Artist description Green Crown Takes the listener on a journey to the "other side" where the worlds of myth and magic are very real.

Music Style Pagan Acoustic Psychedelic

Musical Influences Syd Barrett, Gwydion, Incredible String Band,Doors,Moody Blues,Ancient music, Donovan, The Fugs,Tir na Nog,UK underground folk rock from the 60's and 70's

Similar Artists I dont think there's any other band on earth who play music much like Green Crown,truly unique.

Artist History The members of Green Crown met on the US Pagan festival circut.Most were already playing Pagan Music, as well asteaching workshops in Music/Magic. Drawn together by an otherwise unfulfilled need to create something greater than each alone could achieve, Green Crown has brought their Magical Gypsy show to numerous festivals and other venues since June 1997. Green Crown Born out of various musical ensembles performing at Pagan spiritual gatherings across the Midwest and Eastern United States, Green Crown emerged for their debut performance in June of 1997 to an enthusiastic audience. They released a CD of that live performance titled "In Principo" on Rockdreamer Records. Since then, Green Crown has been growing and evolving into an ensemble both firmly grounded in their Pagan roots and unafraid to explore the path ahead. Their most recent release is titled "Washed in Her Blood" in 1998 -a Harvest Queen Production. Drawing upon influences such as Syd Barret and Pink Floyd, Donovan, Pentangle and Arabic/Indian folk music, Green Crown creates a unique style all their own. Performances are multi-media, featuring theatrical elements such as giant puppets of green men and moon goddesses, and their popular "Shadow Dance", where audience members can dance behind an illuminated screen, casting their swirling siluhettes for all to see. Mind-altering lights, magical imagry, colorful costumes and ritual elements travel hand-in-hand with the music as Green Crown beckons their audience to come along for the journey to explore both the inner sanctum and the great beond. Acoustic instruments like guitar, mandolin, cello, violin, celtic harp, acoustic bass, flute, digeridoo, sruti box, tambura and hand percussion are merged seamlessly with sampled effects, keyboard, electric guitar and bass. This unique sound is coupled with the etheral, dynamic voice of Prydwyn Piper and the strong, smooth vocals of Ingrid Eyen. Green Crown is made up of a committed group of pagan musicians spread out geographically across the United States from Maryland to Seattle. Each year they gather together for an intense and magical summer tour beginning in early June and ending in early September with venues ranging from intimate coffeehouses for unplugged contemplation, to large outdoor music festivals for an after-midnight trip-out jam.

Group Members The lineup of musicians is perhaps best described as "organic", but usually includes;Prdwyn Diana Mc Fadden Whitedeer Violette Rose Jakob Breitbach Ingrid Eyen Hank Knapple Sirona Jim Barleycorn Brewster Diana Sunday and many more...Special thanks to the volunteers who help operate the slides, lightshow, giant puppets, and shadowdance.

Instruments Celtic harp, cello, acoustic upright bass, violin/fiddle, space fiddle, acoustic guitar, electric guitar (Sydcaster), tabla, darbukka, modified trapset, pennywhistle, recorder, djembe, percussion, vocals, invocations, sound fx, and more...

Albums Washed in Her Blood, Green Crown, In Principio

Press Reviews "Lyric excursions intothe Otherworld, expanding one's delight and delectation in what can be discovered only by slipping out of reason into reverie, dream-state, and acquiescence to powers supernatural and occult." -Celtic Beat "[Prydwyn's] is that rare talent which proves that poetry and music are, in fact, the same thing." -The Mountain Oracle "The glorious vocals will sweep you off your feet." -Hypatia's Hoard "I can honestly say that I have now met two genuine Bards in my lifetime; Robin Williamson and Olvardil Prydwyn." -author Ellen Evert Hopman from PAGAN NETWORK NEWS (Imbolc 98)review by FireSpring "As a little background, I've been following Green Crown's evolution since Jacque Omi Zaleski (of WindTree ranch) introduced me to them about a year ago. They sent me a demo tape so that I could digitize some sound clips to promote an event Jacque was planning, and from our conversations about that, I learned they were going to be playing at Starwood, my all-time favorite eclectic Pagan Festival. While I enjoyed the tape they sent me, when I heard them play at Starwood, they just blew me away! Few bands actually sound better than their studio recordings, and as luck would have it, Green Crown was one of those rare gems. While their recordings are all well done, their humble and friendly stage presence makes you feel like you're part of their family and they're playing just for you. Their enthusiasm for what they're doing, their clear love of the music, combined with Prydwyn's quick wit, and some subtle and humorous stage theatrics, also add spice to their brew. One example, and a high point of their Starwood concert for me, was their unique and wonderful version of an old sixties tune,"Legend of a Mind", from the Moody Blues album "In Search of the Lost Chord". As imaginary LSD-laced sugar cubes were passed out to the audience by an Acid Queen High Priestess, Green Crown brought you to the ethereal plains of Sixties Haight-Ashbury by blending additional subtle musical elements from that era into the originally complex song. In thirty years I've never run across another musical group that could do a decent rendition of a Moody Blues song, let alone capture the feel of that time period in the mix..."You had to be there" never rang truer. After listening to "Isle of Islay","See Emily Play","Three is a Green Crown" and many more, some of which were sung in flawless Gaelic,I felt as relaxed and as warm as one might feel in the afterglow of an evening's lovemaking in front of a cold winter's fire.

Location Gays Mills, Wisconsin - USA

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