Saying Yes: A Concert of Sacred Music and Sacred Poetry

Warm greetings to all! As autumn approaches, Tim and I invite you to share in a special evening of sacred music and poetry that we will offer next weekend. The show will be on Saturday, September 15th, 7:00pm at the Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living (505 Camino de los Marquez.) Ticket price is $15 and doors open at 6:30pm. Please see the attached poster for more details. 

We hope to see many of you there.This will be our last public performance before burrowing inward for the birth of our son! 

Blessings in poetry and song,

Madi S. and Timothy P. McLaughlin

An evening of Poetry and Chant

with Singer, Madi Sato and Poet, Timothy McLaughlin

Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 8:00pm. 

Paradiso Cafe Des Artistes

1413 Paseo de Peralta

SING FOR JOY! Women's Choir Summer Session

Enter into the devotional art of communal singing. Learn sacred repertoire from around the globe through traditional oral techniques. Explore breath and tone, sound and silence, and awaken your authentic healing voice. Join this spirited group of women alive with the joy of singing! All are welcome. No experience necessary. Directed by Madi Sato.

SUMMER SESSION DETAILS:

August 9th - September 27th, $175 early $200 regular

Thursdays 5:00-6:30PM

Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de las Marquez

To register:

1. Email your name and phone number to madisato@gmail.com

2. Please send payment to Madi Sato at 4772 Vista Del Sol Santa Fe, NM 87507

For more information call 505-660-2526.

CHOIR TESTIMONIALS

"Being a part of Madi's Sacred World Choir has been an uplifting, expanding,nurturing, harmonizing, and healing experience!  Our voices together are the river of life."                                         Marcia Fitton

"I want to thank you for the profound gift of your choir and your presence. It touches me so deeply. I love having a way to express my voice in sacred sound. You are a wonderful teacher, I have known sound and sound healing were next in my spiritual life and the choir is so perfect. Thank you so much!"

                                                                                                                             Christine Warren

"Thank you for creating a place where I can feel safe and supported in expressing myself.  Even though the choir is a group setting you have this rare and wonderful gift of making each one of us feel that our voice is unique and beautiful and worthy of hearing and sharing with others.  Often times I would come to choir after a long and chaotic day at work feeling either exhausted or completely stressed out but I would leave an hour and a half later feeling calm, serene, and connected to not only myself but also to rest of the community.  I think of the choir as medicine for the soul and I really cherish that time with you and the other women."     

                                                                                                               Allison Moore

Sing for Joy! Women's Choir Musical Offering and Celebration

You are invited to an ecstatic musical celebration with the Sing for Joy! Women's Choir on Sunday, June 3rd. We are offering music from around the world, songs to remember where we come from, Native American chants, Irish lullabies, blessing invocations and much more. We have spent several months diving deep into the devotional art of the choir and we invite you to receive the beauty and miracle of many voices singing as one!
With gratitude,
Madi Sato, choir director
DATE: Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 at 4pm
LOCATION: Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de las Marquez.
Open to the Public. Donations are appreciated.

Madi Sato and Kenny Endo to perform at the 100th Annual National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC

Madi Sato and Kenny Endo performed at the 100^th Annual National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC

Tuesday, April 10^th 4:30pm, Sylvan Theatre, Washington National Mall

 

It was a lovely spring day in DC. Kenny and I offered traditional Japanese songs and original compositions. Here are some photos from our concert. Thank you to all those who came out to the Washington mall to hear the music. 

With love and gratitude,

Madi Sato

Return to the River Concert, April 1, 2012

On Sunday April 1st, 2012, Madi Sato offered a concert to honor the one year memorial of the devastating tsunami and earthquake in Northeastern, Japan. 

It took place at the beautiful St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Cerrillos, NM, which is close to one hundred years old and is currently led by its pastor, Father Francis Malley. 

The concert opened with a 3,000 year old Shinto chant called the Amatsunorito (Heavenly Prayer).

Madi Sato performed songs from her new CD titled, Return to the River, in dedication to her father, Tadaharu Sato whose name means "the faithful spring".(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHLVpyqX5PM )The album features Japanese traditional chants and folk songs as well as Madi's orginal songs; it was recorded live in a Zen Buddhist monastery. Proceeds from the sale of this album go to the non-profit organiztion, KASA: Kindness America Sendai Alliance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHLVpyqX5PM), providing relief to the smaller villages near Sendai, Japan.

The concert featured artists from Madi's new CD,

including Taiko drummer, Koji Nakamura, from the Shiga prefecture of Japan, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcc_E2MDrE

Koto player, Yukiko Matsuyama, from Osaka, Japan, 

http://www.yukikomatsuyama.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeg_ug12x-E

producer and pianist, John Rangel from Santa Fe 

http://www.johnrangel.com/

and Madi's husband, Poet Timothy P. McLaughlin.

The Crestone Kaminari Taiko (http://www.shumeicrestone.org/taiko/)offered two group pieces.

Crestone Kaminari Taiko is lead by Masakazu and is the official taiko group for the Shumei International Institute in Crestone, CO.

From left to right, Masakazu, Koji, Yuka and Ikunori.

The intention of the concert was to meditate on Japan and send prayers through the Japanese instruments and songs. It was a beautiful marriage of the powerful music of Japan inside the sacred space of a Catholic church.

Madi spoke of her recent trip to Sendai and her moving experience of sharing music in the temporary housing communities of Rokugo and East Matsushima.

The concert concluded with a new arrangement of "furusato", a Japanese folk song about longing for your hometown. Koji Nakamura recreated the feeling of a tsunami on the taiko, Madi represented the voice of suffering and rebirth, and Timothy McLaughlin offered a poem about kindness.

To hear Madi sing Furusato please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUahEEQI2c8

May our prayers reverberate to the lands and people of Japan.

Madi Sato and Kenny Endo to perform at the 100^th Annual National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC

Tuesday, April 10^th 4:30pm, Sylvan Theatre, Washington National Mall

http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

To learn more about Kenny Endo go to: http://www.kennyendo.com/

Some youtube videos of Kenny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmrSlc33GcQ
PBS Hawaii Series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7eqJjXYFY&feature=related

http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/