Love songs from the past Rachel Garlin’s newest album, The Ballad of Madelyne & Therese, is a slight departure for the San Francisco-based singer and songwriter. It’s a suite of songs that tells the story of two women who meet and fall in love in 1940. In the narrative, they struggle with some of the same personal […]

I’ve always been fascinated by stories about women-loving-women throughout history. How/when/where have these relationships and identities existed during different eras and across cultures? Narrowing my focus to two women in 1940’s New York, I explored my interest by writing some historical fiction on the topic. Here’s a 2-minute trailer for “The Ballad of Madelyne & […]

VIDEO AND LYRICS BELOW Americana Highways hosted the premier of our new video for “Winter Fuel (Good King Wenceslas Revisited)”. Please find Melissa Clarke’s review below along with the video and lyrics to follow. Thank you, San Francisco – the people, the voices, and the stories – for collaborating on this winter offering. Americana Highways is […]

Sometimes when I’m seeking inspiration for a song, I turn to a random page in a book and just start singing what I see, read or feel. It’s a way of prompting a new song without overthinking what I’m going to write.  Books are best when circulated, but recently the Little Free Library (a cabinet used for free exchange […]

Joshua Tree had been calling me for years, so when my friend and choreographer Sarah Bush told me she was headed there, we decided to make it the site for our first collaboration.