Peace Concert

Indigenous peoples speaking different languages have shared their songs with the vowel sounds for hundreds of years at intertribal gatherings. In fact, Jeanne and John were told by a holy man in Israel that 2000 years ago there was a “school for prophets” that taught this kind of spontaneous singing because it created a direct connection with the Divine.

Jeanne sings the lead with amazing virtuosity and she accompanies herself on a Native American hand drum, rattle, or one of many percussion “friends” have given to her in her travels. John sings an inspired harmony to Jeanne’s rich and powerful improvisations when he is not accompanying her on a pulsating didgeridoo or a melodic cedar flute.

When you attend one of these concerts, or hear the CD, you can feel Jeanne’s intensity and the vocal harmonics that reach deep into the center of awareness. The sounds go beyond chanting. They are more complex, but at the same time they are balancing. The vibrations resonate with a unifying purpose that feels like peace and healing. For those moments, the individual is not separate from anyone, anywhere. In that realization, the listeners become Peacemakers.

At every public concert, Jeanne helps the audience to express their own voices and to recognize their own spiritual peacemaking potential. The results are amazing. People who have never sung before find an inner voice that makes a vocable song. The non-singer composes and sings spontaneously in the same moment.

With each audience member singing their personal song , the rational mind might predict that there would be cacophony, a chaos of discordant sounds. But miraculously, each voice finds its level and the blend seeks unity, and unique harmonies appear.

In hundreds of venues in multicultural environments where languages, cultures, and religions would seem to clash, the communal singing at the end of the peace concert achieves harmony and even transcendent beauty. Often, when the song ends, there is a moment of awe expressed as silence, and then there is laughter, wonder at what the collection of former strangers have created together.

*History of the the Peace Concert*
On a special day in November 2000, Jeanne White Eagle, with her husband John Pehrson, recorded a new concept in concerts—wordless songs sung for world peace. Jeanne White Eagle—her Native American connection is Cherokee—had a career as a professional singer. She began performing publicly as a child, receiving professional training on through her university years, after which she became a founding member of the international musical of Up With People. During this time she moved on to the concert stage where her beautifully powerful, near four-octave range voice was critically appreciated. Joseph Rael saw that Jeanne, with her husband John, would go worldwide, doing sacred sound ceremonies that would move the planet toward a lasting peace, and initiated her into taking this vision forward. The first years of singing for world peace saw Jeanne and John perform across Australia and New Zealand, Europe, the U. S., and Canada. Then Bolivia, Croatia, and Israel summoned. They began 2001 with appearances in the U.S. and a concert tour of Germany. In 2002, in addition to Europe and the UK, they returned to Israel twice, and added South Africa to their concert schedule. Finally, in Saxapahaw NC, one of their concerts was recorded for worldwide distribution. The title of the CD is Between Slices of Light, and Joseph Rael himself did the cover painting. Sound Scripture Studios provided the technical support, and two vocalists and a string player (violin and viola) were added to the performance. Sixteen vocable songs are on the CD, plus an extra cut as a gift from Jeanne. ‘‘‘Amazing Grace’ was created long before I was born,” she says. “It is sung on the CD as a tribute to all people everywhere, that we might live in a good way. The second verse is in Cherokee, to honor my own ancestors.”

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Peace Concert

PEACE THROUGH SOUND