Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance

Sadly, in this age of Google and Facebook, the ability to connect with one another is – ironically – being slowly eroded, Gerrard notes: “I think that’s what makes getting together in a large space and communicating artistically really important.”

“Because I do see that [society as] becoming more and more insular. And when we get together in an inner sense of community, when we can walk away from the horrible reality of mediocrity – the situations we deal with in everyday life – and we can be somewhere where we just celebrate in an innocent way, wonderful things like music and art and poetry and learning… learning things that are thousands of years old, that are full of wisdom, that celebrate the sanctity of life that we need to find.”