Holiday Season Playlist 2024

I’ve taken some songs off and added a few more to the holiday spotify playlist.  Have been listening to it on repeat to try and conjure some season’s spirit. 

Music Review — Loreena McKennitt: The Visit Revisted Tour

I cannot think of better music for the Halloween/Samhain season than Loreena McKennitt! Last night a friend and I went to see her and her small ensemble perform at the DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids, MI. I bought the tickets awhile back and so was able to get row 7 and at my preferred…

dVerse — Quadrille — spring dreams

swift as wind currents whirl round the treeswarm as the sunshinebrings hums of beessprite as ice waterscan dance down creekspring sings bird songslife stirs from sleepblossoms of the crocusyellow purple white preensappetize restful waking dreams top image link Sarah is today’s host for dVerse‘ Quadrille Monday. Sarah says:A quadrille is a poem of 44 words,…

dVerse — Poetics — The Vatic Voice

The feeling I get when I become a transmitter for the vatic voice is the same feeling I get when listening to some music. Whether it comes out of my mouth or fingertips or comes in through my ears, it seems to infuse the area from the base of my throat to my chest cavity…

Women Music March #7 — Loreena McKennitt

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM OM (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. From Loreena’s website: Loreena McKennitt is well known as a composer and singer. In a recording career spanning more than two decades, Ms….