#Sierra Nelson

[songsforsquid]

"A Year with the Moon: Creation, Workshop, Chapbook" Class Fall to Spring

A Year with the Moon: Creation, Workshop, Chapbook with instructor Sierra Nelson. Weekly creative writing circle inspired by and infused with the Moon, meeting Online Oct 2nd to June 17th, Mondays 5:00-7:00 p.m. PST. Fall - generative prompts, Winter - workshops & continued generative writing, Spring - chapbook making & sharing. Plus guest artist visits! Open to all genres. Registration open now via Hugo House.

Let the moon help you connect to your own creative process!

[yesmaddyposts]

@gender-kenvy here

argue with THE WALL (this one was tough tbh)

Ryan Gosling Character Alignment Chart (3/?)

[lowcountry-gothic]

All Together Now: 25 Years of Photographing American Music by David McClister

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: September 24, 2024

Middle Grade Alex Wise vs. the Cosmic Shift by Terry J. Benton-Walker This is the sequel to Alex Wise vs. the End of the World Alex Wise is no superhero. Or at least, he doesn’t feel like one. Sure, he vanquished Death and saved his sister Mags—with the help of some new magic powers, his best friend Loren and demi-god Liam. But the apocalypse shows no signs of slowing down. Now, Alex and his…

[bothkindsofmusic]

Is this thing on? Been a lonnnnnng while, but I want to test the waters to see if there's an audience for country music on Tumblr 2023.

I've been making a weekly playlist in lieu of a radio show for a couple months now. Figure that'd be a good place to start.

If you like country music that's outside the mainstream, check out this playlist. It's full of new and recent releases. I kick it off with a classic country song and send it off with Willie Nelson. In between you'll find music from artists making country music in their own way with their own style. While the music changes every week, the playlist stays in the same spot. Plus, there's an archive where I retire the old playlists.

If you find something you like, let me know and give the artists a follow on instagram.

Track list:

Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind

The Waymores - Greener Pastures

Christopher Seymore, South Texas Tweek - I Can Get off on You

Amanda Donald - Get in Line

Marty Bush - Turn Down the Lights

Nora Kelly Band - Rodeo Clown

David Quinn - Down Home

Zach Bryan, Sierra Ferrell - Holy Roller

Turnpike Troubadours - A Cat in the Rain

Sarah Jane Scouten - Wanderlust

Nick Shoulders - All Bad

The Two Tracks - In the Morning

Jim Lauderdale, The Po' Ramblin' Boys, Del McCoury - Long And Lonesome Letting Go

Sentimental Family Band - Never Love Again

Willy Tea Taylor, The Fellership - National Treasure

David Garnham and the Reasons to Live, Gleny Rae Virus - Long Way Round

Nathan Mongol Wells - Honest Drinking

Lola Kirke, First Aid Kit - All My Exes Live in L.A.

Abbigale Dawn - Ex Boyfriend Blues

Christian Parker, Earl Poole Ball, JayDee Maness - You Ain't Going Nowhere

Miss Georgia Peach - Silver Threads and Gold Needles

Vince Gill, Paul Franklin - Walkin' Show and Thinkin' About Her

Madeline Hawthorne - Neon Wasteland

The Howdies - Buddies

Katie Mae & the Lubrication - Hard Livin'

The Deslondes, Sam Doores - Howl at the Moon

Brit Taylor - If You Don't Wanna Love Me

Izaak Opatz - Shampoo

Ruby Oland - Life Without Love

Lucas Hudgins - All in My Head

S.G. Goodman - Space And Time

Woody Woodworth & The Piners - When Them Dogwoods Bloom

Zara Alexandra - Greasy Spoon

Televisionaries, Les Greene - Airbound

Megg Farrell - Damaged Goods

Willie Nelson - I Never Cared for You

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3 Women (1977) Robert Altman

May 21st 2023

[genevieveetguy]

. You're the most perfect person I've met.

3 Women, Robert Altman (1977)

[majortomiscominghome]

I managed to successfully unlock a level of turbo autism recently-ish. Sigh.

[picoleparole]

Sierra Farrel covering Seven Spanish Angels is simply great.

[songsforsquid]

Summer Creative Writing Camps for Youth (in person)

* Creative Writing Scribes for 7th-8th Graders: 

Dates: July 17th - July 21st 

Time: 10am - 3pm

Location: In Person at Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA) 

Instructors: Cassidy Dyce & Sierra Nelson

Description: Creative writing encompasses a wide range of storytelling genres, from fantasy to poetry, memoir to playwriting, and everything in between, including cross-genre and hybrid forms. In this exploratory camp, students will engage with artistic activities, embark on field trips in-person and virtually, and write to creative prompts all designed to ignite their imaginations. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.

This camp is for students entering 7th-8th grade in Fall 2023 and will take place in-person at our facility in Capitol Hill. 

More info & to register: https://hugohouse.org/product/creative-writing-scribes-for-7-8th-grade-2/

* Creative Writing Scribes at Bellevue Arts Museum for 9th-12th Graders

Dates: Aug 21st - Aug 25th

Time: 10am - 3pm

Location: In Person at the Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM, 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA)

Instructors: Meredith Arena & Sierra Nelson

Description: In this camp, a partnership between Hugo House and the Bellevue Arts Museum, students will explore exhibits and materials at BAM, participate in artistic activities, and write to prompts inspired by BAM's collections. Students will write in a range of creative writing genres, from fantasy and poetry, memoir to playwriting, and everything in between, including cross-genre and hybrid forms. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.

This camp is for students entering 9th-12th grade in Fall 2023 and will take place in-person at the Bellevue Arts Museum. 

More info & to register:   https://hugohouse.org/product/creative-writing-scribes-at-the-bellevue-art-museum-for-9-12th-grade/ 

NOTE: All Scribes Summer camps are offered sliding scale. Scholarships are also available by filling out a scholarship application. Questions? Please email youth@hugohouse.org

[lemonnbug]

Listening to my hillbilly tunes and hanging out with bugs, this is the life bruh

[yesmaddyposts]

gonna post a million more of these cuz they are so fun

Ryan Gosling Character Alignment Chart (1/?)

[krispyweiss]

Happy Birthday Willie: The War and Treaty; Sierra Ferrell; and Margo Price and Particle Kid Tip their Cowboy Hats to the Stranger with the Once-red Hair

- “Whiskey River,” “Seven Spanish Angels” and “Hands on the Wheel” out on Spotify Singles

War and Treaty are bombastic on “Whisky River;” Sierra Ferrell aims at the heart on a string-pulling rendition of “Seven Spanish Angels;” and Margo Price and Particle Kid go to a church in the country on “Hands on the Wheel.”

The Spotify Singles were released April 28 on the eve of Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday and display the wild diversity of Nelson’s compositions and the artists - and in the case of Particle Kid, his son - he’s touched.

Ferrell almost can’t help being the most-successful of the three interpreters - it would probably be the case if she’d recorded “Beer for My Horses.”

Price and the man born Micah Nelson are also sincere in their effort, though it’s a tad maudlin. The War & Treaty, however, being too much of their husband-and-wife shtick to their over-the-top, revival-tent cover.

Don’t skip Ferrell; check out Price and Particle if time allows; and stick with the original “Whiskey River” in celebrating Nelson’s milestone day.

4/28/23

[basicpart]

Grammy weekend: Grateful Dead honored as Persons of the Year

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colorful dancing bears during cocktails. Tie-dye clothing mixed with black-tie. Oh yeah, the Grateful Dead was in the house to kick off Grammy weekend. The legendary jam band was honored for its musical achievements and philanthropic efforts as MusiCares Persons of the Year on Friday night, two days before the Grammy Awards. The band’s iconic skull logo was prominent in the…

[dustedmagazine]

Justin Cober-Lake’s 2024 Year-End Essay

Adeem the Artist

2024 had its downsides, meaning most of it. It's hard not to feel pessimistic these days. Between the global political chaos and inexorable personal grind (a function of this stage of life, working, parenting, and the like), little feels straightforward or easy. Maybe that's why my tastes this year have veered toward more accessible sounds, even if not necessarily simpler or easier ones. I've veered somewhat from the more experimental or deep-listening end of my tastes toward more classic songwriting. None of it really worked as a balm, but much of it offered immediate entry to someone amid a hectic, harried season. Music can exist just to be music, but — intended by the listener or not — it also has its uses. For me, much of that experience in 2024 revolved around immersion in worlds most accessible to me.

Many of these albums came from the Americana genre, not surprisingly. Adeem the Artist and Sierra Ferrell offered the two most indelible records. On Anniversary, Adeem's delivers their characters studies through an array of rootsy styles, showing as much skill at country-pop as folk or even spoken-word. Ferrell's Trail of Flowers likewise moves through a range of styles, though largely sticking to more old-timey sounds. Her “American Dreaming” might be the best song of the year, rivaled in large part by other cuts on the record. Artists like Billy Strings and Hurray for the Riff Raff fit in here, too, with storytelling and personal meditation reaching new peaks.

It wasn't just the younger roots artists releasing great records this year. Willie Nelson released two discs worthy of year-end consideration. I'll give a slight edge to The Border over Last Leaf on the Tree, in large part because of the former's directness. It's not a Big Contemplation of Mortality (which is what Willie's been doing for a while), but it's just an album, and a really good one. Jerry Douglas continues to outplay everyone else with The Set. Steve Earle continues to out...Steve Earle everyone else, and his solo live album Alone Again (Live) presents him as immediately has he's ever been on record, just as it should be (at least this year). Bittersweetly, his son Justin Townes Earle has one of the year's other best releases, the posthumous collection All In: Unreleased & Rarities (The New West Years), a collection that works far better than the usual odds and ends compilation.

It's not just the traditional (ish – there are some real oddballs in those last two paragraphs) songwriters that carried me through the year. Green Day shocked me by releasing their best album since at least American Idiot. I haven't paid much attention to them, or pop-punk in general, in ages, but Saviors hit, and I'm not convinced that doesn't say more about my year than it does about their art, but I don't really care either way. Coupling “The American Dream Is Killing Me” with Ferrell's best work gets you a good start on an American Dream playlist. It might be fitting for a country in utter disarray. I also found myself unexpectedly taken with the Decemberists' As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again. The title sums up everything off-putting about the band, but they've written a set of songs that stands with the best they ever done, and maybe their weird sort of journeying makes for a perfect trip right now.

I reach back even further for three other artists who informed by year, two of whom are always on my radar and one of whom took me completely by surprise. The latter is the Cure. I've never listened much, being just a little young and decidedly not goth enough for their peak era. I didn't expect to care about Songs of a Lost World but played it out of curiosity and immediately became a favorite, maybe because of its immersive sonic qualities. Kim Gordon's The Collective soundtracked my late winter and early spring, my post-covid recovery and wilderness drives (literally, as in going to the mountains and not having a dark night of the soul, though it might work for that, too). Finally, Nick Cave put out the year's most essential record, Wild God, a broad study on joy and revelation and all the big questions. If much of my listening in 2024 got me down to precise characters and specific narratives, Cave's role was to open up all the possibilities.

Of course, the year isn't even over yet and it's just an arbitrary chunk of listening time, and I'm still trying to sort out last-minute finds like Foxing's self-titled or Geordie Greep's The New Sound. That just gives me an excuse for not really knowing how to wrap up 2024. I don't expect anything to change a few weeks from now, even if Cave suggests the power of epiphany or Nelson reminds me about the power of endings. So for now, here's the 15 albums from 2024 that stuck out for me (listed alphabetically):

Adeem the Artist— Anniversary

Ambrose Akinmusire — Owl Song

Nick Cave — Wild God

The Cure — Songs of A Lost World

Decemberists — As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

Justin Townes Earle — All In: Unreleased & Rarities (The New West Years)

Steve Earle — Alone Again (Live)

Sierra Ferrell — Trail of Flowers

Kim Gordon — The Collective

Green Day — Saviors

Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Past Is Still Alive

Vijay Iyer — Compassion

Willie Nelson — The Border

Billy Strings — Highway Prayers

Yasmin Williams — Acadia