A healing sound: Review of Wild Rose Moon’s Cynthia Boener

Cynthia Boener has a spiritual connection with music. From her first experience with music at age five, it was obvious that Boener’s fascination with music would become a large part of her emotional, spiritual, and professional life. She was attending her first parade in Calio, Virginia with her grandmother when music first found its way into her life. “I heard the sound. the drums were thumping, and I just got all excited. then I heard the music and the trumpets and this band comes down...i was just so fascinated.” Boener was so enthralled by the sound of that marching band that she ran after them in the parade, wanting to hear the music over and over.

today, Boener plays a variety of instruments, but focuses primarily on the harp. “Its almost a healing sound,” she said. She performed a few pieces throughout the night, and in each her connection to the instrument itself as well as the music was obvious. Her hands moved over the strings like wind through high-growing grass. “the harp is my instrument,” she said, when host John Bahler pointed out that despite her experience with other instruments, she is identified as a harpist. “I just feel this connection with it. I can sit down, and whatever I’m experiencing at that time, I can pull out. the harp will speak for me...the harp is me.”

Cynthia has a husband and two sons who support her in her musical career. She works a retail job in addition to playing music for various occasions, but began her professional journey in pharmacy. Her interests and passions, however, took her elsewhere, and brought her to her fantastic musical career today.

Moonlight returned on Facebook live on Friday, Oct. 23, with Indiana poet Dan Breen.

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