Moira Smiley, Author at moira smiley

Entries by Moira Smiley

Unzip The Horizon Songbook + Sing With Me

Winter is (hopefully) over; the trees are budding, and so are we! As the daffodils are in full bloom, my first songbook has entered the world! The Songbook is a compilation of arrangements for twelve songs from my latest solo album, Unzip The Horizon. I poured my heart into this, and I'm so happy to be sharing...

Welcoming Spring, West Coast Tour, Savannah…

After almost two months on the road I've had a few days at home to reflect on new characters that have come into my life...and new places the music has taken me. Sitting in gratitude, feeling a bit weary, but ready to jump west again! Here are a few recent highlights, and new news! Montana & Pacific NW...

Greetings from Norway!

Hello you! Hei på deg from Norway! We're rolling into that fleeting moment of equal light and dark. I'm looking from a 12th story window onto a beautiful Oslo afternoon, and I've climbed up here to reflect on my summer of music festival performing, river swims, lonely moments of betwixt and between, requiem writing, ecstatic moments of...

yellow glowing, father knowing, 7..21st..ing

Hello friends, I'm arriving late to hand you this present... with my glasses awry, hair disheveled, gift wrapping a bit torn, ribbon-y bow crushed... but here, only for you, is the beautiful, delicate, deeply felt 'Dressed In Yellow' VIDEO directed by Alexandra DeFurio. 'Dressed In Yellow', track 9 on 'Unzip The Horizon' was written...

Spring 2018

hello! Spring, is that you? I wanted to let you know about these 3 weeks of U.S. shows with the Seamus Egan Project. Wheezy cough and stuffy nose be gone! The sun is radiating onto myshoulders for a moment, and despite world news, there is sweet, fierce music to lift us!! Here are a few headlines. I...

Pre-Order Album + Songbook

PRE-ORDER ALBUM + CHORAL SONGBOOK Dear friends, I'm so excited to share with you that my album and choral songbook are getting HELP in their release! This means a couple of things for you, dear readers. ‘Unzip The Horizon’ will now be officially released March 30, 2018. So, this is what I will do: These next 3 months I'll leak...

CA Folklife Tour + Premiere @ Disney Hall + LA Concerts + Summer Festivals

Hello! It's softest green and birdsong here in Vermont. I've enjoyed landing here into family and new beginnings. Next week I begin 3 months of musical travels. A month in my beloved California, a month around the U.S. and Canada, then to the Skaramagas Refugee Camp in Greece to volunteer and teach. I'll be...

Folklife CD Release Tour!!

Music for YOU this & next week in MI,IL,WI,MN,IA,NJ,NY,CT,VT,MA Hello there! Tour these next two weeks to MI,IL,WI,MN,IA,NJ,NY,CT,VT and MA! (and on into 2017) Last night the Folklife Project began our CD Release Tour! Led by my friend, the 'Yo Yo Ma of the banjo', Jayme Stone, this tour's concerts feature the twelve new songs - musical heirlooms...

real new year news

January Catch-up! Hello! I forgot to post my January blog post here, so here is a little catch-up! New news coming soon. In January, at the APAP Booking Conference I debuted new songs under the umbrella of my show / residency "the voice is a traveler" - a show of songs that remind us of the...

An Autumn Hello from Moira

LEAF/LA's Disney Hall/NEW Solas VIDEO/New FB page/'Time' Commission - you record 10/29 Singalong @ Disney Concert Hall +... moira's news of choral writing and folk singing... A very quick hello to you! Due soon: To the mighty Los Angeles Master Chorale - a piece exploring the tone of the human voice as an expressive tool across a lifetime...I'd love...

Midsummer News 2016

Can't see images? Click here... Midsummer News From Moira... LIVE shows NOW July 15-25 Lomax Project Tours in British Columbia, Canada July 30-31 Solas @ Cambridge Folk Festival, UK July 31 *Moira Solo @ Nest Collective SBC Rooftop, Central London, UK *London friends! The Southbank Centre Rooftop's the coolest concert setting! @7:30pm I'll premiere several new songs, visit the old, wild ones &...

step.slow.into.new

moira smiley singer composer photo by Tonya Lessley -- inspirephotoart.com Step.Slow.Into.New A quiet little hello to you! Thank you for meeting me along my way, and for supporting my music-making this year. What a beautiful year - 2015, a beautiful riot of color and travel. I gasped, shocked to see the intensity of the stars, and feel the quiet darkness on my mother's farm in...

Midsummer 2015

www.moirasmiley.com Hello from Vermont! What a pleasure to sing with tUnE-yArDs in my home state of Vermont, and see my family! 10 more shows before Merrill's back in the studio to make a new album. Time for me to finish writing this year's choral commissions, record a solo album, put new vocal arrangements & videos online, tour with Solas, VOCO and...

Spring 2015 Hello!

Spring Update 2015 Moira Smiley Composer : Vocalist Spring... Hello from the tUnE-yArDs tour bus to you! I'm looking up from starting work on two choral commissions - from LA Master Chorale & ACDA Womens Commission Consortium -to write you a little Spring news. I crossed from Winter into Spring on one long tour

2015 Hello!

Moira Smiley Composer : Vocalist This...This year past was a hot-air-balloon ride! It ROARED, and floated up! up! up! on breath of folksongs, indie-rock anthems, and choir festival hallelujahs! And the months read aloud new recipes for...well...setting up snare drums, tarantism, listening, being in time, nomadic recording technology, and how to keep chasing joy. ...

Shows Next 3 Weeks!!

Hello! Only days ago, in a copper mine deep below dusty Butte, Montana, I was among ghosts and detonations, feeling the dance of human frailty and brute-force. In Winnipeg, I peered from an arena stage to the see the thousands of people singing together. I wept as I walked a new-mown hayfield because...