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 #628 is an hour of visionary acoustic improvised music played by The Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, ukulele, acoustic guitar, mandolin and Native flute, Bob Sherwood on piano and Craig Harris on Native drum and congas. Recorded live on a sultry July day in 2025 at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts. Today’s show begins with the appropriately summery “Double Winged Dragonfly”, a sun-soaked summer dusk song with an appealingly languid, drifting structure. “Celebrate Diversity” is a development of our first piece with a gorgeous Native flute coda and a fine, inspiring lyric from Mariam and “Bring It All Back” is a light, skipping folk song led by Mariam’s rustic mandolin and bluesy piano from Bob. “Queens Of The Forest” is a lush, languid, mysterious ballad with gorgeous vocals and slowly unfurling, drifting piano and “Let’s Embrace Our Grace” is a beautifully developed piece with a fine vocal, driving congas and a graceful power. “Circle Of Light”, originally recorded for Mariam’s “Gaea Star Crystal” album is stretched and repurposed into a sprightly, minimalist modern gospel song. We complete today’s hour with “A Bevy Of Goddesses”, a summer forest tale told by Mariam in conversation with her soaring Native flute, fundamental Native drum and emotional, R&B-inflected piano from Bob.
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #627 is an hour of inspired, visionary acoustic improvised music played by The Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, shruti box, 4- and 8-string ukulele, acoustic guitar and dulcimer, Bob Sherwood on piano and Craig Harris in Native drum and congas. Recorded live at the end of June 2025 at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts, today’s summery session begins with the reverent, impressionistic “Orange Rays”, an affecting, powerful raga featuring a dynamic chord setup and fine vocals and Native flute passages. “Summer Nights” is a dancing gospel-folk reel driven by Mariam’s chiming 8-string ukulele “Oscar”, dynamic congas from Craig and Bob’s minimalist, assertive piano. “We Are Spirits United” is a sprawling, trance-like minor folk song with a gorgeous, languid vocal from Mariam and “Crystalline Temples” is a fantastical journey through the many crystals of the Earth, a powerful lecture from Mariam in the form of a beautiful, solemn song with heartbeat Native drum and driving piano and ukulele rhythm. “We Know” is today’s dulcimer summer song, a steadily building run through the forest that turns into a joyful, abandoned sprint liberally decorated with kinetic, powerful Native flute work from Mariam. “Shamiyaya” from the “Release” LP is presented in a driving, virtuoso pop performance with a fine vocal and tight ukulele chords and we close today’s show with the earthy blues of “Transform”, a rock-R&B workout with rocking vocals and barrelhouse piano.
Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com