Cypress Rosewood plays for Africa

I find the power of a person, standing on a stage with a simple instrument, to be quite compelling. The three artists who have played today each have their own inimatable approaches to the music and are able to pull such different sounds from these simple pieces of wood. Each chose to speak words about Africa, the most moving of which came from Thom Dowd, who blended his seamlessly with his music, but all words paled to the transcendant beauty of their music which can penetrate so deeply to the soul and engage the psyche in a way that I find words can fail to do.  Music is a universal language that passes through barriers and connects us in ways that other forms of communication can sometimes not bridge.  ~elfa and namaste

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Concert for Africa

With the haunting sound of a lone flute and the heartbeat of the drum, Thom Dowd called in the ancestors to join us for the start of this riveting concert to raise money and awareness for AIDS and poverty in Africa. Here again, virtual bodies gather, their real personages scattered around the world, united in a cause, brought together by the universal language of music. What better way to speak to us and provide a venue to engage our hearts to listen and do something. This concert brings together the tremendous talents of Cypress Rosewood, Thom Dowd and Fricker whose flutes meld in a heady chorus that penetrates to the core of you.

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