…at my place, no less! Heather and I are having a ton of fun putting these videos together for our crowdfunded Arthurian legend musical, Queens of Avalon. Here’s the newest one.
Sooj
“Little Bird” is going in the rotation as of today! Help me boost the signal if you want by grabbing this image and sharing it around. You can subscribe on iTunes, you can listen on TuneIn, and you can hear all the podcast episodes on the WOSRadio website here!
“Dream of Mississippi” gets a turn on the May 30 episode- I’ll share and boost that info when the time comes.
I’m off to the Beltania festival this weekend in Colorado. Come and find me if you’ll be there, too!
Lookout, Columbus! And incidentally, if you won’t be able to attend MarCon this weekend, I’m coming back through NEXT MONTH – June 21st and June 29th! I have a pretty graphic for those shows, courtesy of illustrator Herb Leonhard:
MY MARCON STUFF IS AS FOLLOWS:
Friday, 7pm, Union E: Panel – You Got Your Song In My Book! You Got Your Book In My Song!
Friday, 8:30pm, Fayette: Panel – Everything Is Magic
Saturday, 2:30pm, Batelle South: S. J. TUCKER CONCERT!
Saturday, 10:00pm, Union E: Shapeshifter Bardic Circle (bring me your songs about selkies/faeries/werekin!)
Sunday, 11:30am, Union E: Songwriting Workshop (I plan to talk about my recent experiences with songwriting prompts, and whatever else we decide we want to discuss.)
Sunday, 2:30pm, Union E: Panel – Gigging; practical guide to making a living playing music (Tom Smith and Marc Gunn are also on this panel, so bring your sense of humor!)
Including some “Little Bird”, some “Crossroads”, and some….Iron Maiden?!? YES.
More of Bekah’s music: http://www.bekahkelso.com
Bekah’s ConcertWindow channel: http://www.concertwindow.com/bekahkelso
Our setlist last night:
SAILING SONG (Sooj – from the Wonders album)
HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Bekah – from BKTF’s album, No Stranger)
THE PIXIE CAN’T SLEEP (Sooj – from the Tangles album)
WELCOME HOME (Bekah AND Sooj, available to download)
SEETHING SUN (Bekah – from the Departures album)
LOVE LIES (Sooj – from the Mischief album)
COLORS OF THE WIND (Bekah – unreleased)
LITTLE BIRD (Sooj – from the Stolen Season album)
CROSSROADS/NUMBER OF THE BEAST (mwoohahahaaaa)
1157/HOURGLASS/LOOK TO THE WATER (Sooj/Bekah/Sooj – unreleased)
HIPPY PAGAN PEOPLE (Bekah – from the Departures album)
Thanks to everyone who was able to watch! We had 100+ sweet souls with us!
Happy April, everyone! My BIG news today is that I have an online concert to invite you to! It’s happening this very night! For now, I don’t get to do these that often, just because of how my schedule is set up and how
S….L….O….W
my connectivity options are at home. So we’re gonna make this SPECIAL. You don’t only get to hear and see ME share new songs and old favorites live and online, though. You ALSO get to hear my song-sister Bekah Kelso share her sweet Bohemian grooves! Bekah is hosting the concert at her home in San Antonio, but you can watch and listen to us no matter where you are! Want a piece of this? Here’s our concert link. We hope you can join us! We’ll kick off the tunes at 7pm central time (5pm Pacific, 6pm Mountain, 8pm Eastern). Don’t be shy about hopping on in the chat room while we’re playing- we’ll be watching for your words! If you’d like, you can also go join the conversation anytime on the Facebook event.
UPDATE: here’s a quick video of us getting ready for the broadcast tonight!
Next weekend, I’ll be attending the Daughters of the Moon women’s retreat near Memphis, TN. Let me know if you’re also going!
The jewel in the crown of my travels this month is actually pretty close to home for me- the Amazon Women’s Music Festival in Fayetteville, AR starts on Friday, April 22nd! The lineup is all women musicians, but the festival is open to all! I hope you can be there with us, as this is an event that gets better every single year- and I’ve been lucky enough to be part of it since the first!
Fayetteville, AR: Sooj Performs at Amazon Music Festival 2016
The Event Place
6279 West Wedington Drive
Fayetteville, AR 72704
Get Tickets Here!
Other nifty new stuff includes:
–an interview by my scholarly friend P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, which is now up on the Aedicula Antinoi blog! P. asked me about everything from my Stolen Season album to my favorite Southern folktales, and it’s a good long interview which I really enjoyed doing. Check out an excerpt here on my blog, and read the whole shebang here.
–Heather Dale’s Queens of Avalon project is about to be released! Check out the DVD trailers here, and sign up to get the latest news about the DVD release, and when we’ll be taking our Gwen-and-Gana show on the road! I don’t miss the blonde wigs for the filming of the show, but I’ll wear them again for YOU!
Thanks for reading!
My scholarly friend P. Sufenas Virius Lupus asks very good, very complex questions. As a result, this interview was a year in the making! I got to talk about everything from collaborating on music with friends to my favorite spooky story! Check it out at the link below.
https://aediculaantinoi.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/an-interview-with-s-j-tucker/
Excerpt: The thing about Sirens and Merforlk and River Deities (and Kelpies and Selkies and Glashtyn and Jenny Greenteeth and all the rest) is that they’re consistent. They’re true to what they are. It’s not personal. The voice of “Wild River Child” is warning the listener that she’s going to be true to what she is, and how the listener proceeds after gaining that knowledge is up to them. “I’ll wash your soul away”, she sings, and she means it on every possible level. The water fae and shapeshifters of Scottish and Irish folklore have always held fascination for me. I wanted to do honor to their river- and swamp-dwelling cousins in the Southern United States, not for the first time.
We are all the May Queen and the Fae Queen, even if we think we can only be one or the other.
They are sisters, light and dark; not enemies, but one and the same.
Remember, you have the power to own your story, no matter how many other people may think they already know how it goes.
If you love the King Arthur mythos, definitely check this out.
Brace yourself; the blonde wig may be a bit of a shock. 🙂
Get the latest news on this project.
Heather Dale and S.J. Tucker are bold, confident women who have forged truly independent careers in the music industry. They create original songs of myth, magic, history and fantasy for their legions of fans.
For Queens of Avalon they joined forces to take on the challenge of creating a musical from the ground up, writing their own script and score, and filming a long-form video of the production.
I’ll be performing tonight evening at a free event in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and I want to make sure that you all know about it.
The Fayetteville Underground Art Gallery in Fayetteville Square has long hosted Last Saturday, a monthly showcase of local poetry and music.
This Saturday, March 26th, Last Saturday presents Dougapalooza, a free benefit show in support of Last Saturday’s friend and mine, poet Doug Shields.
I met Doug in 1997 when we were both barely legal. Doug has always been supportive of other’s works and acts of expression, and he’s recently recovered from a pretty gnarly bicycle accident. I’m joining the Last Saturday crew at their request, to help collect donations to go toward Doug’s remaining hospital bills and expenses.
Many of you know that I had my own unexpected hospital stay in late 2008/early 2009. I couldn’t say no to this, having been exactly where Doug is now.
If you’re in town, I hope you’ll join us.
Both Last Saturday and the Gallery bar will collect as much money for Doug as we can. There is no cover charge, but all donations collected will go back to Doug.
March 26, 2016 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
LAST SATURDAY DOUGAPALOOZA BENEFIT!
Fayetteville Underground Art Gallery, Fayetteville Square
101 W Mountain St
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Springtime means festivals for me! I hope it means the same for you, especially when May gets here! I’ll be presenting concerts at MarCon in Columbus, the Beltania festival in Colorado, and the big one: Caldera Pagan Music Festival in LaFayette, Georgia, Memorial Day weekend!
This is it: the Pagan Music Festival we’ve all been dreaming of. GET TICKETS NOW!
I am honored to take part in what’s sure to be a history-making event, and I’m really stoked that a whole bunch of my colleagues and best friends in music will be performing there as well! Will you be there with us? Check out the festival website for all the scheduled performers, including Ginger Doss, Damh the Bard, Tuatha Dea, Dragon Ritual Drummers, and soooo many more!
We’ll be releasing THE GREEN ALBUM there with a concert of its very own, in addition to our individual concerts – SO MANY CONCERTS! All of the performers will be teaching workshops as well throughout the weekend! Come and play with us! If it’s gonna be the Witchy Woodstock, it needs you as much as it needs us!
I know how hard it can be to budget time and money for travel, but I’m telling you- if you’re gonna choose one event to spend it all on this year, Caldera Fest is the one. The people who are putting on this event, as well as the other festivals I work with (like last week’s Phoenix Phyre Festival down in Florida and next month’s Amazon Music Fest in Arkansas), are real folks just like us, who are giving this dream everything they’ve got. They’re managing logistics like they’ve been doing it professionally all their lives- I mean it, I’m impressed! They’re putting in so much time and energy, and they’re giving us the best ticket prices that they possibly can- AND definitely giving us our money’s worth in music, magic, community, and connection. They’re giving us a chance to make memories together that will last in songs and stories for generations to come.
I hope to see you at Caldera Fest, if it is in any way possible for you not to miss it.
If you weren’t able to listen to my interview last night on Black Swamp Radio’s Swamp Gas program, you may stream it or download it today, thanks to my host Paul, aka Arizona Tramp.
One of my favorite parts of the show and the interview was hearing Paul’s 2005 recording of my live performance of “In the House of Mama Dragon”. I couldn’t stop grinning! Check out the interview link above to hear it. Paul plays the track pretty early on in the show.
I’m happy to announce that Black Swamp Radio has a huge chunk of my discography in their regular rotation now, so give them a listen and a stream when you’re in a position to do so! You’ll hear a whole lot of good, new music to fire up your own creativity, I am sure.