The Great Within - from the stage

Trusting in a Wonderful World

Mar 18, 2025

So far there has been two successful Great Within Shows, but this week I have another three to do before returning home to Matakana.

The second show in Palmerston North was an in-store presentation at “Inspire Me,” an exquisite store with everything relating to spiritual healing, health & wellbeing, consciousness, meditation and much more. A few days before, at the Healing Market in Taupo, I had played through the full repertoire of tracks I had set aside for the tour. But the evening in Palmerston North was only two hours long, and I had to limit the number of tracks I was going to play . . .

Once I had set up, I could feel the energy at Inspire Me was noticeably radiant with all those crystals and charms around me. I had 5 minutes to go before 7pm and I wasn’t sure what music I would start with.

I began the evening talking about meditation and the Great Within. Then I turned to the computer to choose the music, and from out of nowhere a voice spoke, saying that I should start in a different way . . . that I should begin with a piece I had not written. There was only one track in the whole list that fitted that description, it was “What a Wonderful World”. I had never started with that track. It was always a finishing piece - a good way to leave the audience.

But I had been getting prompts on this trip, and “trust” had come up a few times. So I thought, what the heck! I loaded the song and pushed the play button. It was easy and relaxing and even within the first few seconds I could feel the vibration in the audience. It was extremely poignant to say the least. There were many tears of joy that started the show and the energy continued through the full two hours.

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It was a great night within. I had also been a little nervous about what I was doing on the Kitā, - (that’s the little keyboard instrument you can see me playing - its controlled with my breath). With everything I had to do prior to the tour, I had less practice time than I would have liked. Up popped “trust” again! So I let it go' and just enjoyed myself. Everything went amazing without a hitch. With all the peace in the store, I seemed to have lots of time between the notes. There was a spontaneously flow to the evening that seemed to pre-determine the continuing choices I made in selecting the tracks.

Below is a shot from “Inspire Me” - I have included the full track list for the Great Within show . . . I played 10 of these on the night.

If you are living in Dunedin, Christchurch or Blenheim and are intending to come along to one of the presentations this week - see the event flyers below - check out the tracks I’ll be playing (above) and if its a favourite of yours, let me know and i’ll perform it just for you!