Faerieworlds announces musical legend Donovan as 2012 headliner!

There are voices that instantaneously reveal their identity, melodies that return you immediately to their source, and songs that spontaneously transport you to a specific time and place rich with memory and emotion. All of these qualities and more are embued in the songs and poetry of Donovan.

His music is legend: Catch the Wind, Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Season of the Witch, Barabajagal, Atlantis… For decades, these songs have defined an age that ignited an era of revolution, re-birth and renewal that changed the world forever. Then and now, the music of Donovan embodies the essential spirit of that time distinct from the storms and polarity of fashion, politics and power. Within his elegant melodies and moving lyrics flows an eternal energy that is evoked from a place and intention of sacred service to beauty, joy, love, harmony and peace. It is this transcendent quality and the clarity and purity of its expression that makes Donovan so singular among artists and why his music returns us so viscerally to a time of adventure, innocence, hope and promise.  Continue reading “Faerieworlds announces musical legend Donovan as 2012 headliner!” »

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Trillian Green Joins Faerieworlds Main Stage!

Eight years ago at Hornings Hideout in Portland, Oregon, Faerieworlds hosted the long awaited reunion of the legendary Pacific Northwest band, TRILLIAN GREEN. In the years that followed, this trinity of gifted musicians have brought their musical magic to the Faerieworlds main stage and delivered intoxicating performances that have become defining moments within the Realm.

The cascading melodies of Ben’s flute spiral around Christine’s soaring, poignant cello as Jarrod’s exotic array of percussion drives the rhythm: it is simply impossible to stand still. As the music rises and swirls, thousands are joyfully enraptured and dance and dance and dance to TRILLIAN GREEN at Faerieworlds. Join us again and experience their candlelit magic: 
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2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, and Faerieworlds Headliner, Donovan, Talks about Influences With NPR

Yesterday, on NPR’s Morning Edition, David Barnett talked to members of The Small Faces and singer-songwriter Donovan about how American music influenced their own careers. Here’s what Donovan, who’s headlining this year’s Faerieworlds, had to say.

Donovan performing in 1965 (Getty Images)

“It was the drums that I picked up first, and Gene Krupa at Carnegie Hall,” Donovan says. “I thought I’d be Art Blakey.” [...] A number of critics said that Donovan Leitch’s look and sound were a little too reminiscent of his American contemporary, Bob Dylan. But Donovan argues that they were just two singers with common influences from American records. “I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff,” Donovan says. “We looked to America.”

Donovan also mentions his use of “holy plants,” saying that “plants have always been used by shamans to enter what is called ‘the inner realm.’ “

The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on April 14th, in Cleveland, Ohio. For those who can’t make that historic concert, we here at Faerieworlds are honored and delighted to be able to showcase an artist the Hall of Fame calls a “troubadour who truly captured the imaginations of early Beatles-era fans on both sides of the Atlantic” this Summer on our Main Stage.

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