Love Sound and Light

01/12/2024

Hi friends. A seriously amazing event booked for Fri17Jan that I know many of you will not want to miss.
There are only 20 seats left and tickets have not even gone live yet!!!
(They do on Mon 2 Dec at 9am)
This is your opportunity to secure a ticket before they go public, so you don’t miss out. Please message me or call / txt 0274640691
Check out Lucy and Joydahs videos (see links at the end)

Here is the event info:
www.facebook.com/events/594186599675422

Female Powerhouses Unite: A Night of Uplifting and Liberating Music with Lucy Gallant and Joydah Mae at The Vic.
On January 17th, The Vic in Devonport, NZ, will come alive with the soulful sounds of two extraordinary female artists, Lucy Gallant and Joydah Mae, for an unforgettable evening of conscious music.
Each celebrated for their transformative artistry, Lucy and Joydah will take the stage for individual sets that promise to inspire, heal, and connect.
This is Lucy Gallant’s first-ever tour of New Zealand, following a successful global journey that has seen her captivating audiences at major festivals like Glastonbury and Byron Bay Bluesfest. Known for her unique blend of reggae, folk, and soul, Lucy has built a reputation as one of the most vibrant and captivating performers on the touring circuit.
A one-woman band and multi-instrumentalist, her music invites listeners to embrace love, liberation, and individuality through uplifting rhythms and soulful melodies. Lucy encourages the audience to sing along, creating an immersive experience where everyone feels a part of the magic.

Joydah Mae, a proud Ibaloi warrior, will bring her own powerful, transformative music to the stage. Known for her deep ancestral wisdom, Joydah’s voice resonates with emotion, and her songs—filled with themes of challenge, fortitude, and change—create a space for reflection and healing. Rooted in gratitude and a vision for a brighter future, Joydah’s conscious music empowers listeners to connect to their inner strength and embrace transformation.

Both artists are united by their purpose to uplift, empower, and create a space for unity through music. This is more than a concert—it's an invitation to experience conscious music at its finest.

LIMITED TICKETS go on sale Mon 2 Dec at 9am

A unique night at The Vic with two of the most inspiring and powerful female songwriters today! If you feel drawn to this intimate soul-stirring experience, book your tickets early, as this event will sell out lightening quick.

Buy tickets here:
https://ticketing.oz.veezi.com/purchase/74368?siteToken=kbh3bcdq6fm3zv963cg1ek8vy8

$29 (+ booking Fee) or $39 for Double Pass

For more info:
www.facebook.com/lucygallantmusic
www.facebook.com/joydahmaebernardo

Supported by:
www.facebook.com/LoveSoundandLight

16/11/2024

2 Volunteers wanted to be greeters / ticket handlers at the door for tomorrow night, (Sunday) for 3 hours from 6pm at The Button Factory. Please msg or call / txt me. We will love you up with cacao, huge grattitude, hugs if you want, and of course a free gig.

Reminder - for those in West Auckland or keen to visit - its worthwhile tomorrow at 10am the Titirangi Advent Fair at Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School begins, and its kicked off by our band -Loveray- on the main-stage on the field 10am to 10.45am.

The Bethells Beach show on Friday was cancelled / postponed due to heavy rain to a new date of 24Jan2025 - but you can still catch -Loveray- and Yet Undefined at our show tomorrow night at The Button Factory (just off K Rd at 2 Abbey Street, Auckland Central) starting with an improv dance and movement workshop at 5pm, bands 7pm to 10pm. Tickets are Koha - pay what you want to pay.

See more here:
-Loveray- & Yet Undefined, Improvisation Workshop, 432hz Sound Journey @ Button Factory - Koha Entry

Have a great weekend team!!!!

Rayna Love
mob 0274640691

25/10/2024

Really enjoying creating live improvised cinematic soundscapes with Michael & Jeff. Kind of thing you can put your helmut on and float in space with...

Fear Up Harsh with -Loveray- 20Oct2024 0009_2-MIX_01

14/10/2024

These next 2 -Loveray- and Yet Undefined performances are going to be a ripper!

And hey everyone, did you notice that as well as the fully improvised musical performances, we are hosting a facilitated 1 hour Improvisation Workshop starting at 5pm, that is open for anyone to join.
Together we will explore and develop improvisation skills through Movement, Dance and Sound...

Check out the FaceBook event pages for more info...

Bethells beach cafe - official - Fri15Nov - Koha Entry
-Loveray- & Yet Undefined, Improvisation Workshop and 432hz Sound Journey @ Te Henga Bethells Beach Cafe - Koha Entry
Cant wait to play this iconic spot again, in just 1 month.

And

The Button Factory Sun17Nov - Koha Entry
-Loveray- & Yet Undefined, Improvisation Through Dance, Movement & Sound Workshop and 432hz Sound Journey @ The Button Factory
Best new venue in town....

❤
Rayna Love

30/09/2024

-Loveray-

I'm quite blown away by how lucky my life is, to be able to meet with these inredible humans every Monday night and pick up instruments and just make music together, completely in the momemnt to moment, off the top of our heads, or rather from the magical depth of our opening hearts.

It's a real pleasure to have reached out to the wildernet and attracted Nix on improv vocals, she really really added sass and soul to last nights "rehearsal" improv jam.

Stick it on in the background and let me know your thoughts...

Unfortunately my new mob ph that I throw in the middle of the room to record on now stops itself at 3hours (now I know) so we missed the best part: the crazy vocal beat box jam at the end, created in the 4th hour, but thats just highlighting how its even more magic for those in the room at the time, I guess.

We have quite a few -Loveray- gigs lining up over the next few months leading up to the enevitable summer festivals, where we will continue to just show up and play totally improv live on mainstage!!!

Its crazy cool to be able to achieve this, we are loving it, being on the musical and emotional edge, and we love sharing this gift with you all...

Still auditioning new members to join the -Loveray- collective to sail with us into the unknown, if your curious to join us just reach out and say hi

or txt me on mob 0274640691

Rayna Love

(nearly) Full recording of last night streaming here:

-Loveray- w Nix Rehearsal 30Sep2024

17/09/2024

Uploaded Mondays Improv rehearsal / Audition recording (from my mobile phone) and its ranksed 5th in the global charts for FREE IMPROVISATION on Mixcloud, less than 24 hours later. Holy S**t

https://www.mixcloud.com/Loveray4/-loveray-w-nix-magic-portal-rehearsal-16sep2024/

08/09/2024

My daughter Cameo Hannon Duncan has an exciting part in this CLASSIC play:

Lady Windermere’s Fan, by Oscar Wilde.

Its the Titirangi Steiner School Class 12 drama highlight of years in school and they get to take over the beautiful Lopdel House Theatre in Titirangi for 3 Nights this week to showcase their dedication to this craft. They take great pleasure in offering this opportunity to you, the local community, to come along and be mesmerised by this classic play and support these youngsters as they soar.

Friday has all but sold out but there are plenty of tickets to Wednesday and Thursday.

Just $20 from the school office or via an email to: [email protected]

Date: Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th & Friday 13th September
Time: 7pm - doors open at 6:30pm with home baked healthy refreshments available.
Place: Lopdell House Theatre, Titirangi

This promises to be a witty, warm and wonderful social comedy
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More info:
Please join us for an wonderful evening out at the C12 Play "Lady Windermere's Fan" 😊!
The Class 12 play is a significant milestone in the lives of Class 12 students and represents extensive work in drama, movement, speech and design as well as drawing on their developed skills of textual analysis.

Oscar Wilde’s play demands very precise articulation, comic timing and emotional maturity. The characters are strongly imagined and all have inner lives – from the butler to the complex title role of Lady Windermere.

Oscar Wilde was the foremost dramatist of the Victorian age in which the expression of theatricality was a cultural fact. His plays are thoroughly humane, and encourage the actors and audience to widen their understanding of social dynamics and individual strengths and flaws. We are asked to question our snap judgements of individuals and social behaviour and to empathise with the inner pain of characters who survive on the surface but who suffer terribly in their souls.

For Wilde, love is the ultimate redemption and the only absolute value. He rails against hypocrisy, pettiness and rigid values and celebrates the vibrancy of passion but in the end he always comes out on the side of altruistic love. He challenges our thinking about what is the right way to be in the world and the ‘truly’ moral way to behave.

Oscar Wilde’s fascinating and complex play will leave you with questions and answers that require further engagement rather than offering any simple resolutions.
We look forward to welcoming you to be part of the Class 12 Play experience.

31/08/2024

Performing tomorrow, -Loveray- busking out some old faverouts at the Titirangi markets, they always go ahead rain or shine, and it looks like rain early in the morning then lots of sun.
Ill be doing a sundance live at 10am to hurry it along....
See you there
And remember to shout Dad a Latte or a Chai, its a day for dads you know...

23/08/2024

State of it, humor from Dave Alley ... :)

11/08/2024

Hi All.
We had a really successful event on Friday - The Class8 Winter Camp Shindig, a fundraiser, held at the Titirangi Beach Hall.

Success measured by;
happy people enjoying themselves and celebrating together,
Nice Food shared
Smiley faces all night
Loads of ecstatic dancing
Happy performers
Warm space
No injuries or incidents I'm aware of
and together we raised $335 for offsetting the Class8 Winter Camp expenses !!

Please see the breakdown below of how this was achieved.
Essentially we grossed ticket sales of $610, which included a generous donation of $60
The event expenses were $275 - mostly for the hall hire.

Our band -Loveray- and our sound and light hire was donated 100% to this fundraising cause and our 2 guest performers received a token payment for their gas money. Their performances were worth a million dollars!

Unfortunately I did not get time to organise the table for the Class8 children to sell the donated baking and cocao - and these were simply added to the offerings of shared kai, perhaps we missed that opportunity to make another $100 or so, my apologies, just too stretched with all the other things to arrange on the night.

I want to thank those that provided baking and those that were there and stepped in to help sort and prepare and present the food, and clean the kitchen area through the night, step into assist greeting people at the door and door sales, and help tidy and pack out at the end.

You know who you are and it was so greatly appreciated.

Also Jupiter and Quinn really stepped up to help in many ways with all things like the fire and firewood and setting up the lights, and manning the door. They did an amazing job, some of the other boys helped serve the Cacao out to guests and the girls looked like they really enjoyed the dance floor especially.

I started setup at 12noon and was in bed by 2am and have still only unpacked half the van load of equipment.

I loved performing with -Loveray- and also the set by Matiu and DJ Morpho were both outstanding and so much fun.

Ill attach some pics and there will be some videos added to the Facebook Event Page tonight.

There's a full sound recording of the performances (recorded on my mob ph sitting onstage) at this link:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Loveray1/-loveray-live-9aug2024-class8-winter-camp-shindig/
ill also load this link on the FB event page with some photos and short videos.

If anyone was there and took pics or videos please let me know and please post them here or to the FB event page if you can!

www.facebook.com/events/812555940985043

If anyone in the wider community wishes to make a late donation to this event they are really welcome to do so:
R Love ASB 12 3449 0100304 00
Ref: Class8
Code: (Last name)

So much appreciation.

Yay!

Rayna Love (Jupiters Dad)
0274640691

09/08/2024

Its all go for tonight.
A reminder: You don't have to purchase tickets to attend but can if you wish, for the experience, it's fun; there are VIP half price tickets (50% off) using the code "VIP" and there will be door sales too if you want to let others know, entry can always be by donation if anyone is challenged to afford it, the main thing is to have a good time and celebrate life together.
The open fire will be on and hot Cacao so come enjoy the vibe together.
Please if you havnt already, do pop a message out to your networks to invite people to attend.
ts all for such a good cause!!

Rayna
0274640691

08/08/2024

Tonight is the night... see you there...

06/08/2024

ATTN Musicians, poets and singers..

My drummers moving to wellington and bass player may go north soon so I'm looking to audition new talented musicians to join the evolving -Loveray- collective.

We rehearse weekly in west auckland.

We improv, I don't think theres many riffs we have played twice.

But we're keen to hone a tight mainstage festival set before this summers festivals roll in.

We swap instruments all night, so multiinstrumentalists are ideal.

Tag a friend here if you think they may be interested in joining us.

Always happy to chat and share ideas about making and performing music.

My mob 0274640691

Here's our last rehearsal to get an idea of our grooves (recorded on my phone on floor)

They never finish where they start. It's a bit like one long 2 hour jam song...

-Loveray- Rehearsal 5Aug2024 Digital Artwork by: Arnaldo Daguiso Guevarra www.facebook.com/arnaldo.guevarra