The Family Dance

Cousins

Mignonnette mp3

Recorded with Karen Kelm as The Neverly Sisters. There was a gig coming up on Mother's Day which inspired this song.

Rubies and Diamonds

My setting of an ee cummings poem. This has been set to music before, but I didn't know that until later. I like the feeling of this, though.

Ellen van der Hoeven

All In Green Went My Love Riding

A short song about child labour in the industrial revolution. The doffers work in a cloth mill, changing the cylinders in the weaving machines, a dangerous and difficult job. They love the doffing mistress who helps and protects them, and they are upset when she is fired.

Dark Willow

Doffing Mistress 4 090604 20-21

This is a very rough, garage band mix of a song I wrote for the UBC Apple Festival last year.

Ellen van der Hoeven's Album

Sweet Apple Song rough mix Sept 27/17

Peggy Seeger's loving and realistic lullaby, performed by Three Strong Winds on the Album "We Are Here".