Justin Ancheta is a unique Musician & Environmentalist that uses music and social interaction to teach cultural practices that can enhance the harmony between humanity and the environment. Booking contact: justinancheta7@gmail.com
Merry Christmas and I hope you have an abundant new year of revelation and revolution in your life. Thank you for keeping in contact with all of these music projects and creations I have been working with. 2011 is an exciting year for me. I am focused and transforming into visions I have had a decade ago for myself. It is quite a unique experience to be in and I want to share and keep you up to date with new findings I come across in life. Please share with me yours as well, as I am finding that I am not the only one in this time being showered with fast learnings and connections. Share on my facebook.com/jancheta2 - Here is the wrap:
So many things happening. New CD in the works, Soulgraffiti.info up and running, new Band, collaborations, shows, and amazing learnings in health and sustainability. Thanks to the wide spreading and growing community of music and health innovators, I am excited to help promote the strengthening cultures onto a website dedicated to producing the best ways to keep these in the forefront of our lives. Please RSVP (justinancheta7@gmail.com) if you want to come to a gathering holistically approaching music and life on December 26th in Auburn, California. Please bring a food to share and a donation for the great musicians that I will be gathering together.
I am abundantly blessed with so many amazing people. Thank you for being a part of this dream.
Please take a look at January schedule and come out to as many shows as possible and get involved with us! We are looking for bookers, promoters, management, and Friends that care.
Do not boldly bait yourself for failure by relinquishing your deepest power to provoke your Own spirit. Cradled Duende lying sadly beneath an oak tree. Sit up right afterwards and release your inhibitions. If by any means you cannot find your spirit close by, then look harder. This moment is as special as any. The praise and excitement you find in your day is your power, your richness, your health, your LIFE. No one can say it is for sale or costs a dime. If you think your home, food, life, health, consciousness is in peril because of finding that this time is relinquishing these rights to walk freely on this earth – Then Stand Up and do something!
Make your body wiggle with excitement or glee that YOU are passion. You have been birthed on this earth and faced treacherous boundaries of the unknown to find yourself! – here. We – are – human. Stay human and lets find this moment together.
I met Paul from Rock The Bike randomly over 3 times while busking in the city of San Francisco over 4 years ago. I have heard that once you run into someone over three times it is a good idea to stop and get to know that person and see what magic can come from the meeting. Since then I have been involved in multiple Bicycle Music Festivals of San Francisco, toured Utah by bicycle with Shake Your Peace, and joined the Pleasant Revolution in France and Spain. It didn’t all happen at once. I had to warm up to the idea of working my ass off to get to shows. Once I realized that it was enjoyable and there was time to talk and spend time with friends, I found myself looking forward to rides through the mission district of San Francisco, or looking forward to the next day of climbing the coastal hills by the Mediterranean Sea. Every day can be an adventure and a new chapter can be written. I sit writing this while coming back from a show in the east bay by bart, looking at the orange Mundo 500 Electric bike that has helped me transition to being one step closer to carbon neutral.
I am excited to see the future collaborations of musicians and bike culture, spreading and expanding the web of connections that help foster true health and prosperity in every age, gender, and size of a person. The advantage of using a bike for me is the ease of mobility. I always get front row parking, my overhead is literally 1/10 of an automobile, and it brings like-minded folks together to have a good time.
From the beginning stages of my involvement, being asked to play the first BMF of San Francisco 5 years ago and play the first slot at 9 in the morning at the Alemany farm, as well as doing the bike tour to Utah with Cello Joe and Gabe Dominguez of Shake Your Peace, I soon found myself finding more and more close friends in the community that were genuinely great people. I got broken in with a 50 mile ride in Utah that ended up stopping at a camp-out at 2 a.m. in the morning. I thought I’d hit hell boot camp at that moment. However, it was all gravy from there. As hard as it can get, like those days, most are filled with laughing and having a good time with friends and seeing gorgeous views of mountains, valleys, and nature; so much better then the monotonous freeway you see with cars, traffic, cement, and urban sprawl while driving anywhere in the United States. I’ll say it now: I have a vision to help create touring bike trails that can be as expansive as the automobile roads today. They would take up less room, nature would have a chance to flourish around them, and it would be Epic to enjoy such beauty with friends close by.
I remember a great moment from the Spain portion of the Pleasant Revolution. After riding up the face of the Pyrenees mountains, and then back down the south side, winding through back trails of trees, rivers, rocks, and thick forests with mushrooms growing in every nook and cranny, we came across the valley. It expanded our horizon almost as far as the Mediterranean ocean off in the far distance. The grasslands leading to the coast were here. Then all of a sudden a wooded area would appear and we would be back in the tick of a forest area, this time with a huge river rushing by on our left side. When I got to the river there were already 5 naked revolutionaries laughing and bathing in the fresh water. I quickly parked my bike and joined in the frigid dip in the rushing river. It was so cold I’d have to get out quick, but it felt so good I had to jump in two more times. These are the moments that we forget about. Our ancestors had this freedom that we so rarely experience as a culture. This I will not take for granted and protect. I will put this as a priority in my life to share with others. Viva La Revolucion!
