The Rites of Spring community includes some of the most experienced, exciting and very best presenters anywhere. Our special musical guests this year, Brizeus is a bagpipe band focusing on selected dance music of Western Europe from the last 7 centuries. Their bagpipes and drums call the community together. Pipers Al Cofrin, EJ Jones, and Richard Kean return to Rites of Spring with new percussionists David Machek and Rosalind Buda.
Some special guests and community members who are invited to be presenters and performers at Rites of Spring this year are:
- Sylvia Brallier, shamanic healer and teacher from California
- Bright Hawk, storyteller, musician and inspirational drummer from Colorado
- Andras Corban Arthen, pagan elder, bard and teacher, co-director of EarthSpirit, Board Member of A Parliament of the World's Religions
- Martin Bridge, ritual visual artist, and drummer
- Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, ritualist, musician , teacher and witch, co-director of EarthSpirit
- Juniper Talbot , dancer, author and Celtic priestess from Massachusetts
- Jane Sibley, teacher of Norse magic and runes from Connecticut
- Steve Trombulak, animist, ecologist, and poet from western Vermont
- Susan Curewitz Arthen, tarot reader and teacher, Glenshire elder, from Massachusetts
- Morwen Two Feathers , co-founder and director of Earth Drum Council in Massachusetts
- Joss Price, percussionist and ethnomusicologist from Vermont
- Sarah Stockwell Arthen, musician, vocalist and witch from Massachusetts
- Moira Ashleigh, dancer, shapeshifter, artist and witch from the EarthSpirit Community
- Christopher LaFond, astrologer, Druid, teacher and musician
- Windborne, musical duo from Vermont, singing traditional European songs
- Billy Bardo, storyteller, performer and bodhran player from New York
- Miriam Klamkin, astrologer, teacher and Glenshire Witch from Massachusetts
- Laura Wildman-Hanlon, Priestess, author, teacher
- Michael Dunning, shaman and teacher from Scotland
- Orion Foxwod, author and teacher of Faery Seership from Maryland
Check back as we will be adding to this list as more people confirm.
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