It’s Earth Day 2019 and this month’s music hour will be given to songs about the Earth in her peril, her beauty and her resilience. I’ll be weaving in quotes by Rachael Carson whose consciousness changing book Silent Spring has affected a generation of environmental practices and attitudes.

Song List:

Cold Frost Morning   Barbara Higbie

The Whole World is Burning  Jennifer Berezan

Muddy Road  Walela

Battered Earth   Sweet Honey in the Rock

Beautiful Dawn    The Wailin’ Jennys

Mississippi Song    Rising Appalachia

Cherokee River   Walela

Gula Gula      Mari Boine

Aye Kerunene    Keruna

Tuulet (The Winds)   Tellu

Tundra Flower    Mari Boine

Earth My Body    Alice Di Micele, Elouise Burrell, Freyda Epstein, Tina Malia,  Windsong

In These Arms: A Song for All Beings      Jennifer Berezan