Music is everywhere if you learn how to hear it

  • European Ancestral Reclamation Songs

    Reaching through song for resistance and resilience

    Learn

  • Richmond Community Sing

    Every second Tuesday of the month

    Sing

  • Calendar

    Upcoming events and shows

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  • Rainbow Shadows

    Liberation is for everyone

    Listen

European Ancestral Reclamation Songs

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European Ancestral Reclamation Songs ᛒ

European Ancestral Reclamation Songs (EARS) teaches European-descended white people to sing songs of our ancestors, while exploring the historical context of how, when and why our ancestors abandoned traditional practices and became indoctrinated into American white supremacy. Through song we confront what our ancestors lost in becoming racialized tools of white supremacy, and learn how some instead joined gorgeous lineages of resistance. With ancestral songs as a throughline of resilience, we work to heal our own lineages and become vibrant allies in the struggle for a liberated world.

Have a traditional European song to submit to the project? Fill out this Google Form! Submit this interest form to join in-person meetups in Richmond, Virginia.

Richmond Community Sing

Healing, joy, connection, resistance, power - singing is all of it! Every 2nd Tuesday in Richmond, Virginia we gather in the gorgeous Main Library foyer and join our voices in song. Total beginners and experienced singers welcome! No need to know how to sing, stay in key, or read music - all you need is your voice and heart. Attendance is free! Masks encouraged and provided but not required.

Events

RAINBOW SHADOWS

Rainbow Shadows, the solo debut from transcendental folk artist Stellar, is rich with clear voice, visions of liberation, and echoes of songs from ancestors past and present.

“Rainbow Shadows” opens with tight snare and acoustic guitar interplay and commanding vocals that compliment co-producer Joseph Fisher-Schramm’s adept string arrangements. Stellar sings a warning “Your vulture days of sell-and-lend are slowly coming to an end…” that trails off into a haunting handpan solo, laying the foundation for the remaining 40 minutes of the album. Stellar is telling us how it is, while asking us how it could be. 

The first single “Enemy”, written summer of 2020, examines white privilege with a brilliant hook that leads especially white listeners into a reflection on silence, complicity and accountability. 

“ because i’ve met the enemy / and the enemy is me

nine at Emanuel / three hundred at Wounded Knee…”