Online Meditation/Ronn McFarlane Playing Lute

Mindfulness practice, guided meditation, several moments of silence, and music meditation--welcome to our online meditations! This Saturday we have Grammy-nominated Ronn McFarlane playing lute for the music meditation portion of our program (more about Ronn below). We are honored and delighted to have Ronn join us for our gathering.

PLEASE consider logging onto the room in Zoom 3 or 4 minutes before start time so we can begin at 10:30 (thank you!). We will need a couple of moments for you to get from the waiting room into the meeting room.

Meeting ID: 214-230-349
Meeting Password: 480622
JOIN URL: https://zoom.us/j/214230349?pwd=bWhzOHhwRGZjaGZNTXVZOVpBdjJJZz09

If you prefer to dial in and listen:
Meeting ID: 214 230 349
Passcode: 480622
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You will be muted when you arrive in the room and continue to be muted through the end of the meditation. After meditations, you will have the opportunity to raise your hand/unmute for an opportunity to say something or ask questions.

We love to see your faces in the Zoom meeting, but you are NOT required to have your video turned on.

This event is free. If you would like to contribute to the honorarium for our musician, you are welcome to donate through PayPal to meditate@SpiritFirst.org.
Or just click here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SpiritFirstMeditate If you would like to donate through Venmo, Zelle, or check, just let me know.

RONN MCFARLANE strives to bring the lute--the most popular instrument of the Renaissance--into today’s musical mainstream and make it accessible to a wider audience.

Since taking up the lute in 1978, Ronn has made his mark in music as the founder of Ayreheart, a founding member of the Baltimore Consort, touring 49 of the 50 United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Netherlands, Germany and Austria, and as a guest artist with Apollo’s Fire, The Bach Sinfonia, The Catacoustic Consort, The Folger Consort, Houston Grand Opera, The Oregon Symphony, The Portland Baroque Orchestra, and The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra.

Born in West Virginia, Ronn grew up in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing “Wipeout” by the Surfaris, he fell madly in love with music and taught himself to play on a “cranky sixteen-dollar steel string guitar.” Ronn kept at it, playing blues and rock music on the electric guitar while studying classical guitar. He graduated with honors from Shenandoah Conservatory and continued guitar studies at Peabody Conservatory before turning his full attention and energy to the lute in 1978. The next year, he began to perform solo recitals on the lute and became a member of the Baltimore Consort. Since then, he has toured throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with the Baltimore Consort and as a soloist.

Ronn has over 35 recordings on the Dorian/Sono Luminus label, including solo albums, lute duets, flute & lute duets, lute songs, the complete lute music of Vivaldi, a collection of Elizabethan lute music and poetry, and recordings with the Baltimore Consort.

Ronn has composed new music for the lute, building on the tradition of the lutenist/composers of past centuries. His original compositions are the focus of his solo CD, Indigo Road, which received a GRAMMY Award Nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album of 2009.

In 2010 Ronn founded Ayreheart, an ensemble brought together to perform new compositions as well as early music. Ayreheart’s first CD release, One Morning, consists of all-original music by Ronn McFarlane. Ayreheart’s 2016 release, Barley Moon, blends folk music and art music from Renaissance and Medieval England, Scotland, and Wales.