Saturday, May 15, 2010
2:00 PM

The Chapel’s first annual members event will feature an innovative concert performed by award-winning New Mexico musician Randy Granger and accompanied by Jodi Roberts on Tibetan bowls and Stephanie Phillips on viola. The concert will integrate indigenous instruments and Western music to create sounds of healing and oneness. The concert will be followed by a catered picnic on the Chapel grounds.

Randy Granger is an award-winning New Mexico musician, songwriter and composer, and workshop presenter. His music fuses Native American flutes, the ethereal Hang drum, emotive vocals, and evocative songwriting. Profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered, his music is heard worldwide on radio, satellite, podcasts and Sirius Mystic Soundscapes. Randy Granger tours and performs throughout the United States as a solo artist and with musicians such as Coyote Oldman and R. Carlos Nakai.

Stephanie Phillips is a composer, violist, and singer who conducts workshops in creative music making and improvisation for people of all ages and musical abilities. She has performed extensively with several Texas symphonies and performance ensembles. She plays diverse styles of music including European classical, jazz, salsa and sacred improvisation.  Stephanie holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Masters in Music Composition from Texas State University.

Jodi Roberts is a sound healer, spiritual director, and recording artist who uses the sound of Tibetan bowls, temple bells, and Chinese gongs to weave meditative, ceremonial musical experiences. She plays instruments that express the beauty and resonance of nature.  She is a graduate of the University of Texas with a degree in cultural anthropology and trained in cross-cultural native ceremony and healing.  She lives in Austin and tours throughout Texas.

“We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Without inner peace it is impossible to achieve world peace, external peace.”

– The Dalai Lama