Spiritual Music

On the website of Vanessa Lively you'll see noted that she creates folk & world music that beautifully joins heartfelt lyrics with soulful vocals. This is true - deeply true - and time with Vanessa is a rich, deep, and also uplifting experience.

Amanda Udis-Kessler is a music-creation fountain whose recent project is QueerSacredMusic.com, 60-plus songs beginning with sacred music relative to LGBTQ concerns, but enriched by the spiritual experiences relative to the arrival of COVID-19 and the nationwide uprising against racism and other injustices. Amanda's theology is open, accepting, and rooted in a universal love, and is enriched by the training and talents of her Ph.D. in Sociology, her time in seminary, and her wide and deep lyrical and musical creativity. Raised as a secular Jew, her never-ending spiritual pilgrimage has included sojourns and enrichment with the UU, Quakers, UCC, Buddhism, Bahá'í, and much more.

Donna Lynn Caskey is a Banjo Gal on Facebook and in person. From a musical family, headed to art studies, she got hijacked by a banjo, and pays for her music addition by her job as a social worker. She appeared on the Banjo Babes 2015 Calendar, and on other years as well. A self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist, Donna releases her music with a deep heart, a stirring voice, and an open spirit. She calls Ventura, CA, home.

Amanda Udis-Kessler is part of EverySoul, and their music has a message, often a counterpoint to narrow, doctrinaire, theology and thought. Having explored the highways & byways of the religious & spiritual world, Amanda identifies as Unitarian-Universalist, appreciating diverse points of view, but strongly rooting in love & hope. Her song, The Difference, was a finalist in the Songs for Social Change 2017 of RAWA.org. She is Director of Assessment and Program Review at Colorado College.

Living well off the beaten path in hillbilly shack in the Ozark Mountains, Carolyn Carter has been singing for her supper as long as she can remember. With a voice that is soft and wild, 100% Arkansas, Carolyn plays the listener's heart strings while strumming those of her guitar. Inspired by church music and folks like Joan Baez and Emmylou Harris, Carolyn is gifted and passes on the gift through her wonderful songs.

Marca Cassity shares wonderful acoustic soul spirit songs on her latest CD, Songs From the Well. Raised within the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, seasoned by 10 years in the Bay Area in CA, and now located in North Carolina, her spiritual exploration has been vast and deep.

Kim Harris and her husband, Reggie, have been conveying passion, history, and spirit through great music for decades. In addition to the folk venues and schools where they've performed and taught, Kim has added learning & teaching as part of the degree she's poised to receive from Union Theological Seminary in NYC.

Reggie Harris has been creating great change-making & bridge-building music for decades, spanning barriers of race, religion, politics and other forms of identity and division.