10/08/2023
* Tonight * Clan Dyken Benefit Concert
32nd Annual Beauty Way Tour To Benefit the Thanksgiving Food & Supply Run To Big Mountain & Surrounding Communities
+ Special Community Benefit for Karen Ferreira +
Sun, Oct 8, 7:00pm - 10:00pm (6:30pm Doors)
in the Jackson Wellsprings Casbah Pavilion
2253 Hwy 99N, Ashland
Advance Tickets at the Music Coop (Ashland) and online at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clan-dyken-in-concert-to-benefit-karen-ferreira-tickets-717235208817
Facebook Event w/ Lots More Info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1038845347338951/
Admission:
$20 Advance
$20 - $100 Suggested Donation at the Door
Hot Vegan Dinner & Chai & Treats
Will Be Available for Purchase!
All Proceeds Go To Benefit
Come Hungry!
Join us for an amazing evening of music with Clan Dyken at Jackson Wellsprings in Ashland, Oregon, USA. This in-person event promises to be a night filled with soulful tunes and good vibes, to support two great causes:
1) sending food and supplies to support the Diné (Navajo) of Big Mountain and surrounding communities and
2) supporting Karen Ferreira, a beloved local community member and homeopath who has been afflicted with a mystery illness and unable to work for a year.
Come and learn about the Dyken’s Beauty Way Tour and how it has supported Diné elders and other tribal members, bringing them non-perishable food, firewood, tools and other supplies at thanks giving time, over the last 32 years.
Get ready to groove to the beats and sing along with the band as they take the stage. Don't miss out on this unforgettable concert experience that will leave you feeling uplifted and inspired. See you there!
Wavy Gravy called Clan Dyken:
"One of the greatest rock and roll bands in the free world."
https://www.clandyken.com/
Karen Ferreira
Karen is a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, friend, homeopath, birthing and dying doula, health coach, gardener, natural food chef, and so much more, living in Southern Oregon. Service is Karen's passion, and she has dedicated herself to the care of others: through her healing practice, through her pro bono healing seva, and through extended projects.
Karen was the chief breadwinner for her immediate extended family. Her income ended in late September 2022, as she began to lose her ability to walk or use her hands, caused by a mystery illness. Her condition has begun to improve, and she is no longer bed ridden, but her energy and symptoms fluctuate. We are hopeful that she will feel strong enough to join us for at least part of this coming Sunday’s Beauty Way Tour concert and benefit.
It has been a full year since Karen was able to tend to her livelihood. In addition to loss of income, she has mounting out-of-pocket medical, lab, housing, dietary, supplement, and caregiving needs and expenses. These have only been partially met, at a cost of several thousand dollars. It is still unknown how long it will be until she is able to return to the health and livelihood she enjoyed prior to the onset of this mysterious and debilitating condition.
Karen has dedicated herself in service:
• to her Indigenous People's Project, providing holistic health care to members of 70 different nations;
• 6 weeks in service at a Birth Camp in the Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda;
• 12 weeks of service in Mexico and New Mexico for a beloved seedsman after he fell ill;
• 6 months caring for a client with cancer at a holistic hospital in Mexico;
• the urgent care and ongoing "raising" of her beloved adult "differently-abled” stepson, who moved in with them 5 years ago during his own serious health and life crisis;
• 3.5 weeks in service to a dear family member after his accident and devastating injuries.
Service being Karen's passion, and she is beyond grateful for these experiences and opportunities to serve, grow, and learn, and to contribute to solutions to the kinds of situations we all may encounter in ourselves and our communities in our lifetime.
Karen's situation has taken a toll on her immediate family members, including her husband, an elder, who has been her main caregiver.
In Karen's own words: "I must humble myself and receive in order to not only survive, but to thrive, and emerge from the ashes of this condition, better than before, with ever more to share with friends, family, and communities I love."
Thank you for your love, prayers and support for Karen's healing journey. All contributions are honored and deeply appreciated.
Clan Dyken ~ World Rebel Rock
Based in California’s Calaveras County Foothills, Clan Dyken, formed by brothers Mark and Bear Dyken, has harmonized, toured, activated, and entertained for more than 30 years. Through the years, many talented members of their immediate and extended family have rotated in and out of the band.
Clan Dyken’s unique, original sound is easily identifiable but at the same time defies description according to genre. Brothers Mark (drums and vocals), and Bear Dyken (guitar, harmonica and vocals) have been playing music together for over 5 decades. Silas Dyken (bass guitar, keyboards and vocals) grew up with the music and has been playing with his uncle Mark and his dad, Bear, for two of those decades, as well as developing his own roots and reggae based hip hop music. Kris Osward, the accomplished bassist and vocalist well known and respected for his considerable musical prowess in too many bands to list, is a long-time collaborator and member of the family.
A life of recording and touring has led the band around the world and found them on the bill and sharing the stage with musical legends from the Jerry Garcia Band and The Jefferson Airplane to Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and Michael Franti. From street corners, fire circles, and coffee houses to some of the biggest music festivals in the world, Clan Dyken has been bringing the healing power of dance music, and a message of love to audiences of all sizes in every kind of venue for a long time with no plans to stop.
Part of their enduring legacy is a commitment to using the music to support the causes of peace, justice, and environmental awareness. Their 30-year involvement with the Dine’ (Navajo) Nation survivors of US Government relocation policy was documented in the book "When the Creator Moves Me" (2019) by author Shelley Muniz. A long-time friendship with Western Shoshone elder, healer, and peace activist Corbin Harney inspired their album “ hundahai," and led the band to tour with Corbin across the US and England as he delivered his message of peace, and harmony with all creation along with his opposition to nuclear weapons testing on Shoshone land. "Shundahai" was also the world’s first album recorded using all solar power. Clan Dyken has been involved in solar, and bicycle powered music, and touring since the late 80’s ~ using clean power as part of the art form.
They toured with a solar powered stage that folded out of the side of an old school bus, stumped for Nobody for President in a cross country tour with Wavy Gravy, and have used the magic of the music to make friends around the world. This is music from the vernacular of community, rallies, and demonstrations. They’ve always been willing to lend a hand, tunes, and sound equipment to a worthy campaign.
During a lifetime of playing music with a great number of diverse, talented musicians the Dyken sound has continued to evolve. Over the course of 15 albums, the Dyken sound ranges from a stark, acoustic solo project by Bear to an eight-piece band with screaming guitar solos, keyboards, horns and long percussion jams to jazz instrumentals in 5/4 time to drum and voice chants. Quiet studio pieces, dynamic live concerts and home recordings have been part of the ever changing mix.
Clan Dyken continues to refine the tribal-funk-eco-folk-rock-hippy-soul music they’ve been making for more than 30 years, while taking us on an incredible journey into the heart of how we can all contribute to society’s positive evolution through collective and personal action.
"I made a point of catching the Clan's next performance.
I soon found myself swept into the whirling dervish
of sweaty humanity,
twirling to the Clan's hypnotic, congofied chord patterns
and shouting some paean to peace and social justice,
celebrating Earth Mother in a Sacramento style
Dead Head ceremony, sans-hallucinogens."
~ Tim McHargue, Suttertown News ~
"The lyrics cry out for us to care a little more
about our fellow man and our planet,
the music lifts our spirits to a state of joyous celebration ~
there’s just no sitting still when the Clan weaves its spell."
~ Kim Angelis, The Violin Voyager ~
Clan Dyken ~ Revive The Beauty Way Tour
In support of the 32nd Annual Thanks Giving Food and Supply Run to the Big Mountain/Black Mesa region of the Dine’ (Navajo) Nation
Since 1991 we’ve been traveling to the Big Mountain/Black Mesa region of the Dine’ (Navajo) Nation to bring food, supplies, fire wood and labor to elders and families. These earth defenders have been resisting forced relocation since 1974 due to their opposition to the world’s largest coal strip mine. We’re part of an extended network of activists from around the globe who support the original people of Turtle Island.
To raise funds for the journey and awareness of the issue, Clan Dyken has been setting out on the annual Revive the Beauty Way Tour through the west coast of the United States for 32 years.
For all those years the members of our extended musical family have been supporting this effort. We look forward to the tour, followed by the journey to the remote regions of the Dine’ Nation to deliver your good will. Many of you have attended and/or played music at the shows, given generously of your harvest and other resources –you are part of the gifts of food, firewood and supplies we bring to the elders and families. You have hosted us in your communities, sheltered and fed us in your homes and sent us off in a good way. We are grateful for the role we get to play in this exchange and look forward to seeing you all again in 2023.
For more background on the Coal Mine:
https://bearblend.com/smoke-signals/what-has-peabody-coal-done-to-big-mountain-arizona/
Consider Donating Tools or Supplies for the Dyken’s to Bring with Them ~ you can bring them the concert
"We have capacity to take tools, blankets and coats if they are in excellent condition. Hand tools that are most helpful - axes, mauls, wedges, saws, and gloves. Flashlights and batteries, too. Chainsaws are in high demand.
Thank you!"
Website:
https://www.clandyken.com/
Some Clan Dyken Media Links
North Coast Community Radio
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/moccasintrackswithdeb/episodes/2023-05-17T17_21_41-07_00
Last FM
https://www.last.fm/music/Clan+Dyken/+wiki
Trinity Journal
http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/image_070aa1c8-8bbe-11ed-8255-5fbe67f46a2d.html
Talking It Through – Stockton TV
https://archive.org/details/Morearty_TiT20010131
Kirkus Book Review of When The Creator Moves Me
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shelley-muniz/when-the-creator-moves-me-a-story-about-music-resi/
Clan Dyken ~ Video and Music Links
Clan Dyken ~ View From The Back Seat 2022 Supply Run Recap Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv6lN_hhtx0&t=312
Dark Places:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8MNXkmY4LU
Good Morning Grandmother:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42AKh3mDDJU
This Year On The Way To Big Mountain Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oJ-cysOrw
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