Dyan Garris
Dyan Garris is a multiple award-winning New Age recording artist, an award-winning author, and an official music reviewer for NewAgeCD, NewAgeNotes.com, ‘New Age Notes Magazine,’ and ‘Sedona Journal of Emergence,” as well as a former music reviewer for “Retailing Insight Magazine” and Zone Music Reporter (ZMR).
Garris has recorded and produced 14 albums, including her latest release, “Orenda: Breath of Angels,” which was released in April 2021.
Garris’ recordings include a series of independently tested music and meditation CDs that earned The National Health & Wellness Stamp of Approval.
Her CD, “Mystic’s Nine,” won a Global Music Award. The song “Mystic Sea” from the same album won the 16th Annual IMA (Independent Music Awards) VOX POP WINNER award, New Age Song category. Her music is available on Pandora, Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, SiriusXM, Mood, Muzak, Music Choice, airlines, and many overheads.
In January 2021, Garris started a New Age music radio station, New Age Notes (https://www.NewAgeNotes.com). The Live365 stream is available here: http://player.live365.com/a55861 In 2024, Garris created the e-zine, “New Age Notes Magazine” featuring interviews and articles from the best New Age artists in the world.
MUSIC & MEDITATION:
Dyan Garris started playing the piano when she was four years old. Her mother bought a baby grand piano and soon thereafter procured the services of a piano teacher. The piano teacher was an interesting choice because he was totally blind.
At the first lesson Dyan asked him how he was going to teach her to play the piano since he could not see, and she asked him to take off his glasses so she could see his eyes. He obliged. They were beautiful blue, and they were definitely blind. But even then, through those obscured windows, she saw his soul. He was brilliant.
And he said to her, “Child, we do not need to be able to ‘see’ to play this instrument. We only need to be able to feel the music. Music is not about seeing. It’s about feeling.” With that, he took her hands and placed them atop of his and they played the most wonderful music.
Garris is a classically trained pianist and violinist. She became and maintained first chair, first violin throughout high school orchestra and still loves the way the two instruments blend together in perfect harmony.
Her interest in meditation and music for relaxation goes back to early 1993, which is when she first began creating guided meditations and oracle decks. Music itself, of course, has been a way of life.
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REBEKAH EDEN
Rebekah Eden
Discovering the ethereal, otherworldly music of Rebekah Eden is to behold a ravishing jewel bathed in Light. First, you’re struck dumb with awe, then you’re filled with grace.
The unique talent of this singer/composer/producer crosses all musical boundaries. Since 1987, her shimmering soprano of 3-1/2 octaves has been thrilling audiences around the world in repertoire as diverse as opera, avant-garde and classical song, but especially in her own compositions that leave audiences deeply moved by their transcendental sacredness. Critics have called her performances “gorgeous” and “majestic.”
Her own music has been described as “A Score for the Divine.” Her album “Rowing in Eden” enjoyed universal critical acclaim and a top 10 placement on the ZMR radio airplay charts for New Age/World Music. Two nominations followed for “Best Vocal Album of 2016:”a ZMR Music Award nomination, and a OWMR Music Award nomination.
Subsequently, a happy collaboration with fellow nominee, composer Terry Lee Nichols, arose out of the ZMR event. Their joint album “We Have Only Come to Dream” was released in the spring of 2018 and debuted in 3rd place on the ZMR radio airplay charts in April, garnering thrilling reviews both nationally and internationally.