This Quarter
ere are our weekly listings for the summer months. Watch this list for further details to be filled in and other possible updates.
| 7/4 | San Francisco Free Folk Festival Preview: Festival coordinator Pete Kronowitt will stop by and give us the low-down for this year’s free annual event on Saturday, July 11th at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. |
| 7/11 | Bridges: Cross-cultural collaborations, featuring Silkroad, the Legiana Collective from the Netherlands, the Norwegian choir Skruk, and many more. |
| 7/18 | Michele K-Tel Returns: Guest host Michele Flannery will surprise and delight us with some of her latest musical discoveries. |
| 7/25 | TBA |
| 8/1 | New and Recent Releases: The latest by Gnoss from Scotland, Dervish and Ye Vagabonds from Ireland, Boiled in Lead, Laurie Lewis, Milk Carton Kids, Watchhouse, Yonder Stringband. |
| 8/8 | Music of the Nuclear Age: Guest host David Dunaway presents a documentary with music voicing concerns over the proliferation of nuclear power and weapons. Songs by Pete Seeger, Gil Scott-Heron, Sons of the Pioneers, Tom Lehrer, Joan Baez, and many others. |
| 8/15 | More New and Recent Releases: From all corners of the world. |
| 8/22 | England, Scotland, and Wales: An assortment with a contemporary emphasis. |
| 8/29 | Tribute to Pentangle: Four-fifths of this ground-breaking British band are now gone with the recent deaths of percussionist Terry Cox and bassist Danny Thompson. We’ll listen to highlights from the band’s peak period in the 70s. |
| 9/5 | Polyglots: Singers expressive in more languages than one. |
| 9/12 | Hanging Out with The Silkroad Ensemble: Spending time with members of Silkroad when they came to town last spring. We’ll hear from Silkroad music director Rhiannon Giddens, tabla player Sandeep Das, and taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe. |
| 9/19 | Words on Birds: Celebrating avian life with songs of crows, ravens, magpies, and herons, featuring a new album from the Spell Songs Collective, plus more from Still on the Hill, San Lee, Karine Polwart, and more. |
| 9/26 | Continental: Music from around the European mainland. |
Perhaps this is where we stand now, planetary and as a species, on the edge of collectively becoming, transforming.
Will we emerge?
Will we stand rooted in this crisis?
Will we make it through this dark passage?
Will we arise wiser, more rooted, more whole, connected to the heart of the Earth?
This all depends on whether we remember the ancient path of soul initiation—a path that once marked the true passage to adulthood.
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At the heart of this model, the Eco-Soulcentric Human Developmental Wheel, is a VISION: that if we raise children and support adults to walk the soulcentric path, we will begin to reweave the fabric of our culture. We will remember our place in the sacred web of life. We will grow elders who are wise, not just old. We will raise leaders who listen to rivers and speak with stars.
This is the Great Work of our time—to restore soul to the human journey, to raise generations whose hearts are shaped not by fear, but by wonder, imagination, and the genuine call to serve life.
—Sandra Horea