Honey of the Heart live at Soft Medicine Sanctuary

Name: Honey of the Heart live at Soft Medicine Sanctuary
Start: 2024-05-18T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Soft Medicine Sanctuary

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Soft Medicine Sanctuary | Sebastopol, CA

“Justin Ancheta and Maren Metke have musical nectar flowing through their veins. The dynamic Grass Valley duo are the driving force behind a project that is even sweeter than it sounds. Honey of the Heart is an ambrosial mix of musical interpretations influenced by folk, soul, roots and world/flamenco styles. Built upon a repertoire of uplifting original material, they join together with other phenomenal musicians to create in an organic state of symbiosis. Many of their songs come forth like ancient incantations, casting angelic spells on all in their path. Honey of the Heart weaves soaring harmonies and hypnotic polyrhythms into an alchemical semblance of groove intended for dancing, rejoicing and blissful recalibration.
Internationally acclaimed touring musician Justin Ancheta is a guitarist, vocalist, multi instrumentalist, joined forces with Maren Metke, who is a vocalist, songwriter and instrumentalist performing across the US and India. Both strong composers & performers, they tour as a duo as well as full band.
Inspired by the gift of presence and connecting to the sweet moments in life, Justin and Maren formed the group Honey of the Heart to inspire and connect people with their voices, melodies and rhythms from around the world. Based in Northern California with strong roots in the Bay Area, Sierra Foothills and Seattle. this band gets as intimate as just vocals and Ukulele, to as large as a twelve-piece band with a horn section, multiple percussionists, and a turntable. Their live shows emote a sweet nectar of sounds that can bring people to personal revelation, community awareness, and uplift the power of joy in our hearts.
They tour often, including their young daughter Juniper, and combine their work as parents, educators, and musicians, embodying a humanistic approach to navigating life, loss, joy, and matters of the heart. They tour regularly, visiting as many hot springs, intentional communities and conscious, inclusive festivals as possible. Their workshops and classes focus on relationships, communication, play & unity, cultivating the self, community, family and skill sharing using Maren and Justin’s combined tools in NVC (Compassionate Communication), Neural Linguistics (NLP), Holistic Education, Circling, Environmentalism, and Musicality. They currenty worldschool part of the year with many other families and musicians.
Credentials
Frequent performers around the Bay Area, they were featured twice at WorldFest 2015 - 22, Prana Festival 2014, Foreverland Festival 2014, had the honor of opening for Taj Mahal in March 2015, and Rising Appalachia in Fall 2014. They made appearances at SOUP Fest '14-'17, Bicycle Music Festival, Wild and Wild & Scenic Film Festival '14- '17, High Sierra Music Festival '15-'23, Makers Faire '15-'18, SoulPlay 2019 + 2024, Celtic Fest, Jerry Bash, Kind Fest Seattle, Leonard Cohen Fest 16- '19, and Relaxpansion Fest 2021. They have produced 5 EP’s since Fall 2014, including ‘Live @ CFTA’, ‘Best of Live’ "Duo Live' in Nevada City, and released their full studio album ‘Dive Deep in 2020, (just before the pandemic hit) and Common Ground, released in 2022. They are currently working an another album baby as you read this :).
Justin Ancheta and Maren Metke of Honey of the Heart are often joined by other talented musicians and collaborators.
After more than a decade of shows and touring, they have shared the stage with Ayla Nereo, Taj Mahal, Lyla June, Mamuse, Rising Appalachia, Blues Traveler, Balkan Bump, The Wailers, Joan Baez and many more musical luminaries.