Don’t Lie to me Now

Introducing the amazing Angela Toohey in the first co-write by Angela and Washuntara. Welcome to the very live and personal birth of a powerful, new song. Enjoy!

Live & Personal… And Back in Business


The photo says it all.

“Thank you for your gratitude” may be a succinct sentence, but it sure ‘says it’. As the sign declares, we did it, gang! The benefit concert for the beloved’s, Kim and Jay, was a roaring success. Everybody chipped in, the food was yummy, the folk were many and full of joy, and Washuntara played like a man on fire. By the night’s end all the money and love that was needed had been collected. The gas is back on and Jay is frying up the world’s best catfish again.

From Washuntara: “I, for one, can’t wait to get back to Tennessee to get me some! A special thanks to all who came and donated, and a special thanks to the Singleton mob, (that’s Aussie for ‘family’). What a credit you are to yourselves and your country. I love America because of folk like you!”


Contact Washuntara if you’d like to book a private Live & Personal House Concert for your fundraiser. Or click here to see Washuntara’s upcoming concert schedule.

December 2011 Check In

Two hours waiting for a plane;
such a lovely opportunity to breathe again

Arriving two days after Jaybird’s joyous benefit concert in Nashville, Tennessee, Washuntara landed in Wisconsin’s magical fields of change. For most of November he lived with, and learned from, her remarkable people. They co-created music with Live & Personal; laughter and tears with Wake Up and Grieve; and greater understanding between the genders with He She We. It was a trail of joy winding through Lake Mills, Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton and Fond du Lac. Between gigs, he danced briskly around those enchanted mid-western towns, delighting in their watery, winter ways.

Washuntara’s Wisconsin Words: “What an authentic, hooting American dream I’m living right now. Folks, I really get why Shawn and Rae, Gene and Dianne, Loz and Sue, Mother, Linda and Dan, Suzanne, Anna and Nick, Rama Devi, Michael, Kim, Michelle, Janet, Shamus the dog, and the hundreds of other lovely souls that touched my life in extraordinary ways choose to live where they do. Thanks so much, my dear Wisconsin Sangha (family). I love you dearly, but it’s time to fly to the sun.”

Washuntara is now at Deer Park Monastery, sitting like a little Buddha under a Californian sun for the month of December. Then he’s off to Honduras, as (in his own words) “it’s time for a paradigm shift”.

When we are ripe and ready, pungent and open, life flows. It’s to be a flower and feel the honey bees coming, or to be the bee and know that it won’t be long. Enjoy your December, dear brothers and sisters, and remember to smile. As always, I value and cherish you, the beloved people who support the music and I’m so happy to have you along on the journey. Please help me share the music by forwarding this email to your friends and inviting them to join the gift list.

~ love and sanity, Washuntara