TO THE WELL

There comes a time, when someone of conscience who is born with musical gifts, desires to seek their source.

After traveling the world, collecting and learning songs from several cultures save her own, Peia began to ask, as many of us do:

“Where do I belong? And for that matter, where do any of us belong?”

With equal parts thirst, gratitude, and the kind of urgent, grief-soaked willingness to peer into a deep well after long pilgrimage, Peia stood on the west coast cliffs of County Clare, Ireland and held the songs of her ancestors in her mouth like so much bread after generations of famine.

The result of years of grant-funded study, this is the tale of finding the source of an erased origin: a holy well of songs still as alive and vibrant as the good green hills, as sturdy as the standing stones.

“Music is comfort. Music is harmony, fellowship, and Prayer.”

For Peia’s To The Well Film Release and Concert Tour, we invite you to come to the well, and to drink deeply from an ancient shared resonance. While we are all descendants of lands that gave shape and sound to our cultures, we also need courage to confront what is reflected in the water.

To go to the well is to take the long road back to ourselves. It is not an endeavor to do alone: this kind of healing happens in community. For this journey, we will accompany you with some new and favorite songs, yes, but also a viewing of the short film followed by some Q&A from the audience.

It is an invitation and an offering, because it is customary to share if you have it to give. This new tour is the ancestrally-nourished gift to all who have longed for home, who traded their indigeneity for assimilation, for anyone who seeks refuge in music, and who promise to tend it, and to never forget.

TO THE WELL

Concert & Film Release Tour

FORMAT

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Film screening: 20 minutes

Q + A: 15 minutes w/ Peia

) Intermission (

Concert: 60-75 minutes

About Peia

Peia Luzzi is an American born song collector, writer and multi-instrumentalist. Like water from a deep well, she draws inspiration from her ancestral roots of Celtic and Old World European folk music. With the voice of a lark, Peia dances nimbly from Child Ballads and 17th C. Gaelic laments, to Waulking Songs, and Bulgarian mountain calls. She has traveled extensively over the past 10 years to uncover melodies wrinkled and wise with time, laboring to honor their language and stories, while bringing a piece of herself to each song she carries.