Songs for Spring
Our program for April 11, 2020, offered some songs to lift our spirits and prompt us to draw support from the world around us.
May I (Bob Campbell) share a couple of sources I’ve found helpful in the present crisis?
Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle has begun a series of short talks about how to stay conscious and maintain our sanity in the midst of these circumstances. Here are the first of these talks and the second (with hopes you can get through or avoid the ads that beset YouTube).
On a different level, contemporary thinker Charles Eisenstein has written this illuminating essay putting the virus in a wider context, pointing to new possibilities opening to us.
Please see also notes following JoAnn’s playlist for her April 4 program for practical advice on how to make it through financially.
First hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| W.S. Merwin | Rain Light | |
| Peia Luzzi | Hold On | Four Great Winds (Sounds True) |
| Ariane Lydon | The Sun in Our Hearts | single (Momentous) |
| Mamalama | World of Color and Light | The World of Color and Light (s/p) |
| New Set | ||
| Keith Christmas | Life, Life | Life, Life (BECN) |
| The Pentangle | Spring Time Promises | Basket of Light (Transatlantic/Sanctuary) |
| Mandalélé | Diamond Willow | Riddled in Rhyme (Strange News Music) |
| Alice DiMicele, Elouise Burrell, Shelley Phillips, Freyda Epstein, Tina Malia, Windsong | O She Will Bring / Musical Priestess | Circle of Women (Earthbeat!) |
| Beth Porter | Charm On, Goldfinch | Spell Songs (Quercus) |
| New Set | ||
| Donovan | The Lullaby of Spring | Gift of a Flower to a Garden (Collector’s Choice) |
| Anne Hills | Thoughts in Flowers | Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley (Collective Works) |
| Kiva | Persephone’s Song | Alchemy (CD Baby) |
| Pamela Wyn Shannon | Twig | Nature’s Bride (Girlhenge) |
| Diana Rowan | When I Open My Eyes | Panta Rhei (s/p) |
| New Set | ||
| Alizbar & Ann’Sannat | The Ballad Whispered by the Wind | Welcome into the Morning (Prikosnovenie) |
Second hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Cockburn | Dialogue with the Devil | Sunwheel Dance (True North) |
| In Gowan Ring | Shadow of the Bird | untitled EP (Shayo) |
| Judy Mayhan | Swallow Song | When I Think of You (Shayomi Productions) |
| Tish Hinojosa | Las Golondrinas | Frontejas (Rounder) |
| New Set | ||
| Jack Hardy | Four Ways of Framing the Spring | Through (Prime) |
| MaMuse | Red Bird | Strange and Wonderful (CD Baby) |
| Mamalama | Pangaea’s Lullaby | The World of Color and Light (s/p) |
| New Set | ||
| Beth Nielsen Chapman | This Life That’s Lent to You | Prism: The Human Family Songbook (s/p) |
| Maneesh de Moor | Heal Your Soul | Songs from the Tree of Life (s/p) |
| Rising Appalachia | Resilient | Leylines (s/p) |
| Joanne Rand | Just Keep Going | Just Keep Going (Homefire Productions) |
| Nick Barbachano | Seaport Town | Familia (s/p) |