A Bold New Pride Anthem and Music Video Celebrates LGBTQIA+ Presence Through the Ages.
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Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter, 1888–1949) wrote Bring Me Little Water, Silvy and recorded it with Anne Graham in 1950 for Folkways Records. Many artists since then have played, arranged and recorded this beloved song.
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Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter, 1888–1949) wrote Bring Me Little Water, Silvy and recorded it with Anne Graham in 1950 for Folkways Records. Many artists since then have played, arranged and recorded this beloved song.
Arranged for voices with body percussion by Moira Smiley. Body Percussion Sequence by Evie Ladin. This is the audio from Moira Smiley's official music video.
Arranged for voices with body percussion by Moira Smiley. Body Percussion Sequence by Evie Ladin. This is the audio from Moira Smiley's official music video.
Traditional after Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson
Following love when you are without choices
Following love when you are without choices
Released on August 26th, 2024: Women's Equality Day
Track 1 on The Rhizome Project
The song is a stunner, and this version originates with my friend, Merrill Garbus, an ultimate heroine-of-song to me because she & her music are so fierce, embodied and HER. In 2022, Merrill sent a 3-part, mostly a cappella arrangement she’d made that shocked and thrilled with dissonance and plaintive ferociousness. Merrill deftly connected this story to our collective shock that American women lost significant and extremely hard-won bodily autonomy in the striking down of Roe v. Wade in June, 2022. How sharply tragic and literal this song feels knowing it was created when women had few legal or economic rights.
I got her blessing to add strings to amplify the vocal arrangement, and then I was thrilled when she agreed to sing it with me on this album.
I’m thankful every day for the dignity & agency claimed by our feminist elders where no equality was yet allowed. I’m thankful for what we call the ‘feminine’ - which steadfastly attends to the creaturely world between the spasms of fear & violence that grab our headlines and histories. All gender expressions can tap into it.
By Jean Ritchie
Stewarding this planet, this garden; tending the well-being of each other
Stewarding this planet, this garden; tending the well-being of each other
Released on August 6th, 2024: Farmworker Appreciation Day
Track 4 on The Rhizome Project
“Ever since I learned Jean Ritchie’s song, ‘Now Is The Cool Of The Day,’ as an 11 year-old, it has played in my head while traveling through fields and pastures, working in my own garden, or worrying about the climate crisis. The words throughout her beautifully crafted song form and melody call on us to steward the earth (and take care of each other). Although she had that call coming from ‘my lord,’ I always felt that call coming straight from the earth itself. I love that these words urgently and gently remind us that we are tenders, not just extractors, consumers, and producers.”
- Moira Smiley
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By Bill Caddick
Rest, a great equalizer. Rest, a rebellion with John O Dreams as guide
Sleeping and Waking (poem, spoken)
By Naomi Shihab Nye (Palestinian-American poet)
Rest, a great equalizer. Rest, a rebellion with John O Dreams as guide
Sleeping and Waking (poem, spoken)
By Naomi Shihab Nye (Palestinian-American poet)
Released on July 18, 2024: World Listening Day
Track 10 on The Rhizome Project
“Thank you, V13, for hosting the premiere of ‘John O Dreams’ on World Listening Day. Adding the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye to this track pulled the song deeply into the ‘now’ for me. Her gentle, ongoing, self-described ‘wandering poet’ presence in our world as a Palestinian American, a humanist, and current resident of Texas helps me approach the trouble in these times as an artist. Her poem, ‘Sleeping & Waking’ fit so beautifully with Bill Caddick’s lyrics about sleep-as-the-great-equalizer of us all. I wish to send this lullaby to each child caught in, traumatized by, lost in, and altered by war… hoping that lullabies and love can land them gently onto the ‘shores of their lives.’"
- Moira Smiley
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Meeting Is Over is a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. A perfect song then to bid farewell to 2021 and to look forward to new horizons Read more
Meeting Is Over is a stripped-down, acoustic anthem that celebrates the cycles of life and death, endings and renewal, farewells and reunion. A perfect song then to bid farewell to 2021 and to look forward to new horizons in 2022. This release is a cross-continental collaboration between two soulful and expressive singer/songwriters, Piers Faccini (France) and Moira Smiley (USA). Both artists are well known for partnering with many leading musical lights - Smiley with Tune-Yards, Solas, and Sam Amidon ; Faccini with Ben Harper, Camille, and Don La Nena.
Meeting Is Over is an old American song about “meeting on the other shore”. Driven by Smiley on the banjo with Faccini on guitar and the West African guembri, the single also features Irish multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan on guitar.
The haunting and yet comforting harmonies reflect on goodbyes with those we love the most—the ebb and flow of togetherness that life presents.
Meeting Is Over is an old American song about “meeting on the other shore”. Driven by Smiley on the banjo with Faccini on guitar and the West African guembri, the single also features Irish multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan on guitar.
The haunting and yet comforting harmonies reflect on goodbyes with those we love the most—the ebb and flow of togetherness that life presents.
Co-written by collaborators and partners Egan & Moira Smiley, Mourning Dove chronicles intimate struggle of love, loss, and growth across two winters of isolation in rural Vermont. This single's music video shows Egan & Smiley's layered connection to each other, and to the evocative calls of the mourning doves outside their window.