Photo of Sari Brown courtesy of the artist.
From staff reports
MANISTEE – Sari Brown and her band will bring soul-infused sounds of joy, connection and healing to audience members when they take the gazebo stage at Veterans Memorial Park at 7 p.m. on July 25.
Their performance is part of the Roots on the River free concert series taking place along the Manistee River, off Veterans Drive, and is hosted by the Jaycees.
The band will perform songs from Brown’s recent album, “The Holy Broken Heart”, combining Motown and folk, with mystical overtones. The CD liner notes describe it as “a journey to broken wholeness in three chapters.”
Brown has said their performances “feel like a family dance party, a storytelling circle, a cathartic healing ritual, and a nature retreat all in one”
According to her artist’s bio, the long-time Earthwork musician has lived as an anthropologist and activist in South America and as a musician and pastor in Michigan, and ” … she is equal parts a child of Motown, mystical chants, and Andean folkloric dance.”
Her new album comes after an extended hiatus from the music world, and “… it explores the shape of healing journeys and our capacity to embrace the mysteries, paradoxes and incompleteness of healing.”
Her previous releases include the “The Color Suite” (2009) and “For What is the Journey” (2004).
Earthwork Music is a Michigan-based collective of artists who describe themselves as “changemakers, and healers supporting social and environmental justice.”
The venue is located in a grassy amphitheater, and attendees may bring blankets and lawn chairs.
