A Gift of Songs

Musae's spring concert celebrates the living traditions of folk music from around the world. The program draws from over a dozen cultures across the Americas, Europe, and beyond, including Cree, Welsh, Estonian, Native American, African American, Irish, Mexican, Malay, and Venezuelan music. Together these voices weave beloved lullabies, songs of grief and spiritual wandering, and music of survival and defiance, alongside new compositions that do the quiet, necessary work of reclamation, gathering what remains of old traditions and breathing new life into them.

Most of these songs do not share a language, a culture, or a homeland. But they do share something deeper: a recognition that birth is tender and mysterious, that grief is universal and often best expressed through song, that survival requires community and courage, and that there is something extraordinary in the fact that human beings, across every culture and every age, have reached for beauty in their hardest and most sacred moments.

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