02 Jan Andrea Moon
I am first generation Filipino, and third generation Scandinavian. A Mother of four young sons, raised by the Ocean in the Coast Salish Islands. I have been blessed to have been taught drum craft in the traditional ways. My highest creative calling at this moment in my life journey is the traditional tanning of sheepskin pelts and hides, drum making, and lapidary stonework. I have courted these crafts in my own ways and been gifted the transmissions of these crafts through the lineages and to share their wisdom and transformative experiences on this Earth. My matriarchal lineage comes from the healers of the Philippines Islands. I have been bestowed the rights of passage from Mambabatok Apo Whang-Od of the Kalinga tribe, who is now 106 years old.
Gratitude to my teachers who introduced me to drum circle visioning and was given my first drum by Patrick Pinson of Cedar Mountain Drums in 2013, to Jorge “Two Eagles” Lewis a Coast Salish Drum Maker, to Maria Rose Sikyea, Dené Indigenous Mother, who taught me how to tan hides many moons ago and to the late the Palo Martin Huff, my mentor and beloved friend who taught me the art of stone carving and that the gem within the stone reveals itself through the visioning mirror of my own soul.
Andrea Moon will be offering Intuitive Drum Making.
