Rise Up Music Project

Rise Up Music Project

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Rise Up Music Project episodes

  • 3/27/26: “Can Do Better” by Josh Jensen

    Josh Jensen is a singer songwriter hailing from Seattle, WA. Josh's honeyed vocals and fingerstyle guitar accompany a wide range of what he dubs as PNW Americana stylings that make up his music. This month’s song, “Can Do Better”, is a plea to the world to do better for our neighbors and for how we educate our future leaders.

    11 min
  • 3/23/26: "Christmas Story," by Andy Circus

    Andy Circus is the more spell-able stage name of Aidan Gscheidle, an artist, activist, entrepreneur, and recovering fundamentalist. He lives in the good land of Pennsylvania. His song for today is called "Christmas Story."

    14 min
  • 3/22/26: "Fall Apart," by Kenny Darling
    Kenny Darling is a Seattle-based musician and screenwriter. You can find his solo music online, as well as music by the many local bands he’s played with. These include, Local Liars, Post Harbor, Body Electric, and probably a few more if you dig around hard enough. He joined the Rise Up Music Project to challenge himself to write songs consistently for the entire year. He appreciates you taking the time to listen and hopes you’ll support the 30 or so artists putting out a song each day of the month through the Rise Up Music Project.
    10 min
  • 3/19/26 “First Flight of Roger the Winged Serpent,” by Carolyn Fingyrs

    Carolyn Fingyrs is the dreamlike psychedelic stage persona of St. Louis-based shapeshifter and spaghetti enthusiast Nick Johnson. They will be releasing a new song on the 19th of every month this year. Please oblige them with the benefit of your listening ear as you partake in an early draft of their track “First Flight of Roger the Winged Serpent”

    21 min
  • 3/17/26: "Patient," by Graham Klym

    Graham Klym is a Seattle musician with somewhere between not enough and a little too much time on his hands.

    He is releasing a new song on the 17th of every month this year. Today’s song is called “Patient.”

    15 min

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The Rise Up Music Project is a daily podcast bringing you a new song every day. It's a show about music, songwriting, self-examination, art as activism, the creative process, and so much more.…