Musica Matrix

Musica Matrix Musica Matrix is dedicated to engaging youth and community by promoting an understanding of Renaissance and Medieval Music in Southern Oregon.

We are a nonprofit based in Ashland, Oregon dedicated to Early Music. We offer community ensembles, youth programs and concerts featuring world renowned musicians.

One of my costumes from 'back in the day'. 😆
10/24/2024

One of my costumes from 'back in the day'. 😆

10/23/2024

Only the words of Joni Mitchell Rise above the current din and is as topical as if written yesterday. I guess that's what makes her such a superb artist: Anyway, her words still, for me, ring true.

"Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
A room full of glasses
He says "Your notches, liberation doll"
And he chains me with that serpent
To that Ethiopian wall

Anima rising
Queen of Queens
Wash my guilt of Eden
Wash and balance me
Anima rising
Uprising in me tonight
She's a vengeful little goddess
With an ancient crown to fight

Truth goes up in vapors
The steeples lean
Winds of change patriarchs
Snug in your bible belt dreams
God goes up the chimney
Like childhood Santa Claus
The good slaves love the good book
A rebel loves a cause

I'm leaving on the 1:15
You're darn right
Since I was seventeen
I've had no one over me
He says "Anima rising
So what
Petrified wood process
Tall timber down to rock"

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
He says "We walked on the moon
You be polite"
Don't let up the sorrow
Death and birth and death and birth
He says "Bring that bottle kindly
And I'll pad your purse
I've got a head full of quandary
And a mighty mighty thirst"

Seventeen glasses
Rhine wine
Milk of the Madonna
Clandestine
He don't let up the sorrow
He lies and he cheats
It takes a heart like Mary's these days
When your man gets weak"

My stylish new Winter wrap.  😊
10/11/2024

My stylish new Winter wrap. 😊

Our crowd has still not found us at the Noble Fox, so please help us get the word out that we have moved! Thanks!
09/25/2024

Our crowd has still not found us at the Noble Fox, so please help us get the word out that we have moved! Thanks!

The Black Sheep Irish Session is moving to the Noble Fox this coming Sunday:
08/29/2024

The Black Sheep Irish Session is moving to the Noble Fox this coming Sunday:

The tone is superb. I'm sure I don't deserve them, but I am mightily glad I have them. Well worth the wait, and will be ...
08/20/2024

The tone is superb. I'm sure I don't deserve them, but I am mightily glad I have them. Well worth the wait, and will be an inspiration to me in undertaking this breathtaking instrument. I would be nowhere with it without both Murray and Kevin Carr's guidance. Nothing like getting started on the right foot! 😍

They are beautifully crafted, and all the silver work is his handy work.
08/20/2024

They are beautifully crafted, and all the silver work is his handy work.

Murray Huggins has created the most beautiful set of uilleann pipes for me. I am thrilled. Here are some photos.
08/20/2024

Murray Huggins has created the most beautiful set of uilleann pipes for me. I am thrilled. Here are some photos.

Thank you Holly Dillemuth and ashland.news for the photo of our Irish session at the Black Sheep. ♥️☘️
08/12/2024

Thank you Holly Dillemuth and ashland.news for the photo of our Irish session at the Black Sheep. ♥️☘️

Need I say more?
06/09/2024

Need I say more?

A video interview featuring Musica Matrix founder Pat O’Scannell. The  Stories of Southern Oregon project documents Sout...
12/26/2020

A video interview featuring Musica Matrix founder Pat O’Scannell. The Stories of Southern Oregon project documents Southern Oregon's heritage and people who are changing our world here in Southern Oregon.

Pat O'Scannel lives and breathes music. Her preferred instrument is the viola da gama, but she's accomplished on so many many instruments. O'Scannell first c...

Concert This Saturday, Oct 18 at 7PM - The Airs de Cour - 17th Century French Songs for Lute and Voice with James Bishop...
10/15/2019

Concert This Saturday, Oct 18 at 7PM - The Airs de Cour - 17th Century French Songs for Lute and Voice with James Bishop-Edwards and Pat O’Scannell.

Free hors d’ouvres. Wine available

Ashland Springs Hotel Crystal Room
Saturday, October 18, 2019 – 7:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 PM

Tickets: $25, under 21 FREE
Check, cash or credit card at the door.

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Ashland, OR
97520

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The mission of Musica Matrix is to bring Renaissance and Medieval music – the music of Shakespeare and before Shakespeare – to a wider audience and to introduce the community, especially children and young people, to Early Music through school programs, community ensemble groups and concerts in Southern Oregon and beyond.

We are a nonprofit based in Ashland, Oregon. We offer community ensembles, youth programs and concerts featuring world renowned musicians.