Tag: songwriting
Music opens doors to other cultures, other landscapes. It can open connections, share stories, and help us go more deeply into places new, and places familiar. Music can bring …
Head frames: a century and more ago, they were part of daily life of Butte, Montana. They were the way miners went down to their work, and what brought …
Preparations for Easter, and for Passover. In the northern hemisphere, the turning of seasons and changeable weather of springtime. Flowering of the earth after winter’s sleep. Allpart of the …
If you were going to pick two writers to bring the roller coaster of the world’s economic situation these recent years into song, you might come up with Canadian …
A high school string ensemble, an award winning actress, a group of second graders, a man who’s written hits for Elvis Costello and Reba McEntire, two fourth grade classes, …
Emily Smith finds landscape and history, and the connections between them, endlessly inspiring for her music. That’s as true for the songs she writes herself as for the music …
A Navajo chant, a song from the Zulu tradition, two songs that suggest that God is present in the atheist as much as the believer, a song from the …
Update: In the last days of 2022, word comes that Ian Tyson has passed on, at age 89. His legacy lives on through his music, in Canada and beyond. …
Some of the world’s best travel writers are songwriters. I’m not talking about songwriters who’ve written famous or not so famous road songs — though I expect that’s a …
When you think of Charles Darwin — should you think of him at all — you might call up images of the tropics in the Galapagos Islands, or the …