Ruby Red Slippers video is here!
filmed,edited, and directed by the one and only Rose Garguilo from the album” Across the Hemisphere” 10 years ago, I took my pre -teen son to see the Oregon Symphony perform the music of the Hunger Games - titled a Hero's Journey.
After the performance, I wondered about my pre-teen heroine's journey -who or what inspired me down that path . Growing up in post-Watergate South Florida, as a latch key kid, most of my memories of powerful women were of sitcoms - I dream of Jeannie, Bewitched... Magical women dominated by men who never let them use their powers even just to clean the house- Ugh. I searched further in my psyche and remembered the Wizard of Oz's Dorothy finding intelligence, courage, and love all within... by just following that yellow brick road.
I made the finals for the International Acoustic Music Awards for this year !!! Go figure
Across the Hemisphere is released. Click on image to order your CD and or download link
New video Small Hope Bay
thank you Stefanie Adams for creating this lovely video. Review for Small Hope Bay
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New fingerstyle folk from Marianne Flemming is evocative, lovely
(Published: March 18, 2019)
Marianne Flemming has an ethereal voice that perfectly suits the warm, wind-swept colors of her music. Her latest single, "Small Hope Bay," is fingerstyle folk at its most evocative, almost like a painting set to sound. Her lyrics are as poetic as the melodies she weaves, and that voice is truly a stunner, brimming with a childlike sense of wonder.
As the spring starts to open a golden glow, "Small Hope Bay" is a beautiful soundtrack to the season. It is gorgeous and uplifting, perfect for sunny-afternoon dreaming.
Michael Henchman's lovely piano and softly tuneful bass adds waves of emotion to Flemming's mood-spinning guitar playing. A veteran of the Pacific Northwest folk scene, Flemming continues to produce solid, creative work that is heartfelt and inspiring. "Small Hope Bay" is one of those songs that linger in the mind, unreeling like a piece of film. It conjures vivid images and positive vibrations.
More Information: https://marianneflemmingmusic.com
Happy New Year 2020
19 years ago, I was a new mom living in Madison WI, thousands of miles from my family in South Florida. As can happen in a mother's life, I was overwhelmed and overjoyed at being a mom - both ecstatic and exhausted. My dear friend, Rachel Bissex, hopped on a plane from Vermont to come and help me with the new baby. On the way there, she swiped the airplane pillow and embroidered “You are loved" on the pillow case and presented it to me and my son.
The pillow has gone by the wayside but I treasure the case. In honor and in memory of Rachel on this, her birthday. I'm releasing my song, Across the Hemisphere (You are loved) to whoever cares to listen. Rachel's spirit was so generous and filled with light. We are all loved -that is a sentiment that I would like to send out across the hemisphere as we head into 2020.
A gigantic thank you to Michael Henchman, Kari Newhouse and Carlos Marcelin for lending their prodigious talents to this recording and my amazing husband Kevin Neil for cheering me on and showing me the way to keep on making music.
3 Small Things
Hi All
I haven't put out such a lengthy post in a long while - I usually procrastinate and then it slips my mind and then it's too late.
Recently, 3 small things happened and inspired me to reach out to all of you and say hello.
- My song "Small Hope Bay" was picked up to play on a radio show out of New York (WTBQ Hootenanny Cafe with Jon Stein) with the theme of children and the recent news about immigration. I put it out as a single as it is the last thing I have recorded . If you want to do me a solid you can download the song here:https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/marianneflemming2
- . I received a small royalty check from BMI - (and I do mean SMALL) nevertheless I haven't received one in years so I am taking that as a good sign to keep on recording . To that end, I am in the studio at our house and learning how to record -big shout out to Kari Newhouse for helping me learn Logic and lighting a fire under me to do this. If you'd like to learn more about Kari and her talent here she is http://www.karinewhouse.com/
- If you'd like to help me achieve this goal of recording new material e mail me back.
3. Beginning August 1st I will be hosting a monthly happy hour in Portland at McMenamin's White Eagle. This event is sponsored by Local Roots - a concert series and weekly radio show that promotes Northwest Original Music.
Here's how to find out more about that:https://www.facebook.com/localrootsmusicnw/
I hope to have local guests and people passing through the Portland area join me. (hint hint - Florida and Wisconsin friends!!!) If you'd like to be a guest email me back . My first guest is Joshua Davis from the local band Bitches of the Sun - more on that later>
Ok that is that
wishing you all a jam packed summer
Respectfully,
Marianne
Review of Pure and Simple
Pure and Simple
Marianne Flemming
Available from CD Baby.
A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
by Mark S. Tucker
(progdawg@hotmail.com).
Though Marianne Flemming calls Pure and Simple 'hippie chick music, exasperated blues, and whatever happened on the planet laments', there's a very sophisticated mellow jazz fundament at play here, almost a perfect mutant of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Basia, and a couple others I can't quite pinpoint. Flemming composes very well, but her guitar playing ain't anything to sneeze at either, with Yascha Noonberg complementing everything beautifully on a variety of instruments, filling out each song like a one-man band.
Though Marianne has an attractively mellifluous tone when vocalizing, she's not afraid to cut up either, as in Ernest is Blooming. Her songs tend to the hedonistic, sensual, and muskily homey, taking a deeper delight in the everyday and its possibilities. Nothing is rushed, everything's allowed to unfold naturally, and the pretensions of modern society have no place, though her open attitude is far from rustic, just natural and earthy.
This is wine-sipping afternoon or night music, the kind of refrains you want when you're feeling human, when the rush and franticity of the workaday are getting to be just a bit much, when the benefits of technocracy are turning nightmarish. Pure and Simple is designed to put the life's blood back into brain, skin, heart, and…well, a few other places even more entertaining. Consider My Little Savage, a rhumba-samba reflection on kids and their anarchic wont, a track reminding adults of all they've come to forget as they "grew up" and "matured". The entire CD is like that, crafted from long experience yet still caught wide-eyed and wonder-whacked by life.
Track List:
Pure and Simple
Manmade Blues
Ernest is Blooming
Bonnie and Clyde
HIlls of Braboo
My Little Savage
Anything is Possible
White Flag
Faith
Another New Year
All songs written by Marianne Flemming.
Edited by: David N. Pyles
(dnpyles@acousticmusic.com)
Copyright 2009, Peterborough Folk Music Society.
This review may be reprinted with prior permission and attribution.
https://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p05658.htm
2018
This is the year I will start to record a new CD-I am publicly stating it so I can make it a reality >>Yeah!!!
We're getting the band back together!!!
New Album "Next" Just Released
Marianne's new album "Next" is available now. A collection of some of her songs from her last 4 albums, it gives the listener a peek into the last 20 years of Flemming's musical career.
To find the original recordings go to cdbaby.com where all Marianne Flemming albums are available.