{"id":29,"date":"2016-03-30T21:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/?p=29"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:06:39","slug":"interview-sharon-knight-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/interview-sharon-knight-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Sharon Knight &#038; Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i>Winners of the Society for Ritual Arts\u2019 inaugural 2015 Lost Chord Award <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Interview by\u00a0Jenna Farr Ludwig, MA <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"48\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/interview-sharon-knight-winter\/a001_c011_0527gn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SW-red.jpg?fit=890%2C1003&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"890,1003\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A001_C011_0527GN&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sharon and Winter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SW-red.jpg?fit=890%2C1003&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issuewp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SW-red.jpg?resize=330%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sharon and Winter\" width=\"330\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SW-red.jpg?w=890&amp;ssl=1 890w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SW-red.jpg?resize=266%2C300&amp;ssl=1 266w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/spring-2016-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SW-red.jpg?resize=768%2C866&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/>I recently met with Sharon Knight and Winter; the musical duo voted this year\u2019s winners of the inaugural Lost Chord Award, given annually to indie musicians of exceptional merit by the Society for Ritual Arts (SRA). Sharon and Winter have been working their musical alchemy\u2014each contributing their particular skills to create \u2018beauty and deliciousness\u2019 in the world\u2014since they first joined forces 20 years ago. We were fortunate to catch them on the fly between engagements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Entering their studio, I was quickly put at ease by their convivial style and friendly banter. Winter\u2019s looks\u2014heavy metal rocker, turned Celtic bard\u2014belie his subtle humor and soft-spoken charm. Sharon\u2019s open heart and beguiling smile enhance her natural, take-charge personality. Both provided this interviewer with lots of good information about their new collaborative <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">CD, a project that contributed to their winning the SRA Lost Chord Award. To give you a taste of what\u2019s in store<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>, <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Sharon and Winter and their tribe of internationally touring musicians, actors, filmmakers, artists, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>et al<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> have created a multi-media music video from one of the songs on the CD. The <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Porcelain Princess <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">video<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">is now available on their YouTube channel:<\/span><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KptG3ONbYe8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: Thank you for agreeing to be profiled in Coreopsis. We have long admired your work. Where can we learn more about what you do?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">If readers want to know more about the work that we are engaged in, they can visit Sharon\u2019s website at: <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Other relevant sites are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.embstudios.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>www.embstudios.com<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170108054804\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pandemonaeonmusic\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>http:\/\/www.pandemonaeon.net\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hexenfest.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>www.hexenfest.net<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0What do you want the world to know about your work?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">We want the world to know that we can choose beauty. We can choose magic. The world is full of wonder and enchantment. We seek to create an experience of enchantment with the way that we deliver the music, and the lyrics are very carefully crafted to paint a picture of a magical world as well. So, we\u2019re not telling people about magic so much as giving them an experience of magic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0 Who or what do you see as your main influences that have guided you to your particular artistic form(s)?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> A few of my musical influences are Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Robin Williamson, Tori Amos, and Loreena McKennitt. Then there is Scandinavian folk music. But I have a lot of influences. I love Gothic Symphonic Metal and a lot of music that is considered \u2018otherworldly\u2019 or dramatic or rootsy or earthy. Those kinds of themes I\u2019m really drawn to and I could cite as influences more strongly than any specific artist, because I love so many different artists. Also, on that note of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>otherworldly<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">, is the idea that there is another world, a deeper layer of reality that is pulsing and alive. It is this other world that brings everything into creation. Probably <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>the<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> core, or main influence, of everything that I do and that guides our art form is wanting to tap that and bring it to life in some way. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> I come from a Rock and Pop background and didn\u2019t get into the more folksy, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>heart<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> stuff until I got with Sharon. Before Sharon I thought folk was kind of\u2026I don\u2019t know\u2026all like Bob Dylan or protest songs and that kind of thing. I didn\u2019t even know about the Celtic music that is Sharon\u2019s main influence. Eventually, I made that my own by blending what I had brought to the table with the new influence. Also, when Sharon and I got together, she was very much into belly dancing, so there was a lot of Middle Eastern music that we were listening to that also influenced me. You can hear some of that in our music as <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Sharon Knight<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> but even more so as <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170108054804\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pandemonaeonmusic\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><u>Pandemonaeon<\/u><\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">, our rock band.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0 Much of what you do addresses the world of magic and spirit and how we connect through ritual, movement\/dance, art, and music. Where do you think that comes from? In other words, the \u201cdeep roots,\u201d where does that come from?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">: It definitely comes from our experiences, and discovering that there is a much deeper layer of reality than what we see with our everyday senses. I have perceived that since I was a kid, and it remains the most interesting piece of our entire existence. In fact the concept of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> is very much about that. It\u2019s about these windows opening up in our perception that lead to these much more vast spaces in our imagination that we can travel to and live in and be part of.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0 Will you tell readers a little about your exciting and evocative Portals CD, art book, and video; what you call a Carnival of Mystery multi-media project? <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u2026we always try to do something different with each album that we create, so that we don\u2019t become predictable. In our last album, <\/span><u><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net\">http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net<\/a><\/u><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>, <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">there<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">is a very pared-down acoustic sound, so it represents what Winter and I sound like as a duet when we go on tour and play Celtic festivals, house concerts, and those kinds of venues. It\u2019s very intimate. It\u2019s minimally instrumented, having only a couple\u2026two or three\u2026guest musicians. For <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> we wanted to do something big and grand and have a full band sound and incorporate a lot of our touring musician friends so it would sound very much like this big theatrical, festival production. Because being on tour on these magical music circuits is very much like being in this big carnival full of magician musicians, we have deemed it a \u201cCarnival of Mystery.\u201d We wanted to incorporate a lot of our musician friends and be able to pay them. We believe strongly that artists deserve to be paid and we want to live in a world that has a thriving artist community. Making sure artists get paid is part of making sure that we all have art in our lives. That was part of it. We also wanted to include visual arts and film arts. The CD is well underway with most of the guest artists hired and paid already. The video <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Porcelain Princess<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> is complete. We didn\u2019t get quite enough funding for the art book, so we\u2019re still working on how to make that happen. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: What did you learn from creating the Portals Project with your Tribe of talented, musicians, artists, and actors? How was it working together, combining your different art forms? How was that?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">It was awesome! Collaborating makes a project so much bigger, better, and more dimensional! You get surprised and inspired in new ways. The spirit of collaboration drives <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals.<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Bringing many talents together gives a project so much more dimension! You don\u2019t know exactly what your collaborators are going to do, so any preconceived notions you have about the song have to be thrown away, which is really cool. You know, you have to give people room to have their own inspirations and then sometimes they do. What they bring back takes the song to such a whole new level that you couldn\u2019t anticipate. That then re-inspires you, and it makes the song bigger and better and more dimensional in exponential ways.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: Do you find it easy as a general rule to work with actors and other artists? Have you, in the past, found it as easy as it was on this project?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> In general, people tend to attract the people that have a similar kind of vibe or expression or style. That seems to be a \u2018given\u2019 so, in that sense, it\u2019s not really that hard to work with other people. Although, individually, you will still have more chemistry with one person than with another, in general, collaboration \u2013 if that is something you\u2019re into \u2013 is really great. For those who aren\u2019t opposed to collaborating, there is a lot to be gained from it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> This collaborative project has so far gone remarkably smoothly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: So, is the whole CD completed? Are you going to create a video for every song? <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">No, we won\u2019t be creating a video for every song. The CD is about 80 percent done at this time. We are expecting a January 2016 release date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0 What would you like to say to other artists (of any genre)?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Make art! Just make art and then more art. And then make some more art after that. If it stinks, don\u2019t worry about it. Keep making art. It will get better and better. Make art. Be prolific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0 How would you describe your work as it relates to its importance in the world today? How does your work address some of the problems we\u2019re facing in the world? In other words, how is your work influenced by the problems facing the world today?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> I think that the world desperately needs to feel like there is a place for beauty and hope and magic and goodness; that those things can and do still exist. In fact, we can increase them by investing ourselves in those things by both believing in them and then acting in accordance with principles that bring them to life. There can be more love. There can be more kindness. There can be beauty and enchantment, and indeed we do live in an enchanted world. It\u2019s just a matter of remembering how to perceive those things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>CJMT: That is really beautiful. All that you\u2019ve said reminds me of a quote by author Martin Prechtel. Recounting his time as a shaman in a Mayan Tzutujil village, whose inhabitants believe their land to be the \u201cUmbilicus of the Universe,\u201d Prechtel recounts that the Tzutujil peoples of Central America revere the whole of nature as sacred and feel it is their duty to put back, through sacred ritual, a little of what they have taken to sustain their lives. Prechtel writes in his <\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>book <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Long Life, Honey in the Heart that \u201chumans, just by being themselves, did so much damage to everything around them, they must by Mayan standards, send back an equal amount and quality of beauty and deliciousness to the world of the spirit whose song they had interrupted.\u201d Sharon, you basically just said the same thing.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Winter: <\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I completely agree with that. Part of the problem with the world is its extreme materialism and nihilism. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals,<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> and our music in general, is very much about the kind of enchantment that is everyone\u2019s responsibility to create. Every individual has that in them and it\u2019s everybody\u2019s job to make the world a better place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>9. CJMT: Couple of technical questions: Tell us a little bit about the process you undergo in creating a multi-media project like <\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Portals<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> In terms of collaborating with other musicians on the album, we send them\u2014when we think a song has enough elements for other people to contribute to\u2014a rough mix of that, wherever they are all over the country. We send the sound file to them, and in their own recording studio they add to it and then send that back to us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> It is so cool that we can do that! A few artists who live locally came in here to this studio, but a lot of them we\u2019ve done remotely.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> In the music video the collaboration is with a cinematographer, who is our friend and our business partner in the studio, Paul Nordin. I\u2019ve done a lot of film work with him, so we drew from some of the crew we\u2019ve worked with on other things, involving them in the project. Sharon and Paul found the actors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> A big part of making a huge project like this work is coordinating different people, having an awesome team. We definitely have had an awesome team.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> And when we played the band on stage in the video, we wanted it to be more than us, but a lot of the people who are recording in that song aren\u2019t in the area. It was hard for them to come so when we were doing the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Indiegogo<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> fundraising, we added an item where monies were allocated to help the cellist, Betsy Tinney, from Redmond, WA (Seattle) to fly down here so she could be in the video. We also involved our drummer from <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Pandemonaeon<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> A big part\u2014not technical in an electronic sense, but rather as a logistical thing\u2014is that you want to arrange your entire life so that you earn people\u2019s trust. Always. So, when you go to do some big project that you need a lot of people to buy into, you\u2019ve already established yourself as somebody who is not a flake and who is going to do really cool, creative things with a person\u2019s investment. Whether it\u2019s chipping in on the fundraising campaign or an investment of art or time or whatever it is, people want to feel like they are participating in a project that they can believe in. In order to win that trust, there has to be a commitment you make in your entire life to deliver and be worthy of people\u2019s respect.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>CJMT: How did you find your way to your style of music\u2014Neofolk Romantique, Celtic Fusion\u2014in the very beginning of your collaboration together as musicians?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> I would say that \u2018Neofolk Romantique\u2019 is definitely a fusion of the styles that Winter and I both brought to the table when we first started playing music together. I very much have this Celtic core. I discovered it when I was 18 and immediately wanted to learn to play a bunch of traditional songs. Even before that, the more mainstream rock music I loved the most had a Celtic influence in it: Heart, Jethro Tull, and Led Zeppelin, especially the songs that incorporate more mandolin and acoustic music. I later grew into liking Scandinavian and Middle Eastern styles of folk music as well, and that\u2019s what I was involved in when I met Winter. He comes from a really strong rock and pop background, like he was saying, so over the years as we\u2019ve blended our styles together. It\u2019s evolved to be not really traditional Celtic anymore, but still kind of acoustic and \u2018hooky\u2019 enough\u2026it\u2019s got some pop hooks in there, I like to think it does anyway <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>(laughter)<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">. So we can\u2019t call ourselves traditional Celtic but we\u2019re not a straight-ahead rock band either. We thought \u2018Neofolk Romantique\u2019 summed up our style. We draw on older musical styles. There is a love of antiquity, a steam punk vibe in there, and a lot of the songs are very romantic. It\u2019s a new expression of folk music. \u2018Neofolk Romantique\u2019 seems to tie all that together well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: Were either of you raised with a musical background?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> No, I wasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Not really. My parents sang in the choir but they never wanted me to waste my time on such idle pursuits as learning guitar. How tragic in their minds to think that I would be a professional musician <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>(said with a sense of irony and amusement<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT:\u00a0 What would you like to tackle next in relationship to your music and art? What\u2019s your next thing down the pike?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> I\u2019m not sure I can imagine such a thing. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>(Laughter)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: What sounds juicy?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Well, a more modest music video for one of the other songs on the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> album. It would be for a new song that no one has heard yet, titled \u201cTrail of Prayer<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>,\u201d <\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">that will be on the album. This video will be simpler than <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Porcelain Princess<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> and won\u2019t require a lot of crowd funding. We\u2019re hoping to do that so that the album will have two videos to represent it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: What do you think the state of Pagan, Heathen, Wiccan, and Visionary music is today?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Well, I certainly think it\u2019s developing. It\u2019s gotten a lot more broad and nuanced. I think it\u2019s really just starting to flourish. Just in the last five years have Pagan and pagan-friendly music festivals started to crop up. I think that is just the beginning. More and more of these festivals seem to happen every year, so I think we\u2019re at the beginning of a wave that\u2019s going to keep going for a while.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> If somebody asked me how I would classify our music, I wouldn\u2019t call it Pagan, because even though Sharon may sing about Pagan themes in the music, at times, I don\u2019t think of the music that way. So, to me it\u2019s not Pagan-specific.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> How about Visionary?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Winter:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Oh, yeah\u2026 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> But the pagan community across the nation is at least 80 percent of our market, so it is associated with our music within the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Celtic Fusion<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> umbrella.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>CJMT: When I was called and asked to do an interview with you for the Society for Ritual Arts, I had no idea what the term \u201cLost Chord\u201d meant. I did a little research that you can read as a blog on the SRA website titled \u201cFinding the Lost Chord.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>How did your Lost Chord Award come about?<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><b>Sharon:<\/b><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> SRA has been a supporter of ours for a long time, and my guess is that they were really moved by the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals Project<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">. We\u2019ve been interviewed at <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Coreopsis<\/i><\/span> <!-- will link to Sharon's review of SJ Tucker's CD. --><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">a time or two in the past, so they are familiar with our work in general but from what I understand, the SRA Board members were moved by the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals Project<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> enough to nominate us and create a Lost Chords Award Dinner and Concert<\/span><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">in our honor. We\u2019re honored to be part of it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><i><b>CJMT: Any final words? <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Make art! <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>(Laughter)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Tour information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Pandemonaeon<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Tour Info: <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170108054804\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pandemonaeonmusic\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>http:\/\/www.pandemonaeon.net\/shows\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Sharon and Winter 2015\/16 Tour:<\/span><u> <\/u><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Winter: <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sharonknight.net\/hello\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>http:\/\/www.sharonknight.net\/hello<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">To Support <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i>Portals<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">: <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/portals-album-music-video-and-art-book#\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/portals-album-music-video-and-art-book#\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Hexenfest Music Festival Official Page: <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hexenfest.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><u>http:\/\/www.hexenfest.net\/<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the Society for Ritual Arts\u2019 inaugural 2015 Lost Chord Award Interview by\u00a0Jenna Farr Ludwig, MA I recently met with Sharon Knight and Winter; the musical duo voted this year\u2019s winners of the inaugural Lost Chord Award, given annually to indie musicians of exceptional merit by the Society for Ritual Arts (SRA). 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