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Shawn Gallaway
By Daniel Crothers
From Tennessee comes Shawn Gallaway to promote the New Energy Movement
at Unity World Healing Center in Lake Oswego, making a difference
in one city at a time.
Gallaway‘s mission is empowering people to take caring, positive
action in their lives and in the world right now. He accomplishes
this with resounding clarity through his music and art. As a multi-talented
guitarist, singer-songwriter and visual artist, Gallaway weaves music,
song and painting into a richly textured experience that calls for
enlightened activism.
Gallaway’s relationship with music began as a junior in high school
when he was gifted a guitar for Christmas. After about six months
of lessons, he discovered his love of writing songs. While completing
his major in Business Management at Babson College, Gallaway continued
to nurture his passion for music. He formed a band, playing local
clubs and parties, and eventually moved to New York to learn the
music business and become a songwriter.
Nashville became Gallaway’s home base, from which he spent the next 20 years
writing, recording and performing across the nation in venues including
the Broadway Music Hall in Seattle, Portland’s Living Enrichment
Center, Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, N.C. and Nashville’s
Belcourt Theatre. He also became a successful composer with E.M.I.
and Sony Tree publishing credits.
During his time in Nashville, Gallaway also began painting. He took
a course from a teacher who believed that there is a master artist
inside everyone, thus freeing the minds and expectations of her students.
Gallaway began to use painting as a tool for healing and self-expression
that carried over into writing songs as well. He found that each
medium complimented and empowered the other.
Gallaway explains, “I started painting and drawing while recovering
from a bout with depression and eventually turned to visual art as
the means to restore my sanity and to deepen into the exploration
of my Spirit. As the process evolved, my work became more specific,
revealing images that I had previously been unable to vocalize or
turn into songs. As I began to heal, words and music began to flow
freely…at first a trickle, then a stream, then a waterfall of song.”
In 2005, Gallaway relocated to the mountains of Asheville, N.C.
to live the dream of creating his music and art as a vehicle to empower
individuals to joyful, loving action. He continues to perform his
music nationally, presents I Choose Love: The Experience workshops
and inspires audiences as a motivational speaker.
I Choose Love: The Experience is a multimedia production
that follows the soul’s healing journey through pain, confusion and
struggle to emerge into the freedom of self-awareness, purpose, compassion
and joy. It includes songs, stories, dance, drama, photography, computer
animation, film and a series of original paintings that brings together
the love of eight individuals as they transform their fears into
a beautiful mosaic of forgiveness, peace and healing. This theatrical
piece is currently in pre-production.
In his latest release, Love Will Overcome, Gallaway moves from
the individual healing focus of his previous release I Choose Love,
to address global healing and restoration. He says, “It is about
raising awareness and empowering people to take action.” These songs
highlight healing in the peace movement, the environment, the political
system, communities and relationships and are delivered with a passionate
plea for loving action. This recording features theme songs written
for organizations including the Peace Alliance, New Energy Movement,
Go Gratitude and the Satyana Institute.
In the daze of great global angst and unrest, bombarded with fear-filled
messages of war, partisan politics, poverty, racism, peak oil, weapons
of mass destruction, hurricanes, tsunamis, global warming, governmental
corruption, greed, pandemic disease and terrorist threats, many feel
the foundations we have created are beginning to crumble. A world
of hope and promise is changing and what’s to come is uncertain.
Millions of people world-wide are awakening to knowing that opportunity
exists upon the horizon and are called to be a part of this spiritual
evolution.
I Choose Love, The Experience is a dynamic, power-filled,
multi-media theatrical production encompassing art, music, dance,
photography, film and drama. Designed to facilitate a compelling
creative process for change and healing, I
Choose Love, The Experience chronicles the evolution
of a diverse group of individuals willing to open their hearts and
minds to visions of peace for their fearful worlds. This heroine’s
journey made manifest, reaches out, inviting everyone to face and
embrace the darkness and light within themselves to heal their deepest
wounds and become a catalyst for conscious change both individually
and collectively.
I Choose Love, The Experience echoes hope to all peoples
of the earth by utilizing the tools of acceptance, compassion, forgiveness
and love. Culminating in a passionate celebration, this theatrical
mosaic cultivates a deeper sense of connection, gratitude, and respect
in and for all. I
Choose Love, The Experience is a brilliant thread
of pristine creative light, weaving the fabric of love into a dazzling
display of color, sound and movement, inspiring healing and ultimately
raising the consciousness on the planet. It speaks passionately of
a grand awakening and the yearning of a people calling for change. I Choose Love, The Experience is a vibrant
vehicle that gently offers the masses a clear and present choice.
Love or fear, what do you choose?
I Choose Love, The Experience is
a touring production that can be duplicated and performed, filmed,
Webcasts and televised in cities around the world simultaneously.
The premier production will be in Asheville, NC, with anticipation
of moving into larger media markets. HOME
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