Song Of The Soul

David LaMotte is rich in music, and bountiful in living out what he sings about. With 12 recordings, 3 books, founding credits for Abraham Jam and a Rotory World Peace Fellowship, there is so much to rhapsodize about. Situated in Black Mountain, North Carolina, David has voice, lyrics, & guitar to charm you deeper. All the songs in this program are written & performed by David LaMotte: Taste the Light - from The Other Way Around Spirit - from Spin Water - from Spin Just One Candle - from The Other Way Around

Tash Terry is half of Indigie Femme, a confluence of two powerful, spiritually-rooted, women of native tribes of the global north and south. Tash is from the Dine/Navajo Nation, roots she draws on to express identity, love, connection, gratitude, & joy. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Indigie Femme: Grandmother Earth, Grandfather Sky - Grandmother Earth, Grandfather Sky You Taught Me To Love - from Justify Beautiful Spirit - from Indian Souvenir Blessed Rain - from Indian Souvenir Nga Iwi E - from Hau Waiata (master?)

Art and music suffuse the work & play of Heidi Kalyani. Her musical collaborations are wide-ranging, including Turko-Balkan music with ORO! Orkestra, kirtan with Blue Lotus Trio and her Heart Wide Open Project, and Indonesian music as part of the Mindful Flower Gamelan. Heidi is Canadian, occupying a small town called Wolfville in Nova Scotia. Featured Music: Elekesekeng - by Mindful Flower Gamelon Ketri Ketri - ORO! Orkestra Koari - by ORO! Orkestra Shakti Devi - by Heart Wide Open Project Govinda Jaya Jaya - by Heart Wide Open Project

A self-proclaimed "Budd Lite" (as in Buddhism), Catholic-raised, Americana musician, Joe Fahey lives the questions through his music. Today the questions include life & death, but there are no definitive answers on tap here, just experiences, feelings, & some whimsy, from this Twin Cities-based artist. All songs in this program are written & performed by Joe Fahey: Are There Clouds? - from Bushnells Turtle Once You Were Gone - from Somnambulist Chaser Somewhere To Go - from Somnambulist Chaser So Close (Yet So Far Away) - from Somnambulist Chaser Ophelia's Blues - from Somnambulist Chaser How To Leave A Room - from Somnambulist Chaser The Elusive Unicorn Blues - to be on upcoming CD Rabbitskin Glue

Liam Robinson & Jean Rohe largely birthed their Hunger EP at the Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology in Bellaire, Michigan, and a creative threshhold was crossed into the duo called Robinson & Rohe. Their collaboration is a crucible for refining the American experience from many vantage points and creating a musical ediface of powerful lyrics, evocative harmonies, and consumate skill. Liam was musical director for the Off-Broadway musical, Hadestown and in the cash of the Broadway play War Horse. You can see & hear Jean's National Anthem: Arise! Arise! on YouTube, where you can also see the courageous speech she gave at her college commencement. All songs in this program are written & performed by Liam Robinson & Jean Rohe: Shine Louisa Hunger For a Moment Safe Harbor

Bill Miller is a 3-time Grammy Awards winner, a Mohican Indian from Northern Wisconsin, and a Nashville-based singer-songwritter of incredible & diverse musical talents. He'll be the headliner at LaCrosse, WI's Great River Folk Festival Sunday afternoon concert, August 27, 2017. All songs in this program are written & performed by Bill Miller: Windows of Time - unreleased but see/listen to the YouTube video Never Too Far - from Spirit Rain Dark River - from Chronicles of Hope Praises - from The Red Road Raven in the Snow - from Raven in the Snow

Annie Patterson & Peter Blood support hope & change through their world-famous group singing books, Rise Up Singing and Rise Again. For close to 40 years they have been nurturing & leading group singing. Peter was editor for Pete Seeger's autobiography, Where Have all the Flowers Gone, and Annie performs in multiple configurations, including with Girls From Mars. All songs in this program are performed by Annie Patterson & Peter Blood, and they are written by those noted: Plant Me a Garden - written by Sally Rogers If You Want Peace, Work For Justice - written by Charlie King Gonna Take Us All - written by Jon Fromer Quite Early Morning - written by Pete Seeger Sing, People, Sing - written by Pat Humphries & Sandy O

In the hours when Paul Tinkerhess is not repairing Birkenstock footwear for the people of Ann Arbor, he finds other ways to nurture his town - by organizing the Water Hill Music Fest, by keeping winter sidewalks walkable with Snow Buddy, and by sharing his banjo-playing and song-writing talents generously in the cause of community. A CD of the live music from this interview will be available for sale at NorthernSpiritRadio.org, the only current source of Paul's music! All songs in this program are performed by Paul Tinkerhess, and they are written by him, unless otherwise noted: Quaker Waltz The Many Hills of Big Bend Avenue Looking At Me - written by Billy King A Still Small Voice - written by Bob Franke Martin & Molly's Wedding Song

Part 3 of musicians who performed with & whose music was grown by Pete Seeger. We'll end with his sister, Peggy Seeger, after visits with & music from Ruth Pelham of Music Mobile Online, DC Cultural Warrior & Singer Luci Murphy, and Jane Sapp, founder of the Black Belt Folk Roots Festival, and much, much, more. Pete's influence on music is alive and thriving in so many places! Featured Music: Turning of the World - by Ruth Pelham Ain't You Got a Right (to the Tree of Life) - by Luci Murphy and the DC Labor Chorus Movin' On - by Jane Sapp It's Pete - Peggy Seeger Original Air Date: 07/16/2017

An old friend of Northern Spirit Radio, Charlie King, returns for the first time in nine years. Join us as this talented troubador shares his songs, stories, and trenchant wit with us and our listeners on Song of the Soul, tales from becoming a concientious objector as a Roman Catholic to being told by Pete Seeger to write a Woody Guthrie song. All songs in this program are written & performed by Charlie King: Send in the Drones - from So Far So Good Trickle-up - from So Far So Good Yanira Merino - from So Far So Good One in Six - from Life and Love, Tears and Laughter Three Faces in a Row - from Life and Love, Tears and Laughter BONUS SONG: Why Don't You Move to Russia?

More fruits of the musical seeds planted by Pete Seeger over his 94 years, with guests like Reggie Harris, Annie Patterson & Peter Blood, Peter Alsop, and Sarah Pirtle (and several more folks in 2 weeks!). 3 weeks of Pete Seeger stories and music influenced by him! Featured Music: High Over the Hudson - by Kim & Reggie Harris O, Had I A Golden Thread - written by Pete Seeger, performed by Annie Patterson Gotta Lotta Livin' To Do - by Peter Alsop, producer of the Re-Pete Concert Event, and here's Pete Seeger introducing Peter one song and a second song. The Women's March - by Sarah Pirtle of Children's Music Network, and see the booklet for this song here A few Pete-influenced guests last week, some more in 2 weeks. Original Air Date: 07/02/2017

Pete Seeger planted seeds of music & change everywhere he went, and some of that harvest is shared today (& next week) by a visit with Leda Schubert, author of Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing (and also The Princess of Borscht), and musician friends of Pete's, Joe Jencks, Charlie King, and Pat Lamanna (and several more folks next week!). Pete was inspirational & transforming for so many people! Featured Music: Let Me Sing You A Song - by Joe Jencks Spoon of Sand - by Charlie King Keep Him Singing - by Pat Lamanna And more next week!!!

A long-ago migrant from the Jersey Shore to the Heartland, Ian Alexy and his brother have been the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, while his own band is Ian Alexy & The Deserters. It's driving rock, it's folk, it's real, it's great. All songs in this program are performed live for Northern Spirit Radio by Ian Alexy, and they are written by him unless otherwise noted:: Atlantic City - written by Bruce Springsteen After the Gold Rush - written by Neil Young Misfits In Love Over and Back Again Song for Joel High As A Plane

Let him near a guitar and Ned Brown transmutes the punk rock of his youth, mixed with ingredients of jazz and word play, into something new for the planet, though most days he's just a mild-mannered, meditating, Tai Chi, bodywork professional with Earth & Sky Bodyworks, Who is the real, who the fakir? A question beyond our pay grade. All songs in this program are written & performed live by Chris Hayden (Ned Brown):: Heye Selkie Split Second Emerald Ash Pictures Mission light

Michael Smith is the face and guitar of Whisper Behind the Light, drawing on the deep place to speak messages of power and transformation. Michael has found a life of rootedness and simplicity - as much as that happens with 5-plus kids - away from the squirrel!!! of big city life, and in the community of the Catholic faith of his upbringing. Check him out on Soundcloud and his musings on Blogspot. All songs in this program are written & performed by Michael Smith/Whisper Behind the Light: Set Me Free Study The Burning Why Now? Spilling My Heart

J. Brent Bill is the author of Life Lessons From a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace, which has been reviewed in Friends Journal. He's also been an avid consumer and creator of music, and joins us this week to discuss one section in particular of his book, the Humble Stumble Hymnbook. Songs included in J. Brent Bill's Song of the Soul are: All My Favorite People - by Over the Rhine When Will I Ever Learn to Live In God - by Van Morrison Mercyland - by Phil Madeira, on Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us A Light In The Window - by Carrie Newcomer BONUS SONG: Good Light - by Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors

Jean Rohe has created an alternate (and much better) National Anthem: Arise! Arise! and she shares the songs from the US, Cuba, Brazil, & Republic of Georgia that got her there. She'll share much more of her own music on her next Song of the Soul visit. Written & performed by Jean Rohe: National Anthem: Arise! Arise! Original Air Date: 05/14/2017

Michael Hough has been making music with Mustard's Retreat since 1974, and as part of The Yellow Room Gang for the past decade. Michael is honest. He's straightforward. He's got a good heart. And he's talented. You will surely find both depth & enjoyment in his songs. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Michael Hough of Mustard's Retreat: Welcome Back - from The Wind and the Crickets A Resolution of Something - from A Resolution of Something Contact - from Happy New Day by the Yellow Room Gang Shadows on the Shore - from A Good Place to Be A Reminder - from A Good Place to Be Moody Monday - from Back to Back When the Moon Howls and the Wolves Are Still - from MR7

Billy Jonas is more fun and spiritual depth than you can hardly imagine. Sometimes described as doing neo-tribal hootenanny, industrial re-percussion, and soul-spelunking, he started as part of the Oberlin College Big Bang Theory performance art collective, was part of The Billys, sometimes shares as part of the Abraham Jam, and is at the core of the Billy Jonas Band. All the songs in this program are written & performed by Billy Jonas, probably in conjunction with hundreds or even thousands of other people: God Is In - from Life So Far Kol Han'shama - from Habayta - Homeward (Billy Jonas Band) Into the Water - from Get Real Modeh Ani - from Habayta - Homeward (Billy Jonas Band) One - from Life So Far Pissin' Outside - from Live Original Air Date: 04/30/2017

Listen to Nici Peper and you'll know why she won the title of Minneapolis's most authentic artist at the Wholly Guacamole contest. Whether performing solo, as part of Firefly, with The Big Smooch, or in other configurations, Nici radiates. Titles like indie, Americana, folk, etc, do not capture the reality of this love-based, Lutheran-raised, intense and deep woman who delights in performing in rowdy dive bars. All the songs in this program are written by Nici Peper & performed live for NSR (except the last): Bluebird Two Old Coots Ahead of the Storm Stone Arch Bridge River Ain't No Man Alive - live at Badger Brew Express in 2011 Original Air Date: 04/16/2017