WatchFEATURED ARTISTS: LAURA BARON: Refugee, WILLY SCHWARZ: The Immigrant Orchestra, PATTY LARKIN: The Fool’s Song, ALISON MOORE: Liberty, HOSTED BY WARRREN SENDERS
ABOUT the ARTISTS and their WORKS
Refugee, by award-winning singer-songwriter Laura Baron, is an ethereal, soft jazz folksong, going straight to the heart. With plaintive lyrics like “It’s so long since we’ve been welcomed,” she takes us to that place of deep empathy. And ending with “We are the song of the human race,” she reminds us we all come from a family of immigrants.
The Immigrant Orchestra, by Willy Schwarz, is the spoken word story of how his parents fled here from Europe on the eve of World War II. Interspersed with the music from around the world that influenced him, Willy talks about how he came to create the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra – 23 musicians from dozens of countries, playing their native instruments in harmony. Beautiful music – but he also saw it as a model for a respectful, multicultural society. It’s an American tale, if we can just hold on to it.
The lyrics of The Fool’s Song, by singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, were actually adapted from a poem written in 1913 by the celebrated poet William Carlos Williams – but Larkin adds her own new verses, along with a haunting melody. The singer laments putting her bird in a cage – the bird of truth. But it cannot be contained, the bird flies free, and the cage is broken. Truth can’t be locked up forever – including truths about climate, the desperation of the refugee, or any other facts some would try to hide away.
Liberty, by Alison Moore, is a spoken word tale – a magical realism metaphor about the Statue of Liberty on a road trip across the country, down to the Southern border. Having lost her way, she’s unable to remember how to finish her line, “Give me your tired, your poor…” – until she’s reminded by the children she meets there. “Libertad,” one child says, teaching us we are a country of immigrants, striving for freedom.
SONG CREDITS – EPISODE 10: Immigration
Podcast Theme excerpted from ‘Back To Life’
Artist/Composer: Seth Handelman
Recorded at Autumn Leaf Studios – Nashua, New Hampshire
Saxophones, Guitars – Seth Handelman
Bass, Drum track – Alan J. King
Recording Engineer: Alan J. King
© 2022 Seth Handelman
Title: The Fool’s Song
Artist: Patty Larkin
BY PATTY LARKIN
POEM BY WILLIAM CARL0S WILLIAMS, PUBLIC DOMAIN
SONG BY PATTY LARKIN
©2020 LAMARTINE MUSIC, ASCAP
©2025 OUTLIER MOVING PICTURES
FEATURING JONATHA BROOKE
FILM BY PAMELA FALKENBERG & JACK COCHRAN
©2025 OUTLIER MOVING PICTURES
FOOTAGE COURTESY OF
CNBC
CBSNEWS
EYEWITNESS NEWS
SKYNEWS
MSNBC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
60 MINUTES
PBS NEWSHOUR
Title: Refugee
Artist: Laura Baron
Written and Performed by Laura Baron
© Laura Baron Music 2020
LauraBaronMusic.com
Laura Baron – Vocals, Guitar
Raman Kalyan – Bamboo Flutes
Krishna Ramdas – Tabla
Marco Delmar – percussion
Video Production by Miva Malcolm
Track Produced & Recorded by Marco Delmar
(Recording Arts) recordarts.com
Mastered – Mike Monseur
Recording made possible by a grant from:
Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (MD)
creativemoco.com
All footage Royalty free
Black and White photographs from
NYC Public Library’s Digital Collection
Title: Willy Schwarz & the Immigrant Orchestra
Excerpt from “Leaving Home” 2002 GMBH Willy Schwarz
courtesy of JAROmedienGmbH.
https://shop.en.jaro.de/portfolio-items/willy-schwarz/
Video editing: Warren Senders
Title: Liberty (spoken word)
Allison Moore – Composer, performer
Phil Lancaster – Banjo intro, outro
Purly Rae Gates – Producer
Jack Cochran & Pamela Falkenberg – Outlier Moving Pictures/Videography
Podcast Host: Warren Senders
Video/ Audio Support:
Outlier Moving Pictures – Pam Falkenberg and Jack Cochran
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