Previous NextGEN Retreat Musicians
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Guest Musician
Jesse Powers | 2024
With her tumbling vocal stylings, powerhouse melodies, and infectious energy, Jesse Powers seeks to awaken, and entertain those who listen. Her poignant and playful lyricism set atop catchy melodies create a musical skydiving experience—a long lyrical jump into the depths of the human heart softened by a parachute of body-moving instrumentation. Wasting no time, her penetrating and positive songs fly straight to the body and soul. She often shares her music at country-wide spiritual gatherings and in the Unity and Centers for Spiritual Living communities, appearing at the VISTA conference, the CSL Minister’s Conference, SOAR, and the CSL Teen Summer Camp. In addition, she can be found playing at the local venues in her home base of Columbus, Ohio. She is frequently a guest singer with several bands in town, including the famed Columbus Irish group, The Drowsy Lads.
She can be seen singing her solo shows under her name, Jesse Powers, as well as with Jesse Michael Barr under their duo, Jesse + Jesse, and with the local Irish/Americana group, Beir Bua.
Jesse’s songwriting chops have also gained recognition from songwriting contests all over the country. Her song “The Love Song of Everything” was a finalist in the 2021 Great American Song Contest and was nominated for a Positive Music Award in 2022. Her performance of her 2020 lockdown anthem “Alpaca Socks” was a finalist in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2017 Jesse finished in the top four contestants in the Voice For Columbus singing contest, in partnership with the Harmony Project. She had the honor of performing with her fellow finalists and the Harmony Project Choir on the Lincoln Theatre Stage. Her debut album “Begin” was released in November, 2017. Her second full-length album “To Remember” was released in summer 2021. You can stream her music on all platforms: https://
Rev. Doug LeBow | Retreats 2019
Senior Minister/Spiritual Director, High-Desert Center for Spiritual Living, Apple Valley, CA Rev. Doug LeBow is the Senior Minister and Spiritual Director of the Hi-Desert Center for Spiritual Living in Apple Valley CA – and is also an Emmy™ award – winning producer of music and video, composer, arranger, music supervisor, music engraver, and recording artist, with over 250 feature film, TV movie, television series, and publishing credits.
Rev. Doug currently serves on the board of directors of the Science of Mind Archives and Library Foundation, and recently also served as the Music Team Director at the 2015 and 2016 Spiritual Living Conventions in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.
From 2003 – 2013, Doug served as the founding music director, and later as Assistant Minister at The NoHo Arts Center For New Thought (now The Global Truth Center) in North Hollywood, CA.
Since 2008, Doug has been under contract to Disney Publishing Worldwide, as a producer, composer, songwriter, and recording artist. He has written, produced, and recorded, more than 80 songs for Disney’s “Disney English” division, and has produced, mixed, and mastered more than 100 CDs, used in the “Disney Learning” programs.
For more than twenty years, Doug has specialized in music for children and families, and is currently writing, producing, and recording for Disney Junior’s Nursery Rhymes YouTube Channel and Disney Cable Channels Worldwide.
Doug also previously served a five-year, 635 episode stint as the Music Director on GENERAL HOSPITAL, ABC-TV’s longest running daytime drama.
A graduate of The Grove School of Music, Doug resides in sunny (and HOT!) Santa Clarita, CA with his wife, Rev. Sharon Earle, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and sons Jesse and Tyler, both lifelong Religious Scientists.
Rev. Doug considers his greatest blessing to be the Universe’s continual support of his creative expression; allowing him to support his family while feeding his Spirit!
Guest Musician
Guest Musician
Amy Steinberg | Retreats 2017 + 2018
Music Director, Universal Spirit Center, San Diego, CA “Singular” is the word that best describes Amy Steinberg. Uplifting, enlightening and hilarious with a voice that can burn the house down, Amy Steinberg is singer, songwriter and storyteller like none other. The main thrust of her work comes from marrying the sacred and profane, fusing the dreamlike nature of Spirit with the rooted realness of sexuality and humor.
She plays the piano and guitar with her own swingy rhythmic bounce, injecting shades of jazz, rock, hip hop, and poetry, all with a theatrical flair. Deeply soulful, she sings of self-love, open-mindedness, and the holiness of everything.
Amy has been Music Director at the Boca Center for Spiritual Living, the Spiritual Living Center of Charlotte, and is currently the Featured Musician at the Spiritual Light Center of Charlotte. Recently, her original musical, Breaking the Moon, was featured at the New York Musical Festival.
Deeply involved with the New Thought and Positive Music world, she plays at conferences, churches, venues and festivals all over the country. Amy’s song “Burning into the High” won the Personal Transformation category of the 2016 Posi Awards. In 2017, her song, “One with Everything,” was also nominated, and she has been touring the country in support of her 10th independent release, “Broken Open” which is receiving rave reviews.
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