the fire circle is central to my spirituality. I love ritual and spellwork as well, of course. But the cauldron of the drum circle is where I do my best priestess …
