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Abbi Spinner McBride: Creative Director of Fires Rising
Jeff Magnus McBride: Creative Director of Fires Rising

Joshua Levin, Ph.D.
: Musical Director of Fires Rising
Michael Wall
: Musical Director of Fires Rising

Co-Conspirators
Billy Bardo: Fire Circle Medicine Show
Robin Sol : Shamanic Healing through Dance
Marcus Sims: Ta Ke Ti Na Ethno Percussionist
R. Tigre Cruz: RhythMancer
Katy Gaughan
: Health through Drumming
Deborah Nervig: Movement as Meditation
Mike Miller: The Call of the Fire
Whittney Matlock: Cosmic Fool
Jason Cohen: Relationship to Chi
Ken Crampton: Joy through The Drum


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Abbi Spinner McBride
Creative Director of Fires Rising
Abigail is a renowned musician and teacher of percussion, hand-drumming, dance and magic. She is a High Priestess of the Family of Fire, and a highly skilled firecircle facilitator. Her creative abilities in music, poetry, dance and choreography are much in demand at conferences across the country. For the past decade Abbi has worked with Jeff McBride, traveling through the United States, Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Africa, and South America as a dynamic part of his performance as live music director, and lead assistant. Currently she is a vocalist and co-writer with Zingaia, a top selling world fusion group operating out of Las Vegas. She also has released two CDs of original music, Songs from the Center, and Enter the Center, and will have her new CD, Fire of Creation available soon!

 

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Jeff Magnus McBride
Creative Director of Fires Rising
Jeff "Magnus" McBride has been voted Magician of the Year by Hollywood's Magic Castle. He is a performance magician, alchemist and educator in ritual theater, known around the world for his extensive magical work with masks. Jeff has been seen on many TV specials, including: ABC's Champions of Magic, NBC's Worlds Greatest Magic and PBS's The Art of Magic.
He has also been seen on the Discovery Channel's Mysteries of Magic, where Jeff served as a consultant on shamanism and ritual magic. Jeff is also a founder of The Mystery School of Magic, the McBride Magical Arts Center, the Vegas Vortex, and FIREDANCE. He has been facilitating FireDances at festivals throughout the world for over a decade.


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Joshua Levin, Ph.D.
Musical Director of Fires Rising
Joshua has traveled the world following and sharing in the mysteries of drum, dance, and chant. He is a faculty member at the McBride School of Magic, served as resident artist with Firedance during its founding four years, and is regularly invited to share the rhythmic arts at community events around the country. Together with Deborah Nervig, Joshua is the co-founder of Sacred Arts Circles and New World Rhythmatism. Joshua's primary instruments are doumbek/darbouka, South Asian tabla, and he is an endorsee for Cooperman Framedrums. Joshua is also a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He is a full professor in the Department of Human Behavior at the Community College of Southern Nevada. Best of all, he is the proud father of 14 month old son, Jazz!

 

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Michael Wall

Musical Director of Fires Rising
In addition to hosting scores of community music-making events, Michael Wall has taught and performed on djembe, dundun, conga, frame drum and percussion for many years. He is committed to reminding the fire circle community that the frame drum, conga, and other sacred sounds and instruments play a valuable role in the all night journey. Michael is the co-founder of the Hawaii Fire Tribe Gatherings and Sacred Arts Circle - inspired by the power of drum, dance and song as portals to heart-filled magick and sheer ecstasy! He currently teaches a weekly frame drumming class, and is an Artist Teaching Partner for the Hawaii Department of Education.

 

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Billy Bardo

Master of the Fire Circle Medicine Show, with his healful tonics and smile inducing tictures of merriment and madness; Doctor Billy Bardo's magical Medicine Show will help you cure your ills. William Thorpe is a master metalsmith, preacher, artist, musician, and most importantly; husband, and father.

 

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Robin Sol
Robin Sol is a dancer, healer, and mystic. She is currently being sung to by her creative muse as she teaches classes, facilitates rituals, and writes a book on the topic of Shapeshifting as a way to understand our inherent oneness. Drawn to the Vegas Vortex, Robin resides in Las Vegas, Nevada where she offers bodywork, plays with the New World Rhythmatism ensemble, and dances in the desert wind.

 

 

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Marcus Sims

Marcus Sims is certified as an Advanced Taketina teacher, and continues intensive study with Reinhard Flatischler, the Austrian master drummer who developed Taketina. "I spend my time designing and building furniture, home gardening, playing music for kirtan and meditation, and being active as a citizen. With an open heart and an affection for the beginner's mind, my mission is to help remember and revive the power of rhythm into our communities and culture."

 

 

 

 

 



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R. Tigre Cruz

Tigre is a Rhythmic Shaman, drum instructor, drum circle facilitator, and the lead percussionist for the group KIVA. In the past thirty-three years, he has acquired a wealth of experience from classical, contemporary, cultural and competitive drumming. He has studied drumming, drum circle facilitation and performed with Jaqui MacMillan, Mamady Keita, Jim Donovan of "Rusted Root" and various other well known teachers. Tigre has taught classes for many organizations such as Four Quarters Sanctuary of Earth Religion, Carolina Spirit Quest, Sacred Well, and many other nationally recognized conferences and festivals. He currently resides in Washington DC.


 


Katy Gaughan
Katy Gaughan is a drummer, dancer, drum circle facilitator and instructor who weaves mindfulness, breathwork and contemplative action into her drumming and dancing. She believes in the healing energy of music and encourages health through drumming and movement with her organization "Music Heals Us." Katy is a key instigator of Soul Fire Inside, a monthly drum and dance in Washington DC based on the all night fire circle, and has been certified by Arthur Hull as a drum circle facilitator. During the day, Katy is on the support staff of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. She is also the percussionist with Firewheel and Djesben, two improvisational musical groups, in the DC area.

 

 

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Deborah Nervig

Deborah Nervig (BA,CMT) has been pursuing movement as a form of meditation, self expression, and community connection for the past 20 years. Together with Joshua Levin, she is the co-founder of Sacred Arts Circles and New World Rhythmatism. Some of the movement forms that have shaped her dance and teaching include modern, Middle Eastern, Nepalese dance, Kung Fu, and yoga. Deborah uses movement as a vehicle to reach into the eternal experiences of ecstasy and ego-less connection with the Source. She has performed in a wide range of contexts and was recently featured in the television series, Dance in Nevada. Deborah is especially interested in dance as a way to honor, empower, and discover the divinity within each of us. She dances daily with her new baby Jazz.

 

 

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Mike Miller

Mike Miller is co-founder of Kindlers of the Sacred Rhythm, Circle of Dark Eros and Healing-the-Spirit gathering. He has facilitated many smaller drumming-chanting-storytelling circles and rituals for a number of DC and Northern VA area magickal groups including the Washington and Baltimore Area Pagan Leadership Conference. He has also co-created larger scale rituals for Free Spirit Association's Summer Gathering and Sacred Beltane. In previous life phases a classically-trained percussionist, summa cum laude psych/philosophy student and GLBT leader/activist currently working as a Capitol Hill web designer/developer, the call of the Fire has become a focus point and catalyst reawakening Mike's voice for chant, rhythm, movement, magick and myth.

 

 

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Whittney Matlock

Cosmic fool, world walker, worker in the web of Life seeks adventurers and playmates for a game of self discovery. If you are ready to explore the depths of your self, stretch the limits of your imagination and make ripples in the sea of creation then meet me at the sacred fire. Drop your mask with me and we'll dance under the stars to the rhythms of our heart beats. Let's risk being children of The Universe, playing with our magik until dawn calls us home again.

 

 

 

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Jason Cohen first began exploring his relationship to energy or chi at the age of 13. Now at 40, he helps develop community, and builds and holds sacred space for healing and expressive arts rituals. Jason began facilitating full moon sweat lodges in Jamaica Plain in December of 2001. He is the producer of a sacred fire circle gathering called "Forestdance", which began in Georgia in 2003, visited five states, and is currently a week long and occurs annually over Labor Day in Massachusetts. Having overcome his greatest phobia of speaking in front of crowds, his has become an unlikely voice being heard by many.
The composer/vocalist/keyboardist for Boston-based tribal, medicine, world rock band "Incus", Jason has recently found an organization called "the heARTbeat collecitive: Healing and Expressive Artists for Balance, Ecology, Awareness and Transformation." Jason also serves on the board/council of the newly formed non-profit "Fire Family Gatherings".
Jason promises to show up with an open heart, a drum, an accordion, a rattle, a lot a gratitude.

 

 

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Ken Crampton
and Everybody Drum is an outreach program empowering people through the rhythms of visual and audible arts by visiting schools, working within the community, corporate conferences, Head Start and at-risk programs. Ken has been drumming and facilitating drum circles for over 12 years, and has studied with master facilitators and drummers, Arthur Hull, Babatunde Olatunji, and Mamady Keita.

Ken is the proprietor of Eyeclopes Studios, which showcases “Locally Grown Art” and empowers those who have taken the time and inspiration to produce art. A former student at the Corcoran School of Art, Ken has served as President of the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (1994-97) and created the now famous Fredericksburg New Years Eve Pear. Ken often brings his pet dragon for a little exercise at our sister event, Drum and Splash

 





 

 

 

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