Yungchen Lhamo & Gregg Ellis
Friday 9:00PM- 11:00PM
Yungchen's name was given to her by a Tibetan lama when she was a baby and translates to "Goddess of Melody and Song." Since the release of her award-winning first album Tibetan Prayer, her music has met with critical praise worldwide, alternately described as "beautifully evocative," "mesmerizing," "spine-tingling," and "transcendent." Since being signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label, Yungchen has released two critically-acclaimed albums, Tibet, Tibet and Coming Home (produced by Hector Zazou). Her music has appeared on Natalie Merchant's platinum-selling Ophelia, the compilation disc Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, on the soundtrack to the Hollywood film Seven Years in Tibet, and in a handful of documentaries. Yungchen was one of the Real World artists featured in a recent one-hour music television special by National Geographic called Songs Under a Big Sky. The show was produced and directed by Michael Coulson, who also directed Yungchen's first music video, "Happiness Is. "Yungchen has performed alongside a variety of luminaries, including Philip Glass, Annie Lennox, Michael Stipe and Sheryl Crow. Gregg Ellis bio is coming soon...

At the age of 17, Sheila Chandra became Britain's first mainstream Asian pop star as the voice of chart toppers, Monsoon. The period from the catchy strains of Ever So Lonely to the breathtaking timelessness of ABONECRONEDRONE comprises an extraordinary evolutionary leap. Contact with Real World and WOMAD in 1991 allowed Chandra, with WEAVING MY ANCESTORS' VOICES and THE ZEN KISS, to illustrate the idea of moving seamlessly between various traditions through the mind and voice of one person. "There was a kind of helpful obviousness on these two albums, which meant some of the subtler stuff got ignored," she says. "The experience of 'being sung' is much more up-front, if such an experience can be considered up-front, on ABONECRONEDRONE."

Maetar
Monday 8:30PM - 11PM

Rickie Byars Beckwith & Agape Intl. Choir
Saturday 9:00PM- 11:00PM
Rickie Byars Beckwith is a multi- dimensional artist: singer, composer, performer, arranger, and founding director of the 160-voice multicultural Agape International Choir. She is an intuitive channel of healing music whose compositions give rise to a profound experience that opens the heart, touches the soul, and lifts the spirit. Agape International Choir is a multiethnic group with an average roster of 150 members, the Agape International Choir began with a 30-voice holiday season presentation in December of 1988. With the combined writing and composing talents of music director, Rickie Byars, and founding minister, Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith, the choir, early on, began performing original Beckwith/Byars compositions. As the choir has developed and grown in membership, so has the complexity of Rickie Byars's vocal and instrumental arrangements. Over the past six and one-half years, Agape Choir music has become known for its signature sectional harmonies, counterpoint, tempo-patterns, devotional power, and energetic enthusiasm..

Rara Avis
Saturday - after hours - Glow Lounge
Rara's lush, genre-defying compositions are infused with the purpose of uplifting mind, body and soul, Rara imparts a deep sense of belonging in every note of his musical creations.  Dedicated and inspired to heal with sound and vibration he has devoted years to the study of music and well-being.  His most recent release "Dial M for Mantra" is a collaboration with Grammy Nominee and world music pioneer Jai Uttal. Over the past two years he has celebrated six full-length releases on Six Degrees Records, Sounds True Music and White Swan Records.  For music samples and news on Rara's appearances and latest CD projects, please visit: www.raraavismusic.com