Sedona News – Musicians Anthony Mazzella, Peter Sterling and John Dumas will be teaming up for a concert of beautiful music inspired by the legend of Kokopelli. The show is on Earth Day Saturday April 22 at the Mary Fisher Theatre in Sedona.
The concert will consist of flute, guitar and harp and the music will be extraordinary! The legend of Kokopelli represents different things to different people and is a fun and interesting topic to research. In the context of this concert, Kokopelli represents the musical spirit of Sedona.
ANTHONY MAZELLA
Guitar Wizard Anthony Mazzella began studying music on the violin at age five. He then proceeded to learn the rudiments of music on piano until falling in love with the guitar at age thirteen. Throughout his adolescence he studied with several private guitar teachers, but Anthony attributes the greater part of his education to ear training. His influences are many, but none more profound than the music and techniques of guitar masters such as Michael Hedges, Pat Metheny, Carlos Montoya, William Ackerman, Andres Segovia and countless others. In the nineties Anthony shared his musical insights by teaching as a private guitar instructor, and at the Long Island School for Music and Arts. Anthony was also one of the few chosen understudies of world-renowned guitar master Stanley Jordan.
Anthony began his performance career as a concert guitarist in New York City. He quickly built up a strong following performing in most every live music club in Manhattan including: The Bitter End, CBGB’s, Cat Club, Cafe Wah, Birdland etc. Anthony then landed a headlining spot at the Blue Note NYC just one year after street performing in front of it and spent the following years touring colleges & universities all over the USA. He then went on to performing on stages all over the world as a solo artist and as the concert guitarist for world music master Omar Faruk.
In 1997 he recorded his debut solo CD titled Electric Fingerstyle Guitar. In 2001 he recorded BRIO with platinum selling recording artist Chris Spheeris and was an awarded best acoustic instrumental album of 2001 by NAV. In 2002 he recorded his second solo CD titled Unity where each song is diverse in genre to showcase all the styles Anthony is capable of playing. In 2006 he collaborated with three-time Grammy nominated artist William Eaton, together they composed and recorded a CD for the Electric Harp Guitar Group. In 2009 Anthony recorded 12 new solo guitar compositions rich in spirit and appropriately entitled Heavenly Guitar. His latest recording is a fusion of Spanish guitar and Exotic music titled Ritual. All Mazzella’s recordings are available on streaming services. All concert dates, videos, tickets, photos, reviews, are available on his website anthonymazzella.com.
PETER STERLING
Success came quickly for harpist Peter Sterling, when the music label World Disc released his first album Harp Magic which was nominated in 1994 for NAIRDs Best String Album Award. In 2004 Sterling’s album Harp Dreams sat at the top of New Age Radios Top 100 for 8 weeks and garnered an Album of the Year nomination. In 2005 peter signed on with renowned new age music label Real Music to release his Shadow, Mist and Light cd. Peter’s self-released 2008 effort The Sands of Time earned a nomination for a Hollywood Music Award for Best New Age Album.
While some musicians are classically trained from childhood, others are guided to their destiny later in life. It took 33 years of living before Peter heard the still small voice while working in the high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains as a ski instructor in Aspen. Soon Peter couldn’t shake the notion that he was meant to devote his life to art and become a creative channel for Divine inspiration. Sedona beckoned, and Peter heeded the call without hesitation.
Exploring Sedona’s remote canyons daily, and living out of his trusty van, Peter followed every Divine hunch and inspiration as a free-spirited seeker. The Celtic Harp serendipitously entered his life on a fateful day in Sedona as an answer to a prayer on how best to fulfill his unique life purpose. Now toting his harp with him everywhere he went, Peter surrendered himself completely, allowing Grace to unfold through him amidst Sedona’s epic scenery and energy vortices. Having only a few lessons under his belt from the seller of the Celtic Harp, the Angels took over, guiding Peters hands and causing them to move masterfully within a few short months. No one was more surprised than Peter, whose skill-level demonstrated that of a virtuoso rather than a mere beginner. Little did Peter know that one day his angelic music would garner testimonials from around the world for its miraculous healing effects: softening the hearts of the dying at the moment of their transition and used by mothers at the time of birth and to ease their autistic children’s suffering. For many, it has become the quintessential healing soundtrack for meditation and massage. Peter states “My mission is to create music that can create an experience of transcendence in the listener; strike a chord on their heartstrings, a feeling of oneness and remind them of home”.
A favorite on Internet radio such as Pandora, Sirius, XM Satellite, and Soundscapes Radio as well as United and American airlines, Peter scarcely dreamed that his music would have a worldwide audience back when he was recording his first 8 tracks on a cassette tape in Byron Bay, Australia and marketing it on foot around Sedona with its hand-drawn cover art. Now, through Internet Radio, CD, DVD, his website, and countless other forums, Peters angelic music will continue to reach the masses, heal lives, balance brains, open hearts, and connect people to their innate spiritual essence. Visit harpmagic.com to hear music samples and more.
JOHN DUMAS
John Dumas is an internationally renowned musician, shamanic astrologer, inspirational teacher, and pioneer in sound healing. He performs concerts and leads workshops and retreats internationally with his unique handcrafted flutes and didgeridoos. John has developed a unique sound therapy/healing ceremony that is titled “Shamanic Journey Into Dreamtime.” This voyage into the dreamtime is an experiential interactive sound therapy that facilitates the healing of our mind, body & spirit. Healing through sound is the culmination of John’s educational background in the fine arts, Psychology and study of indigenous cultures. With the intention of love and compassion, John opens the doorway into the dreamtime, an altered state of time and space, producing awakened dreaming.
Performing in many countries and sacred sites, throughout, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North America has given John the opportunity to lead ceremonies and play inside Egyptian pyramids, Mayan temples, England’s stone circles and sacred mountaintops like Mt Saana, high above the Arctic Circle in Finland. More recently exotic places like Bali, China, and Japan have been a second home. John’s sense of commitment to his life’s work to inspire love, empowerment, and unity worldwide continues to evolve. It is John’s belief that through the universal language of music; where words are not needed that the beauty of oneness begins to emerge all over the world ushering in a true Aquarius age.
John has several recordings available that explore the infinite realm of dreamtime ranging from tribal/world trance to relaxing meditative soundscapes exploring higher states of consciousness.
Be sure to purchase your tickets for this amazing Earth Day lineup today.
The Kokopelli Concert with Anthony Mazzella, Peter Sterling and John Dumas will take place on Saturday, April 22 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Tickets are $35 in advance; $40 at the door. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177 or to order online, visit www.SedonaFilmFestival.org. You may also purchase tickets at the Sedona Film Festival office and Mary D. Fisher Theatre, located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona.
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