Jewelsong shares original music to inspire personal, spiritual, and global transformation, exploring rich vocal harmonies and evocative acoustic instrumentation. We are lifelong musicians Betsy Bickel, Farrunnissa Rosa, Marilyn Grubbs, and Sofianna Sue-Anne Solem. We have two beautiful CDs - The Beauty We Love (2006) and Everything Real (2012). We sing regularly at faith gatherings, community ceremonies, and special events around the NC Triangle and the Southeast. Jewelsong was born on the beautiful NC Outer Banks on 5 July 2002 at a Sufi retreat. We emerged like Venus from the cosmic ocean of "The Beauty We Love," a phrase from a poem by Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi that is also the title of our first CD. Sofianna, Marilyn, and Farrunnissa sang the first Jewel Song, our arrangement of "100s of Ways" by Tom Tracy and the Dead Poets, inspired by the Rumi poem of the same name. Our first performance was effortless and creatively fulfilling, with the audience responding with gasps of awe and grins of delight. This experience has been the standard for all the songs we create and all the joy and inspiration we endeavor to share. Betsy joined Jewelsong after about a year, initially for 4-part harmony on her powerful song "Stand for Peace." Our voices and styles clicked in a profound way, and we've continued singing together and creating new music together ever since. We've all been vocal and instrumental musicians most of our lives, and the richness of our backgrounds is a never-ending source of shared creativity and innovation. New songs are constantly flowing from the Muse, inspired by different spiritual traditions, by the beauty of Nature, by the sacred trust of caring for the Earth and our human family, and by the Dances of Universal Peace, sacred writings, other songwriters, life, and our own imaginations and insights. We make our homes in the Durham-Chapel Hill area of the North Carolina Triangle.