I write for the Pagan Song blog. Here are 5 of my favorite posts. Click through and check them out.
Weaving Pagan Fire Circle Chants gives the lowdown about the how and why of singing around the bonfire at a pagan festival. I explain a little about the Fire Priestess role I take, and include the audio for the most common songs that spring up around the fire.
Look Up from your Phone! is the title of one of my favorite songs out of all the hundred or so songs I’ve written. It’s all about connecting with people rather than having your face buried in your cell phone. This post tells the story behind that song.
I Was the May Queen is an autobiographical piece about being chosen at a Beltane festival to embody the spring as the Queen of the May. Included is a chant I wrote, called Chalice to Blade. It’s about The Great Rite, the merging of feminine and masculine energies that is at the core of Beltane magic.
Calling Down the Moon explains the spellcraft of drawing magical power from moonlight. It offers a series of songs that pagan musicians have written about that delicious magical practice. I include the song I wrote about it, and a video of me performing it.
My Web of Wonder tells the stories of three deaths and how a song I created was part of my grief process for each of them. Included is the audio of that song and links to several of the other posts about music for funeral rites that have been published on Pagan Song.
Want to explore all the posts I’ve written for Pagan Song? I’m there under two bylines. Alane Crowomyn is the name I use for articles about songs I wrote for my Goddess Spirituality choir. It’s called Crow Women because there were crows flying overhead and making a racket when we were choosing a group name. You can find all of those articles on the Pagan Song website, gathered on my Alane Crowomyn bio page. I also have a set of blog posts under my solo artist name, Alane Brown. Those tend to be about songs I wrote for the solo album I’m working on. Those are gathered on my Alane Brown bio page.
I wrote 50 or so of the over 350 blog posts published on Pagan Song. We have 37 writers who have contributed during the 7 years we’ve been online. I’m the person in charge of recruiting and scheduluing them–a very fun job. If you’re interested in the music of the pagan community, come explore. It’s a beautiful tapestry of pagan musicians writing about their own music. There are usually suggestions for how you could use their songs in your spiritual practice. You can check it all out here: www.pagansong.com