May 19 2023 69 mins
Amelia Hogan is an Irish-American singer and musician, someone who carries the culture of sean nós (Old Style) singing, encountering and interacting with this older way of being : her performances are deeply spiritual and enchanting, casting a spell of communion with the Song and enabling the audience to enter into this relationship for themselves.
Amelia and I discuss this vital element of relationality and interpersonality, both as a way of approaching music and approaching magic. The conversation takes in the neurological experience of music, and its place within the arts, as well as the status of traditional cultural practices in a diaspora, the Irish-American experience, what it means to perform live music from an Animist perspective, and much more.
You can find Amelia's music, details of her career and upcoming tours and projects, at her website ameliahogan.com. Details there too of her latest release, the simply gorgeous album Taking Flight, which is currently in the top ten in international folk charts!
The artwork included in the video here is from the gatefold of the album, and features photography by Venee Call-Ferrer and Mikhail Yagupov, and paintings by Amelia herself.
THE HOLLOW PATH IS A MEETING OF MINDS AND HEARTS, TO FOSTER EXHANGES AROUND MAGIC, ART, ENCHANTMENT, CULTURE, POLITICS, AND POETICS ...
RE-ENCHANTMENT. RE-WILDING. RE-MEMBERING.
RESISTANCE.