Dear Friends,
On January 1st, I sat with a box of old cards and calendars and magazines to create this collage. The challenge was to vision what I want to bring into the year 2021. I first found a Thich Nhat Hanh quote (on the left), and that led me to other images and words.
This is a season of embracing my mortality, and learning to live in balance with my spirit, the Earth and my body. I am recovering from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. They got it all, and for that I am enormously grateful. By mid-January, I hope to be back to seeing patients, if only virtually.
All that I have to say about this unprecedented year has been said. So I will only add that my wish for you is to embody and bless active hope. We each bring such unique and powerful gifts to the transformation that is needed.
Gratefully,
Linda
Here’s to the Women, Linda’s program commemorating the battle for the 19th Amendment is now available in video format! Click below to view the trailer, then click here for more information on how to view the entire program
You can view the short, 3-minute trailer to the 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
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Presenté
“ “I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.””
““I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God has designed us to occupy.””
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
