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Members of Dream Seed are active as healers, multi-instrumentalists, performers and educators. created as a vehicle with which to share the music of sacred traditions of the world, Dream Seed members pool their knowledge from diverse backgrounds of study in music, healing, yoga, reiki, and indigenous american wisdom.
Our affiliations include Golden Drum, Heart & Mind Festival, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, Didge Project & Made in Prayer.
Brooke Hamre Gillespie
Brooke Gillespie is a disciple of Maestro Manuel Rufino, an active member of Golden Drum, a cultural community center for consciousness in Brooklyn, and a member of the Initiatic College; learning the traditional Native American healing ways and sacred wisdom traditions. Brooke’s mission is to help people remember that life is sacred and to be in service to the mission of peace for humanity through educating, inspiring and reconnecting people to the sacred wisdom traditions and indigenous knowledge. She is a visionary vocalist, sound healer, song-writer and song carrier of sacred music from all over the world including Native American traditional music from South, Central, and North America, Tibetan and Sanskrit mantra, African songs and more. Brooke is a founding member of Dream Seed. She believes in sound, vibration and music as universal methods of healing, awakening, consciousness and bringing peace to humanity.
AJ Block
AJ Block is a musician, healer and teacher inspired by spirituality and sacred traditions. He is a student of Maestro Manuel Rufino and co-director of the Sacred Arts Research Foundation. As director of the New York didgeridoo organization Didge Project, AJ has spent nearly a decade developing creative businesses. As a Certified Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner AJ works with individuals and groups who seek healing through sound and music, most often with the didgeridoo. For More about AJ and his work, visit Didge Project at www.didgeproject.com.
Xango Shola
Shola is a disciple of Maestro Manuel Rufino and an active member of The Golden Drum, a cultural community center in Brooklyn New york, a member of the Initiatic College, and currently works at the Sacred Arts Research Foundation. Shola's mission is to be in service to the preservation of the sacred traditions of the earth and enrich communities through education and service. She is a song carrier & drummer; singing traditional songs from around the world and has been weaving music, art and native healing practices to empower the human heart towards a more gentle, peaceful and purposeful existence. Shola has been studying ceremonial artistry for the past 7 years; creating sacred objects and ceremonial clothing as well as everyday clothing with a seed of powerful intention planted within each of her creations. She is the director of Made in Prayer, a collective that empowers communities by hosting educational programs that guide you through prayerful art making. Made in Prayer is also a brand that identifies products that are made with intention and purpose. Visit Shola’s art at http://www.madeinprayer.com
Matthew Canale
Matthew is a founding member of Dream Seed and Golden Drum, a cultural community center in Brooklyn, a member of the Initiatic College, and has been a disciple of Maestro Manuel Rufino since 2008. During that time he has studied Reiki, Native American healing and music as well as sacred songs from other indigenous people from around the world. Matthew has focused his musical studies on singing and percussion including the Native American water drum, hand drum, tabla, and djembe. He has a great love for kirtan and other forms of chanting. He is also a member of Pink Sun, a band that shares sacred music. His mission is to use music and art for healing and as a tool to aid in the evolution of consciousness. Matt is also a graphic designer, animator, illustrator, and painter. You can view his work at http://mattcanale.com.
Jerry Walsh
jerry Walsh is a gifted multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and healing practioner. He has been deeply walking the path of dharma and meditation for 15 years and has been a student of the SACRED traditions for 12 years, undergoing intensive initiations under the guidance of Maestro Manuel Rufino. He has traveled to over 30 countries on five continents, spending a year studying Buddhism and traditional Himalayan culture in India, Nepal, and Bhutan from 2010-2011. He has spent the last decade supporting and facilitating meditation and healing retreats, sharing music, dharma, spiritual disciplines, and creating community throughout the world.
Mateusz (matt) Bazgier
Originally from Poland, Mateusz is mult-inistrumentalist and music producer, currently living and creating in New York. In his work, he explores the borderline of music and personal growth.
His music is deeply rooted in a world of spirits and is treated as a spiritual practice. For several years, he is practicing under the supervision of Elders of indigenous cultures from many parts of the world.
Listen to Mateusz’s album, “Shaman’s blues” featuring tito la rosa at https://mattbazgier.bandcamp.com