Becoming an artist is not the hard part. The hard part is doing the art, over and over. The hard part is bearing your own missed expectations about what your art should look like. The hard part is doing your work especially when the world tries to fill up your time...
Music practice is to share light, spirit, & beauty while behind an instrument; whether playing solo, with a band, in any genre. Spiritual practice is training the heart and mind. The innocent ego loves all the things in this world, the beauty, the indulgences. You...
On December 5, 2015, Life Force Arts Center presents the premiere of an Art Ritual and Book Launch based on Britt Posmer's book of poetry The Angel and The Heretic (Saint Julian Press, July 2015). In the following article, Britt and the other performers reflect on...
We live in a time when the challenges we face require us to call on helpers from all planes, all times, and places. The veil is thinning and helpers are appearing to inspire us, teach us, en-courage us, fill us with their wisdom and strength. The precious help from...
On May 7, 2014, LFA Executive Director Joan Forest Mage and Singer/Sound Healer Elizabeth Tomboulian had a conversation about the many parallels in their respective artistic careers, including dance, somatics, overtone singing, the importance of non-judgment about...
by David A. Powers - Despite the fact the music has always been linked with spiritual practice, for most in modern Western society, this connection has been lost; music is seen as mere entertainment. From this point of view, works of music are nothing but commodities...
Murphey’s Midnight Rounders (MMR) is an Acoustic/Country group with their feet firmly planted in Folk music. Their original material runs the gamut of human emotion while their vocal harmonies have an impact that is fresh and inspiring. All four members of the group...
by Shantal As a dancer, music has always played a prevalent role in my life. Music and dance are almost symbiotic in nature: sound inspiring movement and movement creating the very rhythms and beats to which I dance. Music communicates directly to my Soul, weaving...
by Lon Milo DuQuette (A pre-performance address at the opening night of the Los Angeles Opera's presentation of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center, March 24, 2002.) In a world…where your mother is a homicidal Moon...
by Kat Kidwell I've always been influenced by church music, and favorite hymn of mine, "Amazing Grace," reminds me of how I really ended up where I am by trusting in, losing, and rekindling my faith as a musician. When I was a preteen, I chose to dedicate my life to...
