Kenosis Spirit Keepers - Benefit Concert

Kenosis Spirit Keepers East Coast Benefit Concert
supporting projects preserving indigenous wisdom traditions

7 PM on April 26, 2014
Rockville, Maryland

A 2014 East Coast Benefit Concert for Kenosis Spirit Keepers will feature composer and award-winning Native American and Mayan flute player Jan Seiden. Jazz drummer and recording artist Wes Crawford will provide rhythmic support. Kenosis Spirit Keepers president and founder Carla Woody will be present to address and meet those attending the concert.

Jan Seiden Wes Crawford

Carla Woody photo

Jan Seiden is an international performing artist and composer. Her moving and soulful eloquence with the Native American flute carries messages of global unity, peace and personal empowerment to international humanitarian conferences and indigenous gatherings and ceremonies. She produced and composed the musical score for the play Te Ata, written by award-winning Chickasaw playwright JudyLee Oliva and premiered at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Jazz and R&B drummer and recording artist Wes Crawford has performed throughout the US, Canada and the Caribbean. He has played with saxophonist Ron Holloway and Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Aljelique Kidjo, and has opened for Ray Charles and Lou Rawls.
Carla Woody, MA, CHT, is an author (Portals to the Vision Serpent, Standing Stark and Calling Our Spirits Home, plus numerous articles on spirituality and advocacy of Native traditions) and conscious living teacher. Carla founded Kenosis Spirit Keepers, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, in 2007 to help preserve Indigenous wisdom ways threatened with decimation.

The concert begins at 7 PM, Saturday April 26, 2014, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville, 100 Welsh Park Drive in Rockville, Maryland.

Kenosis Spirit Keepers preserves indigenous wisdom as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Proceeds support:

Spirit Keepers Journeys reconnecting Hopi, Maya and Quechua spiritual leaders;
Community-building projects in indigenous villages; and
Spirit Keeper Series bringing Native teachers to share traditions within the US.

Tickets: $16 in advance or $20 at the door — limited availability.

Purchase advance tickets online at www.KenosisSpiritKeepers.org/store.html

For more information about the Benefit Concert, contact Mike Weddle at mweddle@kenosisspiritkeepers.org.


Hopi-Maya Spirit Keepers Journey in Mexico Photo credit: Darlene Dunning	Mollamarka Children in Peru Photo credit: Monty DeLozier	Sharing sacred traditions Photo credit: Jo Elliott

Photos used with permission and copyrighted to individual photographers.

Proceeds support Kenosis Spirit Keepers programs.