Dismiss The Sun

Downlow

Kiss Me Love

As a treat for Halloween my vocal students participated in fun project covering "Come Little Children" from the movie "Hocus Pocus."
We worked on it during their individual lessons and then I put them together with the voices I thought they sounded best with so they all have a vocal partner to sing along with.

Come Little Children By Jennifer Hill's Vocal Students

The Power of Goodbye a Madonna Cover

Sugar sweet pop song about loving dat special someone.

Made of Candy

Song about wanting to be happy and not the one who is always seeing the rain.. but finding out that love is when you both see the rain together and it is beautiful.

WANNA BE

A little ditty about life and the days that are far from perfect. I can see Tina Fey walking down the street on a gorgeous sunny day and then getting crapped on a bird...that is the kind of feeling this invokes. Sunshine Rainbows and bullshit.

Have You Ever

Featured in the Horror film “Nail Polish” by George James Fraser

Sometimez

A beautifully haunting cover of Alice in Chain's song "Rooster"by Murderous Chanteuse

Rooster (cover of Alice in Chains)by Murderous Chanteuse

Cover of Gold Dust Woman, Originally sing by Stevie Nicks

Gold Dust Woman Cover by Jennifer Hill and Patti Rothberg

Little Girl

2006

Tough Year

The Other Side

Blue Christmas

A cover of the Anthem Un Violador en Tu Camino – A Rapist in Your Path

We did this to join the fight against the war on women. We are both survivors and thrivers who are working to change the way women are treated on this earth. It is completely inexcusable that women are still being treated this way after ALL THIS TIME. We are human and we deserve, demand, and have earned respect. It is time it is FULLY given.

Rapist is You... Cover of Un Violador en Tu Camino – A Rapist in Your Path

Up All Night

Up All NIght

A song I wrote one day whenI felt trapped. Just me and porch piano.

SAVE ME (low fi)

I wrote this after a pretty depressing week during this pandemic. A friend died, my family is divided and I am sick of this, I am hopeful love and some great like minded people will conquer this in the end.

Gaslight Noir

We All Fall Down/Love Will Win

WE ALL FALL DOWN/LOVE WILL WIN

I wrote this song  after feeling pretty messed up about the state of our country. 

I hope we can use love to reverse all this damage.

Pure rage in the form of piano rock, 
We All Fall Down/Love Will Win by Murderous Chanteuse addresses the discord and dissent of 2020. “No one is safe, no one trusts anyone else,” Jennifer Hill sings in deceptively sweet tones, as part of a catalog of wrongs and frustrations in the era of covid-19. Produced and recorded by Hill with an appearance on Bass by her husband and bandmate, Bob Schwecherl, the song combines the protest drive of Buffalo Springfield, the furious angst of Alice in Chains, and the luminous beauty of Madonna.--

We All Fall Down: Love Will Win (Radio edit)

My friend Dave is the best. He has been my friend since I was 15. Over 20 yrs! I love him and he asked me to cover this for him so I did. 

He is currently fighting ALS and if you'd like to donate to his cause and learn more about his story you can go here:

 https://www.giveinkind.com/inkinds/H0F4Z4B/doing-it-for-dave?fbclid=IwAR2jmThYdRTXohp2BfQJpeqM-CmZX8SNM4X-3HhYeJCsHKuK5oNxCTFIPTI

Change by Blind a Melon  (a cover for Dave <3 )

A remake of "We Didn't Start The Fire" 

A reflection on the past four years under this political climate 2016-2020

Lyrics: 
Election year 2016
Trump or Clinton feel the steam
Rising into left vs right 
The country divided the biggest fight 
dirty water standing rock 
Build the wall trumps tiny cock

Kavanaugh frat house and beer 
women’s march 
Lock her up they cheer 
 
We didn’t start the fire. It’s been burning since the worlds been turning. We didn’t start the fire though they tried to hide it we had to fight 

Abortion back up for debate 
Kids in cages America’s great 
Fake news now who do you trust 
Look what governments done to us 
  
Black lives matter anti vaccine 
me too movement  social scene 
Plus sized models ballet abuse 
me too movement Weinstein accused 

We didn’t start the fire. It’s been burning since the worlds been turning. We didn’t start the fire though they tried to hide it we had to fight it 

Drug addiction Suicide 
narcan cops saving lives 
mr Cosby was a creep 
60 women he made sleep 
Uber drivers and assault 
This can’t be all our fucking fault! 
When did this Idiocracy win 
why did noone give a damn 

We didn’t start the fire. It’s been burning since the worlds been turning. We didn’t start the fire though they tried to hide it we had to fight 

Women believed and speaking out 
Dahvi, onision down for the count
Predators now beware of your past 
hiding places never last 
President tweeting like a bird 
Social media icons observe 
Will there be An educated guess
Who will take us from this mess?

Pandemic hits and we are still in divide
Must come together to save our lives

President mocks scientific data 
Masks for all or be sorry later 
amazon surges so do the tides 
 earth can breathe eco systems thrive 
Gun sales soar fingers stay pointed 
Is this what we really wanted? 

We didn’t start the fire. It’s been burning since the worlds been turning. We didn’t start the fire though they tried to hide it we had to fight 

Social  distanced hearts for all
Six feet apart  the rock bottom fall. George and Briana gave their lives Politicians show true colors another divide 
Massive death rate Clorox wipes  
Some still think it’s just a lie  
RBG had our back now were all under attack 

We didn’t start the fire. It’s been burning since the worlds been turning. We didn’t start the fire though they tried to hide it we had to fight

We Didnt Start This Fire

A beautiful take on The Falcon Carol aka Corpus Christi Carol from 1504.

Vocals Jennifer Hill
Harp By Kala Farnham 
Cello By Jeff Chen

Some history: The Corpus Christi Carol or Falcon Carol  is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn, first found by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill in a manuscript written around 1504. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous. The earliest surviving record of the piece preserves only the lyrics and is untitled. It has survived in altered form in the folk tradition as the Christmas carol "Down In Yon Forest". The structure of the carol is six stanzas, each with rhyming couplets. The tense changes in the fourth stanza from past to present continuous.

While a number of different interpretations have been offered over time, Eamon Duffy writes that "there can be no question whatever" that the carol's "strange cluster of images" are derived "directly from the cult of the Easter sepulchre, with its Crucifix, Host, and embroidered hangings, and the watchers kneeling around it day and night."

One theory about the meaning of the carol is that it is concerned with the legend of the Holy Grail. In Arthurian traditions of the Grail story, the Fisher King is the knight who is the Grail's protector, and whose legs are perpetually wounded.When he is wounded his kingdom suffers and becomes a wasteland. This would explain the reference to "an orchard brown".

The text may be an allegory in which the crucified is described as a wounded knight. The bleeding knight could be Christ who bleeds for the sins of humanity endlessly. Christ is most probably represented as a knight as he is battling sin and evil by his continual pain. The "orchard brown" to which the knight was conveyed becomes, in this reading, the "orchard" of wooden crosses that covered the hill of Golgotha/Calvary where Christ - along with many others - was crucified, while the "hall... hanged with purpill and pall" could be a representation of the tomb in which Christ was placed after Crucifixion. This allegorical interpretation would tie in with the seven stanzas possibly representing the Seven Deadly Sins. The maiden who is by the knight's side could be Mary. There is religious symbolism throughout the carol. The falcon may have several possible meanings. It may be that, as a bird of prey, it represents those who killed Christ and sent him to heaven. It may also represent a new beginning and freedom, which Christ gained on his death. The colours in the carol are also significant. The purple and gold are signs of wealth, although these were also colours that referred to the Church due to its wealth. The pall (black velvet) probably refers to death.

One recent interpretation is that it was composed about the execution of Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, whose badge was a falcon. However, since Anne Boleyn was killed in 1536 and the earliest copy of the carol yet found is from 1504, this is most unlikely.

Falcon Carol (Corpus Christi Carol)

Jennifer Hill combines trenchant, emotionally engaging lyrics with a sound grounded in influences ranging from  Carol King, Amy Winehouse and Phoebe Snow to Tori Amos, Pink Floyd and Janis Ian. Her musical 
point of view is informed by and supports her activism for women in the arts and domestic violence 
survivors.
The Hartford Courant has previously declared her the “Fiona Apple of CT” and she won the Best 
Vocalist in the State award in 2009. (The last to receive that honor before the Advocate stopped the 
Grand Band Slam.)

She has performed throughout Connecticut, New York and the Northeast, including performances at 
SWAN Day CT, the state’s largest celebration of women musicians (an annual music festival founded 
by, organized, promoted and run by Jennifer as a tireless labor of love for the past 15 years and 
counting.)
Currently, Ms. Hill is an artist at Horizon Studios and is working on a full-length album, with legendary producer Vic Steffens.

Jennifer Hill

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