Imbolc is Stenny's Wedding anniversary!!
After all these years
Still joined, these two hearts
Spend our days all together
Never sleeping apart
The sound our life makes
Is the musick you hear
Together we're strong
With nothing to fear
We are Stenny
Still as ugly as the first day we met!
Greenz and true love!
The HURDY GURDY is BACK!!!
The original OMNIA hurdy gurdy (Jenny's one and only "Boarii")
... the instrument that inspired hundreds of new gurdy players all over the world will FINALLY make it's return to the OMNIA STAGE!
After many years of wrist troubles Jenny has healed and adapted her technique so she can bring this amazing sound back onto the OMNIA stage!
The HurdyGurdy will make her triumphant return during the OMNIA "Celtic World" theatre tour, for which we are practicing now...
(See our agenda for details)
Real Musick... Real Magick...Real Art!
Hand-painting new ritual stage banners for the coming OMNIA shows...
(The gods live in the details ;) )
Greenthingz and paint!
Shaman SteveSic
Quoth The Raven ... "Nevermore?"
But YES! We will be playing the ultimate dramatic Omnia song "the Raven" which has been brought back from the dead for our upcoming "Celtic World"theatre tour in februari and march...
(See online agenda for details)
You asked for it! So you will get it!
Come and join us in the theatres (not just for Edgar Alan Poe's words on omnia musick... But for a veritable feast of extra-special OMNIA theatrical drama!)
Come dream the dreamz of ancient Art and timeless Poetry together with us...
Winterfood for thought...
As winter switches off and on like a faulty street light ... making the outside temperatures jump up and down by 20 degrees on an almost daily basis...
The dutch fields seem to be turning into very flat shallow swamp lands holding more water than grass And the birds and the flowers act like spring is in full sway...
But life is still beautifull!
Stenny is trying to revive some of "that wintery feeling" by preparing some traditional dutch winterfood's like thick pea-soup "erwtensoep" and carrot/onion mash
"Hutspot"...
OMNIA Fan Power Experiment! (Join us!)
We are checking out what YOU are capable of online! Would YOU like to help support OMNIA by letting your voice be known online? (In this way we can possibly convince festivals etc.in YOUR country to book OMNIA, if this experiment works…)
Experiment no.1
Dutch fantasy awards
If you follow this link: fantasy awards (NL/BE)
you can vote for OMNIA as the best “Fantasy” live act from Holland and Belgium
"You used to be a Gladiator?! " ... "Yes I was."
It's true, I used to be a professional Gladiator!,
but nowadays I only make musick
I prefer it this way
musicians get a lot less sand in their asscrack while working...
;-)
Greenz
Stenny
History
If you know where we come from...
then
You can see where we are going...
Know your history
It's good to smoke the green green grass of home!
We're back in the forest! After a long travel it's Time for a hot bath and some "vegetable serenity"! ;)
Green and wet thingz!
Stenny
PhiloSofia
Sofia has filled us with many many sights and emotions...
Now as the temperature plummets we prepare to leave to go back to our forest home and think about all we have encountered all the great experiences our friends from Irfan have given us...
Beauty and tears
Music can move the spirit and touch the soul...
We had to cry today when we were lucky enough to be able to listen to the choir of the "Folklore Ensemble Philip Koutev" at practice...
Pagan Rituals in the snow!
Yesterday were the traditional "kukeri" rituals in Bulgaria... (We were lucky enough to be able to witness this!) A really amazing pagan ritual which pre-dates even the greek and roman culture... Where local men dress up like fantastic horned beast men and dance with gigantic brass bells , beating drums and dancing to bless the village and drive out evil...
"Sic transit gloria mundi"
All kings will be forgotten
All Gods shall come to fall
All things human break and crumble
Only Nature rules us all...
Xx
Stenny
Pic by Kalin
Poetry...
Pic by Jenny
Living history
Sofia is a metaphore..a living poem of spiritual times past... Slowly being engulfed by a relentless uncaring future.
Beautifull and melancholy
Xxx
Stenny