Boulder blues musician Jenn Cleary created her new children’s album,
All Together Now!, with her adopted daughter, Dorje Dolma, her mother, Margaret, and bluesman Mark “Mad Dog” Friedman. The LP addresses everything from environmental and social consciousness to what it means to be a family.
“I didn’t start with this intention, but these are big topics right now, and I love being out in nature,” Cleary says. “Over the years, it has been devastating to watch our environment be so compromised. I grew up playing in the woods and climbing trees, and loved swimming in the lakes and oceans. I attempted here to write with positive messaging.that we do have the ability to make a difference. I feel that mixing that in with fun, danceable music makes it easier to convey that message.”
Seattleâs premier avian scribe follows
Mozartâs Starling with this look into how the âinnate connection between humans and the natural world is coming to the fore in a new way as academic research rises in support of truthsâ that are age-old. With an erudite and roving wit, Haupt writes about how trees can communicate with each other, and how we can connect with them simply by walking in the woods. And, of course, there are still birds.
Out now
Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution by Kent Wong
His father was a Chinese official, but when the Cultural Revolution hit, Kent Wong and his siblings were separated into different villages. Eventually, heâd join an underground movement and become one of a half million who fled to Hong Kong via an open water swim that in some spots stretched six miles. His trip ultimately took him to Seattle. He recalls that journey in clear, direct prose in this memoir. You can read an excerpt
My great-grandmother, Vi
taqwšəblu Hilbert, was eighty-three years old when she commissioned the symphony that she titled
The Healing Heart of the First People. Back then the news was all about fighting George W. Bush’s war on terror. She saw beyond the fear to a divided country, the wars across the ocean, and the violent injustices in her own streets. She believed so deeply in our people’s stories, the teachings inherent within them. She knew that no one would listen to an old Indian woman, that she would have to reach them another way.
Somehow she arrived on what she called highbrow music, symphonies. This came as a shock to us, for my great-grandmother hadn’t grown up with this kind of stuff. She loved square dancing and Elvis. But she believed this was the way, that if people could hear our beliefs through song, it could heal this wound with music.
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The Biennial Kinetic Art Exhibit is well suited for COVID-19 since most of the activities during the two-day opening weekend are staged outdoors in Boynton Beach's recently refurbished downtown area.