"When you saw her
perform you knew she was drawing on the power of the universe but when
you heard her sing you knew somehow that even the angels stopped to
listen". Marla Hanson
According to her own testimony Hosanna received a note (posted at the bottom of this page) from someone
named Celie, a friend who knew she loved to sing. The note told her to
go to Shelly Duncan's house and sing with the singers there. So Hosanna
went and was hooked immediately. It was a place that she could go that
was beyond singing in her husband's rock and roll band (The Tocaloma Swamp Band). Other singers
were there along with a piano player/director. She said that she felt
there was a simple, clear truth there.
"Through
the words of The Street Choir's songs, we immersed ourselves in a new
language. A new American experience of spirit that had its own
vocabulary.
The old tradition of Come Thou Fount. A Spiritual fountain where
we nourished ourselves. Circle? Golden Ring? Let Me Be in the
Heart of the Lord? Angel of Darkness?
Lets look at all this imagery! We hosted the poetry of a new people.
The writers of a new script were among us, if we but knew. The
songwriters poured forth the stories we needed to live by. Experiences,
both from our spiritual and psychedelic delving, combined. And Fairfax,
Home of a Sufi Temple, Tibetan lamas, Zen students from Muir Beach.
Remnants of the Alan Watts influence,"Autobiography of a Yogi", The Youngbloods, Jesse out in Point Reyes.
This was a beautiful imagination. "
"The
natural childbirth mothers. Surrounded by poet boys-to-men, "the
British invasion" vintage costumes, gentle country guitar strummers,
romance was in the air. Rock and roll, surfer, weed smoking youth of
the San Francisco Bay Area arriving in a new incarnation of Gods
and Goddesses to express the dawning of The Age of Aquarius." Karen
Trefts Hosanna 6/17/13
