Matthew O’Neill and Friends with Dominic and the Family Band

22 Rock City Road,Woodstock NY 12498

25 September, 2022

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Matthew O’Neill and Friends with Dominic and the Family BandUNDER 18 WITH PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN Matthew O’Neill Dominic and the Family Band Matthew O’Neill is a musical artist and performer based in the Catskill mountains. His musical practice is rooted in Indigenous musical ontologies; ways of knowing and participation through sound. He is committed to restoring the central role of music in maintaining relationship, balance, resilience, innovation and thriving in harmony with Mother Earth and the Cosmos. The result is a dynamic feeling of connection to living systems and a sense of empowered resistance to outdated destructive paradigms. His albums have received critical acclaim and he has collaborated with many world class and award winning musicians and engineers. His work offers gratitude and appreciation as per the original instructions, carrying out the responsibility of musical reciprocity. Kinship with non-human relatives is a central theme. He speaks out against the injustices that are clear to see and acknowledges the necessity to always give space for humor, a form of medicine like music. Matthew has an academic background that includes wisdom traditions, musical ethnography, soundscape ecology, cultural anthropology, and history. He runs an Indigenous based music label called Underwater Panther Coalition which focuses on decolonizing music and listening modalities while directly supporting native artists and their communities. His mission is to help connect people to Mother Earth through music and fulfill obligations of reciprocity through sound, prayer, and action. He is actively engaged in supporting Indigenous rights, land rights, and connecting culture back to the land. O’Neill’s songwriting acknowledges the interconnectedness of all things and often features poetic allegory centering on non-anthropocentric articulations of gratitude, joy, suffering, celebration, and loss. Decolonizing music is a central commitment. Matthew also has an intersectional skill set outside of music that includes ecological restoration, plant medicine, stone work, backcountry guiding, and music production. His musical influences are vast. His new album, Songs of Connection, leans into his love of old school cumbia. Cumbia music originally jumped into his world via John Sayle's 1997 film 'Men With Guns'. O'Neill has since done extensive research on the roots of Cumbia through a decolonial lens. He will be performing with a world class band that includes Jesse Murphy and Aaron Johnston of Brazilian Girls, Roberto Rodriquez, Tyler Wood, and Danny Blume. "Matthew lives and breathes the kind of spiritually expansive music that allows the listener to bring their own trip to the trip." - BKQ "Matthew O'Neill follows his vision here, a potent mind-meld of early Pink Floyd space-rock, Jerry Garcia-esque laid-back roots music, and Native American-inspired Earth-and-Sky spirituality (and Funk. do not forget the FUNK.) A sort of mystic shaman sketching out his dreams and hopes for the earth he loves in the language he knows best: music.” - The Daily Vault More info at www.matthew-oneill.com