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general admission and vendor fees
 
Donations for the Brid's Closet Beltane Festival!

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About Me

Elizabeth Muise is a visual artist and a dancer. She has been dancing for eighteen years, and bellydancing for seven of those years. She looks forward to sharing this beautiful art form with you! Check out her artwork at www.redmuise.com

Celebrating the Ancient Feminine! Tribal Fusion Bellydance Workshop I:

Basic Technique and the Challenge of Moving Slow!

In this workshop I would like to cover the basic movements of Middle Eastern Dance, while focusing on proper technique. We will drill isolations with an emphasis on keeping everything slow and controlled. There will be a short discussion on the history of bellydance and Q & A. Open to all levels of skill and experience!

Celebrating the Ancient Feminine! Tribal Fusion Bellydance Workshop II: Layering and Shimmies!

In this workshop I would like to build on what we covered in the fi rst class, and then pick up the pace! Incorporating shimmies and layering isolations for fun and an added challenge! Open to all levels of skill and experience!

 

Normal is Boring! Songwriting for Children

Music Therapist Alyssa Yeager encourages children of all ages to get creative in this songwriting workshop. Participants will play along to new and familiar songs, learn how to add their own lyrics and ideas to the music, and work with the group to create songs together. A children’s songwriting CD will be available following the workshop for those wishing to take the experience home! Suitable for children 5+ (2+ if accompanied by an adult).

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Jenny C. has been dancing for almost 27 years. She began her journey with the art of bellydance in 2002. She has studied with many other artist instructors including Master instructor Mahmoud Reda, Aszmara, Anahid Sofian, Farida Farimy, Za-Beth, Morocco, Fahtiem, Jillina (Bellydance Superstars), Rachel Brice (Indigo), Zoe Jakes, Mira Betz, Amy Sigil (Unmata), Saqra, Oreet, Suhaila Salimpour, Chadia, and Perizad (Twisted Tassels) to name a few. Currently, Jenny C. teaches and performs multiple styles of dance including Tribal Fusion bellydance and hip hop in Orange County. She is honored to introduce her student performance troupe Oasis Caravan at this wonderful event. Thank you Bernadette for the opportunity to offer what we love. Please visit Jenny C’s website for more information @ www.imagroupmembers.com/jennycohen

Some of our wonderful vendors!

Issac Bonewits

Liron Peled

Trisha McBride

Pronto Printers

Newburgh SPCA

Cornwall Fire Dept.

Elisabeth Muise

Hudson Harmony

Zark-Photography

Heather-magickal wands

Amethyst Rose Creations

PanGia Pottery creations

Durangos-spanish food

Fiddlestix-american,continental

Woody's restaurant

Brid's Closet

Natural Designs by Aja Lee-jewelry

Lorraine Mark-Pronto Printers

Yoga Mountain

Fusion-jewelry and imports

Athenas novelties

Tastefully simple

The Moonlit sea

Shooting for the Moon

PanGia's handemade pots

Taconic Records-Peter Morrisson

Studio 101

Pieces Passion

Shari Sauberman-stainless steel jewelry

BELLA GARRISON "Supporting your health with nature and spirit".

more to come!

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Peter Morrisson

Acoustic Rock/owner of Taconic records

Taconic records has provided the sound and lighting to The Brid's Closet Beltane/Spring Festival for the past 2 years. For info on booking Peter for your event, or to record your music, please contact Peter at

www.myspace.com/petermorrisonband

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Beltane/Spring Festival

sponsored by Brid's Closet!

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Event Details

Brid's Closet 2nd annual Beltane/Spring Festival

Sat. May 2nd 2009 10:30 am til ?

Admission: $20 under 8 free!

Come and celebrate spring with us! Dress in your renaissance. faire best! (fantasy, pirate, renaissance, fun)

Tarot readers, Dance the Maypole, Live entertainment, games of chance, classes, music, belly dancing, tons of shopping and food from our fine vendors, and so much more!!

Where: The Grail 119 Duncan ave, Cornwall-on-hudson NY 12520

www.thegrailatcornwall.com or for directions:http://www.thegrailatcornwall.org/visit.html

Sponsored by Bernadette Montana of Brid's Closet www.bridscloset.com

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This year's performers and vendors!

brid's closet-telling pointTelling Point
Ask for the background of each member and you'll understand how this Cleveland based

rock group came to have such an eclectic sound. Influences ranging from jazz and

middle eastern to classic rock and new metal have caused Telling Point to classify their

style as "Rock of a different nature". The commanding drums will keep you moving as

the sensual vocals embrace you. The Telling Point Acoustic show provides listeners an

intimate connection with the band. Each song is a story: personal, inviting. Whether it’s

the djembe groove or the poetic lyrics, you’ll want to take this music in and let it touch you.

Alyssa: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion. Sue Balaschak: Drum kit, Djembe, Dun Duns. www.myspace.com/tellingpoint

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Trisha McBride

www.trishamcbridedance.com

Trisha McBride “danced right out of the womb” (more like kicked, but that’s another story) Studying ballet and jazz as a child, Trisha as an adult was still looking for the dance form that resonated with her. She found that when she discovered Belly Dance.
In 1996, she began her studies of Egyptian Cabaret at Kismet School of Dance in Salt Lake City, Utah, falling hard for the movements and Middle Eastern rhythms. Her love for this dance form began with her teacher Sonya’s outstanding drum solo choreography. Free style break dance was a major focus in high school and college , from the culture of break dance and love of break beats, Trisha was able to quickly tie in the locking and isolating movements of Belly Dance.
Performing for the first time in 1996 at the Utah Annual Belly Dance Festival, she saw Carolina Nericco, of Fat Chance Belly Dance, command the stage. This was the first time Trisha witnessed the art of American Tribal Style Belly Dane. Scraping her jaw off the floor, she realized the art form that truly struck a chord deep within her.
Trisha moved to San Francisco in 1998 to study American Tribal Style (ATS) Belly Dance. Learning from creators and innovators of this style, Fat Chance Belly Dance and Jill Parker, of Ultra Gypsy. She lived happily ever after in the land of the fairies…for a year.

After this lovely dream, she woke up in Salt Lake City Utah once again and found herself studying “kit” drumming and bass guitar. Continuing her studies of Egyptian Cabaret with newly found master teacher Aziz. His complex zil rhythm’s and his passion for belly dance, moved Trisha’s dance style to a new level. She was now performing American Tribal Style with a strong cabaret flair.
In 2001, Trisha moved back to San Francisco, and was then recruited by Brigitta Gudheus for the esteemed San Francisco Troupe Azure. Performing with Azure Trisha’s style was refined by artist’s, Michael McElhaney, Brigitta Gudheus and Andra Young. It was in this troupe that Trisha understood the amazing dynamic of dancing in a group using improvisational choreography.

Exploring new coasts, Trisha moved to Brooklyn New York in the fall of 2003. She began teaching her unique Style of Tribal Belly Dance, which is strongly rooted in ATS format, in the Spring of 2005.
Her musical studies and song writing, have given her a strong structure for dance phrasing choreography and zil rhythm. She developed a teaching method called “zil breaks” in early ‘07 that allows the dancer to “break up” different zil patterns easily. Trisha studies the dumbek with Raquy Danziger, and Liron Peled and has played in many different bands on the East Coast. “The Ecstatic’s” with Kyp Malone, of TV on the Radio, was a fun and short lived experimental guitar project of hers. “Thinnest Veil” with Paul Mahagen and Amy Sperber. “Milk 4 Cats”, Sibyl Buck, Lyndsey Jones, and Maki (who use to play for the Bad Brains!) was her favorite song writing project. Trisha loves to sing and plans to return the the microphone incorporating the art of dance and song in the near future.

She is devoted to teaching her students improvisation and artistic choreography. Group dancing is a favorite for Trisha, she truly enjoys dancing with the girls!

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Drumming Workshop - "Communication Without Words"
Focusing on, but not limited to, Middle Eastern Drumming
Taught by Liron Peled (from Raquy and the Cavemen)

It's a well known expression that music is an international language,
a way for people to communicate on the level of the heart rather than
the logical mind.

Liron Peled has always been fascinated with this aspect of music, and
its ability to create harmony between people - in this workshop,
beginner and advanced drummers alike can express themselves through
playing the drum.
We'll go over some basic technique and rhythms, so even complete
beginners will have a basic musical vocabulary - it's easier than you
think! : )

Also, we'll touch on drumming as a way to help us focus, and
potentially as a means of meditation.

Liron Peled started drumming at 10 years old. He grew up and studied
music in Israel, and moved to NY as a teenager.
In recent years, Liron has become well known as a Middle-Eastern
drummer, teacher and composer, collaborating with many artists such as
Omar Faruk Tekbilek, but mostly for his part in the group Raquy and
the Cavemen, with his band-mate Raquy Danziger.

You can bring any drum or percussion instrument to this workshop - we
will have a limited number of drums for people to use.This workshop will be priced at $10 per person!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All Times Approximate


PETER MORRISON - Acoustic Folk Music 11am-11:45am


GREG MELNICK - Flamenco Guitar 12pm-12:45pm


LYDIA ADAMS DAVIS - Puppeteer 1pm-1:45pm


*DANCE THE

MAYPOLE/INTERMISSION 2pm-2:30pm


VICTOR NOIRLOCKE - Magician 2:30pm-3:15pm


THE ROYAL BARITARIAN PLAYERS - 3:30pm-4:15pm


JENNY COHEN - Bellydance 4:30pm-5:15pm


ELIZABETH MUISE - Bellydance 5:20pm-5:45pm


TRISHA MCBRIDE - Bellydance 5:50pm-6:30pm


TELLING POINT - Acoustic Rock 6:30pm

 

CLASS SCHEDULE

Arthur Mitchell Morning Meditation 11a - 12p loft


Chuck Finfrock Circle Casting 11a - 12p room b


Stephanie Sirico Yoga Mountain Yoga 12p - 1p room b


Isaac Bonewits Understanding Paganism 1p - 2p room b


Chuck Finfrock Totem Animals 1p - 2p
room c


Elizabeth Muise Challenge of Moving Slow! 1p - 2p outside vendor tent


MAYPOLE Intermission 2p - 230p


Elizabeth Muise Ancient Feminine 230p - 330p outside vendor tent


Telling Point Song Writing for kids 230p - 330p
room c


Trisha McBride Bellydance Intensive 330p - 430p room b


Liron Peled Drumming 330p - 430p
room c

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ONE OF OUR MANY VENDORS FROM LAST YEAR'S EVENT!

BRID'S CLOSET-MAYPOLE

OUR MAYPOLE FROM 2008

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Isaac Bonewits is one of North America’s leading experts on ancient and

modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement.

A practicing Neopagan priest, scholar, teacher, bard, and polytheologian for over thirtyfive years, he has coined much of the vocabulary and articulated many of the issues that have shaped the rapidly growing Neopagan movement in the United

States and Canada, with opinions both playful and controversial.

He is the author of Real Magic, Authentic Thaumaturgy, The Pagan Man, Bonewits's Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca (formerly Witchcraft: A Concise Guide),

and Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism, Neopagan Rites (formerly Rites of Worship), and (with his wife Phaedra) Real Energy (New Page March 2007) as

well as numerous articles, reviews and essays. He is a singer-songwriter with two-and-a-half albums to his credit. As a “spellbinding” speaker, he has educated, enlightened and entertained two generations of modern Goddess worshippers,

nature mystics, and followers of other minority belief systems, and has explained these movements to journalists, law enforcement officers, college students, and academic researchers.

He is the Founder and an Archdruid Emeritus of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid

Fellowship, (the best known Neopagan Druid organization based in North America)

, a 3° Druid within the United Ancient Order of Druids (the best known Mesopagan Druid order), a retired High Priest in both the Gardnerian (“British Orthodox”) and

the N.R.O.O.G.D. (“California Heterodox”) traditions of Wicca

(Neopagan Witchcraft), an initiate of Santeria (Afro-Cuban Mesopaganism)

and the “Caliphate Line” of the Ordo Templi Orientis (Aleister Crowley’s

Mesopagan magical tradition), as well as a member of other Neopagan and Mesopagan Druid orders. He has been a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (“CUUPS”) for several years. Having survived four previous spouses (and vice versa), on July 23, 2004 he was handfasted to former CUUPS

Vice President, tarot expert, writer, and Wiccan Priestess, Phaedra Bonewits

(hope springs eternal). With her he has co-authored a book called Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, and Substances to Heal, Change, and Grow.

Articulate, witty, yet reasonably scholarly, he is currently writing books on

Halloween, Understanding Magic, and Polytheology. Should your topic be outside

his expertise, he can quickly refer you to colleagues, scholars and

spokespersons for any legitimate Neopagan movement. Those interested

in having him present a workshop or seminar may contact him directly at the

address below. To find out if he is appearing in your area, check his schedule page.

Isaac wishes it officially known that he is not “A Pagan Spiritual Leader,” but

merely one of the Neopagan movement’s better-known Unindicted Co-Conspirators...

Isaac will be having talks and will be available for tarot sessions throughout the day !

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Lydia Adams Davispuppeteer

Recording artist, singer/songwriter, Lydia Adams Davis, weaves

a beautiful voice and her captivating melodies with audiences of

all ages. Called a "Splendid performer " by The New York Times,

Lydia improvises songs on the spot. Her performance schedule

includes family, children, library, museum, historical, coffee

houses, folk and country/folk programs.

Lydia's performances for adults include concerts, coffee houses,

and festivals. Lydia performs original country/folk, a Victorian program accompanied by pianist, Dr. Ruthanne Schempf or -

for something completely different - jazz standards.

Lydia offers a variety of vocal concerts and programs for schools

and libraries that include songs, stories, hand-puppets and

American Sign Language. She appears solo accompanying herself

on guitar, dulcimer and piano; as the Eco

Duo with guitarist

and vocalist, John Guth; or she is joined

by other musicians

to make the Eco Trio.

Her children's performances whether solo

or with the Eco Trio,

are energetic, inventive and always FUN!! And although

the performances pay special attention to the children in the audience, the adults

find themselves having a great time too!

 

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The Royal Baritarian Players
present a Gypsy Bear Taming Dance, and

will then rove about at their leisure,

selling portraits

and painting faces.

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