The Concert
June 27th, 2026, 3pm to 6pm @ Pulaski Park, Northampton, MA
*In the case of rain or severe weather, the concert will move indoors to Edwards Church, across the street at 297 Main St.
The Convocation
Welcome message by GurujiMa and Onatah
3:00pm on the Main stage
Russell Brooks
3:10 to 3:30pm – Main stage
Russell Brooks doesn’t simply make music. He creates an atmosphere. A dreamy tapestry of colorful textures and uplifting melodies. Equally at home performing at a Yoga retreat center, a large stadium, or a coffee house, Russell’s timeless melodies, and hypnotic voice set a magical mood. Using a loop pedal, Russell plays beautiful and catchy instrumental songs on his nylon string acoustic guitar. His vocal numbers are peppered with themes of oneness and nature. In fact, he is world-renowned for his singing, and known locally as the ‘Golden Voice of the Valley’.
Russell Brooks
3:10 to 3:30pm – Main stage
Russell Brooks doesn’t simply make music. He creates an atmosphere. A dreamy tapestry of colorful textures and uplifting melodies. Equally at home performing at a Yoga retreat center, a large stadium, or a coffee house, Russell’s timeless melodies, and hypnotic voice set a magical mood. Using a loop pedal, Russell plays beautiful and catchy instrumental songs on his nylon string acoustic guitar. His vocal numbers are peppered with themes of oneness and nature. In fact, he is world-renowned for his singing, and known locally as the ‘Golden Voice of the Valley’.
Tony Vacca
5:10 to 5:55pm – Main stage
Tony Vacca is an innovative American percussionist with Jazz and World Music roots going back to the 70’s. Over the course of his career, he has made a habit of pushing the already adventurous conventions of World Music into new territory, both as a soloist and as the leader of his World Rhythms Ensemble.
The Chorus
Join in a grand finale singing of a re-imagined version the 1985 charity single ‘We are the World’ recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa
5:55 to 6:00pm – Main stage
The Conversation
Featured speakers to inspire and inform throughout the afternoon
Carleen Basler, Executive Director of the Amherst Survival Center
3:30 to 3:40pm – Side stage
Sister Clare Carter of
The New England Peace Pagoda
4:10 to 4:20pm – Side stage
Jason Dale
One Spirit, Lakota People
4:50 to 5:00pm – Side stage
The Motivation to Feed Others
Feeding people is not only a physical act that nourishes the body, but a spiritual act that nourishes the heart and soul. It is love embodied. It is the heart that desires to give and the hands that desire to serve connecting. It is one of the most basic ways of expressing love.
We feed people within our families without hesitating, because we understand that this is so. We understand our responsibility to help sustain their lives. We accept the responsibility for nurturing children so they can grow and thrive. This sense of responsibility is what is greatly needed in the world, just as it is within families – to feed others so that they can grow and thrive.
The Calling
To return to the sacred root of life that is the vibration of universal love
The idea for the Feed the Hungry Concert emerges out of great love, and out of a desire to help relieve the suffering of those in need. It was initiated by GurujiMa and the Village of Light Ashram, with the goal of helping humanity learn to feed each other, to care for each other, and to nurture each other in all the ways that are possible for the human heart. This sacred purpose involves addressing hunger that exists in the world for both physical food and spiritual food. The need for physical food exists among many, and the need for spiritual food exists among all. We have not yet as a human family been able to ensure that all have enough to eat and that none go hungry, but it is within our capacity through a unified effort to do so. We have also not yet been able to ensure that all can choose a life that has meaning and purpose, but it is also within our capacity to do so. The key to this shift is the deep awareness that all life is sacred, and that their is no one who is separate from ourself.
The concert’s goal is to help bring forth these values of love, caring, and unity. Its aim is to become a spiritual portal through which love can flow, to expand the heart’s intent to feed each other with goodness, kindness, and blessing in every conversation, with every person, in every moment. This movement that holds all of life as sacred is the great awakening of our time, and it is hoped that this concert will offer a step in this direction.
All contributions will go to the Feed the Hungry Donation Fund, sponsored by Light Omega, the organizational aspect of the Village of Light Ashram. Founded in 2018, this fund feeds people through seven worldwide and domestic organizations that distribute food to those in need.
GurujiMa
There is within each human being, the need to link one’s human embodiment with the divine core within. This is the purpose of Creation and of spiritual evolution, and it applies to each individual life as well as to the life of the world. Feeding people is one area in which this joining can take place most beautifully and with the deepest expression of love and sacredness.
A special invitation from GurujiMa
The Causes
Supporting seven worldwide and domestic organizations that distribute food to those in need.
The Contemplation
by GurujiMa
The World’s Need
How may I feed you, my brother, my sister?
How may I help to relieve the burden you have carried?
Your need calls out to my heart.
It lives there as a song that does not fade,
but makes me aware of its presence
even when I am focused on other things.
You, who are in need are the world as we know it.
For many go hungry today without ever knowing what
would feed them or nourish them.
The simplest act of feeding another is an act of reverence.
It places value on the human body and the human life that
lives within it.
How much more is this important for those
who feel of little value, for those who feel forgotten,
afraid, neglected, or alone?
I am not separate from you, my brother, my sister.
for we are branches of the same tree,
offspring of the same Mother.
This world of need shall give way to a world of love,
and we hasten that time by knowing the significance
of the nourishment we offer to each other.
This is the bridge to the future,
a bridge that lives in every heart.
What joy can be present as we cross that bridge together,
as we create a new Earth in which love has taken its place
in the center of life.
