Last winter (January 2024) the crow count for the downtown Portland winter crow roost stood at over 22,000 crows, and we see them flying away from town in the morning, gathering in pre-roosts all around town to gossip and engage in aerobatics, then flying back towards town before nightfall to roost for the night. https://www.wweek.com/outdoors/2024/12/20/over-22000-crows-roosted-in-downtown-portland-last-winter-portland-researchers-find/

Winter Crows

Original songs I have written over the past few years. 

Zhongnanhai

A song about the violence in Charlottesville in August 2017.

Charlottesville

Christmas In China

Red Riding Hood

Center

Cecilia Eng [Live] 2019

© 2/8/2019   Check out the festival at:
https://www.pdxwlf.com/
The festival's 5th year took place Thursday February 6 thru Saturday February 8 in 2020!

Winter Light Festival

Infinite Possibilities

© 2/14/2020   My mother and her mother had histories of Alzheimer’s.  I am encouraged by the discovery that music stays with dementia patients, resulting in a group of young students and Alzheimer’s patients called The Fifth Dementia, who make music together in the greater Los Angeles area.

❤️I Still Love You ‘Til the End💖

© 2/17/2020   Based on a FAWM weekly challenge to write a song from the point of view of an inanimate object.  As inanimate objects, Mountain and Sea qualify, although the Salmon folk took over the negotiations... This is (as far as I know) NOT a native American folk tale, but I wanted to give this love song the FEEL of a native American folk tale, as an explanation of WHY the salmon go down to the sea and return from the sea to spawn.  It is also a cautionary tale as to what might follow if we destroy the Pacific NW salmon runs.

Go Betweens

Singer/Songwriter since 1984.  Inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2013.
February Album Writing Month (FAWM) member since 2019.  These are scratch tracks recorded for the 2020 FAWM or for myself since 2019.  Featured performer at the 2021 Tumbleweed Music Festival Saturday Night Concert:  https://vimeo.com/593977025

Winter Crows

Cecilia Eng

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