Concert with Brenda McMorrow & John De Kadt

Fire of the Heart: An Evening of Kirtan, Medicine Songs and Mystic Poetry with Brenda McMorrow and John de Kadt

Brenda McMorrow and John de Kadt create a powerful and ecstatic experience of song and sound, featuring Brenda's exquisite voice and folk-inspired guitar and John's mesmerizing percussion and spoken word. They blend Brenda’s mantra and Latin American medicine song-focused music with John’s mystic poetry and hypnotic percussion. Their music and spoken word, along with the sublime steel Hang  (pronounced "Hung"), take us on a stirring, nourishing, and heart-opening journey into the world of sacred sound.

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Brenda McMorrow 

Brenda McMorrow is known for her unique and warmly embracing style of mantra medicine music, in which she blends elements of acoustic folk, world rhythms and ancient Indian chants with a sweetly introspective singer-songwriter’s sensibility. With Sanskrit Mantra and Kirtan as the basis, Brenda weaves in the power of Spanish Medicine songs and her own inspiring English lyrics to create a healing and uplifting tapestry with the audience. 

Yoga Journal describes Brenda as having “a knack for expressing the deepest realizations in the sparsest lyrics”. Spiritual teacher Ram Dass has said: “Brenda has a gift”, and her intention is to help bring more beauty, peace, understanding and well-being into the world through the joy and healing power of music. Brenda’s music is touching hearts across the globe.

www.brendamcmorrow.com

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John de Kadt 

John de Kadt is an accomplished and acclaimed percussionist, storyteller and poet. John plays ethnic percussion instruments from across the globe and has a passion for spoken word, whether it’s in poetry, song, rap, or story. John has released 6 albums which have a combined 100 million streams across 194 countries. Inspired by a love of the earth, community, and wisdom traditions, John’s music, story and poetry stirs the heart and points us towards a remembrance of ourselves and the wildness of the natural world.

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