ALLISON RUSSELL SHARES “YOU’RE NOT ALONE” FEATURING BRANDI CARLILE

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Today, Allison Russell has shared the new single "You're Not Alone" featuring Brandi Carlile. Written and produced by Russell, “You’re Not Alone” is an inspiring meditation on the power of ancestral strength and the essential nature of community. The track’s exquisite string arrangement is performed by Sista Strings: Monique Ross, Chauntee Ross, and Larissa Maestro. The song originally appeared on Our Native Daughters’ acclaimed 2019 debut album. 

Russell will join Carlile on several tour dates throughout the summer and fall including two nights at Red Rocks on September 9th and 10th. Both Russell and Carlile recently performed with Joni Mitchell at her historic Newport Folk Festival set.

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Allison Russell on “You’re Not Alone” featuring Brandi Carlile:

We are not alone.
We are not what we have lost.
We are more than the sum of our scars.

We are the dust of the stars, the bones of the Earth, the breath of the void, the expanse of our imaginations, the arc of art, the love in our hearts.

We lift each other up. 

We are the “Beloved Community” every time we choose to be. Our Circle is battered and bloody but still, whole. None above, none below— our one human family— equal under the listening sky.

I believe what Alice Walker wrote:  “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”

Every child deserves to be loved and protected. Our families with LGBTQIA+ parents are just as precious. 

No one should be forced into the sacred role of parenthood against their will.

Human Rights are worth fighting for.
We’ve come a long way, but we must go farther still.

I am grateful to my chosen family, Brandi, for singing “You’re Not Alone” with me, for inspiring me every day, for elevating everything, for leading the way.

We will not be turned back.

Love & Revolution


MORE ABOUT ALLISON RUSSEL
On her debut solo album, the critically acclaimed Outside Child (produced by Dan Knobler), Allison Russell, the poet, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist and co-founder of Our Native Daughters and Birds of Chicago, unpacks her youth in searing detail. She sings about deliverance and redemption, about the places, people and realizations that helped her survive and claim her freedom. "It’s an album of strength and affirmation, not victimization,” said The New York Times in their profile on Russell. Following the release of Outside Child, Russell performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ellen, Late Night With Stephen Colbert, CBS This Morning Saturday, made her Opry debut and appeared at the Country Music Hall of Fame. She also performed at the 2022 GRAMMY’s Premiere Ceremony and is set to make her Austin City Limits debut on October 22nd.

For Russell, and Outside Child, the accolades continue to mount. They include three 2022 Americana Award nominations, two International Folk Music Award wins, 2022 JUNO Award nomination for ‘Songwriter of the Year,’ and her first-ever JUNO Award win for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. Last year, Russell received two 2021 Americana Awards nominations, won three Canadian Folk Music Awards, two UK Americana Music Awards, and was nominated for three GRAMMY Awards (her first ever GRAMMY nods).

Russell also announced a book deal with Flatiron/MacMillan for her debut novel, a memoir based on her life and the material that inspired Outside Child. 

Allison Russell is on tour throughout North America, the UK and Europe throughout 2022. Highlights include a run of dates opening for Carlile and dates with Nathaniel Rateliff. A full list of tour dates can be found below. 

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 TOUR DATES
w/ Brandi Carlile #
w/ Nathaniel Rateliff *
w/ Lady Nade^

 Aug 14 - Allegheny County Summer Series, Pittsburgh, PA
Aug 18 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD#
Aug 19 - Bethel Woods, Bethel, NY#
Aug 20 - The Mann, Philadelphia, PA#
Aug 24 - Omeara, London, UK^
Aug 27 - The Long Road Festival, Bottesford, UK
Aug 29 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Sep 09 - Red Rocks, Morrison, CO#
Sep 10 - Red Rocks, Morrison, CO #
Sep 13 - Leader Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA* 
Sep 14 - Americana Music Festival - Nashville, TN
Sep 15 - Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY* 
Sep 30 - Mempho Music Festival, Memphis, TN 

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JASON COLLETT ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, SHARES FIRST SINGLE “DARK TIMES”

NEW ALBUM, HEAD FULL OF WONDER, OUT NOVEMBER 4, 2022 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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Jason Collett is today announcing his seventh studio record, Head Full Of Wonder – out via Arts & Crafts on November 4 – alongside sharing the first single, "Dark Times."

Collett takes inspiration from a famed Bertolt Brecht epigram on the first single: ‘In the dark times / will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing / about the dark times.’ With the antidote to the din of the days, Collett layers breezy, jangly melodies over his own patent prose, answering yes ‘you can really get that feel in dark times.’ The first salvo from Head Full Of Wonder is folk music distinctly of the moment, lifted up by the spirit of music itself. 

"I read those lines from Brecht's 1938 poem and immediately heard a melody, and the song came together without effort," Collett recalls. "The recording was similar, it came together pretty naturally in a live take." 

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Head Full Of Wonder finds Collett stepping out of his usual creative orbit, recording in Toronto at All Day Coconut with Montreal producer Marcus Paquin, joined by drummer Liam O'Neill (SUUNS), guitarist Joe Grass, and bassist Mike O'Brien (Zeus). A distillation of the five years since 2016’s Song And Dance Man, these eleven new songs hone in on the fine craft of songwriting, offering a direct and simple collection of elegant indie folk, some of the most poignant creations of Collett's storied catalog. 

"In absorbing the tumult of the times, there's a lot of shit to write through, (that Bruce Cockburn line comes to mind, ‘you've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight’) and the challenge is to get to the other side with something positive to contribute," Collett says. "I let go of some swagger and embraced intimacy and joy and wonder. I hear this in the record and it makes me very happy to have made it.”

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HEAD FULL OF WONDER TRACKLIST
1. Dark Times
2. Everyday Summer
3. Milk and Honey
4. Just Before the Rain
5. Hot Mess
6. Have Some Fun
7. Silver Dollar Moon
8. Right On Woman
9. Closer to the Truth
10. Come on Sun
11. Up the River
12. Sweet Water Sea

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EVAN REDSKY SHARES FIRST SINGLE ON VICTORY POOL RECORDS, “TAKING SHAPE”

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Evan Redsky is a songwriter, hailing from the First Nations Reserve of Mississaugi First Nation. Raised in Blind River and now residing in Toronto, ON. His music seamlessly weaves traditional storytelling, delicate nuance, and poignant commentary on the human condition into cathartic highway-song vignettes.

Drawing from early childhood memories of hearing classic Canadian roots music on one of his reserve’s few available radio stations, Redsky felt compelled to reclaim that form as a vehicle for recounting his own experience as a “Canadian”. Surviving a lineage plagued by the fall out of colonialism, his perspective on the plight of the Indigenous peoples of Canada is one that is deeply important in understanding the urgency of truth and reconciliation. 

"Taking Shape” is “a call to action for the music community to amplify its Indigenous voices,” says Redsky. “The lyrics stare into the silo that the music industry has constructed for its Indigenous artists, and barks back. Using the very same FM Canadiana sound that I grew up on, ‘Taking Shape’ is a deliberate attempt to take back the narrative and tell a new story. Inspired by visual artist Kent Monkman's ability to reverse the colonial gaze, this is my reinterpretation and commentary on ‘Canadiana’ music."

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Growing up, Redsky was often compelled to hitchhike from Blind River to Toronto to immerse himself in the city’s burgeoning punk and hardcore music scene. Redsky recounts sleeping under bridges and on construction sites in order to stay as close as possible to the exciting culture. This commitment led to him joining up and coming punk band Single Mothers, with whom Redsky would remain a dedicated member for half a decade. Touring around the world and performing at high profile festivals such as Pitchfork Festival and Primavera Sound, provided Redsky with more context and perspective on his humble beginnings. He soon turned his focus towards advocacy for the injustices he and his family had faced their entire lives.

Redsky began hosting fundraising events for and bringing awareness to the clean water crisis which deeply affected his family still residing on the Shoal Lake #40 Reservation in Northern Ontario. Redsky’s desire to share the stories of his experiences can be traced to his prominent lineage of storytellers within his community. Notably, his great grandfather, whose work translating pictographs and novel, “The Great Leader of The Ojibway”, was published by the University of Toronto in the early 1970’s. His great grandfather was a prominent member of the  spiritual group known as the Mediwiwin, and was one of the last people to possess ancient birch bark scrolls which contained etchings that date back hundreds of years. These scrolls informed the community of much of their history before being disenfranchised by the Glenbow Museum. He was also involved in building the Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, ON as a child. Infamously known as the school where Chanie Wenjack attended in Gord Downie’s Secret Path saga. The same residential school which Redsky’s father and grandfather attended.

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