Machu Picchu

Thank you for your beautiful music and intention! Our MACHU PICCHU IMPRESSIONS recording is worn out from all the years of enjoying listening to it!
Melanie P, choreographer, Rapid City, SD

Chaco Canyon

I love CHACO CANYON by Rusty Crutcher. After reading your message – I now understand why I was so moved by the energy at Chaco Canyon. It was beautiful. Thanks for your music!”
Betty M, Charlotte, NC

Isle of Avalon

You never fail me! IOA is so beautiful, haunting and soul-stirring!! Your music has led me to visit Machu Picchu, Chaco Canyon and Serpent Mound…all of these CDs are so very precious to me.”
Joanne T., Danbury, CT

Amazon Song

I seem to have lost my AMAZON SONG and can’t live without it! Must tell you it is the most incredible and fantastic sound produced by man – it is as if you’ve captured the very pulse of the earth and amplified it.
Anne M, Pocatello, ID

Ocean Eclipse

“I purchased OCEAN ECLIPSE ten years ago in Tokyo. More!”
Daphne B, retired teacher, Ontario, CANADA

Love Dance

Love the mystical sounds of this music – great energy
Raja S, massage therapist and reiki master, New York, NY

Serpent Mound

We LOVE your music! I have often been carried away by he beauty and wonder of the Sacred Sites CDs. Serpent Mound inspired me to take a journey to see the mound in Ohio.
Robert B., Director of Grounds, Bryn Mawr, PA

Romances Latinos

We love Rusty’s sax sound!
Annette B, Raleigh, NC

Haven’t We Met

Your work brings me joy which my heart cannot hide
Susan D, Juneau, AK

Machu Picchu

This is my twenty-second or twenty-third copy of MACHU PICCHU IMPRESSIONS. I keep giving them away as gifts!”
Anne B., Shreveport, LA

Chaco Canyon

CC has been a constant in my life for several years – it has been (along with OCEAN ECLIPSE) my preferred bedtime music and has accompanied me on countless trips.
Lillian M., museum fundraiser, Philadelphia, PA

Haven’t We Met

I commend the family of Mr. Crutcher because your music makes one man and the people around him very, very happy
SFranz K., Australia

Welcome!

Rusty Crutcher is a composer, instrumentalist, producer, and the founder of Emerald Green Sound Productions and has been widely recognized domestically and internationally. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and his main solo instruments are the woodwinds. Crutcher has performed with such diverse acts as Alphonse Mouzon (Weather Report), The Emotions, Ronnie Laws, Asleep at the Wheel, Chris Calloway (daughter of Cab Calloway), The Coasters, The Drifters, and more; he also performed on sax and woodwinds for hundreds of film, TV, commercial and studio recordings. His style is a fusion of different musical genres from jazz to classical, from ambient to world music.  His love of many different styles and genres of music has had a distinct effect on his creating diverse music. Currently he is preparing for the April 11th 2022 release of his next “Sacred Sites Series” release, the “Oracle of Delphi.” Rusty is currently studying 16th Century counterpoint with Dr. Michael Baker in preparation to compose a choral work modeled on the masters of Renaissance music. and his travels in Italy. He’ has taught music theory, orchestration, analysis, aural, digital sound, saxophone, and “Introduction to the Fine Arts,” at Texas State University, University of Kentucky, and Wake Forest University.

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How the Sacred Sites Series Came Into Existence

In late mid July of 1987 a friend asked me what I’d like to do with my music and I replied that I wanted to travel to sacred places and combine nature, the feelings of each place, and music. I was then asked what sacred site I would like to go to first.  Spontaneously, I said Machu Picchu, Peru. Without going into the details of why I chose Machu Picchu, which I have to say are amazing, four weeks later I was on a pilgrimage of place, nature, and music to the “Harmonic Convergence” at Machu Picchu, Peru, August 16 and 17, 1987.  I knew nothing about the Mayan calendar or prophecies, and yet here I was. READ MORE…

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