New Release Single - Grieving

Tonight is the one year anniversary of the lights that were placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to represent the then 400,000 U.S. lives lost to Covid-19. 

It was an invitation to grieve for the loss of those lives.  The invitation itself is what struck me and moved me to write this song a few days later.  I had been so moved by the humility and, I thought it at the time, naiveté to invite the entirety of a country so broken to collectively engage in something so painful and personal as grieving.  

My lyrics are trying to convey the disarray of my own thoughts, and how much of a struggle I imagine so many of us were in and still are in to make sense of two equally brutal scopes of violence expressed in totally different ways-racism, and pandemic. The pandemic in our thoughts intertwined with the physical pandemic killing so many, causing profound suffering in so many more, and encroaching on those yet untouched by it. My own inability to see them as separate was the voice of my creativity, inner sight.  I had to try to say something, sing something to bring voice to cacophony. The piano player is Mark Shilansky, an independent jazz pianist in his own right, and currently the Resident Jazz pianist at UNH. This song and upcoming album is being produced by Ben Rogers of Loudsun Studios in Jaffrey NH.  

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