my cheek muscles were sore at the end of Sunday from laughing n smiling so much at Bushwick Book Club at Hacienda Peralta ❤️☺️ tbh i needed that joyboost bigtime. timing was perfect. And holy crap i was so blown away by every musician’s songling: the unique takes on Trinidad Escobar’s graphic novel “Crushed” are gonna make an epic Bandcamp collection ... Books 1&2 of “Crushed” helped me cry and laugh and learn and are available for PDF download at Escobar Comics’ website! Get it!! 📚 Honoured to get to meet the author (which def dialed up the nerves😂) ...playin a song inspired by her mythobiographical life story ... plus playing fresh fragile songlings is always nerve making. and i love that feeling... being alive & alert with the adrenaline of creative vulnerability. what it’s all about. Thx to everyone who was THERE for it... laughin and bein moved and tearing andsnapping and squinting into the sun with us. Recharged me in my belly. 🚣🎶I’ll post “Harana” on my patreon page asap, so u can totes join my Space Program there to hear it (& grow my creative budget for releasing more musics grown from these fresh songlings!!!) 🌊 🤓🌈 Thank you BBC Oakland team for making this deeply inspiring event happen... the big love n energy you all put into it oozes and ripples out and is deliciously contagious. 💧🐟🌊🌍 Posted @withregram • @bushwickbookcluboakland ✨THANK YOU ✨ to every single one of the performers who shared their bb songs with us yesterday. The vulnerability! The passion! The snapping on the twos and fours! What a truly magical afternoon at @peraltahaciendahp 🎶 📸 photo credit: @nikbomusic @mauracotterphotography @yoko_okay #bushwickbookcluboakland #bushwickbookclub #oaklandmusic #bayareamusic #bayareaartist (at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb-xHMAP80y/?utm_medium=tumblr

💕🎉 muchas gracias @caobarecords 🇨🇱 for adding #idreamedthatiwasflying to your very dreamy “Folky & Dreamy” Spotify Playlist!! 🥰 I’m told it’ll be there for another few weeks so to go soak it up —> search “Caoba Records” on Spotify (& follow them ther n here on insta!) —> then click on their “Folky & Dreamy” playlist & discover some other dear creatures making music from some other point on the earth’s surface. 🌎 We are all connected 🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗🫀🔗 love, Maddy #spotifyplaylist#newsingle http://spoti.fi/34xytBr (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca75IXfJY90/?utm_medium=tumblr

direct ask here, furry friends—> did u presave the single yet? #idreamedthatiwasflying comes out in under 10hrs, so now’s the time!! Thanks for fanning the flames 🫀🔥🤓🙏 (it’s a pain in arse to do on a phone, recommend using a desktop/laptop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaqFdwavu_D/?utm_medium=tumblr

2:22:22pm on 2/22/22 here on Kauai... 🌴 First time in Hawai’i ... & first time in my adult life on a “destination vacation” where i’m not playing shows or workin somehow and feel like an official tourist. tbh it’s a weird feeling... day 3 today experiencing a wash of gentle melancholia... arriving somewhere for such a short time & feeling like ... i dunno, the weight of gratitude for hangin out in paradise and resting which i need, against the obvious double-edged weight of tourism on any island culture and ecosystem... (and hey don’t even think about telling me “don’t worry about it, just enjoy” ... I love feeling things and i can’t help it and I still enjoy amidst the full palette of emotion, so there!)🌱🌸 the slow rhythm here definitely helping me feel the more subtle waves of the emotional spectrum🫀 i’m glad to have my uke with me. She’s very happy to be home, and i’m happy to have her here to translate life & meaning & chaos into chords & melody & chorus (at Kauai, HI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaTLXt7J-qi/?utm_medium=tumblr

⚡️goin fer a walk in my fave part o town in my fave pair o comfy shoes (shout-out #inkkas !) is my all time favourite way to recharge creativepower ⚡️ ➡️WHAT’s YOURS?! Go drop ur story & get inspired at madelinetasquin dot com for my #idreamedthatiwasflying project 🌱. . . . . . Here’s a photodump accidentally & intentionally taken pics from today’s 🫀 heartbattery recharge walk about my neighbourhood... (and a lil WaitForIt video of the kind of songling that usually winds up in voice memos 🎶🎹 as melodies float in from the flow of Being in 3D out in the wide world after about 40min...) 🌏 #ilovehumans#creativeprocess (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZxiyr7P6jd/?utm_medium=tumblr

wanna live in a state of wonder & awe with me this year? let’s imaginate the new world into reality... especially when no one’s watching. TO IMAGINATE = “to create imaginatively.” this superorganism needs us to say fuckit and shine our biggest baddest lovelights this year... follow the mysterious orders of our creative heartvisions even when we’re really not sure Why just yet... start remembering on the daily that we ARE changing the world whether we realize it or not, so we may as well believe we are, and have fun doing it. Turn off the television & turn on our lifevision, together... am i speaking your language? if not, unfollow, i still love chu!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Am i making sense? Who’s with me? 🦭🐘🫀 what r u in awe of right now. let’s conspire to #coinspire each other all the year through to #imaginatetheworld ... 🥸 https://www.instagram.com/madelinetasquin/p/CYVGJ36JuJf/?utm_medium=tumblr

Beautifully written post by my fellow Christmas/Solsticetimes co-mother @ccolemanmusic 🎁 🌲 Posted @withregram • @ccolemanmusic So you all might have noticed I have TOTALLY fallen off my self-directed #decembercreativeflurry commitment. I’m going to blame it on the supply chain (but really it’s because I’ve been working on this new project with @madelinetasquin getting the wheels in motion for a full Christmas album volume 2 release next year. For those of you who have purchased our 2012 Xmas album, The Merry Innocents, on bandcamp, you should have or soon will be receiving a sneak peek of our 2022 album, with 3 songs… one of which is in Welsh… (I did my best, ancestors!!!!). You can read below about our first album, and buy the digital version on bandcamp!! You can GIFT it, too!!! ——————- Madeline Tasquin and I created a Christmas album in 2012 and I appreciate it more every year. We decided to not shy away from our Christian nativity-scene roots, and instead we dug into the myth and meaning of Jesus's birth from a broader perspective. The story of the birth of Christ, Jesus, the Messiah is a solstice story. It was placed at Solstice time to meld with pagan traditions of celebrating the return of the sun (son) during the very darkest time of year. "O Come Emanuel" is the best example of this- it's about the struggle of oppression, and rejoicing in the middle of the darkest time because we know liberation will come. The earth moves around the sun, nothing will stay the same, the first will be the last, during times of darkness and chaos, we rejoice in knowing that everything changes Ritual markers of the days and seasons remind us that It might get worse, and it might get better, but it sure as hell isn't going to stay exactly the same. So in addition to a deep dive into the Jesus story, in all it's dark solstice sweetness, there are quite a few non-Jesus wintery songs on here as well, sung in French and German (and a few in English too)!! I also adapted an Ogden Nash poem for the first song on the record, and you know you wanna check that out! Enjoy!! It is available for you to stream and buy from our Merry Innocents Bandcamp page, link in my b https://www.instagram.com/p/CX2GmmFJfdN/?utm_medium=tumblr

forest bath with @ccolemanmusic while sequestered in the mountains last weekend working up a followup to our 2012 xmas songs collabalbum!! MUSICJOY!! 🌲🌲🌲OK so on winter solstice we’ll be sending out a music thankyou present (preview of the album-to-be!) to every dear creature who’s bought Merry Innocents on bandcamp & to everyone subscribed to my patreon page 🎁 ... so you’re joyfully invited to click some buttons & get our dulcet intermingled voices in your holiday soundtrack!! ✨🌲✨ http://merryinnocents.bandcamp.com 🌲✨🌲 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXhicgap9Il/?utm_medium=tumblr

🤓u r invited to drink down the full 4min on youtoob ♥️ >> 🔗 http://bit.ly/BigWhy03 (in bio) . . Song: “Watering” by @miapixley . . . #bigwhycoverseries https://www.instagram.com/p/CXOwiJFAvw-/?utm_medium=tumblr

🤓i invite ye to drink down the full 4minutes on youtube 🔗 http://bit.ly/BigWhy03 (in bio) . . Song: “Watering” by @miapixley . . . #bigwhycoverseries https://www.instagram.com/p/CXOvTKUgWtA/?utm_medium=tumblr

1 of my favourite hats besides deepenin my own musicking, is coaching other adults to live closer to their innate musicality & creativity. it’s rewarding & fun as fuck!! Music changes lives. Gift certificates for 1, 3 or 6 sessions available —> see bandcamp via bio link🤓✨🎁🌲🎤🎸🎶⚡️⚡️⚡️ EVERYONE HAS A VOICE 🫀every human has Music in them! 🧠 music feels good... no “useful” reason / purpose / end goal beyonds wanting to music, is needed!! Musicking is everyone’s birthright — fuck yeah!!! SING! PLAY!! Get closer to yer Self! #vocalcoach#ukelessons#guitarlessons#songwritinglessons#musiclessonsforadults#musicforlifecoaching#musiccoachforadults https://www.instagram.com/madelinetasquin/p/CXIZ42ZLYPC/?utm_medium=tumblr

>>> Swipe, dahlinks, for testimonials about this thing that is a gift to get to give >>> ✨✨✨ Tis #bandcampfriday today & ur invited to gift music n experiences for the ppl u love!! #buysmallbusiness #buysmallthischrismas /////// 1 such experience that’ll ripple n grow 🌊—> A music coaching session with me! via a (fully-transferable, no expiry) #giftcertificate 🎁🌲 Perfect for someone who would love to spend more attention on Music but could use some handholding to step across the threshold... I’d love to have the honour of bein the one to hold their hand & step into the mysterious forest of Music ... where each human has a plot of land but too few venture! #musiciseveryoneslanguage . . . . 🎶🎸🎤 If that ain’t quite right, consider finding the right jams that ur friend would love from the offerings or bandcamp collections of these indy artistes I love: @miapixley @rosie.steffy @lucialilikoimusic @louizaband @cashpony @ccolemanmusic @rainbowgirlsband @mme.autruche @timesnewwomanmtl @owen_adair @tay_and_the_janglahdahs https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCDdaOhqJL/?utm_medium=tumblr

bringing songs to the finish line with friends 🤓♥️ In between all-the-things, lovin workin on #thefirsttimeagain with @elburgundio Nahuel Bronzini // . . ps: who wants to work on the music video wth me? 🎞📽🎥 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWWri59geNn/?utm_medium=tumblr

📖 this is pretty much the coolest thing ever (read on!) & im so honoured to get to join @bushwickbookcluboakland 4 this show!! Myself & @arielwangmusic are the bookends for this musical book club show, i’ll be singin “Listen” first outta the 12-13 performers who wrote songs based on the book and Ariel’s song comes last with all kinds of magic in between so come on time and stay for the whole show to hear a dozen different musical takes on #listenlikeyoumeanit by #ximenevengoechea EVENTBRITE LINK IN BIO OF @bushwickbookcluboakland 📚 . . Posted @withregram • @bushwickbookcluboakland Have you felt disconnected through the pandemic? Gotten out of practice of how to be in conversation? Join Bushwick Book Club artists for their takes on Ximena Vengoechea's powerful guide: Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection. Come hear songs inspired by her advice on how to get back to hearing each other with empathy, compassion, and humility. EVENT DETAILS Where: The Museum House Porch in Peralta Hacienda Park, 2465 34th Ave, Oakland, CA When: Sunday, November 7th at 3pm *Bundle up! This event is outdoors. To reserve your space for the show, please RSVP through Eventbrite (link on our profile). This is a by donation event, all proceeds go to the artists and organizers. Hope to see you there! #bushwickbookcluboakland #listenlikeyoumeanit #ximenavengoechea https://www.instagram.com/p/CV82yclBVf3/?utm_medium=tumblr

Oh Secret Choir you made my night, you made my month... seeing you emerge from the audience and rock the mission so beautifully to the stage and feel your voices around me... oh my gooness i’m a happy human today. 🤓♥️♥️♥️☺️☺️☺️. . @dianagameros je t’adore let’s do it again soon pls. @geeepatz & @ccolemanmusic happy we get to do it all again Sunday at Amado’s 🎟 Fletch thx for shleppin your drums for just 2 songs and playing them so magically. i love you. . . And @oldfirstconcerts thank you for the warm welcome, and the perfect container for the gospel of Leonard Cohen. I hope I get to play that piano and feel that heavenly reverb again someday!! . . @claymudpie thx for all you do & creating the @sfleonardcohenfest I know it’s a LOT OF WORK!! I see you brudder. Have an amazing show tonight with @conspiracyofbeards — I’ll be livestreaming it with hot tea and a leftover donut 😜. . . Thank Leonard Cohen for writing lyrics that touch complexity with such simplicity. I think you would’ve loved our Secret Choir’s Hallelujah. (at Old First Presbyterian Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV8WX1UP0AI/?utm_medium=tumblr

Jajaja i love you @dianagameros — reminiscing on music moments incl this collab promo video “we want to inteoduce you to our friends Totonoko” for their album release we played back in 2014. ✨✨✨🤓 Look forward to intertwining voices again with this powerful songstress and activist MAÑANA Friday Nov5, live AND LIVESTREAMED from @oldfirstconcerts a reverberant & reverent container for our renditions of Leonard Cohen’s #songsfromaroom 1969 album. @smittyandjulija are bringing their Leonard magic all the way from Ojai too, for the first half of the cobill!!🎟🎟Ticket link is http://bit.ly/lennyfest (also in insta BIO) #throwbackthursdays (at Old First Presbyterian Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV3Rab_vlBq/?utm_medium=tumblr

I’m not picking my nose! I’m inviting you on a secret mission! @sfleonardcohenfest @oldfirstconcerts EMAIL ME [email protected] https://www.instagram.com/p/CV1Y8a3py2M/?utm_medium=tumblr