Gretchen~
Entertainment Coordinator, PR
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Gretchen McMahon is a
singer/songwriter/composer/multi-instrumentalist. She has
performed at pagan festivals in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida,
Maryland and Virginia. She has composed and performed music for ritual
and the ritual theater 2000-2002 production of Dark Goddess, produced at
the Vortex Theater in Austin, TX. Gretchen also acted in the
production as well, performing the roles and priestessing Baba Yaga,
Cerridwen and The Morrigu.
Gretchen is a Reiki Master and High Bard of the Virginia Pagan Warrior's
Guild. She is an eclectic praticioner and on the Bardic Path.
Gretchen knows the value and power of sound and music in ritual and magick.
She looks forward to bringing her years of experience in performance and
festival production to Mountain Mysteries Mabon |
Justin ~
Safety Coordinator
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Justin is a former Marine who has been handling safety
duties for pagan gatherings for over 10 years. His spiritual path is best
described as pagan warrior, walking the fine line between harm none and
doing what is needed to protect those in his charge. His hobbies include
almost all of the martial arts, military history and just to annoy the
family cats he plays the violin and recorder.
You can most likely find him at events walking the area and keeping an
eye on everything, or at night with glow sticks trying to avoid the poison
ivy. |
Deb ~
Web Mistress, Ritual Coordinator, Public Liason
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Deb is a Mom, Wife & Artist. She enjoys constantly
expanding her knowledge - through books and teachers "in person". She
has been teaching Reiki at festivals since 2002. With a slight
addiction to collecting crystals, she enjoys energy work of all kinds.
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Sorchae ~
Registration Coordinator
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Sorchae is a proud mom and has been honored to serve her
country as a Sailor for the past 21 years. She has been affiliated with the
Pagan path for about fifteen years and settled on Gaelic Traditionalism
about five years ago. She is a Warrior at heart but loves to putter and
tinker and spend time with family, bees, chickens, cows, dogs and cats, and
the land on her small farm in VA. |
Katie ~
Children's Coordinator
General Workshop Coordinator, PR
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Katie Shubert is a retired professor and resides in Columbia
Maryland with her Husband Harvey (a psychologist) and her 20 year old
daughter Morgan, three dogs and a very very fat black cat named Merlin! She
has taught in the public school system for 25 years before teaching college.
She is a member of the programming board for Maryland Faerie festival, an
originator and board member of Central Maryland Pagans, and a planning
coordinator of Mountain Mysteries Mabon.. She is very active in her Pagan
community hosting drum circles, rituals and classes at her home. She is an
avid student of Tantra, Holistic healing, and Reiki. She classifies herself
as an earth witch. She claims that some of the best conversations she has
every had has been with trees! But if you ask her what her biggest passion
in life is now she will smile and tell you" it's all about teaching our
young ones the old ways" Which she does with passion and wisdom and love |
Stephen
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Volunteer Coordinator
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Stephen has participated in pagan festivals
and events in Texas, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. His popular boffer
weapons workshops are always a hit. Stephen has a solid martial arts
background. He has studied Go Jo Ru Karate, Tae Kwan Do and Fencing.
Stephen is a knight in the Virginia Pagan Warrior's Guild. He has presented
forging demonstration at the Lost Pines Boy Scout camp in Texas.
Stephen has studied blacksmithing and welding at Austin Community
College. He has apprenticed with renown sword maker Daniel Watson of Angel
Swords in Driftwood, Texas. |
David & Jeanet Ewing
Vendor Coordinators
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Greg
Ritual Fire Coordinator
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Amber
Community Events Coordinator
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Lisa ~
Fashion Show Coordinator
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Lisa (Adams) Starnes has been
practicing witchcraft since 1989. She began her career in Holistic Health as
a Massage Therapist in 1995, continuing her studies by becoming a Reiki
Master and obtaining certification as a Holistic Health Practitioner, where
she learned to work with herbs, homeopathics, energy, TCM and more. To
ritually affirm her desire to help others, she became ordained in the Order
of Melchizadek in 1996, eventually becoming legally recognized by the State
of Virginia as clergy in 2002. Lisa dedicated herself to the Goddess after
re-locating to Charlottesville from the Northern Virginia rat race in 1998.
Shortly thereafter, she met and fell in love with her hunky warrior husband
–at the Charlottesville Beltane Festival. The following year, they and a
group of friends, became involved with the festival, moving it to Heavenly
Acres Campground. Lisa continued on the Beltane Festival committee until
2005 as workshop and ritual coordinator, and as treasurer for the Blue Ridge
Pagan Alliance. Lisa and her husband are working partners in Celtic Faery
Wicca as Second Degree High Priestess and High Priest, although their true
paths are much broader including yoga and buddhism. Lisa has attended
several of the Mid-Atlantic Pagan Leadership Conferences, and went on to
organize the Central Virginia Pagan Community Conference in 2004, carrying
forward the spirit of community organization she learned from the MA-PLC.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from James Madison University with a
Bachelor’s in Religion and Women’s Studies in 2004.
Lisa lives with her wonderful husband, Mark, their two cats, and three
horses in the National Forest. |
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