Planetary Gig Talk Live! — Planetary Gigs Society

In addition to the Planetary Gig Talk podcasts, we have expanded to provide information and video discussions about topics related to the power and spirit of music. In the Planetary Gig Talk Live series, host Jefferson Glassie discusses important topics about music with a panel of knowledgeable musicians and other experts. These will be live virtual conversations on Zoom, which will also be delivered in real time on Facebook Live, with recordings available here on the website afterwards.

EPISODES:

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #17 – Friday, April 4, 2024: The Moon Dance

Featuring:

Adriana Ocelot walks the Red Road of the Native American tradition Sun Dancer in Lakota territory, leader of Moon Dance and Vision Quest in Brazil, and practitioner of traditional medicine
Carol Santosha a Moon Dancer named “Tenochtli – Strong Heart” after completing the Brazilian Moon Dance guided by Abuela Adriana Ocelot;
Laura Payne Sterling is a proud Barkindji woman, an Indigenous activist, water protector, community worker and Moon Dancer.

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

A panel discussion about the Moon Dance, an Ancient Musical and Mystical Gathering

In the most recent PGTL discussion about the book 'When the Drummers Were Women' by Layne Redmond, Carol Santosha joined us from Brazil and talked about the Moon Dance as a traditional feminine ceremony involving dance, rhythm, drumming, and more.

This panel of three experienced women from around the world explains and discusses this important ceremony and how it can be helpful for us today.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #16 – Friday, December 1, 2023: When the Drummers Were Women, book by Layne Redmond, Second Conversation

Featuring:

Barbara Gail, founder, Women, Rhythm & Ritual

Krista Holland, founder, Sacred Drumming Academy

Roy ’Futureman’ Wooten, 5x Grammy percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

"One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm, and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion." – Layne Redmond, from When the Drummers Were Women

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #15 – Friday, January 20, 2023: When the Drummers Were Women

Featuring:

Barbara Gail, founder, Women, Rhythm & Ritual

Krista Holland, founder, Sacred Drumming Academy

Roy ’Futureman’ Wooten, 5x Grammy percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

When the Drummers Were Women; A Spiritual History of Rhythm, the book by Layne Redmond; a discussion of the role of Women as the primary percussionists throughout the ancient Mediterranean world (and beyond) and what this means for us today.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #14 – Friday, February 11, 2022: Biofield Tuning and Sound Healing Practices

Featuring:

Eileen McKusick

Patti Downing

Linda Helms

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

Science tells us that we are vibrations, but what does that mean? Our panelists will talk about the nature of the biofield around us, how our biofields hold our histories and affect us all the time, and how we can tune our energy for more coherence, balance, and harmony in our lives. Sound therapies of all sorts can have significant positive impacts on us! The panel discusses sound healing, tuning forks, Tibetan and other sound bowls, trauma and release in our energy fields, sound healing effects on students and learning, overcoming energy blockages, ancestral influences, and lots of other related groovy topics.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #13 – Friday December 10, 2021: Music and Morphic Resonance

Featuring:

Patricia Raine – artist/illustrator and musician

Peter McClard - Musician and Software Developer

Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten- percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

Please enjoy this conversation in which Roy, Patty, Peter, and Jefferson discuss the amazing theory of Morphic Resonance promulgated by the brilliant Rupert Sheldrake as it relates to music.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #12 – Friday May 21, 2021: Morphogenisis and Holistic Tonality

Featuring:

Michael - Cellist

Peter McClard - Musician and Software Developer

Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten- percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

This Planetary Gig Talk Live! Panel will discuss a wide range of topics, including how improvised music is pure manifestation of morphogenesis, which is both cosmic and holographic, and how morphogenesis is a condition of both meaning and relativity. Peter McClard says, “In a way the theory of Holistic Tonality is sort of a Unified Theory of Music incorporating ideas from all existing music theories and traditions, expanding upon them and adding multiple levels of complexity.” Combine these concepts and you will not want to miss this conversation!

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #11 – Friday May 7, 2021: Music Camps/Programs for Youth

Featuring:

Anni Beach- Jam Pak Blues ‘N’ Grass Neighborhood Band, Arizona

Liz Lulu – Girls Rock Camp Toronto, Canada

Brian Weber – Takoma Groove Camp, Maryland

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

This Planetary Gig Talk Live! session will highlight current youth music camps and programs conducted by three alumni of Vix Camps. They will describe the purpose and the nature of the camps/programs, how they are organized and operated, and the beneficial effects on the youth participants. They also will answer questions. Hopefully, we can inspire other musicians to start summer and other camps and programs for kids!

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #10 – Friday April 30, 2021: Ho’oponopono and Music Part IV – Exploring Quantum Theory

Featuring:

Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten- percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Mathew Dixon – the Guitar Monk

Patricia Raine – artist/illustrator and musician

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

This Planetary Gig Talk Live! Session picks up from the first three conversations with this stellar panel about Ho’oponopono and Music in Part IV to explore Quantum Theory. The panel in Part III discussed how Ho’oponopono can help artists and musicians in the creative process. In Part IV, the panel will explore concepts of quantum theory as they relate to Music and Ho’oponopono. As Roy says, “This is where we fully go down the rabbit hole of Ho’oponopono's relationship to non-linear reality and quantum physics.” Don’t miss this conversation!

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #9 – Friday April 23, 2021: VICTOR L. WOOTEN - author of The Music Lesson, founder Center for Music and Nature, about his new book and audiobook THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC

with Wooten Woods Alumni hosts:

Marilyn Quinsaat, Billy Presnell, and Jefferson Glassie

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

What is happening with Music? That’s the question in Victor’s amazing new book The Spirit of Music and the fantastic audiobook. Please purchase and read your copy, download the audiobook (from Audible or wherever else you might get it), and then join us for this special conversation. We’re gonna geek out about the story and the many layers of depth and meaning in this tale about the vital necessity of Music as one of the fundamental bonds that brings us all together.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #8 – Friday March 12, 2021: Ho’oponopono and Music Part III – How Ho’oponopono Can Enhance the Creative Process for Artists and Musicians

Featuring:

Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten- percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Mathew Dixon – the Guitar Monk

Patricia Raine – artist/illustrator and musician

Your Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

This Planetary Gig Talk Live! Session picks up from the first two conversations with this stellar panel about Ho’oponopono and Music. Artists and musicians are seekers who will lead society to the future. The panel in Part III discusses how Ho’oponopono can help artists and musicians in the creative process, which will be even more important as we come through the pandemic and into a new era of connectivity and cooperation.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #7 – Friday January 29: Ho'oponopono and Music Part II - Transitioning to Connectivity

Featuring:

Roy 'Futureman' Wooten

Guitar Monk Mathew Dixon

Patricia Raine

Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

Ho’oponopono is a powerful Hawaiian spiritual practice that focuses on love, forgiveness, and gratitude to bring a more calm, serene, and peaceful life. Music is, of course, incredibly powerful and can bring peace and healing. So, how might Ho’oponopono and Music interact; how might they be similar, or different? Can practicing Ho’oponopono help one become a better musician, artist, or person? How might listening to or playing music improve one’s Ho’oponopono practice or one’s views about life? At this time, can Ho’oponopono and music help heal a nation and a world suffering from dissension and divisive drama, in addition to the pandemic? This PGT LIVE panel talks about a wide variety of issues concerning Ho’oponopono and music!

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #6 – Friday December 18: Nada Brahma, Music of the Spheres, and the Vibration of Intention

Featuring:

Michael, cellist

Bill Barclay, former Director of Music, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London

Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

Nada Brahma means the World is Sound, or perhaps more accurately, Everything in the Universe is created by Sound. Nada Brahma is also the title of the remarkable book by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, which Michael talked about with Jefferson in their Planetary Gig Talk podcast from Wooten Woods in 2018. Berendt also references Music of the Spheres, the concept by which the planets orbit in proportions related to the harmonic scale. Bill Barclay is very knowledgeable about both Nada Brahma and Music of the Spheres, as also discussed with Jefferson in their podcast in 2019.

Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten also joined the panel.

This PGT LIVE panel discusses these concepts and their underlying meanings and importance, and how it all relates to Music and life.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #5 – Friday, November 20 noon EST: Ho’oponopono and Music

Featuring:

Roy ‘Futureman’ Wooten- percussionist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Mathew Dixon – the Guitar Monk

Patricia Raine – artist/illustrator and musician

Host: Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #4– October 2, 2020: Protest and Intentional Songs

Featuring:

Christylez Bacon, Grammy Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist

Sparky Rucker, folklorist, musician, historian, storyteller, and author

Elijah Wald, folk blues musician, historian, and author

Protest songs have accompanied social justice movements throughout the years. What has been the impact of protest songs? The 1960s had lots of protest songs, but are there many protest songs out now? Where are the musicians? Intentional songs can also be important to help move culture; what are examples of these songs? What are the young generations of multi-cultural musicians doing to affect society and help bring about change?

This PGT LIVE panel will discuss the impact and necessity of protest and intentional songs and how we can do more to get them out at this critical time for our Democracy.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #3– September 11, 2020: Perspectives on Race and Music

Featuring:

Gaye Adegbalola, Blues Music Award winner, founding member of Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women

Lionel Cole, singer, pianist, composer/arranger, music editor and public speaker

Shana Oshiro, singer with Halo a cappella quartet, also conducts Race and #RealTalk program

Joseph Wooten, musician, composer, writer, philanthropist

The murder of George Floyd, the resulting mass protests, and the Black Lives Matter movement have had powerful effects on society; in particular, more White people seem to be understanding the perniciousness of systemic racism. Music also has an incredible power; to calm us, soothe us, and heal us. How do the topics of race and music intersect? What have been the effects of racism on musicians, the impact of Black, Hispanic, African, and Indian music on society, or other consequences of the power of music on addressing racial issues? And how can music helps us create a more just and fair society?

This PGT LIVE panel will discuss these and similar concepts, in an effort to learn more and understand better the legacy of racism in music and also create paths forward toward healing in society.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #2– August 7, 2020: Music Ashrams

Featuring:

Raj Sagonakha of the Devi Music Ashram, Rishikesh, India

Biko Casini, percussionist with the band Rising Appalachia

Victor Wooten, bass player, author of The Music Lesson, founder Center for Music and Nature

When Jefferson Glassie visited Rishikesh, India, he somehow found the Devi Music Ashram. People who visit the Devi Music Ashram can stay for extended periods of time for music education and training in Indian song, dance, instruments, vocals, or other aspects of music. Music ashram seems to be a new term, and the concept can be broadly interpreted. Generally, a music ashram would be comprised of a group of people living or staying together to focus on music – learning, playing, and creating - and sharing resources. Music camps, such as Wooten Woods, and music educational centers may have similar characteristics.

This PGT LIVE panel discusses music ashrams and similar types of resource sharing, creative, and educational opportunities for musicians to benefit humans and the planet.

Planetary Gig Talk LIVE #1 – July 10, 2020 : The Ancient Indian Concept of NAAD, Sound as the Ultimate Reality

Featuring:

Pandit Nirmalya Dey, renowned master vocalist and teacher in the tradition of Dagarvani dhrupad in Delhi, India.

Raj Ghosware Sagonaka and Yahor Jeihalo of the Devi Music Ashram, Rishikesh, India.

This Planetary Gig Talk Live discussion is about Naad, which is the essence of all sound, a particular vibration, a fundamental frequency that comes from one common source. Anahat Naad is a mystic sound that is spontaneous and is not the result of striking, while Ahata Naad is sound that is the result of striking.

In Victor Wooten’s book, The Music Lesson, he refers to Zero, which is the musical concept of space that Joseph Wooten talks about. Could Zero be Anahat Naad? Jeralyn Glass in a recent presentation during Vision Camp spoke of the place of universal intelligence between the sounds. James Twyman at Vision Camp also spoke about the state of not knowing. Kenny Werner in his book Effortless Mastery refers to an inner space where perfection exists and where, with practice, one can hear the “unstruck sound.”

This PGT LIVE panel discusses the ancient Indian origins and meaning of Naad, and how this concept may be of interest to musicians.