
Thursday & Friday
11am&11pmET
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour with Mariam Massaro
On the Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour, singer/songwriter Mariam Massaro and composer/producer Robert Sherwood collaborate with Craig Harris and special guests to produce a unique live musical experience where pure inspiration is interwoven with dynamic and unusually sensitive musical expression. The show features completely original songs created in the moment from Mariam’s inspirations, often from dreams and feelings based on current life experiences here and throughout the world as well as from the beauty of nature, blended with intergalactic channelings from her Twin Flame lover Ashento. Starting in January 2012 The Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour has attracted over 450,000 listeners from all corners of the globe. As The Gaea Star Band enters their fourth year they’re excited with the release of their latest album “Who We Are” on Applehead/Sony Films and Records. “Who We Are” is a unique collection of tracks pulled from the last couple of years of shows that reflect an upbeat, original spirit with a global medicine rock flavor.
Broadcasts Weekly Thursday & Friday 11am/11pmET
Mariam’s Musical Inspiration This Week
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #624 is an hour of dynamic, wide-ranging visionary acoustic improvisational music played by the Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, harmonica, 4- and 8-string ukuleles, Celtic harp and standard and Nashville-strung acoustic guitars, Bob Sherwood on piano and bass guitar and Craig Harris on congas and Native drum. Recorded live at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in early June of 2025, today’s how begins with the meditative, relaxed “Let’s Flow On”, a spacious song characterized by Mariam’s high-string acoustic guitar and flowing piano from Bob. “Celebrate Wonder” is a beautiful, reverent raga-like piece with soaring Native flute and beautiful vocals from Mariam and “Behold The Mystery” is a mysterious, mystical piece built around Mariam’s chiming Celtic harp and prayerful vocal and Native flute. “Oh The Flower Of Life” is a pretty, delicate, harmonically austere song featuring Mariam’s crystalline 8-string ukulele and a mesmerizing conga performance from Craig and “On A Mission Of Greatness Serving Unflinchingly” is a bluesy manifesto featuring rocking overdubs of bass guitar, Native drum, harmony vocals and rasping blues harmonica. “Flowers Of Delight” is a lush, unhurried re-imagining of Mariam’s beautiful, reverent track from her “Release” LP and we finish today’s hour with the hard-rocking, harmonically mysterious, shaded weather adventure story “Froggies On The Road”.
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #623 is a compelling hour of improvised visionary acoustic music played by the Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, 4- ad 8-string ukuleles and acoustic guitar, Bob Sherwood on piano and Craig Harris on Native drum and congas. Recorded live at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in early June of 2025, today’s show begins with the pretty, pastoral “It’s A Brand-New Day To Reach Out”, an upbeat folk song driven by clever, busy piano from Bob and tight, driving rhythmic 8-string ukulele from Mariam supporting her wide-ranging, expressive vocal. “As We Sail Along” is a sparse, spacious folk rock workout featuring another virtuosic improv-heavy vocal from Mariam before morphing into a lengthy, gorgeous art-rock workout with exemplary work from the whole combo. “Rays Of Light” is a pretty, bucolic folk waltz providing a stage for Mariam’s powerful melody and “Back Us Up Oh Angels” is a swinging, eccentric blues with fat-fingered piano from Bob, rolling train congas from Craig supporting Mariam’s hyper-energized blues vocal, “Gather Together” is a stately, formal opera-like peace with throbbing heartbeat drums from Craig, instrumental in creating the modern classical by-way-of-Native vibe of this affecting song. “The Mystery Of Life” is a relaxed, hallucinatory cloud of a song with an evocative, vulnerable, almost child-like melody from Mariam and “May Abundance Keep On Flowing” has an Eastern European feel with an arrangement of ukulele, congas, piano and Mariam’s shaded, minor vocal melody. “Let The Voice Of Creation Sing Through All Nations” is a beautiful, inspired folk song from Mariam with a classic, deeply emotional construction and we finish today’s show with the wide-ranging “Keep On Going Around and Around With Your Floodgates Open”, a folk-rock journey that opens with virtuosic, dancing Native flute and moves through gospel, jazz and soul before closing with a gorgeous extended coda in which Mariam soars free on her Native flute.
Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com