2025 Headliners
Eireann’s Call
Eireann’s Call is the latest creation from vocalist David Doersch and percussionist Cat Doersch, familiar to pagan audiences as the forces behind long time favorite Celtic band, Coyote Run. After traveling the world and absorbing every aspect of Celtic and pagan culture, Cat and David landed in the mountains of western North Carolina and conjured a new six member ensemble that invokes the spirit of everything Celtic while rocking a world music beat. This band takes listeners on a journey that is new and timeless all at once. Racing fiddle tunes, powerful bagpipe melodies, soaring vocals, rocked up tribal drumming and wicked grooves - are all set into enchanting arrangements that transport audiences to ancient places of magic and myth. Prepare to be swept away by a rocking soundscape that invokes the spirit of Ireland, Scotland, and everything Celtic. Follow the Call!
Check out their music at www.eireannscall.com.
Byron Ballard
H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a western NC native, teacher, folklorist and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at Appalachian Studies Association, Conference on Current Pagan Studies, ConVocation, Florida Pagan Gathering, Gaia’s Womb, Glastonbury Goddess Conference, Hexfest, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Pagan Unity Festival, Sacred Feminine Rising, Sacred Space, Scottish Pagan Federation, Sisters Rising, Starwood, Templefest, and others. She is senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC. Her essays are featured in several anthologies and she writes a regular column for SageWoman Magazine. Her books include “Staubs and Ditchwater” (2012), “Asfidity and Mad-Stones” (2015), “Embracing Willendorf” (2017), “Earth Works” (2018), “Roots, Branches, and Spirits” (2021). “Seasons of a Magical Life” (2021). “Small Magics” (Fall, 2025) and “Feral Church” (2025). She designed the Revelator, an Appalachian oracle card deck and her upcoming works include “The Ragged Wound: Tending the Soul of Appalachia,” a cookbook from Wyrd Mountain, “A Book of Feral Prayers” and a musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Learn more at: www.myvillagewitch.com.
Jamie Della
Jamie Della is a priestess, healer, Xicana witch, and creativity mentor. She is the author of nine books, including most recently The Book of Spells: The Magick of Witchcraft, and is the author of the Herbal Journeys column in Witches & Pagans magazine. She has a writer’s spirit and a faery soul, and she loves to teach, create, throw pottery, and get out in nature. Her honors include “Best Reference Book” from the International Latino Book Awards for the Latino Writers & Journalists and “Book of the Month” for Rogelia’s House of Magic by Las Comadres Para Americas. Jamie Della launched the Every Last Drop series: Exposés on the LA/Eastern Sierra water wars.
Learn more at jamiedella.com.
David Shi
David Shi is a shamanic worker and folk magic practitioner who primarily engages in traditional North Asian forms of shamanism. He is primarily of Manchurian descent, but can also trace ancestry to Mongolian, Chinese, Korean, as well as a little Tungus Siberian and ancient Central Asian Turkic heritage as well. Raised in a household that incorporated both Southeast Siberian and North Chinese practices, David has dedicated his spare time to the study of the spiritual traditions of his ancestors and of greater Eurasia. Recognized as a sagaasha/ongodtengertei, a future shaman prior to initiation, among both Mongolian and Korean shamans, David’s practices are deeply rooted in spirit work in which ancestral and land spirits are called to empower all workings. David’s readings incorporate a combination of Tarot, Runes, Bones, Jaw-harp, as well as Mongolian stone divination (known as Kumalak in Turkic Central Asia).
David is the author of the new book “Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanism”, and currently resides in Manhattan, New York where he occasionally provides spiritual services, products, and workshops to his immediate communities. Follow him on Instagram @davidjshi311.
Yeshe Matthews
Yeshe Meryemana Matthews is Mandala Priestess & Sibyl of Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple. She is avowed and ordained in several different Mystery Traditions, including Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, plant and spirit shamanism, Ifa, Mayan Cosmology, and Goddess Spirituality. With a Master's degree in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College, she has studied women's mysticism and matriarchal communities for over twenty years and teaches in the Temple’s Priestess and Sibyl Training programs. She co-owns, with her beloved husband Albert, The Sacred Well metaphysical shop where she offers Readings, Ancestor Guidance Sessions, Sibyl Sessions, and more. You can learn more about Yeshe’s projects by visiting www.priestessyeshe.com.