***Lead dancer: Shiva Raye teaches and performs "Ecstatic Dances of the World" including dervish, zaar, guedra and his own very popular "Five movements, Five axes, Five Rhythms." He also hosts monthly drum and dance circles in his Columbus, OH studio.
***Lead drummer: Dave Hergert performs mid-east and near-east rhythms for the band. He also teaches "Basic Rhythms and Hand Positions for Dumbek." Dave enjoys the challenge of drumming for bellydancers and their troupes, whether Tribal or Cabaret in style. If you are a dancer in the area, and would like to perform with us ... drop us a line at snakesrising@hotmail.com
***Lead vocalist: Amma Naga teaches and performs basic chanting. Her repertoire includes many pagan and non-denominational chants, as well as some Indian kirtan. Amma is currently involved in the study of "Threshold singing" which is designed to aid the sick and dying as they make necessary transitions.
***A variety of other musicians and dancers join these artists at any given performance. And no two shows are ever quite alike!
Snakes Rising is music for dance and trance. Specializing in mid-east and Indian fusion, they cross over into the bellydance and devotional genres. This group has been providing earth based, ceremonial performances for gatherings in the midwest (and beyond) since 2002.
The Faery King has, in recent months, taken on many political issues, however, same sex marriage is the core subject of this video. We invite one and all, with loving hearts, to join the Faery King and his partner, Jah-D, for PRIDE Weekend 2008 in NYC. One week before the weekend of the 29th, the details for The Mass Hand-fasting ceremony, the March of Unity, and the CoSM event (www. cosm. org) with The Gossamer Court will be posted on our affiliated website:
Spread the word far and wide. Wake the neighbors. Tell all friends and enemies…co-workers and co-conspirators….
Big invite to all poets, musicians, those delirious rebels vibrating with wanderlust and imagination; devotees and voyeurs; performance and visual artists, actors, comedians, and all iconoclasts and artists of every sort....
Time to dust off your work. And your truth fly. The stage is all yours baby!
Happy Holidays all of my snakey snakes! if you're intersted again, we'd love to have you! the next albright knox show is june20th..I'm just on myspace now, don't really bother with tribe...mail me... love & hugs Kim N Russ and the zoo!
