Hit Me With Music, Creating A New Kind of Community

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain

Bob Marley

Hey All,

We made it through the hump of this week and as a reward I’m going to be singing some songs to uplift, decompress, and inspire with my buddy Elias Meister this evening. To use a phrase a student recently said to me, these are “heavy times” and we definitely need community to continue wading through these rough waters.

The Porch Sessions are one of the ways that I choose to find joy and connect with people through music. I hope that this series provides you the same. Like this lyric from Bob Marley’s “Trenchtown Rock” suggests when music hits we are afforded the space to surrender all that we have been feeling in a safe way.

The Porch Sessions evolved out of my last album Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song. The idea had been percolating since decades before when my husband and I used to offer a monthly art salon out of our apartment in downtown Brooklyn. Years later I started the Porch Sessions online during the pandemic but I always hoped they would become an in person experience. I look at these sessions as not quite performances but sort of like a members-only club for those looking to prioritize living over working hard, producing, and consuming. I look at the Porch Sessions as a Deep Listening Juke Joint, a Liming Speakeasy, a Happy Hideaway, a Hush Harbor. I hope you will join the community.

Best Wishes and thank you for supporting living music!