“Eighth Step favorites for decades, weaving Gospel, blues and folk traditions into a quilt of sound and spirit...exploring history through harmony”
“Magical interplay of voices”
SING SOLSTICE! online: From Solstice through New Year’s Day, December 21, 2023-Jan 1, 2024 - with 48 hour replay!
Hear KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE (Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner) create a vibrant and joyous evening of four-part harmony, video recorded at The Eighth Step (GE Theatre at Proctors) on Dec. 9! Camaraderie, love, warmth and light - at your convenience!
This concert will be broadcast on Vimeo at a cost of $10 per person our gift to the community that has loved and supported our artists, and helped so generously to keep the music playing on our stages.
Scroll down for information on Sing Solstice! and our four fabulous artists. For sure, we couldn’t have asked for finer musicians to fill the stage with festive energy and greet Mother Nature’s New Year!
(Recorded 12/9/23 in live concert, 8th Step at Proctors (GE Theatre).
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“Magical interplay of voices”
The weather outside is frightful, but Sing Solstice is so delightful! On Winter Solstice - the shortest day and longest, darkest night of the year, come spend an evening with the irresistible foursome of Kim & Reggie Harris and Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner (Magpie) - a bright, warm and wonderful musical celebration of nature’s Season of Light that from ancient times to the present inspired such Midwinter celebrations as Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Yule and more in cultures around the world. We’ll welcome the gradual lengthening of days that will begin at dawn the following day - its Midwinter, and we turn toward Spring - it’s Mother Nature’s New Year!!
The enormously talented and charismatic foursome creates a transcendent, often otherworldly sound with stunning harmonies & instrumentals, alternately powerful, touching, funny & charming. Who better to greet the light?
Significant in early times, the Solstice was viewed as a mystical omen of hope. It reminded us that every year our darkest days inevitably give way to light - especially meaningful in view of Ukraine, Washington, global warming, school shootings, recent midterms, Covid and people in distress around the world and here at home. May we achieve peace - and live in the light.
Now the days grow a little longer, a little shorter each night
Touch this flame to another candle in this season of light
With lights in every window on our houses and trees
We’ll push away the darkness for a new year of peace.
-Magpie
The longest, darkest night of the year broke into a new dawn, lighting our way to Spring and Summer: fertility, new growth and rejuvenation, warmth and new chances. Tune in wherever you are for laughs, harmonies…light!