Hosting a benefit concert for World Central kitchen on Wednesday Oct 1, at 6 PM PT w/ my artist colleagues: Mike Berman, Julie Henigan, me, Luca-Mai Ris and Cormac Gannon- let’s help provide humanitarian aid to families in G@za, go to the QR code in the corner to donate any $ and get the zoom link!

I participated in daily antidote of song for European folk music day today, with a Polish woman singing of resistance fighters and a Ukrainian woman who literally had to be moved deeper into her house’s basement while her home was under attack and being bombed. You could hear the munitions. Humbled.

Ridiculously, over the moon excited to host a benefit concert with some stellar performers on Zoom, Oct 1, 6PM PT for WCK. Feeding people in places of turmoil, message me to get the link. I’ll put the performer line-up below.

Cool cool, cancelling everything affiliated with ABC, cause capitulation with actual fascia-ists is bad for everybody. The corruption flows strong, but not stronger than all of us. Everything is built on stories. Must get good at using our voices to tell our stories so they don’t get told for us.

Feeling deeply grateful today. I am okay ATM. Feeling safe-ish and loved and I’m spending a lot of time gathering in and reconnecting to my communities so more people can be okay when the sh!t hits. Checking the edges for the most vulnerable of all. Together is the only way any of us survives. <3

It was fun! Weird but fun to sing with @lightholder.com and @skylerblakeslee.bsky.social for the Essnay theatre in Niles, CA today at an event with the Eugene o’Neill festival and play as backing music for silent films. Made a go of the experiment and with more practice, would do it again. Thx erbdy

What are your best tips for making Instagram videos that pop and are memorable and shareable ? I’m working to up my game and learn how to do this better.

What’s up Ashland?!?!?

New videos from Winterdance 2024 available on my YT channel with the weeds, Paul Kotapish, and Marisa Gilman. Thank you to Wendy Leyden for capturing the fun of it! Yaaay seasonal joy among friends. <3

I was reminded today of what should be intuitive for performers, but is not for me… and that is the importance of stage craft for an audience to respect or value the work. It’s a totally different but important skillset from singing. So, prepare to see me gussy up for performances more going ahead.

Listen to the rest of my conversation with singer @ameliahogan.bsky.social on your favorite podcast outlet or my YouTube channel: youtu.be/kZSXQOoJPXA?... #creativity

How was your birthday?

None of us lives forever, and it’s incumbent upon all of us to leave a positive impact on others while we’re here. That said, other parts of the world, people need help. World Central Kitchen needs money to help pay for feeding people in the Levant. Famine is political not biological alone.

Today’s for painting and writing. Sometimes your heart just needs to turn the tap on and go.

And I made another one… using friends’ footage, my own, and some stock drone footage. Along with digital art from my friend HB M in Texas. The singing of the songs helps us remember ourselves. Dh’eirich Mi Moch Maidainn Cheitein in Scots Gaelic. youtu.be/kXNMbXwX7-Q?... enjoy!

My first music video that I made, with friends, fancy gear, their footage, my footage, long exposures, flyovers from drones, and a lot of love for California. Please forgive odd artifacts. youtu.be/ga7oliT0rYU Share, like, subscribe etc. when you’ve gold in yer bones, you know you are of this place.

What refuels you when your heart needs it? What factors, people, activities, events places, or objects help you remember your wholeness best? How does your community help you have access?

To all my trans beloveds… you are the beating heart of pride month and I am heartbroken for the cruelty. I adore you as blessed, beautiful, and cherished ones. This world is richer and made ever more exquisite for you being in it. Haters here will be blocked.

Estimates put the real numbers at between 12 and 20 million. Mainstream news sources whose editorial and governance boards have been bribed, threatened or cajoled will underestimate and minimize those numbers. If you rely only on the major brands to tell you what’s what, you may be misinformed.

Excited to join T Thorne Coyle for their podcast and record an episode for release later in the summer. What are you doing to nourish your heart and gather strength & resolve? What’s your plan for re regulation so you have the wherewithal? What do you need to do, find, make, or buy to be ready?

I’m feeling the love of California super hard right now, I mean always. But also: we are under attack by a mad president who wishes he were king & is trying his hardest to start $t. So we’re Rolling in the Gold, and San Francisco’s motto is: Oro en Paz, Fiero en Guerro. Gold in Peace, Iron in War.

Musician life, Burnished CD release party at Sláinte in Oakland, CA was amazing vibes, with every seat and then some, filled. We finished out the CD release in the PNW with Vietnamese soup in Davis, which was Pho-King great.

I’m not all about the business side of trying to get my fellow musicians paid for their skill and time, though I care about that a lot, I’m also a singer because I love songs and have since before I could walk. That said, anybody coming on Sunday got carpool room in their vehicle, for friends too?

“Art should make you want to cry or throw up” - Cesar A Cruz I give people a moment or 2 to weep when attending my performances and then I listen to what feels and memories I inspired, shows me I’m doing my job. Great art shows us, how to access our feels and remember our humanity. Go make art!

Sunday, June 8, 5-7 PM rare show of Celtic music legends: John Weed, Christa Burch, Marla Fibish, Skyler Blakeslee, Maureen Brennan, and Skyler Blakeslee at Sláinte Pub in Oakland. I’m so excited for singing and playing with friends. Necessary good right now, our hearts need this so much.

Tonight in Ashland, OR at O’Ryan’s Pub. Traditional and contemporary tunes and songs. May 27, 2025, 7:00 with Skyler and Jimmy. A rare treat. Come to hear live music. <3

Appreciation of art isn’t a zero sum equation. It’s like cake, if someone makes you a cake for your birthday, yaaay, if someone else makes you cake, yaaay two cakes! When you see info about two creators, it means there’s more creativity, and more chances to celebrate creativity. Remember this.

No make-up selfie…. Like that almost every day unless I’m performing. This is what one smiling face of a femme person not trying to be younger or smaller or dumber than I am, looks like. About to drink my afternoon tea and head into the cool, grey garden. Be bright, be big, be as wise as your years.

Nearly done with the first month of Burnished CD release. Thank you to the DJs!!! Gearing up for the PNW tour, Davis, CA 05/21, Salem, OR 05/23, Portland,OR 05/24, Seattle, WA 05/25, Grants Pass, OR 05/26 Ashland, OR 05/27 And Oakland, CA 06/08 AmeliaHogan.com message for details. <3

Shows upcoming!!! Tour in May, May 21 at Muir commons in Davis, CA common house. May 23, Salem, OR at the Hayloft concert series. May 24, Oran Mór Meadery in Sellwood, Portland OR May 25, KSER Everett, WA. 2 pm May 26, Ol Barney’s, Grant’s Pass, OR 4:00 May 27, O’Ryan’s, Ashland, OR 7:00 PM. <3

Yippeee!!! Was just featured in Irish Music Magazine!!!! Two reviews and an interview and press release. I’m so excited. Got my copy in the mail today. And am in the middle Of the first full month of the radio release for Burnished. Pre-release single, Home by Bearna. #3 on FAI’s global folk charts.

Pu at baker beach looking northward. Blue sky shore plants

I’m still seeing a lot of panic and hand-flapping about the end of the world, and the panic wailing and all. Sooo, while you’re still here, what do you want to build instead? What systems and networks do you want to make happen in its place? apocalypse, damage, fear, and then…what if you do survive?

Most birds have a fight or flight response. He forgot we’re flightless birds.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Aaaand, So no one thinks I’m joshing anyone tomorrow, my brand new 14 track album drops tomorrow, April 1, 2025 AmeliaHogan.bandcamp.com iTunes, social media, YouTube, Spotify (if you must, but go get it elsewhere too), Alexa, at shows, and at ameliahogan.com

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Been in Ireland since last Wednesday morning. Too much to share in short form but my heart is fuller with all the thoughtful conversations, incredible songs and friends, and omg tea, everywhere I want it, which is everywhere and everywhen. What’re your travel must haves?

I need a diversion. What sort of landscape should I paint today? I’m anxious about leaving the country tomorrow, and need a distraction from my elevated blood pressure before the flight. Keep those efforts up. The not buying from collaborating companies, the communications with elected officials.

Got work to do so, I’m hanging at the coffee shop waiting for tea and bruschetta. Feels like spring in San Francisco. What sweet things are you noticing today?

Gearing up for St Patrick’s day shows coming up and theeeen? off to Ireland to visit with friends and go visit with other singers and clubs and sessions and conferences and my official Cd launch when I get back. Painting today for commissions. Cliffs of Moher and cute garden in England w/ bunny.

Watching the soy frog and toad animated series is such low stakes gentle TV. What’s your favorite calm the nervous system media?

If you live in California, please join me in calling Gov Newsom at (916) 445-2841 to let him know he’s lost your support and you’ll never vote for a Democrat who doesn’t stand with trans people. If I could make the call while boarding the 105 bus you can do it too.

Got the second round of MMR vaccines and Covid booster shot yesterday. And, I’m figuring out ways to make spreadsheets easier to print shipping labels from for the mailings. Stuff’s gotten VERY expensive at the PO so, I’m sorting out how to batch in-person deliveries. Hire me for music instead?

Here’s some helpful grit for the slowing/ breaking of the cogs that grind out gloriously varied spirits and bodies down. This enddei.ed.gov website is a snitch website for parents and schools to report “dei discrimination” which is to say, anyone teaching social studies or humanities honestly.

One day of boycotting at a time, start tomorrow, and see where it takes you to keep it going. Try for tomorrow, try not to cross a protest line as much as possible in the days ahead …And keep those calls going. Show up to your town halls and counsel meetings. Everything counts, I love you.

Some creative things from the last 24 hours.

Painting after a respite is hard. And I have to keep reminding myself it’s like everything big. It sucks until it doesn’t. That goes for music, revolutions, and everything creative. Go take a step back and do something different for a minute before coming back in. and then don’t quit.