Discover the musicians, hosts and facilitators at the Albion Gathering.

Kim Butts

Kim is a forager, wild crafter and natural health She has spent the last 8 years living in community, on land and off grid. She holds a deep connection to the land, the old ways and enjoys simple living. Most of her off grid life has been devoted to leaning about foraging, wild medicine & crafts. 

Kim is a trained naturopathic nutritionist, runs regular foraging and wild craft workshops and can mainly be found in the woods or a hedgerow. She is passionate about bringing people back to connection with the land, wild and foraged foods and crafting with her own unique Welsh Wisdom.

The Northern Poet

Luke is a wandering poet from the rugged lands of Britain. For many a moon, he has wandered the ancient sites scattered across the globe, seeking the wisdom and magic hidden within our long lost pagan cultures. But it wasn't until he returned to the misty isles that he was truly able to stand in my purpose.

"For it was here that I remembered that nothing is ever truly lost and with dedication, belief and presence all that has been forgotten remains. I have heard the songs whispered in the whirling winds. I have bathed in the healing waters of the icy mountain springs. And with your time and presence, even if only for a moment, I invite you to dance on this journey of remembering with me."

Jessica of the ways is a Rose Albion priestess who bridges earth roots and the celestial sky, harmonising them at the centre. Through her alchemy and healing practice, she weaves together nature, spirit, and matter, guiding individuals toward inner peace, unconditional love, and interconnectedness.

Living at the Heart of the rose line in Lancashire, Jessica has been working and connecting with the Albion energies for a number of years and brings the rose heart frequency to all she offers. Having been a grid worker for over 14 years working at many sacred sites she now specialises and focuses on those ley lines here in Albion.

Her greatest prayer is to help harmonise these lands and once again become unified with all beings so the one heart frequency can be emitted from these Isles across the Earth.

Gareth Jones

Gareth is a Member of the Angelsey Order of Druids with a Degree in Religion & philosophy and a Masters in Celtic Christianity. From a young age he has had a fascination with Welsh history and the alternative history of Britain.  Following the works of people like Wilson and Blackett. With a deep knowledge of the  Celtic centres of ancient learning at Llantwit Major and the pre-roman period. 

He is currently working on a book that compares the characters in the mabinogi with other mythology around the world. As a past life regression practitioner he is passionate about  the journey of the soul, Celtic wisdom and its place in the modern world.

Ed Furlow

Ed is the founder of S33D, a living experiment in reconnecting people with the wisdom of the Earth through mapping and honouring ancient trees. His work weaves together technology, storytelling, and embodied presence, inviting people to step out of abstraction and back into relationship, with land, with lineage, and with one another.

At a time when humanity stands at a pivotal threshold, Ed believes that our ancient trees offer more than symbolism, they offer nervous system regulation, deep time perspective, and a quiet recalibration of what it means to belong. Beneath their canopies, the modern mind softens, the breath deepens, and small, grounded choices become possible again.

Through S33D and the growing community around it, he explores how simple acts, mapping a tree, gathering in council, tending seeds, can ripple outward. In making these small shifts together, he believes we can gently, steadily transform the trajectory of our shared future.

Ken Shapley

Ken is a 61-year-old elder bard and Awenidd who has partaken of Ceridwen's cauldron for over 30 years. Since childhood, the world of lucid dreaming was stronger than waking life, a gift that fueled his lifelong exploration of how consciousness, sound, and magical intent work together.

An initiated bard through OBOD, Ken has studied with shamans, monks, and master storytellers across Japan, Canada, India, and Scotland, weaving together the threads of First Nations ceremony, Tibetan Buddhist practice, and ancient sound healing. After decades walking the paths of other traditions, he discovered that returning to his Welsh Celtic roots felt like finding "his bunch of nutters", a people cozy with one foot in each world, where humour dances with ceremony and creativity flows like the sacred rivers of the land.

Born in Llantwit Major, Wales, ancient home of eternal choirs, Ken bridges generations as a healer, musician, poet, and maker of wands and staffs. The Awen has called him home, and he brings the wisdom of an elder who knows the Bardic path from deep, lived experience.

Ra de SOL

Originally from the Iberian Peninsula, raised in a family of witches. A passionate herbalist, traveler, and researcher, she draws inspiration from her deep connection to the earth and the wisdom it offers.

Ritualising is her way of celebrating life, through being present in the moment, appreciating the small details, and weaving a bridge between the ancestral traditions and the modern times.

Anton Toem

From a Breton family of 15th generation, he grew up among the stones, the legends and the myths. A traveller since young age, Anton immersed himself in cultures around the world and the nature that inspired them.  It was that same nature that teach him about cycles, life, death and even music.

He bring a intuitive way of reclaiming our sovereignty as well has our ancestral heritage.

Emma Blake-Jones

Emma Blake-Jones is an Earthwalker gridworker, channel & spaceholder with 15 years  experience of gatherings, retreats and pilgramages. Since 2022 she has been deeply guided to walk the sacred lands of Wales from Llantwit Major to Ynys Mon / Angelsey  hearing the call of Awen & the Red Dragons Path.  Pilgramaging through our sacred sites and springs on a path of deep remembering, activations and weavings that have gone on to take her on a journey with the dragon lines and celtic energy to many sacred sites throughout the UK and further afield including Delos, Delphi, Egypt & the South of France. 

Through walking, honouring and communing with our sacred lands, ancient sites and springs; stories & song she calls us to the deep remembering of Awen, our Soul songs, the ancestors and native wisdoms to heal our roots, plant seeds of Unity for future generations.  Reclaiming our Voices, Singing the song lines and activating a new time of Unity. It is her deep knowing that what we heal and activate in these Celtic Lands we activate in all lands and for humanity.

Awen Calls has been born out of this guidance and vision  and in 2026 the call to Albion to Ingnitie the flames and prayer of Unity in these lands and beyond.

Victoria Folkheart

Victoria is a seasoned practitioner who has held over 200 ceremonies and rituals, developing a deep understanding of spiritual science and the evolution of the human soul. With extensive knowledge of how bardic stories and sound healing work together to unlock soul memories buried beneath many lifetimes, she specialises in safely reconnecting people with their subconscious mind and ancestral wisdom.

Through her unique approach combining Welsh traditions with modern sound therapy, hypnosis, and ritual, Victoria guides participants to access these deeper layers of consciousness, facilitating profound soul growth and expanded awareness of self in a nurturing, supportive environment.

Stella Marie

Stella is a Welsh artist, storyteller & facilitator and ceremonialist. Her work responds to the stories within the landscape and her local ecology in South Wales, while exploring the enchanting world of Britain's ancient history, guiding people through story and embodiment into a deeper relationship with their landscape, their voice, and their creative potential, seeking wisdom from the Bardic traditions of Wales and Britain.

This endeavour began when she tapped into her grief and longing for the rich, mythic culture buried within the depths of Wales's and Britain's suppressed historical past. Stella is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Illustration and Animation where her chosen project is focused on deep-mapping her local river, the River Taff, through animistic visual storytelling, researching similar traditions throughout time. Stella's musical history is rooted in underground rap and hip-hop.

John Carstairs

John Carstairs is a Proud Scotsman with Celtic and Norse Ancestry. A trained Whim Hoff Method Instructor and Shamanic worker. John has spent much time walking the lands of his ancestors in Scotland and further afield.

Walking the forests of Europe and Scandinavia with a back pack and a hammock his longest journey taking him on a trek from Stockholm Sweden to Oslo in Norway. Now back in Scotland where he was born and raised. John has a strong knowledge of the the history, story and myths of Scotland and the Celtic lands. In 2026 he has been called to connect with the Albion energies and travel in ritual to each of the celtic lands on the turning of the wheel. His journey has been one of remembering and celebrating his heritage, visiting ancient sites activating the land and honouring our ancestors. This March he visit the final Land of his ancestors to listen to the old ones to place his feet on the soil and to honour his Irish ancestry. 

 "When the land calls and the heart listens we become one. We are the land and the land lives in and through us."