Peggy Monaghan

Peggy Monaghan began her career playing the San Francisco club scene in 1980. Her shows encompass a wide diversity of material, ranging from beautiful Irish classics to new folk. Her experience and knowledge of performance and production have made her a much sought-after participant in productions from San Francisco to Anchorage.

Raised in Alaska, Peggy currently teaches voice in Anchorage. She is coordinator and producer of the Alaska Song of the year Contest, a founding member of the Irish Music Festival and Turnagain Community Arts Alliance, and an advisory member of the Board of Directors for Alaska Theater of Youth. Her crowning achievement may be that she is a founding member of The Derry Aires. Her 1990 release, Lullabye, on Pacific Artists Records and 1994 release, Seasons of the Witch, on the Arctic Siren Records label have met with local and national acclaim.

Lullabye

Artist: Peggy Monaghan

With her rich voice and melodies that have flowed steadily through the mists of time, Peggy Monaghan has revived a tradition of love in music. In an elegant and unpretentious presentation of soothing music for the family hearth, Peggy uses acoustic guitar, piano, recorder, harp, or simply her inventive vocal arrangements to weave enchantment and peace into a varied tapestry of sound. In this time of renewed interest in the family, Peggy Monaghan is a voice reminding us of our ancient heritage of unconditional love.

Seasons of the Witch (Double CD) $26.00

Seasons of the Witch is an evocative, earthy delight honoring the
Goddess through the movement of the seasons. It features the haunting,
powerful music of Peggy Monaghan and her friends, and the poetry of
Goddess movement pioneer, Patricia Monaghan. This is a rich, heady brew
that recalls starlit nights and voices from long ago. "This album is a
true celebration of the Goddess and God." Miriam Robbins Dexter

Crystalline voices and celestial harmonies rise up and fill the air.
Songs and poems celebrate the nature of Woman, as revealed in the
seasons. These are the faces of the Goddess and the stages of Woman -
Maiden, Lover, Mother and Crone. Seasons of the Witch celebrates the
Goddess by honoring the power of creation.

The promise of Spring.
The fulfillment of Summer.
The reflection of Autumn.
The resolution of Winter.

This 2-CD set began as a book of poems, Seasons of the Witch, by
Patricia Monaghan, a pioneering leader in the Goddess movement. Her
sister, Peggy Monaghan, gave this book as gifts to her musician friends
in Alaska and California. The music was spontaneously born from Peggy
and her friends as a response to the power in the poems. Peggy
conceived this project as she heard the musical responses and decided to
produce the original 1994 CD, as well as this new expanded version.
Peggy and friends have written and performed 12 new songs for this 2-CD
set, as well as including spoken word performances of Patricia&Mac226;s
poetry. It also features spectacular cover art by another sister,
Kathleen Monaghan.

Seasons of the Witch is the result of connections between sisters and
friends, and the inherent power of words and music.

"The point is to give women a place to rest, relax, reflect and hone in to the feelings that are personal and often universal. The sound is great, the content is thinkable, the performances are caring."
– www.musesmuse.com

Seasons of the Witch (Book and Double CD) $23.75

Artist: Peggy Monaghan
Author: Patricia Monaghan

SEASONS OF DEVOTION
Feelings of deep spirituality often find their best expression in poetry; take for instance the success of the Sufi mystic Rumi, whose collections of spiritual poetry continue to be bestsellers 729 years after his death. Following in this fine tradition of devotional poetry is Patricia Monaghan's Seasons of the Witch: Poetry and Songs to the Goddess, and Llewellyn is proud to announce the release of a revised and expanded edition of this award-winning work.

The new edition of Seasons of the Witch is comprised of 4 sections corresponding to the seasons which each contain 28 pieces of poetry and prose. The writings are in celebration of the cyclical nature of earth and our lives, including those of the moon, the sun, planting, storytelling, and the female life cycle. A special feature of this new edition is a an evocative and powerful CD, produced by Arctic Siren Records, which includes the interpretation of 25 of the book's poems set to the music of:

Claudia Blythe
Kirsten Baird Gustafson
Sally Coombs
Susan LaCroix
Lili McGovern
Peggy Monaghan
James Robbins

Patricia Monaghan is one of the early leaders of the contemporary goddess movement. She is a member of the resident faculty of the School for New Learning at DePaul University in Chicago, and she lectures nationally on goddess spirituality. Some of her other books include Wild Girls: The Path of the Young Goddess, The Goddess Path, The Goddess Companion, and The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines.

Seasons of the Witch (ISBN: 9760604-0-X, $23.75 US, 200 pp., paperback plus Double CD) is available from Creatrix Books, LLC (608) 839-5011.