Happy Solstice!

And now the days start getting longer again, hooray!

Here's the trailer for the solstice performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine that Mandy and I enjoyed last week. It's just moments of each but you'll get an idea of the great performers they had.

Here's a little more of the Forces of Nature Dance Company - it was funny, for a split second as they came out in the tasseled belts I thought this was going to be the Tahitian dance segment of the performance! That would've been neat but this was great too. 

And a little more of the Balkan choir, which was also amazing. This is another performance, not the solstice concert, but I picked it because there are some dancers, starting at 1:07 if you want to see those. Wonderful harmonies.

And here's Teresa Thomason. Again, another performance, and this one completely wrong for a winter solstice post, being about winter being over when it's actually just begun, but it gives a better idea of her splendiferous voice than the videos I found of her in the solstice concert -- magnificent in person but the  reverberating acoustics of the cathedral make the videos sound murky. I thought this was lovely so inappropiate though it is for the day, here you go. 

And here's a good short video explaining of solstice from National Geographic. If you have a little more time, this summary is expanded upon nicely in this article. 

Happy Solstice!