It was remarkable. We were backstage listening to this incredible music unfold, getting a chance to hear Supreme Master’s poetry. It was just remarkable, it was, again, I think it was really striking to us to be involved with someone who has that kind of artistic integrity that I mentioned, but it also had this deep, very powerful message, which was able to get behind it artistically as well. So, it was a beautiful presentation of a really beautiful sentiment and really beautiful ideas, and it was great to be involved with something like that. Participating in an event like “One World...of Peace through Music” kind of opens our eyes to the possibility that music has its universal language.
I think it’s something that we all believe in, personally because certainly it’s something that brought us together from the four corners of the globe and gave us a common language that we could work with just as a band, but being able to be involved in an event like that, where you really start to think about music as this force for change and a force for peace, something that could bring people together and unite them as a common force for good. It’s a shame we live in a world where that’s not all already a given reality where this is something we have to work towards, but I think it’s something we’re all willing to work towards, and certainly, we’ve discovered that our music makes us all laugh, it brings us together in our own way to celebrate together, to have a good time together, to forget about some of the cares and stresses of the world, if that’s something we can help other people experience, I think we’ve done our job as musicians.
~ Stephen Wehmeyer, Co-Founder of Gaelic Storm Band
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