Kindred Spirits: Music for your Special Occasion!

Welcome to www.KindredSpiritsMusic.com

Kindred Spirits

of the Shenandoah Valley.

KINDRED SPIRITS is not the name of a band, but represents the communion among musicians and audience, a state of consciousness!

Newest Release, December 2006

Bottom o' the Punch Bowl

Please come out to see us whenever you can, tell all of your friends, and join us in celebrating the sounds of Celtic Music in the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley!

Traditional Scottish and Irish Tunes!

In ancient Irish mythology, music was thought of as comprising an emotional triad - music for happiness, music for sadness, and music for dreaming and meditation. The old Celtic music-makers were more than just musicians, and were considered to be guides for souls into other worlds. "Anam" is the Gaelic word for Soul, and "Cara" is friend. So "anam cara" in the Celtic world was a soul friend.

The genius of the Celtic culture is in its unitive nature. There is no divide between body and mind, self and spirit, wo/man and nature, person and God. "There is no cage that can confine the movements of divine light as it flows from one to the other," writes John O'Donohue, an Irish priest, poet and Hegelian scholar. (In Touch, the Centerpoint magazine, copywrite December, 2000.)

We are pleased to carry this ancient tradition into the new millennium.

Musicians come and go, so the latest incarnation is fresh and new, full of surprises. The first grouping in this century included Sally Seabright on Violin, Viola, Mandolin, Cello, and Pennywhistle; Geoff Byrd on Guitars, Trumpet, Pennywhistle, Scottish Highland Pipes, and Djembe; and Deirdre Cochren on Hammered Dulcimer, Concertina, Buttonbox, Pennywhistle, Bodhran and Spoons. Next joining the Spirits for weddings and other special performances was Laverne Sargent on Flute, and then came Matt Cook on Uilleann Pipes, Irish Flute, Pennywhistle and Low Whistle.