Music As Medicine

Music As Medicine: Sat, June 17th, 2017

Music As Medicine is back for the last time before a summer break! 

Following 3 sell out events in November, February and April, the 4th installment of Music As Medicine returns to the Wonder Inn for a night of acoustic roots, folk and funk, conscious lyrics and healing sounds.  

4 unique live acts will be joined by DJ Safiwi. 

Sandeep Popatkar + Guests (Indian Classical - Tabla and Keyboards)
Susie Ro Prater (Soulful Medicine Music)
Smokey Love (Multi-Instrumentalist vocalist fusing urban + shamanic energies)
Caulbearers (Archaic funk fables and soul migrations)

Each artist has their own unique way of raising the vibration, lifting the heart with their music and attempting to untangle the knots of the human condition through their lyrics.

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Sandeep Popatkar  

Sandeep is a talented and creative 'Tabla' (a two-piece Indian drum) player from Mumbai, who learnt his art of playing Tabla from his guru and father, Late Pandit Manikrao Popatkar, a world renowned player from the Banaaras Gharaana (Varanasi tradition of table players). Manikrao played on the seminal Indian Classical album Call Of The Valley that influenced Bob Dylan and The Beatles. Sandeep has accompanied various top musicians from India like Shrimati, Jyotsna Bhole(vocalist), Aasha Khaadilkar(vocalist), G.S.Sachdev(flutist), Ashraf Khan(sitarist) and recently, Pandit ShivKumaar Sharma(Santoor) & his son Raahul Sharma. Sandeep has also been involved in many fusion projects including recording and playing live with Suns of Arqa. He currently lives in Manchester, where he teaches Tabla to all age groups and participates in music workshops, demonstrations and regularly performs with local and overseas musicians.  Sandeep will be joined by Mukesh Kannan on Keyboards and Ganesh Kumble on Percussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YowK7EdZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bY_PQhmAHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93pe2j0nVKU

Susie Ro Prater

Susie's uplifting heart songs and soulful, original medicine music seems to inspire a sense of joy where ever she goes. Susie tours internationally with her harmony singing workshops and beautiful songs on guitar, connecting with the global light family, and ancient traditions of the world, and weaving what she learns into a stream of free-flowing music to awaken the heart. This year she will be releasing the 2-year project of her Debut Album 'Song of a Thousand Leaves'. Don't be surprised if Susie gets the whole audience singing in harmony together!  *** Susie is also leading two voice workshops on Sunday 18th June at The Wonder Inn. 'Alchemy of Song & Joyful Singing Harmony Workshop with Susie Ro' https://www.facebook.com/events/1607646122597952/

www.susiero.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eC-SPM7YpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2RaV3da1o

Smokey Love 

Smokey is a visionary shamanic healer, musician and poet who grew up in East London. His work is a fusion of urban and shamanic energies and is intended to evoke spiritual awareness and awakening within the collective consciousness. His music is a magical transmission of the frequency of liberation. Let his words and voice carry you into new dimensions of unity and love.

https://soundcloud.com/smokeylove/smokey-love-forgiven-family

https://soundcloud.com/smokeylove/smokey-love-the-tree-of-life

https://youtu.be/EvZKrC2GJ6U

Caulbearers

Archaic funk fables and soul migrations from this hybrid musical ensemble, who's songs explode with heavyweight grooves, fervent vocals and rich instrumentation.
Vocalists Julie Gordon and Damien Mahoney combine and take turns to tell bitter-sweet tales of the self, soul and society.
Soaking up inspiration from afrobeat to post-punk, Indian ragas through to reggae and acid house, Caulbearers' music is full of dynamic, twisting structures and sonic invention:
This is roots music from the rainy city.  Psychedelic soul with poetic, social observation. 
Each time the band appears at Music As Medicine, there is a different line up and approach.  This gig sees the return of longterm guitarist Anton Hunter and also features his brother Johnny Hunter guesting on drums.  Caulbearers are again joined by the incredible violinist Graham Clark.

http://caulbearers.bandcamp.com/music

DJ Safiwi

Rolling from the plains of Africa to the mountains of the Pacific, SAFIWI’s roots in music stem from growing up in South Africa’s late 90’s rave scene and blossomed in New Zealand through the 2000’s where he played throughout the country and ran the sole break’n’beats radio show on RADIO ONE,91fm. He was also responsible for organising numerous events/festivals and bringing various international DJ’s to NZ.
With 16+ years experience he's become one of most versatile DJs about with his sets characterized by the spirit and vibe of Africa and depth and consciousness of New Zealand and has lead to performances at numerous events and festivals in countries from New Zealand to Latvia, Ireland to Singapore and more recently the UK where he is now based.

www.mixcloud.com/SAFIWI/

https://www.facebook.com/safiwi/