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Blue Gold on Music For the Earth, Music with a Conscience!
I was so pleased to learn Aoede’s song BLUE GOLD, intended to raise awareness for plastics and marine debris and celebrate our precious liquid blue resource and released in conjunction with Coastal Cleanup Day Sep 2009, was included in 2 special places:
Music For the Earth-where you can download it for FREE for 4 more days (until May 9) !
And Women of Substance’s Themed Show: Music with a Conscience!
This Show will air every Wed, Sat & Sun from 3-7 PM ET (noon-4 PM PT) through the end of May on www.WOSRadio.com or listen and vote (must be logged in to vote) at www.live365.com/stations/breenoble or on iTunes Radio under the Adult Contemporary Category. Here are all the amazing female artists included on the show:
Aoede’s Song, Blue Gold, Featured on Musicians For Peace!
Big shout out to Alan Moore and Musicians and Artists For Peace for including Aoede’s song Blue Gold on his website!! Says Alan: Performers, artists, DJs, musicians, producers, music venues and festivals from around the world can have a very special role in cocreating world peace and transformation through music and the performance arts when they join Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace, MFAWP.
Blue Gold is intended to celebrate our precious liquid blue resource-water and the ocean-while raising awareness for the issues of plastics and marine debris. Aoede released Blue Gold September 2009, in conjunction with Coastal Cleanup Day. Click to read More about Blue Gold!
Dermatowhat?? (on living with DM) Pt. 3
All This Health Stuff’s Getting in the Way of my Music!!
As you can probably tell based on the 30+ shows scheduled for 2009, while all this health stuff had been rearing its ugly head in 2009, through fatigue, depletion, weakness and biopsies and endless blood work, infections and 29 doctor appointments, I was still determined that music was my 
lifeline-my pathway to healing. I just looked back in my journal, and here’s what I wrote in early 2009:
…these first few months of 2009 I have been pretty weak and sick. How does all this relate to music?? Because it is about the state I am in whether or not I can be creative or write, or keep up with performance, tours, communication with my friends and family. Maybe I am keeping this secret from my fans because I don’t want to share this vulnerability, and I don’t want to risk some or other artist thinking, ‘I won’t ask her to do a gig-she’s sick and unable to rise to the occasion.’
I think it’s telling that even then I was thinking about the implications my state of health was having on the music (not the other way around!)
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves” Jack Cornfield Quotes
I had mentioned previously that Dave, my husband, and I attended a music strategies workshop in Los Angeles, California in June 2009. Despite the workshop’s physical toll on my body, I returned to San Francisco super inspired and determined to make changes in my life, my communication with my friends and fans, and my songs. I really pondered who I was as an artist and realized it was about the connections: making connections with my friends, touching them, not being afraid to be vulnerable or show myself to them. Realizing it was about YOU, your connection and relationship to me through my music, and not just “the songs” was a huge insight for me! I now was desperate to write new music that would reach people on an emotional level, to touch them and inspire them to feel. For nearly a year and a half, I had been mentored privately and studied song craft intensively; it was time to apply my blood, sweat, and tears to write new Aoede songs that could stir people’s souls. It became so clear to me: find out what inspired and compelled me. Figure that out, and I could inspire and compel in my songs. But how could I reconcile my need to connect, my want to show myself, with holding back what I considered my private health issues?
Aoede Makes Waves With Blue Gold a New Coastal Anthem
San Francisco *Pop Rock* Artist-Aoede-is making waves with Blue Gold, their new coastal surf-rock style anthem celebrating our precious blue liquid resource-the ocean-while raising awareness for marine debris and plastics in our environment. Singer/ songwriter for Aoede, Lisa Sniderman, is no stranger to these issues as she is also an Environmental Scientist working on statewide coastal water quality issues in San Francisco. Says Sniderman, “Our everyday activities often leave a variety of pollutants on the surface of our streets, sidewalks, parking lots, yards… think of oil and grease from our cars, pesticides from our gardens, dirt from construction, or items that we use like cigarettes, plastic bags that just get dumped. These often end up in our creeks, rivers, bays and our oceans. Plastic products are things we use everyday and hardly think about, but they are hard to dispose of-they don’t break down and often will be just thrown on the ground or blow from trash containers.” Sniderman further expresses, “I have been inspired and mesmerized by water for as long as I can remember.” The idea for Blue Gold came to her when she decided to combine her previously separate passions for coastal/water issues and for music. She aspires to affect change and inspire through this new catchy single.
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