INTERVIEW WITH TAMBORINE BORRELLI
POWERFUL VOICE, POWERFUL DREAMS
AND AN INVITATION TO A GALA HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
GREAT FOOD-GREAT ENTERTAINMENT

I actually met Tamborine on the phone over many conversations before she decided to move here.
I was immediately struck with her intense passion and vision.
     Since moving here I have watched this amazing ability she has to have a dream and hold a focus so intently, and yet be willing to let it change into something even grander. I noticed that I needed to check in with her pretty often to see what the latest was on any number of projects she was creating, knowing full well that this full-on dream powerfully expressed and articulated, could then change, that she was never really stuck or strung out on a certain way it had to be.
The focus of today’s interview will be on the upcoming Holiday Celebration and fundraiser for her multimedia production Here…After

MC: You were first inspired to bring your background in music and your powerful voice together to create a CD, a kind of love song if you will, to our teacher and the Great Work^SM
and now you’re right in the midst of a grand project, involving many people, a production
called Here…After scheduled for some time in February. Let’s begin with telling us a little bit about the CD and how that came about.

TAMBORINE: Well, the CD actually unfolded at the December Blue College event in 2006.
I’ve done music all of my life but I had pressed it down so far deep. You know, years of always chasing that record deal and always getting so close and not quite getting there, as it were. Our teacher had asked us what it was we really wanted; what really gave us joy. I sat there and I didn’t know what to write. And he said, if you can’t think of it, put your blinders on and be still and it will come. So I did and then it did. What it was, was my music.
     When I am writing music and performing music, knowing what I know now regarding me being God, that I am being music. It is my God exercising and expressing itself in its fullest.
So that was the beginning and the unfolding of this album.
And actually after that event, I went home and literally inside my chest it felt pregnant. I remember taxiing out on the runway going back to Los Angeles and looking at the trees and knowing that something had shifted, looking at those trees and knowing that there was no difference between them and myself. Going through the airport looking into the eyes of the people that were passing me by no matter what shape, size, color, creed or culture they were from, I just felt a connectedness that I had never felt before. I went home with that love and it poured out into eleven songs.
     I subsequently recorded them within the next month or so and completed an album called The Dinner Party. I named it that because within that period of time in December, our teacher would talk about this dinner party that he would have. I remember just saying to myself I want to be at that dinner party. I am going to be at that dinner party. So hence the title, and the cover is the artistic expression of my vision of that.

MC: And now you are putting together an original production. I really am amazed to see how in such a short time you have networked in this community and brought so many people together musically, and now we are looking at a multimedia production. Tell us about that.

TAMBORINE: This production came to life when I heard our teacher speak about the relationship between the Earth and humanity, the way that it was in the beginning. He did it so beautifully and so eloquently, as he always does, that I visually saw it. I saw Earth as an actual entity. He described how the relationship began to, in my words, go sour with regards to technology, and in the ways that we gave up our power and got to be in the circumstances that we are in now with global warming.
     This whole out-of-the-box production has to do with our relationship to Earth. The story tells of an evolving relationship from reverence and honor to one of disregard and greed. Stimulating visuals of humanity's disconnection from nature and its inhabitants result in Terra calling on the forces of Nature to bring her back into balance. It will be done in a way, where people that have not related to Earth as an actual entity or being of consciousness - it will bring that aspect home. It will be very difficult for the observer to separate Earth from an actual being.

MC: When you say the observer in this situation are you talking about the audience?

TAMBORINE: The audience, yes. The main thing that I want to say about it is this is not a gloom and doom story. The story is one of hope and inspiration. Moreover, it tells of the power that we all have to create a future potential reality that far exceeds anything that we have experienced yet. So it is the proverbial gold at the end of the rainbow.

MC: What is the name of the production?

TAMBORINE: It is called Here… After

MC: Here… After. From what I understand, it is a multimedia kind of a production, not your traditional play, not your traditional performance.

TAMBORINE: First let me just say regarding the name. "Here… After" is a phrase that most people have come to know as a term used for heaven. I am using it quite literally. If someone were to ask you “where” and you would say “here”. You are talking about this place that you inhabit here. Further, that would be Earth, here. Then the question “when?” and then the answer would be “after”. Well, after what? The whole story gives the essence of after what? The whole story has to do with after all of this.

MC: It is a timeline shift that is a potential being put out there, that is absolutely livable, creatable, doable.

TAMBORINE: That is one of the main points I want to get across that so often, and I will say personally in my journey, I have come across and have experienced so many ideologies. I have had my share of religious mindsets so I know all about the ‘hereafter’ according to religions.
And in the past, it would seem that when you die, then you get to enjoy all of this, you know, beauty and grandeur. But it is not some pie-in-the-sky after you die. It is here. You can have it here. You don’t have to go anywhere. Especially with what we are learning I am more convinced than I ever have been that that is exactly what we could have if we just know it.

MC: So the production, is it a play, how do you actually define it?

TAMBORINE: I have actually had a quandary about that because I have done plays before.
A play usually implies dialogues. There is no dialogue in this. It is all expression through choreography, visuals and music. I would say it is a theatrical production in the most precise way.

MC: Who is in it? I know there are children. You have a beautiful woman that used to be involved with the Drew Harvey Theater.

MC: Yes. Dawn Young, and she is my right arm in this production. She is an integral part of this because she has such extensive theater experience where, literally, I am just coming to the stage saying, “This is my vision. This is my creation.” I have never put on a play in my life.
I have been in them but I have never produced them, directed them, or written them. It is coming directly from my God. That is all I am coming to the table with. So Dawn is immeasurable help because she is taking my creation and helping me to bring it to life.
Yes, it is a beautiful symbiotic relationship.

MC: In what capacity are children involved in this?

TAMBORINE: Within the story they play a part of the innocence, of the light heartedness in particular, with their relationship with Terra, Mother Earth. Children are a very instrumental part of this production.

MC: It truly is a collaborative effort with students of RSE as well as a cross section of our community who are not students. Who else is involved?

TAMBORINE: Everyone, from far left to far right have come together for this production. It is a wonderful thing to be a part of. I am very excited about it.
There is promotional support from the Yelm Prairie Arts Association, along with a host of other locals that include the Ballet of Prairie Dance Center choreographed by Erin Price; animation and creative consulting by Paulina Amador from Holo-Graphics, filming and editing by Scott Ercoliani from I Get Real TV.COM, Claudia Simpson-Jones with Opera Pacifica conducting the angels of the Orchestra and Choir, and many, many members of the community who play themselves-humanity.
     It is gathering all types of people because all types of people make up humanity. If I am going to tell this story accurately, I want to have members of humanity that reflect just that, the trueness of that. Add all of these ingredients together and it makes for a multifaceted, completely OUT OF THE BOX production that is based on humanity's journey with Earth (Terra).
     Another part of this is I am going to document the making of Here… After.
The Documentary will be about the coming together of this small community with the common goal to inspire the world with a vision of those who are being ‘the change they want to see in the world’. Interviews will be done with members of the business community including dairy and agricultural farmers to contractors that ‘build green’. We want to bring focus and attention to those that are contributing to an ecologically sound future that will not compromise the quality of life for generations to come.
     My intention is to have it be used by as many people as possible through different avenues. I will say this, there is a television station called Current TV that I intend to give the video to. They are very much pro to anyone’s project that is symbiotic with these types of messages.
So I have every confidence that it will be played. Moreover, this television station, Current TV and current.com, I believe it is called, is seen by more people than any other webcast. And moreover, my vision is to have this production on Broadway before it is all is said and done.

MC: What is your vision for those who attend the performance? What do you want them to walk away with?

TAMBORINE: Everyone has their own experience especially with anything that is an artistic expression, I would say generally my intention is to show a potential of a future that is bright, that is full of possibilities and full of love, a love that is indiscriminate, a love that is one with all living things, from the ground that we walk on to the birds that we observe flying, to a neighbor that we turn and look into their eyes. That we see ourselves in everything that we experience — all forms of life that, the audience will walk away with that same feeling of oneness that I had walking through that airport that day. Knowing that we are all one, of course you won’t be inspired to do anything against that life because you are inextricably connected to that life.

MC: Fabulous ….I am sure this is a costly undertaking.

TAMBORINE: It really is and the funniest part is that my creativity just goes a million miles a minute. I don’t even think about how I am going to do it, how I am going to pay for it because it unfolds.

MC: Yes, but you have to raise funds for such a production. How are you doing that?

TAMBORINE: Of course. Along with accepting donations, receiving sponsorships, and selling advertising space for our gorgeous program, we are having an outrageous holiday celebration party and fundraiser. I made it so it would be around the time when people could quite possibly be coming into town anyway to be here with our teacher on New Year’s. Just come and have a beautiful time and be light of heart.

MC: Tell us more.

TAMBORINE: At 6:00pm on December 29th outside of The Blue Bottle Espresso Cafe in Yelm, there will be a 30 by 60 Tent by Omar the Tent Man, decorated in themes from around the globe to create the Garden of Terra. In addition to an array of rotisserie chicken and beef by local butcher Stewarts Meats and 6 world sauces by Chef Windsor, there will be a juggler,
a magician and a group of belly dancers called The Gypsy Chicks from Centralia.
     I’ll be performing with a fabulous back-up group, as well as singer/songwriter Laura Losada. A riveting performance will be given by the dancers in the production Here… After who are from Prairie Dance Center, to give a glimpse at what we can expect in the beginning of February. Before the evening comes to a close DJ Santi will provide music for the dance floor.
We the principals of putting this production on, went and actually made wine for this event, probably almost 300 bottles, and we put the frequency in it of maybe three or four different intentions regarding long life, everlasting joy and preservation.

MC: Well, this would be a great Christmas gift, wouldn’t it? And a wonderful way to celebrate the New Year.

TAMBORINE:– Absolutely.

MC: I know there are so many other things we could get into but is there anything else that you want to say that we haven’t covered?

TAMBORINE: Yeah, I think one other thing that is in the works is part of the vision that I had last year, and it is actually starting to coagulate now. And that is to play live wherever or whenever there are other masters to play with, whether it be one other group or one other master or different venues. I would like to recreate what took place at the Blue Jam Benefit
in October everywhere that there is an open door for it. There were masters from everywhere around the world and, you know, to have more than a couple come up to me that night and tell me how much joy they felt to be able to listen to live music that was frequency specific to what they were learning. They just looked me in the eye and just told me how happy that made them and that is really why I want to do it.

MC: Somehow I just know you’ll make it happen.

December 29th fundraiser for the production of Here…After.
It will start at 6:00pm Ticket Donations are $50-$75-$100.
Children 12 and under are free. 13-18 $25.
Tickets can be purchased: The Blue Bottle Espresso, 309 Yelm Ave E.  360-458-4611 with cash or check. If paying with MC/Visa or PayPal go to www.paypal.com, send payment to godfoodentertainment@tamborelli.net.
For more info call 360-400-3103 or Email Here

You can buy The Dinner Party CD at RSE’s Quantum Café. It also is available at cdbaby.com or at my website which is www.tamborelli.net

Great Work^SM is a service mark of JZ Knight and is used with permission.