Bic Runga on the 2010 Winery Tour, in New Zealand. Photo by Nick Chappell. The album that I’ve just made now, the goal was kind of to make a record that was imagining rock having never happened because it’s really sparse. There’s no distorted guitar. I love that sort of music but I don’t make…
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WMM 2026 Day 12 — Francesca Caccini
Francesca Caccini Life would leave me before the desire to studyand the passion I have always brought to virtu… because this is worth more than any treasure or fame.— Francesca Caccini wikipedia:Francesca Caccini (b. 9/18/1587 – d. ~1646) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the…
WMM 2026 Day 11 — Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (link takes you to a decent article with other pictures of her.)Images courtesy of Peggy Seeger. Ruth Crawford Seeger (nee Ruth Porter Crawford) (b. 7/3/1901 – 11/18/1953) was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the “ultramodernists.” She…
WMM 2026 Day 10 — Melissa McLelland
Melissa McLelland [W]hen I started singing anything that had a hint of the blues in it or gospel, it just opened my voice up. It stretched everything out. I love those beautiful, slow, spacious songs where I can just enjoy singing. — Melissa McLelland, in an interview at Write On Music. Melissa McLelland press photo…
dVerse Q243 — Be a Bird
Be a Bird Be a bird,hued or drab,warbling or silent,wafting or waddling,building or nesting,migrating or staying put,preening or molting,hunting or pecking,diving or swimming,lightbound or darkbound,predator or prey,hopping or dancingearth, sky, sea;choosing whereverfree be. De (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De wants us to write a 44-word poem using the word bird.
WMM 2026 Day 9 — Feist
FeistL’auteure-compositrice-interprète Feist ©Getty – David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns per wikipedia:Leslie Feist, (b.2/13/76) is known mononymously as Feist; she’s a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. Early YearsLeslie was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both…
WMM 2026 Day 8 — Basia Bulat
Basia Bulat I wanted to make a bit of a landscape for this timeI was in. I wanted to celebrate what I have.–Basia Bulat, regarding her album, “Basia’s Palace,” in an interview at CKUA per wikipedia:Barbara Josephine Bulat, known professionally as Basia Bulat, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp….
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