A communal fire, world music, beautiful gardens, a healing area, and an open source area where you can experience contact with our Sacred Earth – that’s Boom Sacred Fire.

In many traditional societies music serves a healing function. The harp-lute players of West Africa are often associated with healing, and the players act as healers or soothsayers. In traditional Mali society music has a sacred healing role both for the individual and for society. Music is believed to facilitate communication with the ancestors, the spirits, and the Creator, and to harmonize the forces of the visible and the invisible world.
At Sacred Fire the rhythms, harmonies and melodies from all continents create a sense of belonging with the natural pace of the Sacred Earth.

Gardens and bioconstruction are peaceful and fulfilling. In Boom they are like a refuge with flowing lines and carefully placed plants and shadows. It functions as a communal point where everybody can meet, so we suggest some fantasy exercises: write a haiku or simply feel the natural landscape.

At night the fire burns and sweeps across the air with serpent-like shapes. Everybody sits gently around the fire and finds, again, a connection with each other as an unconscious communitarian move. Music starts. And the players fulfill their role again as the neo-healers of Boom, just like their ancestors did all over the world.

BANDS
Airtist (Hungary) www.myspace.com/airtistmusic
Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos (UK) www.myspace.com/alejandrosax
Batida (Portugal/Angola) www.myspace.com/batida
Bela Nafa (Guinea-Bissau/Portugal) www.myspace.com/belanafa
Digital Samsara (Israel) www.myspace.com/digitalsamsara
Ganga Giri (Australia) www.gangagiri.com
Gnawa Al-Baraka (Portugal/Morocco) www.myspace.com/gnawabambara
Green Echo (Portugal) www.myspace.com/littlegreenecho
Hilight Tribe (France) www.hilight-tribe.com
Katharsis (Portugal) www.myspace.com/skatharsis
Kilandukilu (Angola) www.dancasafricanas.com
La Revuelta (Colombia) www.myspace.com/revueltademarimba
LYNX & Janover (USA) www.lynxandjanover.com
Makyo (Japan) www.dakinirecords.com
Mistura Pura (Italia/Portugal) www.misturapura.net
Nação Vira Lata (Portugal) www.myspace.com/nacaoviralata
Olive Tree Dance (Portugal) olivetreedance.com
Terrakota (Portugal) www.myspace.com/terrakota
Tjak (Portugal) www.myspace.com/tjakistan
Tratosphere (Switzerland) www.myspace.com/tratosphere
Tribal Dance (Israel) www.myspace.com/tribaldanceisrael
Tucanas (Portugal) www.myspace.com/tucanas
Velha Gaiteira (Portugal) velhagaiteira.com
WAPAQ (Argentina) www.myspace.com/webwapaq
Wild Marmalade (Australia) www.wildmarmalade.com

DJ Sets / Live Acts
3WIZEMEN (Portugal) www.myspace.com/3wyzemen
Bandulu Dub (Portugal) www.myspace.com/banduludub
DIDGEnBASS (Portugal) www.myspace.com/didgenbass
Mike Stellar (Portugal) www.myspace.com/mikestellar
Riddim Culture (Portugal) www.myspace.com/riddimculturesound
Selecta Alice (Portugal) www.myspace.com/selectaalice

Moments of Prayer
Carlos Pussetto (Argentina)
Oneness Sound (Spain) www.onenessound.com
Projecto Canela (Portugal) www.myspace.com/canelamusic
Raga Duo – Setsuo “Jimi” Miyashita & Junzo Tateiwa (Japan)
Ragi Harminder Singh Nihang (UK/India)
Suzanne Sterling (USA) www.suzannesterling.com/