I’m heading off for pilgrimage. So posting will be light non-existent for the next nine days. I’ll let you know how it goes.
If you can’t wait that long, you can go and download the entire pilgrimage video, and get a bit of an idea. That cute little Irish girl talking about the Shrine of Baha’u'llah? that will be me.
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For those of us who came into the Baha'i Faith through the ever popular Kubaya flavored route, the Dawnbreaker collective comes flying out of left field and knocks us on our asses. And while more and more artists are pushing "Baha'i Music" to new areas, the Dawnbreaker Collective were still the first to toss out the Baha'i folk songbook. Grab their music direct from them, from Amazon, or on itunes.
While he's been profiled here already, Ferraby Lionheart certainly deserves all the praise that this meager blog can heap upon him as he's released an absolute gem of an album with his 'Catch the Brass Ring'.
Seattle hip-hop duo Common Market have been covered in this blog already but they definitely deserve a place in the sidebar. From a review in Seattle's The Stranger:
You could say the duo connected through a higher power. "We're both Baha'i; that's how I heard of Sabzi in the first place," explains Scion. "So being involved with the Baha'i community and doing music, people kept asking me, 'Do you know Saba?'" "Yeah, people would just be like, there's another Baha'i in town that 'does hiphop,'" Sabzi laughs. Once connected, Sabzi spun records at the release party for RA's debut EP Apostrophe—and the pair found that musically, they were on the same page.
You can find their music well, pretty much everywhere. Instant gratification types (such as myself) can get theirs from the itunes music store.
An invigorating blend of various Polynesian dances, rhythms and sounds fused with pop, MANA is a Baha'i music and cultural performance group based in Sydney, Australia. The members of MANA are predominately youth, most of them still attending high school, and though they are all residents of Sydney, their roots are traced back to Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.
To date, MANA has released 2 albums: Reflections on the Life of the Spirit and Arising To Serve. All lyrics have been taken from the Baha'i Writings found in the sequence of courses known as Ruhi Books, developed by the Ruhi Institute. There is currently a total of seven books in the sequence.
The Baha'is Magazine
A new version of a glossy 80-page magazine profiling the Baha'i Faith and its worldwide community has just been published. It features sections on Baha'u'llah, the spiritual and moral teachings of the Baha'i Faith, the Faith's history and administration, and its programs of social and economic development. It also has profiles of individual Baha'is and examples of community activities.
It can be ordered through the Baha'i Distribution Service in the United States.
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congratulations… be sure to bring back a heaping share of blessings and confirmations!!
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wow…you are very blessed to be there for the Twin Anniversaries…but I hope you will not be thinking about the bloggity blog..which I will miss for the 9 days… and humour >> I LOL …I can honestly now say I have now read all the posts,all the bitty-bitty blurbs…which to me… is much more than.so thank God for the archives.I guess.
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so… umm… u back yet? want to share some stories/pictures?
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we’re dying here! What were your impressions?
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nicely said. we really are dying here, i’m glad i’m not the only one! please grace us with some of the pilgrimage spirit!
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it was THAT wonderful huh? speechless? surely there is song you have brewing in you ,what does it sound like?I am listening out for to you too,
so drop whatever you are doing and at least answer these fan mail man!
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guys… don’t harsh his buzz! he’s probably still filled with an overwhelming sense of post-pilgrimage love, awe and wonderment.
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hahahhhahaha…I thought all this time he was a little Irish girl ..hehehehehe > didn’t you read the last post..?
I am sure he is even cuter tho’, from what I hear %)
the buzzzzz…..awww.wonderful.love.brb please.pretty please ;)
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are you going to make us really beg?
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come on now! I leave for pilgrimage in 3 days, can’t you at least give us something before I go too?
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holy cow!
i still check > ndependantly investigating in spite of what
my newsreader says: which is that :bahaiblog is like so 3 days ago…
but
i hope you are just on vacation or construction or…
whatever,some good things take time to ferment yeah?