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Dear friends, Welcome! Thanks for coming to visit! I am very excited about the year 2010. In Washington State we are celebrating one hundred years of women's right to vote. I'm going on the road again with my multi-media presentation, Here's to the Women! I'm also celebrating the release of a brand new CD of the same name. I am thrilled to be going to small communities throughout the State presenting these stories of the silencing and the raising up of women's voices. Many thanks to the Inquiring Mind program of Humanities Washington, to the Washington Women's History Consortium, and to the many organizations and individuals who have supported me in preparation for this year's work. Here at home, I am proud to be the director of the Bellingham Threshold Choir. Last year I received my certification as a Certified Clinical Musician, so I've had many hours in that sacred place, at the bedside of those who are suffering or dying. Our Choir has a new web site: www.bellinghamthresholdchoir.org. I now offer workshops on “Singing at the Threshold”. In addition to the “Here's to the Women!” program, I am presenting my other multi-media presentation, Pilgrimage: Journey to the Heart of Israel and Palestine. It chronicles my experiences of the conflict in the Middle East with an emphasis on children's experience through art. I was invited to visit in 2006, where I sang for school children and groups of all ages, and visited with Israeli and Palestinian peace workers. In these pages you can hear songs, see the lyrics, read old newsletters, learn more about workshops, see old photos, and see where I'll be next. You can sign up for my email newsletter, which I send quite sporadically, which may contain recipes, bits of wisdom, poems, song bits and reminiscences. These have been dark times for so many people. As I write, victims are still being pulled from the rubble of Haiti, huge corporations seem to be gaining unlimited power, health care is a shambles, and our environment is under attack at every level. Many dear friends have lost their jobs. As the late Studs Terkel said, “Hope dies last”. It is in you, my friends and community, that I find hope. Let's keep it going. In the light of hope, Linda n |
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Linda
sings the songs
that tell of the lives and the work, the hopes and the dreams of people
everywhere. Her interest in songwriting has grown out of her love for
traditional music as well as her interest in our collective history.
She has a talent for reaching into the ordinary to find the profound,
setting it to music and singing it home.
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