The Music of Sarah Stockwell Arthen http://sarahstockwell.com Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:08:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Free Concert/ Event: Weaving a Web of Resilient Community http://sarahstockwell.com/2012/03/04/concert-event-weaving-a-web-of-resilient-community/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2012/03/04/concert-event-weaving-a-web-of-resilient-community/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:20:27 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/?p=704

“Earth Hour” Free Concert (and) Photo Exhibit (and) Seed Swap (and)…!

Sarah Stockwell-Arthen and friends

Saturday, March 31

7:00 pm, Free!

Cummington Community House,  33 Main Street Cummington MA

Featuring Hilltown Families photo exhibit by Sienna Wildfield 

Bring potluck snack if you like – we may have a kids’ art-making space in back – bring a candle in a jar for lights out at 8:30 – bring seeds to swap – bring fliers or brochures about your farm, Hilltown business, or sustainability project to share. My music highlights the same themes as Chesterfield’s Sienna Wildfield’s photos, in her exhibit, Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit of Life and Landscape in Western MA. The photos will be featured at the event (www.hilltownfamilies.org).  Wildfield’s work powerfully illustrates the richness of the Hilltowns and the connections between ourselves, land, food, work, etc. The photos tell stories of life in the Hilltowns and illustrate the culture and values of the area.

Earth Hour celebrates a worldwide commitment to ongoing change for the betterment of our home. Along with millions of others around the planet, we will douse the lights (at 8:30 pm) for one hour. www.earthhour.org. Please bring a candle IN A JAR if you have one.


This program is supported in part by grants from the Cummington, Windsor, Worthington, and Plainfield Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. www.massculturalcouncil.org

 

 

 

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Richard Shindell’s, “The Ballad of Mary Magdalene” at

the Iron Horse Music Hall on August 29, 2007.

]]> http://sarahstockwell.com/2011/02/15/mary-magdalene/feed/ 0 “I Knew This Place” – Live at the Hilltown Spring Festival http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/05/hilltown-spring-festival-2008-i-knew-this-place/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/05/hilltown-spring-festival-2008-i-knew-this-place/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:39 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/?p=50 The Hilltown Community Development Corporation (www.hilltowncdc.org) is a great organization here in the hilltowns of Western Massachusetts — its annual Spring Festival is one of my favorite events of the year.  I’ve been singing Dave Mallet’s “I Knew This Place” for a couple of decades (www.davidmallett.com).  Reminds me of  my family’s connection to my grandparent’s land.

]]> http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/05/hilltown-spring-festival-2008-i-knew-this-place/feed/ 0 “Solid Ground” – Live from a hay field http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/04/solid-ground-2/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/04/solid-ground-2/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:22:17 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/?p=42 Singing Dougie MacLean’s “Solid Ground” in Kip Sear’s hay field, Cummington, MA.  Video and inspiration by Rose Wessel (www.threesalamanders.com).

]]> http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/04/solid-ground-2/feed/ 0 “Just a Bum” – Live at the Iron Horse http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/03/just-a-bum/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/03/just-a-bum/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:29:54 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/15/just-a-bum/ Greg Brown’s “Just a Bum” at the Iron Horse Music Hall

in Northampton, Mass. on August 29, 2007.

]]> http://sarahstockwell.com/2009/11/03/just-a-bum/feed/ 0 Healing in This Night – Live at the Iron Horse http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/14/healing-in-this-night/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/14/healing-in-this-night/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:35:05 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/15/healing-in-this-night/ Sarah sings Bob Franke’s “Healing in this Night” at the Iron Horse

Music Hall in Northampton, Mass. on August 29, 2007.

]]> http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/14/healing-in-this-night/feed/ 0 The Dead Egyptian Blues – Live at the Iron Horse http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/14/the-dead-egyptian-blues/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/14/the-dead-egyptian-blues/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:32:35 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/15/the-dead-egyptian-blues/ Sarah sings Michael Smith’s “The Dead Egyptian Blues” at the Iron

Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Mass. on August 29, 2007.

]]> http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/10/14/the-dead-egyptian-blues/feed/ 0 At Earth Day 2007, singing “Solid Ground” http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/09/25/iron-horse-music-hall-august-29-2007/ http://sarahstockwell.com/2007/09/25/iron-horse-music-hall-august-29-2007/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:25:05 +0000 Sarah http://sarahstockwell.com/?p=9

It’s the land that is our wisdom

It’s the land that shines us through

It’s the land that feeds our children

It’s the land, you cannot own the land, the land owns you.

(from Solid Ground by Dougie MacLean)

photo by Rose Wessel

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“Her singing is soulful and deeply felt; when she began to sing I felt the mood in the whole room change.”

“I haven’t fall so much in love with a singer since I first heard Kate Bush.”

“My CD player has become a Sarah Stockwell jukebox. I just can’t get enough of her!”

“Eroticism, grace and a deep, loving sensuality are brought to every note.”

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