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Saturday, September 26, 2015
Concert, Healing Ceremony & 
Tribal Gathierng
at Library Park in Lakeport, CA!

Live Music  *  Dancing  *  Drumming  *  Community Open Space
Table Space for Organizations   *   People's Mic   *  Skill Sharing
Potluck   *   Camping Nearby   *   All Are Welcome    *    FREE!
Sunday, 9/21/14, join your community for an all-day Resilience Festival and Tribal Gathering at Library Park in Lakeport, CA, an all-day event with lots of excellent live music, exciting speeches, informative presentations, and open space for people and organizations to share our arts and works in building resilient community, health and happiness! Live Music at past HACL events has included local legends Blue Collar, Without a Net, Righteous Vibrations, Lucas Prana, Not Two, Brown Bear, Backwordz Medicine and more! We'll see who shows up this year... putting out a CALL TO MUSICIANS! The lake needs your medicine. Contact us to get involved!

Potluck all day! Please bring re-usable plates, etc. to make this a green event.

Families & pets welcome. Camping available nearby at Clear Lake State Park 

Organizing team will be meeting throughout August and September to plan for and promote this event. Contact us to get involved! If you have questions, or if you'd like to help out, call 415-646-5630 or email handsaroundclearlake@gmail.com

Please invite friends and forward this widely! This is a sacred event for the entire tribe, and will be powered by the human energy that goes into it. It is all for the Mama, all for the Lake, all for the Greater Good. We are awakening, together, as One. Thanks to you for all you do, playing your part perfectly, holding your note perfectly in this cosmic choir. Thanks for being YOU! 

LOVE!
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Lucas Prana and the Gypsy Vayus

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Lucas Prana and the Gypsy Vayus is an eclectic bluesy rock experience led by Lucas Prana on guitar and lead vocals, Rama Deva on percussion, and Sarah King-Lyne singing and playing violin. The sound combines rock-and-roll, folk-bluesiness, and a more spiritual tribal flow that always brings down the house.
More info:  http://www.lucaspranaandthegypsyvayus.com

Backwordz Medicine

Brown Bear

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Brown Bear, aka Aaron Marrujo, is an artist from Cobb Mountain. His music is an interesting blend of piano, guitar, and vocals. His sounds mix minimalism with depth, heaviness with levity. The band takes traditional folk sounds, and molds them into songs that move and uplift. Below is a recent video of Aaron, the lead singer, playing with The Pickup Truck Band.

LIVE MUSIC!

Past Hands Around Clear Lake events have featured some amazing musical artists, as well as dance performances, speeches, blessings, spoken word, and more!

If you would like to schedule a performance, let us know! 

Past HACL artists  have included:

~Righteous Vibrations
~Without a Net
~The Human Revolution
~Brown Bear

~Lucas Prana
~Not Two

...and more!

See below for band bios, as well as photos/videos of our performers in action at past HACL events and elsewhere!

Righteous Vibrations

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Lake county's own Righteous Vibrations is a mystic/folk/world/reggae tribal musical experience, featuring home-grown content and covers of great contemporary conscious music that celebrates Love, Life and the Resilience of the Human Soul. "The Vibe Tribe" is an ever-expanding collective of multi-talented musicians, including Ian (Brother En) Alderman, Chris Clark, Kurt McKelvey, Nils Palsson, Aaron Marujo, Sasha Thomas, Jesse Castillo, Lonnie Caldwell, and countless others.  Love Vibration music that gets people dancing!


Without a Net

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Without A Net is a Rock N Roll Band that always gets everyone dancing. They play vintage rock, reggae, world music, , Latin and originals....

They are:

Heidi Morgan - vocals, keyboards, and organ - Heidi has spent a lot of time singing with vocal jazz groups and madrigal groups including The Northern California Chamber Chorales and The Wine Country Chamber Singers. She learned cello and clarinet. and then moved to piano. She's also directed children's choirs and the Carle High School choir. She now applies all that formal training to rocking out....

Bill Bordisso - vocals, accordion, banjo, saxophone, percussion, and guitar. Bill's parents forced him to play accordion at age 8. In high school, he was contacted by a folk group who needed a banjo player. Bill quickly learned the banjo and joined The Roadside Four. In college, Bill played in several bands including: Sweet Pickins, The Brementown Musicians, Vocal Point, and the acapella group Under the Influence. Bill moved to Lake County in the 1980's and joined More than Meets the Ear, a four part harmony vocal quartet. He is currently in 3 bands, Blue Collar, EarReverance, and Without A Net. He also has been in several musical productions including: Tommy and the lead in Charley Brown. His love for children and music combines on a weekly basis when he teaches kids guitar through the “Little Kids Rock” program.

Art Frazee - Vocals and Lead Guitar. A founding member of Without A Net, Art started playing cello, trombone, and guitar at age 9. At 10, after he broke both the cello and trombone,and focused his energy on guitar. Art played guitar in his high school jazz band. He later played in a Grateful Dead cover band and in a blues rock band in the 80’s called Crossfire. He studied music theory in college. Art has done lots of solo acoustic performing and has played in and directed music in church. He has performed in several musical productions including playig the lead role in The Who's Tommy.

Herb Gura - Vocals, Drums, Percussion Songwriting- In 6th grade in Queens New York, Mr. Parness, the band teacher tested everyone for musical talent and determined that Herb had some. As a result, in 7th grade, at age 12, Herb played drums in the Jr. High School 67 band. By 15, Herb joined the rock band the Swa-Rays. The late Tony Capobianco, lead guitarist of the Swa-Rays, taught Herb a few guitar chords, which inspired him to take group lessons at the local YMHA. After getting his first guitar for trading, Herb began wriiting songs and has not stopped to this day. In 1970's Marin. Herb formed a vocal comedy group called Duck Soup and performed regularly at the legendary Sleeping Lady Cafe in Fairfax. Herb is a world traveler, who hitchiked through Mexico with a guitarita in a woven bolsa and jammed with Mecxican street musician and mariachi bands on Mexican trains and around Oaxaca. A long time Lake County resident, , hesang with More than Meets the Ear and sits in with musicians whenever there is a need for a drummer, percussionist, or vocalist.

Bill MacDougall - Vocals and Bass - Bill began playing guitar in the 6th grade and played in his first rock band during 7th and 8th grade. Other interests took a priority through high school and college, but he picked up the guitar again when he started teaching in Southern Humboldt in the 80’s. Bill played constantly with his students who were playing heavy metal music and his friends who played folk, country, reggae and rock music. Upon moving to Lake County, Bill played in a Rock Band consisting of other teachers aptly named C+. He met Bill and Herb when More Than Meets the Ear wanted a bass player. Bill learned the bass guitar and formed a rock and roll band name Lefty. He also began teaching music at Carle‘ High School. Surrounded by song writers, Bill began songwriting at that time. While at Carle, he met Art Frazee whose step daughter was one of Bill’s students. Art helped Bill improve his bass skills and they decided to form the band Without A Net. Bill currently also plays bass in the “twisty newgrass band,” Blue Collar.

Blue Collar

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Blue Collar is another legendary local band comprised of Carl Stewart, Clovice Lewis, Bill Bordisso, Sue Condit and Bill MacDougall, all veteran musicians with varied backgrounds. They come together to form an acoustic bluegrassy sound that everyone really enjoys.

What is Hands Around Clear Lake?

Hands Around Clear Lake is a FREE grassroots festival and healing ceremony for us all, held yearly on the shores of beautiful Clear Lake, the oldest lake in North America, the largest lake in California, and 
the lifeblood of our community here in Lake County. 
This is a free event for all peoples. 
Call or email to get involved!

Join us for the 5th Annual Hands Around Clear Lake 
Healing Ceremony and Tribal Gathering. Sept. 26, 2015 

Come to the shore, touch the water, be the change, in community!

Tribal Gathering and Festival on Saturday, Oct. 1 at Library Park in Lakeport. Sunrise Ceremony at  7AM. Tribal Gathering all day, from 11am-11pm on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. Your people hope you make it!

More information:
tel. 415-646-5630
email: handsaroundclearlake@gmail.com

Official Website: www.handsaroundclearlake.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HandsAroundClearLake