In August 2024 I began recording on my first album project, Songs for the Way Home, with a lot of generous help from my friends and family. I selected a small solar-powered, woman-owned studio in a rural area in my current home state of Vermont and plowed through a full day of intensive recording, feeling …
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First Album—Songs for the Way Home
On August 26, 2024, I began the recording of my first studio album project. I’m beyond excited. I need your help to fully birth this creative project. Please click to donate here, and read more about the project below. The Spirit of the Project: This album is light and soft. I want to share it …
A Time for Celebration – An Update on the Soap for Hope Project
Dear friends, As the pandemic exposes the world’s inequalities for what they are, I’m here to report about people that are working together for change. Starting in April 2020, I partnered with two organizations to help supply coronavirus-related protection and training to refugees in Kiryandongo Urban Refugee Settlement in Uganda. The organizations are Dream Production, …
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Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie: Writing Songs for the Times, Racism, Spiritual Wisdom, & More
“Soap for Hope” Project
I’m grateful to be working on an international project. Some of you may know my connections to refugee communities in Uganda run back to 2017, when I interned with a refugee-led organization using technology to give people who are refugees avenues to voice their concerns, access information, and learn new skills. Today I’m back at …
Singin’ in Asheville
Already a few videos to share from my time in Asheville, NC.
House Concert Update
I love sharing music through house concerts. Each event is as unique as its attendees, its hosts, and the visions we create together! An especially fun one took place in Fort Wayne, IN, two weeks ago. Families have allowed me to post videos and pictures here. Thank you to Whitney and Jared for being willing …
Central North Carolina Performances
Will Work for Peace: I Interviewed on Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)’s persistence—in trusting people’s desire and creativity in meeting their own human needs and illuminating the potential for compassionate collaboration—roots my musical efforts. This week I was interviewed about NVC on my friend’s Quaker radio station. I welcome you to listen to the episode, comment on it, and share it with others. https://northernspiritradio.org/episode/primer-nonviolent-communication. …
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Inside a House Concert
House concerts can be interactive! Click this link for Instagram video peeks inside a house concert . . .
Claire Bates Music 