Check it out right here:

www.womenofsubstanceradio.com

www.wosradio.com 

Also available on iTunes Radio

These are the shows I am on right now -

Celtic/Classical Show: Sat. 9-10 AM Pacific (12-1 PM Eastern)

Jazz Show Saturdays 10 AM-noon Pacific (1-3 PM Eastern) 

I’m working with an amazing reading and writing sanctuary in Bushwick Brooklyn and we’ve started an Indiegogo campaign! Will you join us?

Brilliant, loving, and creative volunteers offer Bushwick kids homework help, and reading and writing instruction. Importantly, the kids are listened to, heard. Every day they write, and read their work out loud to an attnetive audience of co-writers of all ages. Sacred listening makes a safe and joyful space for kids to learn and grow, and they do!

In addition, the children go to amazing theater, art, dance, music, and museum events in New York, meeting artists, scientists, scholars and writers of every stripe. Usually only very privileged children get such opportunites, but we want to keep all this free for the children of Bushwick Brooklyn, who come from inner city neighborhoods where the public schools are woefully overcrowded and educational advantages are not available if you do not have money.

You can go to this site and donate as little as $10.00 or more if you can, and get lovely perks in gratitude. We also need friendly comments posted on the site, to keep our visibility high! (Takes two seconds.) We are trying to raise enough to keep the doors open and also to admit the many kids on the waiting list. The need in the neighborhood is great, and everybody works for free at the school. Everybody who donates becomes part of something amazing – you are keeping the doors to a top-notch educational program open in a tough neighborhood usually lacking such resources. You are helping to create a thriving community of learning. This is our future!

Check out the campaign and join our family of love and learning! (click here or right below)

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Pan Morigan works as a musician/vocalist, and composer with Chrysalis Theater, a multi-disciplinary, cutting edge performance ensemble that has produced original work, supported local artists and local arts community, and offered theater workshops to at-risk teens for twenty-five years.

Current work in progress

2010-11: In Progress: I Sing Earth, solo performance piece with song/spoken word and video. Debut performances in 2011, TBA

2010-11: In Progress: Found In Translation a performance piece about women’s lives in China & U.S. We are exploring the melodies used to perform ancient Chinese poetry written by women, juxtaposed with modern song exploring Chinese language sounds/Chinese traditional song forms as a medium for investigating women’s lives. Created with/to be performed with Su Jane Wu, singer/translator and Smith College professor of Chinese language and literature – 2011 debut/locations and times TBA

Very Short list of selected past projects

2009: Composer/performer/music director for new play ‘Dispatches’ at Smith College and the New Hampshire Institute of Arts in Manchester, New Hampshire (music improvised live nightly)

2006-2008: Singer/vocal coach/Composer/music director for Chrysalis Theatre production of Stage Fright & Archangels of Funk – creating/interpreting contemporary Irish and American folk music/jazz combinations/New England and NYC tour

2006: Actress/singer for ‘Mindscape’ in New York venues and at University of Georgia at Macon, in Atlanta

2004: Composer/asst. director/singer for Chrysalis production of Soul Repairs/Creation of contemporary Irish/American folk song styles

2003: Singer/composer for Chrysalis production of Hummingbird Flying Backwards

2001: Singer/music director/composer for Chrysalis production of Lonely Stardust – Use of Irish and Middle Eastern music resources/vocal styles

2000: Vocal coach/composer/performer for Chrysalis production of Strange Attractors, performed throughout New England.

Sunday, June 12th at 4 p.m. (doors open at 3:30)

Hallie Flanagan Theater, Green Street, Northampton, Ma.

Ticket info: 917-428-7655

Thursday May 5, 2011, 8:00 P.M. (doors open at 7:30)

Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905, Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California, 94705

Ticket info: 510-472-3170

(Thank you all who came to the Feb. 11th concert at Helen Hills. It was a beautiful winter’s night with an inspiring audience.

Sue Burkhart on guitar, Michel Moushabek on drums, Jon Weeks on Irish flute raised the rafters and sent me soaring.)

To hear excerpts of songs from Pan’s new recording, Wild Blue, click right here

1. WILD BLUE, PAN MORIGAN’S NEW RECORDING, IS OUT NOW! Check it out right here

2. REDWOOD AND WILDFIRE, THE NEW NOVEL BY AWARD-WINNING WRITER ANDREA HAIRSTON, OUT NOW ON AQUEDUCT PRESS! Check it out right here

3. JUST OUT FROM AQUEDUCT PRESS: SHOTGUN LULLABIES, A NEW BOOK BY SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS  (Editor of the groundbreaking Dark Matter Series. ) Check it out right here!

4. 80! MEMORIES & REFLECTIONS ON URSULA K. LEGUIN, A NEW BOOK RELEASED BY AQUEDUCT PRESS,  (4 members of Beyon’ Dusa have stories in this book, Pan Morigan, Andrea Hairston, Sheree Renée Thomas, & Ama Patterson) Check it out right here

80! was reviewed favorably in The Cascadia Subduction Zone.

Redwood and Wildfire Tour

Look at touring page for more news.

Pan is on tour with

The Boston String Quartet…

December 2, 2012, til December 22

We will do Celtic and British Isles music including songs of the season, everywhere from Rhode Island to New York City to Maine to Vermont and New Hampshire.

Come out and rejoice with us!

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Performance at Fertile Ground, new showcase series @The National Black Theater of Harlem, in Harlem, NYC. Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 8:00 P.M. (To be confirmed, check back.) Pan will perform with the Fertile Ground House band and other artists. 125th St. at 5th Ave. 

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Pan Morigan & Andrea Hairston in

Redwood and Wildfire Performances

Nielson Library, off Green St. at Smith College. Sponsored by Friends of the Nielson Library.

Thursday October 13th, 7:30 P.M.

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Residency/Nebraska University, Peru, Nebraska

Pan will do a solo concert and voice workshops for students (and explore the prairies and the wide sky!)

Pan and Andrea Hairston in Redwood and Wildfire performance Reading. Both performances in the Black Box Theater, free to all.

October 29 – 30

My new recording, Wild Blue is out now!

(click right here to check it out)

And I can’t tell you how much trying it took – long haul, loooong road. I want to share it with you, now, see what you think!

Listen loud, if you can, and give the songs more than one hearing, okay? Cause it sometimes takes a few listens to learn my musical language. :-)

I’ve worked hard to invent my own voice, my own sound…  I’ve cooked up my own genre, you might say, a kind of

acoustic-worldly-roots-singer-songwriter-Jazz-folk-conjure music… each song like a little play, or journey.

Let me know if you come up with a better name for it. I’m wide open to suggestion. All my influences are here – a long dream of music music, music -

a land with no fences around it, borders that touch, unafraid, water that flows from one sacred chamber to another, from sky, to lake, to river, to the spinal cord, to the veins under the skin and back down to the sea – no boundaries on music. No wars between sounds. I respect the music that shapes me. I make it part of me, no scattering of styles or sounds like ‘exotic spice’ to juice things up. Instead I apprentice my soul to the sounds I love, pay tribute by learning well, and making my own thing.

When I was a kid, I listened to everything. My brothers and sisters and I danced every week to music from all over the Levant, the Balkans, Greece. Those time signatures (5/9, 7/8,) went into our bare feet and took root in our bones! And then there was the trad Irish music, live everywhere, and the blues and Jazz. Persian santouri players traded with my instrument-making dad – a rug for a new hammer dulcimer…

When I was 11 or so, my dad borrowed a giant stack of vintage LPs from a friend. He told me to listen, saying, “this is the history of America.” In that stack I found Mahalia Jackson, Memphis Minnie, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sonny Terry and Browne McGee, Mavis Staples and the Staples singers, the Georgia Sea Island singers, Woody Guthrie, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Reverend Gary Davis, Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Cotton, Charlie Parker, Jerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Lester Young, Miles Davis, Joe Venuti, Django Reinhard, Nina Simone… that is the short list. I listened long and hard, couldn’t stop. Couldn’t get enough. Still can’t.

I went to a McCoy Tyner concert when I was 14, sneaked into the back and met some of the band, after. They grilled me. It was a kindness. They asked what I played, what I listened to. I told them. They pointed out something I had noticed already: all those artists had their OWN sound. They said, “keep listening; listen and listen and listen and then; be yourself. Find you and do you. Just be you…”

I tried to do that with Wild Blue. From my heart to yours -

I hope to start my next recording soon – and that it won’t be quite as long a haul. I believe the sound will be even closer to the rock of my soul, which is not one soul, but all the souls I’ve encountered and been changed by. Maybe it will be even truer to the heart of my voice, which is not one voice, but many, many voices…

If you want to get Wild Blue, here you go! cdbaby.com/cd/panmorigan2 or digstation or Amazon music or get it right now by contacting pan@panmorigan.com

And if you’d like to see a video made by Robert Jonas, from my song, Peach! go here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjx9wBlixE

Say…  you mix jazz harmonies with soaring melodies touched by the Celtic world and the Levant. Add quirky rhythms, luminous lyrics, a wide open sky, lightening and deep water; hear a silvery voice in multiple octaves that “reaches into a deep hollow place, then climbs out and soars.” Each song is like a little play, taking you on a journey – music of the imagination. Listen loud! This is Wild Blue, Pan Morigan’s new album: 9 genre-bending, innovative songs, sung, written, arranged, and produced by Pan, straight from her heart to yours.

Details

Stellar guest artists provided beautiful and surprising sound: Ben Butler on acoustic guitars and many, many stringed things, including gorgeous solo moments, Marc Shulman on guitars, tiple, and Laude, Beth Bahia Cohen on Turkish bowed Tanbur and Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, Richard Hammond on acoustic bass, Julie Lyonn Lieberman on violin, Michel Moushabek on riq, Ben Wittman on drums and percussion. And Pan also plays: accordion, violin and viola, guitars, hunter’s harp, octave mandolin, flute, and percussion.

Wonderful engineers worked on the album, including mastering engineer Ted Spencer at Ted Spencer Recording, whose fine attention to detail made the tracks shimmer.

Listen right here

Click on a title link to Play/Stop the music.

1. Blue
2. Riddle of the Red Bird
3. Traveler’s Gift
4. Solomon’s Lament
5. Sol de la Noche
6. Night
7. Peach
8. Lullaby Canoe
9. Written and Erased

Ordering

You can get Wild Blue by going to cdbaby.com/cd/panmorigan2, Digstation, itunes, or Amazon Music. Or get it right now by contacting pan@panmorigan.com

The CD is also available at Broadside Bookshop. http://www.broadsidebooks.com/ This is a wonderfully friendly independent bookshop that supports artists, writers, and readers. You can order from them on line – they can get ANYTHING for you. Orders over 25 bucks get free shipping.

Read reviews of Wild Blue right here

A thought: CDs sound better than downloads cause they’re not so compressed. And, with a CD, if your computer or iPod dies, you still have a backup. Getting CDs helps artists, too – as iTunes and Amazon pay little. The physical world is still beautiful. :-)

(You can get Wild Blue CDs from this site, or from CDBaby.)