Album Notes

Rebecca Ramsey
Solo Violinist/Composer

Where I sit is holy,
Holy is the ground.
Forest, mountain, river
Listen to the sound.
Great Spirit circle
All around me
Anonymous

"From the time of the ancient Anasazi to the present day, the great beauty of the part of the world we now call Zion National Park has sparked the same sense of wonder in all who have seen it.

The music I composed for The Stone Sanctuary is like snapshots of places in Zion National Park that I would like share with you. It is my hope that the calming powers of these melodies and harmonies- inspired by nature- will renew your mind and spirit; awakening your heart to the spiritual truths that await within."

Rebecca Ramsey, violinist and composer, was born in Long Beach , CA and was lead violinist for many years of the Caesar's Palace Orchestra for such stars as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Natalie Cole and Tony Bennett. Among her many professional accomplishments, she was the orchestra leader and concertmaster for Luciano Pavarott's final performance at Caesar's Palace and concertmaster for Andrea Bocelli's PBS special and DVD, Amore-Under a Desert Sky. She played for Taylor Swift on the 2009 Country Music Awards and is the concertmaster for the new production of The Lion King at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas which opened in May 2009.

Rebecca Ramsey's CD, The Stone Sanctuary, Silhouettes of Zion, won third place, out of 10,000 albums submitted, for best instrumental album at the Just Plain Folks Awards 2004, a Web-based independent music organization with more than 25,000 members. (http://www.jpfolks.com/MusicAwards/2004/AlbumWinners.htm.) Dr. Paul Leon Masters, founder of the University of Metaphysics International, describes it as "music that causes the soul to flow into higher realms of beingness and Spirit- a perfect prelude to practicing meditation."