“Music Beyond Humanity”
Clarinetist, author, and philosopher David Rothenberg has spent his life making music far removed from the usual contexts of performance stages or recording studios. Rothenberg’s collaborators have included cicada swarms, katydids, nightingales, lyrebirds, warblers, whales, and dolphins.
The August episode of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is a somber one, commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945, ending World War II and unleashing the atomic age.
Episode 20- “Thinking About Woody”
“Thinking About Woody” offers a cornucopia of perspectives on the life and legacy of the great American balladeer Woody Guthrie. Interviews with Guthrie scholars are interwoven with spoken and musical excerpts from Woody himself and a huge cast of supporting characters in an astonishing range of genres.
This episode of Cool Tunes for a Hot planet is all about the power of music to help bend the arc of the moral universe. Today we highlight songs about social injustice, asking questions like who are we, and where are we going?
Changing the climate conversation in India! Episode 18 features passionate performances of Indian classical music in wild settings: rainforests, riverbanks, beaches — and the musicians’ fascinating conversations with Indian environmentalists and scientists — all documented in beautifully produced video.
Watch Episode 17: Planting Hope
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Mark Lagerwey, Harriet Korim Sophia Mirto, Young Activist Spotlight (Austin, TX), Atlas Soul Hosts: Warren Senders & Purly Rae Gates
Watch EPISODE 16: BEES!
Produced and hosted by Warren Senders
Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet Episode 16 is all about bees.
Watch Episode 15: May Day
FEATURED ARTISTS: Joselyn & Don, Hilje, Lara Herscovitch, Liz Sunde, Heather Masse, PLUS Global Notes with: Ken Bramman, Sunniva Brynnel & Andreas Jansson, Warren Senders: HOST
Watch Episode 14 : EARTH DAY
FEATURED ARTISTS: PETE SEEGER & Friends: Solartopia, Will Kimbrough & Brant Miller: I Wanna Be Cool, Karla Lara: Que Corra el Rio, PLUS Global Notes with: Ishaan Rao and the Taiwan “Recorder Lovers” Purly Rae Gates: Host
Episode 13 — “Linda Chase”
Meet flautist & composer Linda J. Chase, whose oratorio “For Our Common Home — Resounding Ecojustice” received its world premiere in May.
Watch Episode 12: RESIST!
FEATURED ARTISTS: Tom Paxton, John McCutcheon & Friends: Ukranian Now, James Kahn: O the Ocean Rolls, Larry Lobert: Isn’t This a Time , Various Chilean Musicians: The Right to Live in Peace, HOSTED BY Warren Senders
Composer and climate activist Lola Perrin lived in England before moving to France during the pandemic. Her work
integrates stories and facts about climate change with composed and improvised music, bringing together audience
members, scientists, and musicians in emotionally powerful and artistically resonant ways.
Watch Episode 10 : IMMIGRATION
FEATURED ARTISTS: LAURA BARON: Refugee, WILLY SCHWARZ: The Immigrant Orchestra, PATTY LARKIN: The Fool’s Song, ALISON MOORE: Liberty, HOSTED BY WARRREN SENDERS
Watch Episode 9: WATER
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Kenyan-American jazz vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko
FEATURED SONGWRITERS: GABRIELLE AGACHIKO: When The Water’s Gone, JAMES KAHN: NO More A’Whaling, RICK ARNOLDI: We Are The River (Sung By MaryEdna Salvi), WATERMELON SLIM: Black Water, HOSTED BY PURLY RAE GATES
Watch Episode 8: KEEP HOPE ALIVE FEATURED SONGWRITERS: TIM GRIMM: Broken Truth, JEAN ROHE: National Anthem Arise! Arise!, KIM MOBERG:
WATCH Episode 7 : NEW MOON, NEW YEAR
FEATURED SONGWRITERS: CARRIE NEWCOMER: Sanctuary, SETH HANDELMAN: Prayer for Peace performed by Mark & Deb Bond, PURLY RAE GATES: Wake Up Now! EMMA’S REVOLUTION: Peace, Salaam, Shalom performed by singers & musicians around the world, HOSTED BY JOANNA RUSH AND SETH WILPAN
WATCH Episode 6: HEALING SPIRITS
FEATURED SONGWRITERS: MARK LAGERWEY: Last Winter, JAMES KAHN: Workin’ That ER, TOAD the WET SPROCKET : Starting Now, MELANIE DeMORE: Lead With Love/ One Foot
Watch Episode 5: CHANGE
FEATURED SONGWRITERS: SETH BERNARD : The Time Has Come, EMMA’S REVOLUTION: Our House is on Fire, CRYS MATTHEWS : Changemakers, SETH HANDELMAN: Imagine As You Dream
Watch Episode 4: VOTE!
FEATURED SONGWRITERS: THE THERAPY SISTERS : Do Something, PATTY CARPENTER & VERANDAH PORCHE : Precious Right (Vote), ZOE LEWIS : SMASH (the Glass Ceiling), BABA BRINKMAN & FRIENDS : LOTUS for POTUS, Hosts: Joanna Rush & Seth Wilpan, And special thanks to our hosts and audio/video team.
Watch Episode 3: In Honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Featuring: HOST: muhu’wit, Larry Long with Honor the Earth + many other Pipeline Fighters, Keith Secola & David Huckfelt, Mark Lagerwey
Watch Episode 2: GET OUT THE VOTE!
ABOUT the SONGWRITERS and their SONGS: Roy Zimmerman, Hattie-Purl & the Poll Cats, Distant Thunder—a new American musical, Seth Handelman and Hosts: Joanna Rush and Seth Wilpan
EPISODE 1: A Labor of Love…
Featured Artists:
James Kahn, Eliza Gilkyson, Purly Gates
