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Audience beats the drums for solstice stories, laughs

December 21, 2015 at 3:05AM

Jaime Meyer performs the 13th annual Winter Solstice Blessing at Minnesota Opera Center in Minneapolis on Sunday, December 20, 2015. ] (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune) leila.navidi@startribune.com BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Jaime Meyer’s “Winter Solstice Blessing” is part theater, part storytelling, and part interactive shamanic ceremony. The evening starts with interactive drumming, includes live musicians playing a variety of instruments and a chorus of women chanting mysterious Celtic and Nordic melodies. The show culminates with a shamanic ceremony in which everyone on the audience can receive a blessing from the Reindeer. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Jaime Meyer's 13th annual "Winter Solstice Blessing" at the Minnesota Opera Center in Minneapolis is part theater, part storytelling and part interactive shamanic ceremony. The evening starts with interactive drumming, includes live musicians playing a variety of instruments and a chorus of women chanting Celtic and Nordic melodies. It culminates in a shamanic ceremony in which everyone in the audience can receive a blessing from the "Antlered One." For more pictures, go to startribune.com/gallery.

Audience members sings and drum during the 13th annual Winter Solstice Blessing at Minnesota Opera Center in Minneapolis on Sunday, December 20, 2015. ] (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune) leila.navidi@startribune.com BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Jaime Meyer’s “Winter Solstice Blessing” is part theater, part storytelling, and part interactive shamanic ceremony. The evening starts with interactive drumming, includes live musicians playing a variety of instruments and a chorus of women chanting mysterious Celtic and Nordic melodies. The show culminates with a shamanic ceremony in which everyone on the audience can receive a blessing from the Reindeer. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)