Rise Up Music Project

Rise Up Music Project

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Rise Up Music Project episodes

  • 6/21/25: “The Goddess,” by Sojourner

    Sojourner is a seven-year-old who lives in the forest with her family. She is a founding member of the Rise Up Music Project Backups, and they have volunteered to fill in the cracks as they appear. Today she is filling in for Jon Ellison, who had a recent health scare and is still recovering. Her dad is Matt Halvorson, the founder of the project, and we are all grateful for how quickly and eagerly she created and shared this song.

    6 min
  • 6/20/25: "Hey Everybody" by Joey Spilberg
    Joey Spilberg was a lost puppy in the wilderness until he was taken in and cared for by strangers in a tavern where each night they sang songs and drank elderberry wine. He is releasing a new song on the twentieth of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Hey Everybody”.
    10 min
  • 6/18/25: "Capybara," by Anna Soltys

    Anna Soltys is a musical and public artist based out of Chicago. She is a folk-rock singer/songwriter, as well as an electronica artist. She is using this platform to develop a larger repertoire of electronica music. She is releasing a new song on the 18th of every month this year, and her song for today is called “Capybara”.

    8 min
  • 6/17/25: “Quiet Down,” 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 seventeenth of every month this year. Today’s song is called “Quiet Down”.
    11 min
  • 6/16/2025: “Alpine Lakes Wilderness,” by Mike Antone
    Mike Antone, from Snoqualmie Valley in Washington State, living in the town of North Bend, this is a special Father’s day song for his Dad, Tom Antone. For more info on this artist, visit www.mikeantone.com , check out @mountain_ear_ online, great collective of musicians also from the area, combining forces to create a futuristic freak folk and Americana
    19 min
  • 6/14/2025: “NO KINGS!” by Cycle of Hands
    Evalynne of Cycle of Hands is a Seattle Sound Sorceress and Song Bird who will gladly sing about pretty much anything. This time around it is about how dumb, foolish and incredibly unsavory the instigators of Americas descent into authoritarianism are, while also hoping to encourage any of the lovely people who are good, kind, compassionate and aware to continue to stand up and fight for a future that we, and our childrens children deserve! Evalynne of Cycle of hands is releasing a new song on the 14th of every month this year and her song for today is called: “NO KINGS!”
    22 min
  • 6/12/25 “Lost in the Streets of Chicago," by Cape Disappointment

    Cape Disappointment is the moniker for Seattle-based songwriter, Jeffrey P. Martin. He writes “raw, honest, stripped-down” songs about places, loss, love, and life. He’s been playing all over the country for more than a decade. Everywhere from New York to Seattle. He is releasing a new song on the 12th of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Lost in the Streets of Chicago”

    12 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.…