15th March 2024 You know what? Women are creating women’s history right now! Recently, I was invited to speak at a celebration of life held at the LGBTQ Community Center in New York City for my friend and mentor, Barbara Love. She was a truly remarkable woman whose activism and writings played an essential part in uniting the early women’s liberation and gay movements. My remarks that day, now available on my YouTube channel, describe an encounter I had with Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love’s book, “Sappho Was a Right-On Woman,” which turned my world upside-down. That pivotal moment in 1973 transformed my consciousness and propelled the next fifty years of my work in Women’s Music.… Read More
Continue Reading“Love and Justice,” 450 Women Strong!
8th March 2023 My dear friends — You know how we are… sending text links, mp3s, gifs, and video clips to each other when words are insufficient. Today, March 8, 2023, is International Women’s Day, and I am speechless with feelings about the state of women in the world. I have no words to express my sense of urgency. So, once again, I turn to music for inspiration, for energy and a sense of community on solid ground. This song is SOLID GROUND. “Love and Justice” was sung by over 450 women of Victoria, Australia in 2008 to mark the centenary of suffrage — finally getting the vote in Victoria… Read More
Continue ReadingStep Outa Line for Freedom!
13th May 2022 I simply cannot sit still or be silent in this moment. These are songs I would be singing if I were on the road right now. Here’s a three-song YouTube Playlist: Wake-Up CallLos CaldonésLong Haul(13 minutes total) I invite you to unplug from whatever you’re thinking and/or doing for a moment — or two or three… and touch down in “Another Place”, circa 1993. The songs and sentiments feel eerily current. Feel free to share this playlist with your friends, comrades and progressive groups. With a steady heart —
Continue ReadingTwo Strangers & A Unicorn
12th October 2021 Occasionally, I have an encounter so unexpected, so utterly entrancing, that I am left breathless with joy and wonder. Such was a recent experience I had on Zoom with a complete stranger from Hong Kong. What made it remarkable was that my song, “Best Friend — The Unicorn Song,” served as a portal into a surprisingly uninhibited interaction between us, grounded in music, magic and intention. Our conversation and an additional “playlist” with translations, and other artists’ versions of “Best Friend…” are available on my YouTube Channel. This story begins with Harold Leung, founder, CEO and editor of the Hong Kong-based POPA (Positive Parenting) Channel who went looking for… Read More
Continue ReadingTake Hands: Singing & Speaking for Survival
22nd April 2021 Last week I listened to “Take Hands: Singing & Speaking for Survival” for the first time since 1984. This freshly digitized collaboration of music and spoken word features poet and memoirist Honor Moore (with music by guitarist and composer Janet Marlow), essayist and poet Susan Griffin and myself. Our intention was to give voice to a shared conviction — and grave concern — that we had entered into a moment of existential threat to humanity and the earth through the proliferation of nuclear weaponry and power. We were determined to convert our sense of powerlessness to action through art. My song, “Who Among Us?” opens the program,… Read More
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