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2022 Super Bloom
Women’s Handpan Gathering
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Meet the 2022 Co-Creators for
Super Bloom
Women’s Handpan Gathering
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2022 Featured Facilitator, Handpan Player & Educator
Amy began playing handpan in 2014 and was first recognized by her unique style and use of loops to reimagine popular songs. Since then she has grown and developed a strong voice in the handpan community, singing modern mantras and songs of her own weaving. Her playing is a subtle blend of intricate patterns and simple, soothing sounds that weave and flow with her voice and lyrics.
Eager to explore the handpan to its full potential, Amy often collaborates with other artists, art forms, and instruments. She is particularly intrigued by the way different environments and connections with different players can inspire a whole new muse and sound - emotion translated to music.
Amy offers individual and group workshops, usually focussed not just in playing handpan, but in exploring a much more holistic approach to music making with the handpan at its core.
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‘22 Organizer, Founder of the Virginia Handpan Community & The Healing Pan Project
With the growing need of mental health resources, Kelly believes the handpan can aid many by creating an environment where they can heal themselves by playing, listening, and/or offering to play the handpan to other people who are in need. She offers the handpan skill and drive to facilitate healing.
She has studied handpan and music since 2019, sound healing through non-traditional instruments, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and meditation. In the last year, she provided multiple sound healing events, coproduced local non-profit festivals, and coproduced a the 2022 women’s handpan gathering.
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Vocal Coach, Handpan Teacher & Mentor
Marina is one of the founders of the Handpan NYC Community - a place where teachers, artists, and enthusiasts can experience a world of handpan events, workshops, and community gatherings since 2016. From the moment Marina held this instrument for the first time, she didn't want to let it go! She then knew that she will become a lifelong student of this art form. Since then Marina has helped organize various handpan workshops and retreats in NY.
Marina's participation in plant medicine ceremonies has highly influenced her handpan musical journey. She weaves her voice into her compositions, incorporating songs from various traditions and backgrounds.
In 2019 she attended her first Handpan gathering (Reminiscence in NC) and immediately felt a sense of belonging. She met many great handpan friends at this gathering, among them Kelly!
When not involved in Super Bloom, Marina teaches beginners handpan, somatic voice practice and psychedelic/plant medicine integration and harm reduction.
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2022 Organizer, SBL Founder, Musician & Handpan Steward
In 2016, while visiting friends in the Mojave desert, a glowing campfire set the stage for Sarah to be mesmerized by something she had neither seen nor heard before … the handpan. Little did she know that big changes were being initiated. As her inner flames grew brighter and bolder, she was brought back to her first musical loves — the violin and the voice.
Sarah uses her voice as a self-healing tool, alongside playing the handpan, violin, mandolin, RAVvast and frame drum. Having written a few pieces, she aims to share them in 2022. In addition to music, Sarah is also a visual artist — fine art, mixed-media photography & graphic design.