Artist: Rising Appalachia
Song: Medicine
Album: Wider Circles
Location: Lake Tahoe & Appalachia

For more information on Rising Appalachia go to http://www.risingappalachia.com or http://www.facebook.com/risingappalachiamusic

"Medicine” is a song-anthem honoring the traditions of folk medicine; plant-based medicine as a tool for empowerment and healing. It is a call to action to support the voices of the herbalists, healers, and teachers… the roots, plants, trees, and stones… the arts, the spirits, and the wild ones. It is an honoring of all the many ways that we can be well, and the radical and traditional ways in which we can steward health within ourselves.

This song is a direct tribute to the people around the world who are holding and teaching these ways of herbal plant-based medicine, educating us all to know our gardens, our forests, our plants and our own bodies... to bring wellness back into our own hands and communities. It is not a dismissal of modern medicine, but a gratitude and honoring of its ancestry and foundations within folkloric traditions.

As we are moving into a new season, a new time, and a new chapter, we offer this song as a ritual anthem for this transition and time of great change. " ~ Rising Appalachia

Directed by Jeremy Jensen & Ashley Owen
Edited by Jeremy Jensen
Cinematographers: Jeremy Jensen, Taylor Hellhake & Ashley Owen

Big thanks to:

Moonshine Ink (http://www.MoonshineInk.com)
Kevin Wood (http://www.goodmedicinecollective.com)
Paula Crews
Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
Bianca
Dee
Almeta
Rosemary Gladstar

For more work from...

Jeremy Jensen: http://www.JeremyJensenMedia.com
Taylor Hellhake: http://www.Depthink.com

Gear Used:

Canon 5D Mark III
3x Canon 7D
Sony DSC-RX100
Lenses: 2x 70-200mm 2.8 Canon IS, 17-55mm 2.8 Canon, 24-70mm Canon 2.8
Manfrotto Tripod
Manfrotto Monopod
Rhino Slider
Lowel Light Kit