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Song: musician, composer, and healer on instruments including flute, oud, didgeridoo, and chanting
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Benyamin Sheppard: Compositions and intuitive sound healing with guitar,
flutes,
oud, bouzouki, didgeridoo, percussion, and voice
Benyamin Sheppard is a musician, composer, healer, writer, engineer, new
media and web alchemist. Ben's roots go back to the Texas Gulf coast where he was
influenced by a combination of New Orleans jazz, Delta blues, Mexican
polkas, and Caribbean music. Ben migrated to the Boston area to study music and
electrical engineering, and he received a Bachelor of music composition from
the New England Conservatory. Today, Ben can usually be found performing with
musicians from diverse ethnic groups and traditions including Irish, Eastern
European, Turkish, Klezmer, Latin, African, and Delta Blues, playing exotic
instruments such as the bouzouki, oud, ney, harmonica, mbira, and
didgeridoo.
Ben's spiritual training in Reiki, Kriya Yoga, and harmonic chant has also
led him to using his music for healing and shamanic work.
Ben is a member of the Bluegate healing music ensemble
(www.bluegatemusic.com) and co-founder (with Michelle Herrera Foster) of NESHRI, the New England
Sound Healing Research Institute (www.neshri.org) ; they are sharing their vision
of transforming health, consciousness, and world peace through sound and music.
Ben may be reached at Ben@neshri.org.
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| Artist Preview | contact: Ben@neshri.org
images and text copyright Ben Sheppard |
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Sound healing performance group "bluegate". Left to right: Ben Sheppard on harp, Ben Sheppard on viola, Ben Sheppard on oud, and Kem Stone on drum.
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