Singing the World to Be

Singing the World to Be

Concert
Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 19:30 to 21:30
Spiritual
Wellbeing
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Welcome to this beautiful evening including storytelling with Peia and Josh and a concert with Peia and her band
Description: 

Join singer and archival songkeeper Peia Luzzi and The Emerald podcast's Josh Schrei for an
evening of song, story, and mythic invocation. Together, we will lament and long, listen and sing
back, and deepen our relationship with the mythic as a living animate force that moves through
bodies and is expressed through uttered sound and story. In times of fracture, the need to
remember, replenish, and reconnect is greater than ever before... and the stories and songs that
come down to us across the ages offer us a means to deepen into the full spectrum of what it is to
be alive in a world both painful and joyous.

 

About the speaker, Peia and Josh Schrei

Peia Luzzi is an American-born song collector, writer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the mountains of Appalachia. Like water drawn from a deep well, she finds inspiration in her ancestral roots, weaving together the rich traditions of Irish and Old World European folk music.
With a voice that moves effortlessly through 17th-century Irish laments, Scottish waulking
songs, Bulgarian mountain calls, and timeless Child Ballads, Peia has spent over a decade
traveling and studying to reconnect with the songs of her lineage. Honoring their languages and stories with deep reverence, she brings a piece of herself to each melody she carries.

With live performances often described as timeless and transcendent, Peia and her trio—
featuring Peter Klaassen on double bass and Liron Meyuhas on percussion—transport
audiences through hypnotic rhythms and soaring, ethereal vocals. Their performances offer a lush, organic tapestry of sound, bridging traditional folk treasures with Peia’s own soul-stirring compositions.

"Peia uses bowed acoustic bass, harmonium, bodhrán, and charangón to generate an
otherworldly ambience. She sings like a stringed instrument, creating countermelodies that dance through the arrangements with an air of blissful sorrow."

Downbeat Magazine
 

Josh Schrei is a podcaster, mythteller, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies
and mythologies of the world. He is the founder of The Emerald Podcast, which
combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music, and interviews with award-winning
authors and luminaries to explore the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth,
story, and imagination.

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7.30pm
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9.30pm
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