I asked my heart/higher power during this morning’s brief mediation what to focus on during our radio spot with Doug Jayne’s Midday Music/Sonoma County Music Hour show on KRCB. It’s fundraising season, so that’ll be a topic, but three ideas bubbled up:
Love.
Fun
Expand the community
Another unexpected, but welcome call to keep it simple in the face of the fear and panic that so often drives us while promoting ourselves as singer-songwriters. Which is exactly why Katie and I created Supernova Support in the aftermath of a music career swallowed by Covid, motherhood, and co-dependence with a chaser of cultural patriarchy bullshit.
We wanted to find a different way to approach songwriting that centered on recognizing and developing our unique gifts, our singular voices and perspectives instead of constantly shaming ourselves for not being more ______ fill in the blank.
So if you happen to get this message in time to tune in live, you’ll hear us having way too much fun sharing the love we have for music and the amazing community of women songwriters showing up at our Not So Open Mic and Tuesday Online Song Salons. How so many of us are discovering the support, inspiration, and craft tools we need to write exceptional songs all while having a fantastic time, fear and panic free.
We’ll add a link with the recording when it’s up!
Cool. I'll be in the car on my way to a class so I will dial you in. Good luck!