WHITE SAGE
One Groovy Song at a Time.
“White
Sage – 1. (Salvia Apiana) Also
known as Sacred Sage, a plant used to bless, cleanse and heal the person or
object being smudged; 2. A circle of
three powerful women making music used to bless, cleanse and heal the person or
object who hears it.”


White Sage has been making music
together for only two years, but we who comprise the ensemble --
Betsy Wise, Jo Flagg and Shaun Phoenix -- have made magic together for
lifetimes. We sing all original
songs, backing each other up with bodacious harmonies and instrumentation that
includes guitars, keyboards, electric bass, as well as drums and other
percussive toys. Our music is earthy,
melodious, and harmonious; folksy, bluesy, and occasionally
rock-and-rolly. It rises in sacred chants;
soars in songs of praise; grounds in women’s true life stories.
Our songs encompass the breadth of the human journey and our place
in the divine web of all existence.
As White Sage, we sing love songs to Gaia and all Her abundant, diverse
expressions of life. Our music, like
the sacred plant the group invokes, is offered up as a smudge, a prayerful practice
intended to soften the hearts and connect the spirits of all who invite these
songs in.
White
Sage manifests a synergy not only of music, but of spirit. We weave together our differing energies, personalities, lifeways and musical styles as freely as
our harmonies. We three sing to bless
the Earth, and to bless all life. We sing
to inspire healing among the human family, and to assist in helping us all
remember that we truly belong here. We sing songs of praise, songs of grief and longing, songs of righteous rage,
songs of transformation, songs of homecoming.
We sing because we must, because we can, because we love to.