{"id":124,"date":"2020-05-06T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2020-05-06T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:43:00","slug":"ep4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/ep4\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 4: Solace in nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/f33a3485-38da-4396-b8ff-cbce06dcb0c2?dark=false\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p class=\"episode-info-heading\"><strong>Episode summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that the weather is finally getting warm, it&#8217;s easier to spend more time outside and reconnect with nature. And it is glorious and restorative! So along that theme, we\u2019ll be hearing music from Aaron Marcus, Elixir, Arise &amp; Go, and Bright Wings Chorus, and poetry read by Julie Vallimont, Anna Patton, Charis Boke, and Sam Sanders. Visit www.starsintherafters.com to contribute to the podcast, or to contact us. If you\u2019re enjoying the podcast, we\u2019d love it if you\u2019d help spread the word!<\/p>\n<p class=\"episode-info-heading\"><strong>Episode notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Intro:\u00a0 <i>A Great Wagon<\/i> (excerpt), by Rumi, read by Julie Vallimont. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Peggy&#8217;s Maggot \/ Slangpolska \/ Veery &#8211; Aaron Marcus (Montpelier, VT).\u00a0 These tunes by Aaron Marcus are featured on their album <i>Men Don\u2019t Cry<\/i>. The recording of a veery is from an actual bird. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. <i>Untitled<\/i> by Sarah Hirsch, read by Anna Patton (Brattleboro, VT). Sarah wrote this poem just this week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3. Charlie Mulvihil&#8217;s \/ Gigue du Salon &#8211; Elixir (VT, NY, DC). These beautiful jigs are from Elixir\u2019s album <i>Anybody\u2019s Guess<\/i>. The band is Ethan Hazzard-Watkins on fiddle, Anna Patton on clarinet, Owen Morrison on guitar, Jesse Readlynn on trumpet, and Nils Fredland on trombone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elixirmusic.com\/\">www.elixirmusic.com<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. <i>The Lake Isle of Innisfree<\/i>, by William Butler Yeats, read by Charis Boke (Springfield, VT). The fiddle accompaniment is by Rachel Panitch (Boston, MA). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5. They Took My Wife From Me Last Night &#8211; Tim Ball (Ithaca, NY). This tune is performed by the band Arise &amp; Go, featuring Ellie Gould on fiddle, Michael Roddy on flute, and Tim Ball on guitar. This old Scottish tune was published in the Patrick McDonald collection in 1784. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariseandgo.org\/\">www.ariseandgo.org<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6. Greenwood Lake &#8211; Brendan Taaffe (Brattleboro, VT).\u00a0 Greenwood Lake is from Signs and Wonders, the second album by Bright Wings. It was commissioned to commemorate the lives of Tim and Estelle Murphy and is named after the lake in the Adirondacks where they first met. The singers are: Adam Jacob Simon, Mason Gohl, Wheaton Squier, Gideon Crevoshay, Addie Rose Holland, Rachel Gordon, Katie Trautz, Julia Wayne, Leighanne Saltsman, and Emily Thompson. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendantaaffe.com\/\">www.brendantaaffe.com<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7. Floodwood Pond \/ Mary MacArthur&#8217;s &#8211; Aaron Marcus and Sam Sanders (Montpelier, VT). Sam reads this beautiful poem by Danny Dover. This poem isn\u2019t published yet, but you can find more of Danny\u2019s poetry in his most recent book, <i>Tasting Precious Metal<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antrimhousebooks.com\/dover.html\">www.antrimhousebooks.com\/dover.html<\/a>. The music is Mary MacArthur\u2019s, written by Aaron for Nana Lopez. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>The opening music is \u201cThe Pearl in Sorrow\u2019s Hand\u201d by Julie Vallimont, from her album Dark Sky, Bright Stars.\u00a0 All content courtesy of the artists, all rights reserved.<\/i> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode summary Now that the weather is finally getting warm, it&#8217;s easier to spend more time outside and reconnect with nature. And it is glorious and restorative! So along that theme, we\u2019ll be hearing music from Aaron Marcus, Elixir, Arise &amp; Go, and Bright Wings Chorus, and poetry read by Julie Vallimont, Anna Patton, Charis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Julie V","author_link":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/author\/julievallimontgmail-com\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starsintherafters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}