““I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”― ”
Dear Friends,
I have always loved this quote by E. B. White. It really does describe how I am feeling about this summer. I love our home, our garden, my one, precious life. And I am sometimes deeply shaken by the need I feel to protect it, to protect this fragile Earth and to fight for justice for those who live here. Finding balance can be difficult!
I seem to be fully recovered now from the small stroke that slowed me down in the Spring. I continue working on the “Emergence” CD (thanks to so many generous supporters!), and continue as well with my patients and their families in with the work I do with Hospice.
Over the last few months, I’ve also been working with Scott to complete the video to accompany my song, “I Choose”, my response to the attack on women’s reproductive choice. Scott just completed it, and it’s posted at https://youtu.be/yAltol9uinE, or you can view it directly below.
If you like “I Choose”, please feel free to share it with friends or people who you think might like it or who could use it in their work. I would be so delighted if groups such as NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and others might have a chance to see it and evaluate whether it would be useful for their purposes. I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel and please share any content there that you find appealing!
And now…let’s get out and enjoy the beauties of this amazing Earth!
“A Small Vase of Flowers - Video”
Photograph by Jez Timmons on Unsplash
Work on the newest CD, “Emergence”, continues! To receive updates on the project and to contribute as you can, please go to the GoFundMe site. We are close!!
GoFundMe contribution to Emergence.
Thank you
You can view the short, 3-minute trailer to the “Here’s to the Women” performance above. For more information on booking a showing of this film, please contact me: www.lindasongs.com
Thank you!!! And please share!
Linda Allen
Women’s Suffrage
One-hundred years ago, Suffragists were state by state launching their final campaigns to secure the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. And then the Pandemic struck, active from 1918 through 1920. As today, people were told to wear masks and to stay home. In 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt was still trying to recover from the flu when she made her way to Nashville for the final push in a dramatic battle for passage.
I’m happy to announce that my 53-minute film of “Here’s to the Women” and the trailer (see above) are now complete! It premiered at Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Historical Park on August 23rd, and is now available for individual or group showings.
You are invited to visit our Suffrage Page to find information about the virtual program, explore both traditional and my more recently composed music of Suffrage, books, movies, links and a host of other Suffrage resources. You can also visit our store to see other Suffrage products: jewelry, note cards and more.
Be safe and celebrate our victories. And, as always, may we honor our ancestors by continuing their work for justice.
Linda
“To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves”
“Whether tender or strident, lyrical or percussive, her vocal eloquence adds to the power of her lyrics and music
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To listen to tracks and read about each song, click on the image above.
““Allen’s life work uncovers the injustice, focuses on that and brings song to help mend and move through our life cycles. Congrats to Allen on fifty years.”
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“Linda Allen: Hear Her Roar”, Entertainment News Northwest, April 2019. Read the article here.
Back in the late 1970s, when I was newly arrived in Bellingham, I put together a CETA grant to create the Rainy Day Songbook and an accompanying cassette. I worked with the Whatcom Museum, the library, and a host of wonderful musicians, some of whom have now passed on. The Rainy Day Songbook is long out of print, but I recently found the master for the cassette, and Phil Heaven re-mastered it. With copyright considerations, it is not available to download, but you can listen to it all. The Songbook is only available used, but some of the highlights are also online.
I have just loved hearing these voices from out of the past. For a taste of the fun stuff that’s in this collection, click on on the audio track to “Silver Tip” just to the right.
To access all the songs on the album, go to our Washington, My Home link and click the ‘Listen” button.
Have fun!
To listen to an archival of the Rainy Day Band in concert:
The Rainy Day Band
