THIS PAGE IS UNDER RENNOVATION
Note: A number outdated links here and some missing stuff, page WAY due for a clean-up.Have cleaned off some dead stuff looking for some of the missing in cyberspace and a fair pile that should go in that deserves to be here. -KurtMusic & Drumming Sites
All|Linked.com's Drums Songs Favorite Drums page
This is a not terriibly long, but high quality drumming links page, each item is annotated, usually leading to other resource sites, also drum songs. It is part of a larger hyperlink site on a personal exporation of rythymn by the website's author.Babatunde Olatunji ( new location)
Infopage on the great Nigerian Drum Master, includes apperance schedule. Periodically updated.Arthur Hull
Arthur Hull is one of Babatunde Olatunji's leading Ameican collaborators, a very skilled and effective teacher and drummer.Dreamtime: A Didjeridu Resource
A remarkably comprehensive site devoted to that very mysterious aboriginal instrument.Drummers' Web
Large eclectic drumming site, areas of interest and links to artists, schedules, lessons, more. Used to be more interesting, but mostly ads now.The Drums and Percussion Page
A general percussion infosite with many links. However, has not ben updated since 1996, so there are a number of dead links. Your milage may vary... But there is enough live stuff, basic info, teaching ages, beats and riffs and of course, worth a visit for links to timeless Drummer jokes.Earth Drum Council
Jimi and Morwen Two Feathers' orgnaization promoting the Drum as a way of spirit. Includes a newsletter and informative articles. In the fall of 1997 they helped to organize and facilitate the Spirit of Change Harvest Gathering, a first-of-it's-kind council to open a dialogue on the subject of the Rites and Rights of Indegenous People's and Non-Native practitioners. A controversial and powerful subject. These are brave and deeply comitted spiritual people.Kiva
This group performs Goddess and Earth inspired music of exceptional quality, both their own and "classic" material with brilliant arrangements and touching vocals. Some of their contributions are becoming "classics" in their own right.Remo Drums U.S.A.
The Remo Precussion Arts company makes a wide vareity of drums for every level of expertise, budget and musical style. A number of Four Winds Members, including Choral Director Kurt, own and play Remo drums.Shaman
A very popular and entertaining Celtic Worldmusic band. Perennial favorites at the last few NYC Witches' Balls and the first trwo Pagan Music Festivals.Taiko Resource
Taiko are the big heartbeat festival drums of Japan. This is a very comprehensive reference site to all things taiko, inlcuding groups, reference materials, schedules, schools, links, even sound samples. Banzai!Return to Top of Page | Return to Homepage
Pagan/Spiritual Sites
The Witches' Voice
This is an amazing, truly comprehensive and enlightened site. A HUGE resource with information, links, essays, contacts, history, an excellent start site for anybody intrested in the Witches' world. They also have a very nice Music of The Witch area. Fritz and Wren and their team are deeply commited to excellence and their spiritual paths. Go here next! Aw Heck, Start here! You may never leave..Also a very excellent resource for Circles and Events and Pagan Music.
Four Quarters Farm
This is a retreat in South Western Pennsylvania which is the home and land trust of The Church of Four Quarters. They are the site of many events including Stones Rising, and the highly reccommended Drum and Splash, Lodge quest and many others. We've performed there at Pagan Music Festival.Some of the most real and spiritually commited people we have had the pleasure to meet and work with. To give you an idea, they are buildiong a Stone Cirle, the old fashioned way, sweat, blood, muscle, ropes and rolllers, and whomping great stones! A work of generations. And you have to be there, at least once in your life.Brushwood Folk Arts Center
Site of many musicial and magickal events, including Sirius Rising and Starwood, one of the largest alternative culture/spiritual events in the Northeast, which in 1997 featured Babatunde Olatunji as a teacher and performer.Church of All Worlds
One of the largest and well-regarded worldwide Earth-religion organizations. Publishers of the renowned and long-running magazine Green Egg. Inspiried by religious ideas found in Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. I may be only an egg; but in time I hope to grok in fullness.The EarthSpirit Community
One of the largest Pagan Networking Organizations in the Northeast. Their ritual chorus MotherTongue was a major inspiration for Four Winds. They also have a library of Songs and Chants online. EarthSpirit also organizes the major festivals Twilight Covening and Rites of Spring.Isaac Bonewits' Homepage
In this context, Issac Bonewits, as well as being one of the Community's most prominent Druids, he is also the central figure in the pagan group Real Magic. Info and songs lyrics here. Along with a lot of fascinating stuff from his multilayered mind.McBride Magic
Jeff "Magnus" McBride is an internationally known, award-winning Magician and Illusionist. In the Fall of 1997, in a Champions Of Magic TV segment, he was tied to the stake and set afire for a dramatic excape. In addition, he is also a exceptional Drummer, Singer and blurs the distction between magician and mage. Four Winds has learned a lot from one of his projects, The Magic Circe Drummers an amazing collaboration with Abbi Spinner. A nook of the site also includes ArcMage, a magickal web comic.New Noon New York (Note site/s, not updated since 2000)
NMNY is a New York Area Pagan and Earth Spirituality networking organization. Not as active as they once were, during their heyday, Four Winds provided workshops and rituals and suppored a nunber of events for NM. They at one times published Our Pagan Times, a monthly newsletter. Lately their activities have been limited to Seasonal Celebrations of the Wiccan/Pagan Sabbats provided by volunteers, and the networking event, the Pagan Spirituality Expo. They still have an active Email Group with events info and outher items of interest.NYC Pagan Resource Guide
A fair starting point for NY Area Pagan Activities and Information. Caveat: Like this page, was not always routinely updated. Calendar listings can be slim. But the site does reflect the diversity and vibrant activity of the NYC pagan community. Has been impoving recently. Your milage may vary. Mostly of value for the contact and resource pages.The UnCoven of the Solitaitres
The personal site of the non-coven of Persephone Yavanna the Entwife—one of our Allumni.
The UnCoven of the Solitaries CyberTemple
For those who don't know, there is a virtual temple in cyberspace -- you can worship at the shrines of various divinities, light candles, make offerings on the virtual altar and get several different types of readings.Rowanhold Bardic Circle
This is a Mega-site with many, many pages of things spiritual and bardic. WeÍve only scratched the surface of its wide and deep content. Many songs and chants featured. However, a fairly heavily decorated and hence, slow site, DANGER 141K image on homepage, get a sandwhich! Some annoying, if clever, MIDI music autoplays. Patience Grashopper, but mostly worth the wait.Return to Top of Page | Return to Homepage
Native SitesThere is a fair amount of Native American and Native inspired music in Four Winds' material, in fact the very name Four Winds has its origins in Native lore. Since Kurt follows a Lakota Nativist path, these sites are included for those wishing to explore further.
Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin: Lakota Information Home Page
This is a huge and incredibly rich site with an incredible educational library on all things pertaining to the Lakota and Dakota Nations. Tremendous, and truly at an acedemic standard. But let hear it in the author's own words:Welcome to the Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin, The Lakota Information Home Page. This is a joint project by Martin Broken Leg at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, and Raymond Bucko, S.J. at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. This page deals with Lakota and Dakota peoples. These distinct but related groups are sometimes referred to as Sioux or Siouan peoples. This page does not represent an officially sanctioned voice for any of these peoples either as individuals or as corporate groups.
The authors of this page hope to make this site both a location for a multiplicity of voices from various communities, native, scholarly as well as other groups, and to provide an ongoing dialogue on contemporary issues. Feel free to interact with the various displays by writing to the keepers of the page. All opinions presented in a respectful way are worthy of inclusion.
This page contains a record of free exchange by a multiplicity of people, Lakota, Native and non-Native representing a multiplicity of opinions. The authors of this page are consciously trying to present all sides of some thorny issues.
One of the better ways to show respect for a people and culture is to learn
as much as you can about it. This site is an excellent starting point.
Mitaquye Oyasin - Kurt Talking StoneWotanging Ikche - Native American News
This site is a regularly updated, very rich e-newsletter covering all manner of current events and topics in the Native world.Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
This is a large general information site with lots of links particularly pertaining to all aspects of contemporary Native America. Arranged by categories. HUGE. Hoka Hey!Return to Top of Page | Return to Homepage
Host Sites
ImageCraft Creations, Inc
Very good friends of the clan, fellow bards and our server hosts. Richard and Christina pursue a number of enterprises for fun and profit. The ImageCraft team lends their skills and talents to Software Engineering, including spiffy compilers, Fine Art and Illustration and Web Page Design. ImageCraft is a Pagan owned and operated family business. They more than exemplify the ideal of earning accceptance through excellence. They are very much our patrons and sponsors, please visit their site!Kurt E Griffith/Fantastic Reralities Studio
Choral Director Kurt is a prosessional Graphic Artist in his everyday life. 20 years experience in Art & Design as a Designer, Illustrator and Art Director, with digital and traditional skills. Illustration, Graphics, Design, Print and Web. Visit his site and be midlly dazzled. Hire the professional, he knows what he's doing... heh heh heh Hey... BUILT THIS SITE IN HIS FREE TIME!
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