Clair de Lune Excerpt - August 25, 2013

So I met my best friend back in high school at a campfire. She had a guitar and was roaming shoeless. I was poking at the fire carelessly as she improvised and then the wind kicked up and tossed a few embers her direction. This short ditty, which kicked off our friendship, was a result of that moment. See if you can last through 40 seconds of my non-classical voice. [Warning: Explicit] Recorded on an H4n.

Campfire Socks

Bluegrass jam Session at Holiday Inn French Quarter

Ingrid Michaelson leads an audience in the singing of "We Shall Overcome", Saturday, February 1, 2014 during the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, in honor of Pete Seeger.

We Shall Overcome - Tribute to Pete Seeger

Clair de Lune played for the first time in about a few years (raw excerpt) at A Studio

Jazz Night 8/15/2012 - This is what it sounds like except with a lot of peaking at One49 North

A fitting farewell to Bradey Weaver. Rest in peace. To a musician, to a brother in song. But most of all a badass. at Sylvania First United Methodist

I was thinking of music and 9/11 and felt it was necessary to upload this since there isn't another version like it. It needs to be completely accessible and simply needs to be heard.

It was a favorite among chorus members and we sang it with great care and empathy. Some members of the chorus even had a chance to perform this version at the World Trade Center site during a chorus tour. As I hear from those who performed it then, it was a very powerful moment for both the musicians and those who listened.

The piece, written by Kurt Bestor, in response to the civil war and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia, does in fact relate to the US after 9/11 with its cultural struggles and the struggles of war. Though it has religious references, its message clearly can be taken into secular context.

EnochWu