Rise Up Music Project

Rise Up Music Project

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Rise Up Music Project episodes

  • 4/5/25: “Cherry Pie,” by Stacy Rene Erenberg

    Stacy Rene Erenberg is ‘From Here to There’ as a vocalist and songwriter from Chicago. Her improvisational stylings bring you on an inventive, genre-bending journey, from Jazz to Folk, Pop to Blues and of course A Capella. Stacy and her band of incredibly talented collaborators will lullaby you into your body and into new liberatory dreamscapes.

    This month’s post is a song about rage. How do we transmute it into medicine?

    14 min
  • 4/4/25: “For Natasha, Who Seems Ambivalent About My Music,” by Happy Lion

    Happy Lion is the name Louie decided to release music under after a young child at a farmers market told him he looked like a happy lion. Louie lives in Los Angeles, where he mostly rides his bike and plays baseball. He is releasing a new song on the 4th of every month this year, and his song for today is called “For Natasha, Who Seems Ambivalent About My Music.”

    12 min
  • 4/1/25: “Jurickson Profar,” by Cousin Wolf

    Cousin Wolf is the indie-folk music project of Matt Halvorson, a musician, writer and baseball fan living with his family in the woods north of Seattle. He is sharing a new song on the first of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Jurickson Profar.” It is a song about one of my favorite players, and about the way baseball and life are both cyclical. Every spring around this time, we start fresh -- right back where we started the season before. We update our lists and refresh our predictions, but we often get so caught up with what might come next that we forget to appreciate what we have right in front of us. Baseball is a sacred game, something to dream on, and something to be treasured right now, just the way it is.

    27 min
  • 3/30/25: “Cruel Spaces” by The A.M.
    The A.M. is a songwriting project from two West Coast educators. They’ve played together for a long time without recording, but this year, they are releasing a new song on the 30th of every month, and their song for today is “Cruel Spaces.”
    12 min
  • 3/29/25: “Moon, Be Kind” by j.gano

    Thin of hair but flush of beard, j gano is a perpetual dabbler who puts his thoughts to guitar while the kids are in bed. He writes songs about the mystery of existence, friendship, the experience of time, and fatherhood - particularly as it relates to those things. He likes good oolong in a gong fu pot, morels and porcinis, spiders and bugs.

    Jake has released music under the name Human BandFest 2042. His friends tell him that's an impossible band name to remember.

    7 min
  • 3/28/25: “3 AM,” by Jesse Etsler
    Another improvised loop trying to give english to the fundamental Voice of Consciousness at the heart of all things. Jesse is a multi-hyphenate artist who uses music and sound primarily as a means of spontaneous journeying. “…songs were the way I explored the universe.” - Bob Dylan
    50 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.…