Sari Brown - Roots on the River

Join us for an evening of live music on the scenic Manistee River! The Roots on the River concert series will feature incredible regional talent on Thursdays throughout July and August. We are extremely excited for this year, as the Manistee Jaycees have passed the torch to new nonprofit, Music Sparks Meaning, to continue the longstanding series for many more years! - Sari Brown is a priestess of song who curates dreams, facilitates rituals, and cultivates beauty in the fertile gaps between cultures. She has lived as an anthropologist and activist in South America and as a musician and pastor in Michigan, and she is in equals parts a child of Motown, mystical chants and Andean folkloric dance. Using textured soundscapes and vulnerable storytelling, her songs create holding spaces for healing, self-awareness and practices of abundant life. Sari's new album, "The Holy Broken Heart," comes after a decade-long hiatus from the music business, and it explores the shape of healing journeys and our capacity to embrace the mysteries, paradoxes and incompleteness of healing. She has released two albums previously, For What is the Journey (2004) and The Color Suite (2009), and is a long-time member of Earthwork Music, a Michigan-based record label collective of artists, changemakers and healers supporting social and environmental justice.