This episode is being curated close to the date of the United States’ Independence Day celebration, July 4th. Host Laura Dedelow writes, “I’ve never liked fireworks. Aside from being awful for the environment and for…
“Dissolving Boundaries” explores our evolving relationship with landscape through compositions that question traditional separations between self and environment. Host Bart Everson begins with Steven Ball’s “In the Countryside,” a meditation on post-romantic rural landscapes “now…
This show is dedicated to a handful of songs which inspired a youngster Laura to get out and relate to the natural surroundings. From “The Sound of Music” to “Misty Mountain Hop” to Dolly Parton…
“Songs of Rain” invites listeners to contemplate our complex relationship with precipitation across global landscapes and musical traditions. The journey begins with Gabrielle Pietrangelo’s “Rainwater Spiritual,” a desert dweller’s celebration of rain as “a blessing…
The journey begins with Elemental Magic’s cosmic “Universal Connection,” flowing into Carson Blake’s trust-filled “Wheel” that celebrates natural cycles. The first set continues with child-friendly ecological education from Everyday Magic’s “Small Creatures” and Eco Faeries’…
