Ana Hernandez

Welcome to pics and bits of my work life: deep play to enable us to deepen our communities invite and include absolutely everybody. We'll sing, talk, listen deeply and feel our way to our most rooted presence. The possibilities are as endless as the stars. There will be singing, praying, deep laughter and insight enough for everyone to leave their comfort zones and walk  together. After all, we're all just walking each other home.Scroll to the bottom of the page and more will load: tunes, videos, pics, stories, quotes.

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Banquet of Love: New Album!

Ana Hernandez - Banquet of Love, Vol. I: Big Chants Project (hearnow.com)

A dream team of jazz players and choral singers in chants to renew and strengthen, nurture, and deepen spirit. God within, between, and among us all. Click the link above for clips and ALL the links. 

Ike Sturm – bass Chris Dingman – vibraphone Laila Biali – piano Mike Webster – sax Melissa Stylianou – vocals Chanda Rule – vcals  Steve Rosser – vocals Zaneta Sykes – percussion Ana Hernández – vocals, shruti box, guitar Mark Dann – all recording, editing, mixing, and bass The Adult and Youth Choirs of Church of the Heavenly Rest, Mollie Nichols, director, Prince Nyatanga, asst. director. Part studio, part live recording at St. Peter’s Lutheran, NYC.

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Banquet of Love, Vol. I: Big Chants Project

Take the best jazz players and vocalists, adult and children's choirs, a few chants, a protest song, and so much gratitude, and you get a Banquet of Love! Enjoy!

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Here’s a sweet covid version of my Guide us Waking chant that was just sent to me last week. I’m hoping to record it on Vol. II of the Big Chants Project, underway soon. 

Stay tuned for Banquet of Love: Vol. I of the Big Chants Project, coming any day now! 

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This came in the mail today. Diocese of Ohio Convocation in February 2018. It was in Sandusky with Heidi Kim and more than 370 people from 52 parishes. Nice people, and some good singing!

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Support the March for Our Lives!

Watch the Live Stream on Tumblr! Sat. March 24, 2018

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Written for a friend who just got a new hip. I expect it'll work for knees, and whenever you might need to release your sense of struggle. I'm especially fond of "gle" as a sung syllable.

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I think it's about inviting someone into the question with you. The invitation that doesn't demand a specific action, but liberates...

Ann Hamilton

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Generating Church through Sound

I teach community singing and chanting as a spiritual practice. I travel around the country meeting and singing with people in different denominations, teaching

Here’s a post I wrote for the Bearings Blog last week. Enjoy.

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So grateful for each and every collaborator! Kids Heavenly Rest Yourh Choir, with Prince Nyatanga (their leader), some of the men of the choir, Mike Webster, Carl Hausman, the top of Ike’s head above me, and Chanda Rule with blue head Also, so many orchids!. St. Peter’s Lutheran 54th and Lex, NYC. 5/21/2017 We’re still working on this album. Contact me if you’d like to help! [email protected]

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Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to the cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.

Carl Sagan 

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“Nobody was prepared for this. There are now 700,000 people trying to figure out how to survive in the middle of nowhere. A few months ago, this entire area was a national forest reserve. It was covered with trees. But the refugees had nothing when they arrived, so they started cutting the trees for fuel. Then they moved on to shrubs. Now they’ve dug up all the roots so there’s nothing left but loose soil. It’s too dangerous for them to go home so we’re trying to make the best of the situation. Almost all the refugees are living in plastic tents right now. They’re extremely vulnerable. So we’ve designed sturdy bamboo houses and we’re building them as fast as we can. We want to finish as many as possible before the monsoon season arrives.” —————————————— This week I’m sharing a series of first hand accounts from Rohingya refugees. Alongside these stories, we’ll meet a few of the wonderful people who are working to make the situation better. This is Immad– a construction coordinator for the humanitarian organization OBAT Helpers BD. Immad is a hero of our tale because he designed the bamboo houses that we are currently raising money to build. Our campaign has raised over $500,000 so far. That’s enough to build nearly 800 houses. Because each house can hold a family of six, that’s enough to shelter nearly 5,000 people. A pretty remarkable achievement, but there are still nearly a million refugees without homes. So if you haven’t already, please consider donating here: http://bit.ly/2H0w5lm

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If you can, please do. Giving is receiving.

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“I looked out my window and saw smoke coming from the village across the river. At first I thought it was a casual fire. But then I heard shooting, and I saw people were trying to swim across the river. We knew that our village would be next. I grabbed what I could carry and ran toward the mountain. We hid in the bushes all day. There were thousands of us on that mountain. Anyone who tried to talk was shushed. We looked down on our village and watched them burn our houses. Before they burned mine, they carried everything out. They took all my furniture. They took two hundred bags of lentils. I’m a schoolteacher, but I owned a lot of farmland. I paid taxes on my land for decades. I have all my paperwork. I have all my receipts. But they took it all from me. I wasn’t able to bring a single grain of rice with me. These papers are all I have. They are worthless now. But my hope is that one day they’ll have value again.” ————————————— This week I’m sharing a series of first hand accounts from Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya are a persecuted ethnic minority who have been violently evicted from Myanmar by Buddhist extremists. Over the past year, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven from their homes and are now residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Their living conditions are already dire, and monsoon season is approaching. As we share their stories, we are raising money to help build inexpensive bamboo houses for these refugees. (They are currently living in plastic tents.) Bamboo houses can be built for $600 a piece, and we’ve raised enough for nearly 1000 so far. Please consider donating: http://bit.ly/2H0w5lm

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There is work to be done, people. If you can help, remember that giving is receiving.

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Practice is fun. Random pics from the May 21st 2017 live recording session at St. Peter’s on 54th St., NYC. There are so many people missing from these pictures: Ike Sturm, Chris Dingman, Mark Dann, Mollie Nichols, two whole choirs, the rest of the world, etc...

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People. I think that it is important to care as much for others as we care about ourselves.

Ruby Sales

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Enedina Vasquez makes me smile just thinking about her. 

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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King

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At Enedina’s house!