“It was really like I was just helping [Madonna] carry out her vision, as my musicians around me are [now] helping me carry out mine,” Donna De Lory told MauiTime last year, of her nearly two decades touring and performing in the Material Girl’s inner circle. “Being away from that—because I was really in her world and her vision—I can really build my own [vision] and the people I want around me to help me carry that out… I woke up to something deeper inside myself; a deeper kind of music, things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to feel.” Seeing as we’ve had a year to digest that, let’s here-on-out let that be the last mention of “Madge,” and forevermore focus on Donna, who returns to the Valley Isle for a hana hou at The Studio (Friday) along with her MACC debut (Thursday). Dance and song have always been a part of her life (she often incorporates sing-song riffs even in her casual, candid anecdotes), and her sound blends “North African grooves, meditative melodies and Sanskrit mantras [in] psychedelic arrangements.” She’s a conscious-living advocate who believes in “following your bliss,” and you can blissfully follow her during two special concert nights. Personally, I’m going to explore the live dance night at The Studio and find out why “ecstatic” and “dance” are inseparable words when in Haiku… Donnadelory.com / MACC: mauiarts.org; 242-7469 / The Studio: www.thestudiomaui.com ; 575-9390
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