Episode 5

Seth Bernard is the founder of Earthwork Music, which encourages comm-unity healing through collective musicianship. Seth is a prolific songwriter and recording artist with 12 solo albums and a dozen more collaborative projects in his catalog. He’s won eight Jammie awards as a recording artist and producer and has been a longtime iconic leader and steward of Michigan’s music community. The Time Has Come asks us to come together now, there’s no more time to wait in the fight against the men whose greed is accelerating the climate change that is destroying our planet. The heartfelt lyrics implore us to find meaningful pathways to action, in our shared humanity.

Credits for The Time Has Come: Seth Bernard – Composer, Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars/ Samantha Cooper – Vocals/ Khalin Diggins – Bass / Dan Rickabus – Drums, Vocals/ Michael Shimmin – Shakers, Cabasa, Tambourine, Shekere/ Ruth Unger – Vocals, Vocal Arrangement, Hand Claps  © 2021 Seth Bernard

Emma’s Revolution is the dynamic, award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries & Sandy O— known for fearless, truth-telling lyrics and melodies you can’t resist singing,  The duo are in their 20th year performing together. Their songs have traveled around the world and have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger and covered by Holly Near. Our House is on Fire, by Emma’s Revolution, is a passionate song with a similar message: our house – the earth – is going up in flames, literally and metaphorically, and we have to join hands to put those fires out. The ‘fires’ of polluted air and oceans, dying trees, melting glaciers, rising seas, bleaching coral, growing drylands, racism, homophobia, hunger and poverty all need our attention—and we must deal with them now.

Credits for Our House is on Fire: Sandy O  – Vocal, Guitar / Pat Humphries – Vocal, Guitar / Shelley Doty – Electric Guitar / Vicki Randle – Bass / Kofy Brown – Drums /

Daryn Roven @The Raindrop –  Recording and Audio Editing / Sara St. Martin Lynne – Videography / Steve Holloway – Video Editing

Thank You to the Lakota’s Law Project

© 2019, 2020 Sandy O, Pat Humphries – Moving Forward Music BMI

Crys Matthews is a powerful lyricist whose songs of compassionate dissent reflect her lived experience as what she lightheartedly calls “the poster-child for intersectionality”. Crys is made for these times, and her hope-fueled, love-filled social justice album Changemakers is a resounding affirmation of that fact. Changemakers was named International Folk Music Awards  2021 SONG OF THE YEAR. It’s a soulful, moving prayer, asking us all to battle hate and racism, and stand up for all the starving children, dreamers, homeless, and vulnerable members of our society; an appeal to the soul of America, with the poetry that symbolizes us to the world: “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.”

Credits for Changemakers: Crys Matthews: Composer, vocal & acoustic guitar / Video: courtesy of JB Nuttle,  worldonevideo.com

Seth Handelman is one of the hardest working podcast team members. He’s a life-long musician who has written and played rock-infused songs for decades. You hear his powerful sax riffs at the beginning of every Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet episode. Imagine as You Dream addresses the horrors of school shootings by asking why this keeps happening, why we keep leaving our children to face these nightmares alone. He wonders if maybe we can start to turn things around by dreaming the possibilities of how to fix this intractable problem. We must visualize the solutions first, and only then can we effect them.

Credits for Imagine As You Dream: Seth Handelman: Composer, Lead Vocals, Guitars, Saxophones / Alan J. King:  Backing Vocals / Craig ‘Shab’ Chabot: Bass Guitar, Drum Programming / Recorded at Shabby Road Studios –  Nashua, New Hampshire / Craig ‘Shab’ Chabot: Recording Engineer  © 2018 Seth Handelman