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Sacred Music How-to

Music is at the center of our magical practice as Wiccans. In our music how-to posts, we share our accumulated wisdom about making pagan music.

Musical Skills: rehearsing, recording and performance

Mama Gina's guitar case on a camp chair

The Bardic Path – Elevating the Mundane

I am a traveling Bard and a student of Kaballah. It can get confusing, as...
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Three Reasons to Sing: Even If You Think You Can’t

Singing is Powerful.  Not only is it fun and expressive it also has many health benefits.  So...
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Re-source, Re-Kindle, Re-muse

Ah, my fellow Creative Souls – and we are all Creatives, are we not? Do...
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Mama Gina performing at Pagan Spirit Gathering

10 Tips to a Stellar Performance

The last couple of years of COVID-19, social distancing, career pivots, and cancellations has been...
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Conjure a Choir of Enchantment

When we sing we pray twice.  When we loop our voices we create a quantum choir...
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The Art of Songwriting

Pagan Songwriting Tips

First Steps: Creating Your Own Pagan Chant or Song

Pagan Songwriting Tips by Alexian There’s something magickal about creating your own Pagan chant or song. It’s a deeply personal and spiritual act, a way to channel your creativity, connect to the divine, and give voice to the energies you feel swirling around and within you. But how do you...
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A Pagan Artist in Residency

How I am preparing for my winter artist residency as a songwriter After years of dreaming of and researching artist residencies around the US, I have found a great fit, and am excited to announce that I have been awarded a five month artist residency with Osage Arts Community in...
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Pagan Songwriters and Songs That Write Themselves

Songwriting is such a strange process. I often spend months and much research on a single idea, and it might take a year for the actual song to emerge and mature. I have even said that a song isn’t a song until I have played it 100 times, because it...
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Ghost Music

ghost-writer We write and sing songs to celebrate, to express our connection to each other, our community, and the sacred.  Music is a powerful means to express Spirit. There are as many methods to writing music as there are musicians:  The whole piece may write itself; the lyrics may come first, or...
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Magic and Metaphor in Songwriting

Have you ever wondered what it is about a song lyric that captures your imagination? Some lyrical phrases leave a stirring within us long after the song ends, while others leave us flat. What makes the difference?  One of our challenges as songwriters is to create an experience for our...
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