Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #656 is a live show featuring dynamic, improvised visionary acoustic music by The Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, Celtic harp, 12- and 6-string acoustic guitars, ukulele, Tibetan bowls and shruti box, Bob Sherwood on piano, Craig Harris on congas and Native drum and today’s special guest Robin Rooney on vocals and percussion. Recorded at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in early February of 2026, today’s hour begins with the mystical raga to the Goddess Brigid, a mysterious, shaded piece built on Mariam’s chiming drone on her open-tuned Martin 12-string acoustic and a tight, focused piano strategy from Bob. “Honoring Hathor” is another raga based on open 12-string, featuring soaring call-and-response vocals from Mariam and Robin and “If You Knew What Was In Your Heart” opens with a beautiful flute fanfare from Mariam before settling into an affecting prayer-like, minimalist meditation. “Yemanja” is a song by Mariam about the Ocean Goddess and the ensemble covers a skillful, tight and varied version with dancing ukulele from Mariam, barrelhouse funk piano from Bob, a driving conga rhythm from Craig and more powerful vocals from Mariam and Robin. “Full Moon Part II” is a deep cut that originates in 2013, an unusual, lunar piece of music that drifts in and out of dreamy night moods and Miriam’s “Your Eyes Shine” receives a gorgeous, languid reading with fine work from the ensemble and a tight, passionate vocal from Mariam. We close the show today with two of Mariam’s finest South American songs, the mysterious, slowly building “Amour Mac hay” and the joyful, playful Andean nature prayer “Pachamama”.

Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com

Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within interviews Doug “Ten” Rose, also known as “Ten” which is short for Tenzin Kharma Trinley. Sheryl and Doug will discover how he came to that name, “Ten” in his book Fearless Puppy On American Road. Ten is also the author of Reincarnation Through Common Sense where he describes how the rural monks and nuns of a forest temple adopted a troubled soul from Brooklyn, New York.Ten will discuss the hitchhiking adventures that he experienced while covering America’s highway’s. He has survived heroin addiction and death and is a graduate of over a hundred thousand miles of travel without ever driving a car, owning a phone or having a bank account. When we say to find Spirit we need to walk the road of our own destiny and true path this seems to fit Ten ideally. http://www.fearlesspuppy.org/

Learn more about Sheryl here: http://www.sherylglick.com/