Song of the Soul
656 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSong of the Soul invites you to a soul-level encounter. Music has the ability to proclaim the soul's language beyond what mere words can speak. That's what we seek as we invite our guests to share their Song of the Soul. You will hear the music that has charted the steps of their spiritual journey, that has provided a touchstone in the soul's dark night, and sung the hearts awe and joy when come to the Light. As you listen to Song of the Soul, you are both witness and companion to our guest's spiritual path and sacred testimony.
Song of the Soul guests provide about 25 minutes of the music that speaks of their spiritual path, beliefs or journey, and Mark Helpsmeet explores with them the relevance and meaning of this music to their experience. Some guests are musicians, perhaps sharing their own music, but most guests are simply sharing music they've been impacted by, written and performed by others.
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Episodes
Lying Down With Sinners - Mother Banjo's Song of the Soul
December 23, 2012 06:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBMother Banjo is Ellen Stanley, an incredible voice and talented songwriter of the folk/gospel/Americana/down-homey variety. When Ellen is not promoting other great musicians for Red House Records or being a DJ for Womenfolk on KFAI, you may be lucky enough to see her perform as Mother Banjo.
Libertine - Andra Suchy's Song of the Soul
December 09, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBAndra Suchy comes from an impressively musical family, including her father, Chuck Suchy, so you know that she good schoolin' in music on the North Dakata plains. A down-home woman currently living in the city, Andra speaks & sings her heart passionately. Featured on Prairie Home Companion repeatedly, she combines folk, country, all-her-own, music.
Love Alone - Dorothy Zerbe's Song of the Soul
December 02, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBDorothy Zerbe is a wonderful singer/songwriter, person & voice to know. A latecomer to performing her songs, she shares music in many ways, including at the Shawano Folk Festival, plus she hosts house concerts under the name of The Savage Beast House Concert series.
Enough is a Feast - Bill Harley's Song of the Soul
November 25, 2012 06:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBBill Harley is a singer/songwriter with something more - powerful/funny/insightful storytelling capturing glimpses of the human condition. Whether singing of our greed and hunger, of tossing a TV out the window, or of the compounding complexity of juggling reality and virtual reality, Bill's music and stories open up the listener.
Sings a Bright Blue Bird - Joe Maurer's Song of the Soul
November 18, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBJoe Maurer is the Coconut half of the musical duo Coconut & the Duke. They produce music which is creative, eclectic, and engaging. Joe is multi-talented, working as a solar & landscape designer with Next Step Energy and farming as part of St. Isidore’s Mead Organic Dairy Farm.
Blues for Peace - Davey J's Song of the Soul
November 11, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBDavid M. Jones, English Professor is the not-so-secret identity of Davey J, bluesman & singer/songwriter. With his band, the Jonestones, he makes music to move you and, hopefully, to move you to insight & peace.
Hearing the Angels Sing - Peter Sterling's Song of the Soul
November 04, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBPeter Sterling has released 12 CDs and now a book, Hearing the Angels Sing - A True Story of Angelic Assistance. While sitting meditation is the Sedona back country, Peter received direction from the angels to begin playing the harp and 10 months later he had his first album. An enduring favorite on the New Age charts, Peter weaves magic on the harp.
Rapping Yoga/We R God - Andres Gonzolas' Song of the Soul
October 21, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBAndres Gonzales is a yogi/world-healer with The Holistic Life Foundation, Inc and a hip-hop/rapper with For The People Entertainment (or here). Based in Baltimore, Maryland, fuses music, messages and movement to bring power and love to the Great One we all are.
Man from Cackalack - Jonathan Byrd's Song of the Soul
September 30, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBJonathan Byrd hails from North Carolina, AKA North Cackalacki, and his music has home and depth and hurt and celebration. He doesn't shy from the facts but he's skillful with an image or metaphor as well, bringing listeners the best of both sides of experience.
A Voice for Women - Cris Williamson's Song of the Soul
September 23, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBCris Williamson has played an important role as one of the prominent voices of feminism and lesbians, including her part in founding the first women's record label. With more than 20 CDs, Cris has been prolific and fertile for many hearts. And, of course, her song has been our theme music since day 1.
Raising Consciousness One Eyebrow At A Time - Vonn New's Song of the Soul
September 09, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBVonn New creates innovative music, modeling deep listening in the process. Using things like flutes, percussion, found sounds and field recordings, Vonn creates sonic playgrounds over which she improvises. She also notes that "My intention as an artist is to promote peace-building and non-violence by modeling the power of listening, and the expression of defiant joy", crucial tools and gifts sorely lacking in our culture.
A Stained Glass Serpentine Cycle of Money - Danny Schmidt's Song of the Soul
August 26, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBDanny Schmidt is one of many talented artists with the Americana Agency. Danny is profound and down-home, and he has an amazing gift for stunning lyrics, with influences like Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen - and many others. Raised Jewish, his current spiritual outlook is not bound to any church or organization.
Broken Racers - Chris Moore's Song of the Soul
August 12, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBChris Moore is unique singer/songwriter on a very conscious spiritual path, often explored in and through music, currently as part of the trio, Kindling Stone. Chris' journey forward in Spirit has taken him progressively back in musical styles and forms, including music from the Sacred Harp and the Shakers. He's profound, humble, inspiring, and a talented, creative musician.
Coasting Home - Tracy Feldman's Song of the Soul
August 05, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBSinger/songwriter Tracy Feldman is one of the many rewards I got for going to this year's MREA Clean Energy & Sustainable Living Fair. While there's a clear and powerful passion in his guitar, violin & lyrics, teaching biology at UW-Stevens Point is also a major calling of his life.
Giftsongs and Blessings - Sally Campbell Song of the Soul
July 29, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBSally Campbell does not refer to herself as a musician so much as a "song catcher". Having been judged unacceptable for choir as a youth, she had to work on developing her singing & playing ability when she started receiving songs in 1982. For her 70th birthday she performed & recorded a concert of her music for a group of friends.
Rigaudons, Leaven & The Beatles - John Sheldon's Song of the Soul
July 22, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBJohn Sheldon of Warwick, England, has been teaching, leading, performing & directing music, across the spectrum, for around 4 decades. A longtime participant & leader for The Leaveners, John was present at the 2012 FGC gathering at Kingston, RI, where this was recorded, to organize & conduct a performance of The Fire & the Hammer.
Baptist Buddhist - SuZ Ogden's Song of the Soul
July 08, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBSuZ Ogden is an angeltonk Baptist Buddhist living in Oklahoma, with visits to California, Russia and Israel. In other words, she's all over the map, from nightclub singer to minister in the United Centers for Spiritual Living.
Tree Meditation - Joe Reilly's Song of the Soul
June 24, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBJoe Reilly is a singer, a songwriter, an environmental educator, and a man on a spiritual quest. His spirit journey has taken him from Catholic to Native American to Buddhist and back to Catholic, all the while deeply connected to the Earth. NOTE: Photo of Joe Reilly by Mary Kerney
Walkin' Jim Stoltz' Memorial Song of the Soul
June 17, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBA memorial Song of the Soul for Walkin' Jim Stoltz, the great hiker and minstrel of the open places, who left us 9/3/2010. Jim's passions and music are here guided by his wife, Leslie Stoltz, sister Susan Grace Stoltz, and long-time friend, Scott Carpenter.
Watchmen from Castles In Air - Chris Picco's Song of the Soul
June 10, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBChris Picco is lead singer of Castles In Air, a Christian Indie band in Southern California. He's originally from Canada and part of his path to settling here with his American wife included a period in NYC helping out after 9/11/2001. His love of music is profound as you'll see on youtube, as is his Christian faith.
Heaven Below - Peter Mayer's Song of the Soul
June 03, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBPeter Mayer is a Minnesotan singer/songwriter - but also a storyteller, dreamweaver and earth-based theologian, mixing science, spirituality & wonder. Raised Catholic, having spent important years in a Jesuit seminary and as a Catholic music leader, he now travels spiritually with Unitarian-Universalists.
River of the Big Canoe - Ed Trickett's Song of the Soul
May 27, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBEd Trickett has a long and fruitful connection with folk music, on his own and as part of the nearly legendary trio, Bok, Muir & Trickett, all recording with Folk Legacy Records. When he's not on the road, Ed is a prof of psychology at Univ of Illinois - Chicago.
Indiana Meets India - Carrie Newcomer's Song of the Soul
May 20, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBCarrie Newcomer added some rich music, experience and Spirit to her repertoire by her recent visits to India, including collaboration with legendary sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan & Ayaan. As always, Carrie weaves tapestries of music & Spirit spanning the globe, all launched from her home in Indiana.
The Movement Is My Home - Si Kahn's Song of the Soul
May 13, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBSi Kahn is a powerful singer/songwriter whose music tells intimate stories of people at the same time it provides valuble lessons for societal change. His newest book is Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists & Quiet Lovers of Justice and his latest CD is Courage. Si has strong Jewish roots and his spiritual home is The Movement.
I Wish I Were Krishna - Lon Milo DuQuette's Song of the Soul
April 15, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBLon Milo DuQuette is a stunning combination of sweet music, profundity, hilarity, and love. With a career as a folk/rock musician from the precocious age of 14, through many employment variants including his 15 books and position as US Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis, Lon has word and song riches to pour out.
What Would Love Do? - Rich Baumann's Song of the Soul
April 01, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBRich Baumann has a heart of gold that he shared through his music, especially with schools, retirement homes and churches, as well as at folk festivals and the like. As founder of The Million Closets project, he has transported $26,000 of instruments to people on the Gulf Coast since Katrina hit.
Mathematician Mystic - Michelle Lynn's 2nd Song of the Soul
March 25, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBMichelle Lynn packs more profundity per square inch of her 25 years on this planet than anyone I've every met. With a musical voyage which is an exploration of the mind, body and spirit, Michelle goes deep and universal.
Threshold Singers of Eau Claire - Songs for Souls at the Edge
March 22, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBA visit with the Threshold Singers of Eau Claire, a group of women who, like other Threshold Choirs across the USA, sing people at the edge of life on their way, offering comfort and peace through song.
Faithful in Dubai - ZEFFeREEN's Song of the Soul
March 18, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBZEFFeREEN is a singer/songwriter, originally from India, living in Dubai for the past 16 years. His website proclaims, "Oh! To fill the eyes of orphans with hope... To bring joy to the widow's heart... To steady the hand of the weak... That is why i create music... That is why music was created. Music transforms lives." That's what ZEFFeREEN is about.
Seeing Stars - Meg Hutchinson's Song of the Soul
March 11, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBMeg Hutchinson is a singer/songwriter whose music is vibrant, deep, poetry, exploring inner spaces while she travels wide open spaces. Raised by non-conforming hippies, her spiritual path has led her to Tibetan Buddhism.
Simple Living - Fred Small's Song of the Soul
March 04, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBFred Small animates stories through his songs, with a heart and a spirit of gold. He weaves a world-wide family with his songs of healing and hope. Fred started out as a lawyer in the environmental field, became a folksinger/activist, and is currently as a minister at First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist. You can purchase his CD's at rounder.com and CDFreedom.com.
More Light - Christopher Grundy's Song of the Soul
February 26, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBChristopher Grundy is a UCC minister and teaches at Eden Theological Seminary in St Louis and he's one of the founders of a group called the Progressive Christian Artists Network. His songs are filled with vivid images and diverse subjects, including even one ghost story!
Choose the Sky - Blue O'Connell's Song of the Soul
February 19, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBBlue O'Connell uses her music to heal with her training in Therapeutic Music and as a Certified Music Practitioner, this in addition to her stagework and other singing/songwriting. Perhaps the most astonding fact - for roughly half her life she's been profoundly deaf!
Find a Peaceful Thought - Mary Miche's Song of the Soul
February 12, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBMary Miche has been sharing values-rooted music with children for decades, connecting them to the plants, animals and people of the entire globe.
Not a Disciple of Perfection - Peter Alsop's Song of the Soul
January 01, 2012 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBPeter Alsop combines his skill as a folk musician with his profession of educational psychologist, along with an awesome sense of humor to produce musical gems.
Fires on the Shore - Pine Wilson's Song of the Soul
December 18, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBLiving off the grid and connecting best with the mystery through contact with nature, Pine Wilson leads Maritza, a band that touts itself as producing "Balkan Boogie, Romany Romp, Klezmer Kut-Ups".
The Fun Side of Life - Matt Wahl's Song of the Soul
December 11, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBMatt Wahl's deep voice and gentle spirit carry the listener to a soothing, joyous, place, replacing the tempting distractions of the world with the things of true value - family, connection, peace and the present moment.
Lawyer to Social Activist Musician - Anne Feeney's Song of the Soul
December 04, 2011 06:00 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBAnne Feeney went from 12 years as a lawyer to full-time as a social activist musician. With 8 CD's plus other recordings, she's given us a wealth of music and messages.
Patricia Morrison's Song of the Soul
November 27, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBPatricia Morrison first trained as a classical vocalist, but a combination of factors, including her experience around 9-11 led her to a degree in Peace and Global Studies, peace activism, communal activist living and, eventually to her current life as a itinerant musician, wandering the American landscape.
Naked! Part One - Jon Watts' Song of the Soul
November 23, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBJon Watts digs deep with talk about nakedness, righteousness, our global body, and more, in his distinctive, quirky, style: Spirited music-enhanced spoken word poetry. Come on!
1845 - Joshua Brown's Song of the Soul
November 20, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MB2 passions of Joshua Brown's life are traditional folk music and West Richmond Friends Meeting, where he is pastor. Raised with a wealth of songs from Irish uncles and the rest of his family, he shares the riches in schools, nursing homes, for coffee houses - and at church.
Broken Ground - Neal Swanger's Song of the Soul
November 13, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBNeal Swanger makes fine music with simple, earthy, lyrics & melodies, connecting listeners to the land & the heart. When mixed in with his work with Folk 'n' Thieves and with the kids of the ReUse Band, a project of the Urban Arts Academy of the Twin Cities, you're in for some great music and great fun.
Todos Juntos - Ali Youssefi's Song of the Soul
November 06, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBAli Youssefi produces music that is ethereal, flowing, moving, and profoundly spiritual. Raised in Chile by Baha'i parents, his father from Iran, and currently living in Haifa, Israel, Ali shares engaging and heart-opening testimony through his music.
The Burden of Vision Part Two - Jon Watts' Song of the Soul
October 30, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBWe continue as Jon Watts digs deep with talk about nakedness, righteousness, our global body, and more, in his distinctive, quirky, style: Spirited music-enhanced spoken word poetry. Come on!
Barbara Stephan's Song of the Soul
October 16, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 75.5 MBBarbara Stephan loves R&B and Jazz best, but performs powerfully across the musical spectrum. She hales from Millwaukee and teaches music at the Waukesha County Conservatory of Music. With a passion for spirituality, her songs combine beauty, fun and depth with a message. Barbara's talents also include photography and you'll find some of her amazing pictures of presences in wood on her site NatureSprites.com and look soon for the calendar of her pictures to be produced by OneHeartInc.org.
Karen Taylor-Good's Song of the Soul
October 09, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBKaren Taylor-Good is from Nashville and over the years she's made important splashes in that sizeable music pool. Her songs have been nominated for Grammys and she's recorded with a number of well-known performers like Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson & Kenny Rogers. Deeper glimpses of the power of her life show through her work with The Planet Earth Project, Hospice organizations and through her Jewish and Unity roots.
Sacred Alchemy - Devaa Haley's Song of the Soul
October 02, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBDevaa Haley evokes the many faces of the Divine Feminine on her new release, Sacred Alchemy. As an Interfaith Minister through The Chaplaincy Institute for Arts & Interfaith Ministries, with her degree in Anthropology from Stanford, in her post as Chief Transformation Officer for The Shift Network and in her work awakening women with Soulful Women Retreats or the Soulful Women Certificate Program, she sings powerfully and goes deep.
Peter Frey's Song of the Soul
September 25, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 75.5 MBPeter Frey is 1/3rd of Kazyak, a new band that, like Peter, is rich in musical and creative diversity. Combine folk, jazz, rock and classical music with diverse ingredients like whimsy and political science, and you get an inkling of Peter Frey and Kazyak.
Tom Goss' Song of the Soul
September 18, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBTom Goss is a big-hearted singer/songwriter from Washington D.C. Motivated by his passion for social justice issues, Tom spent 6 months in seminary to become a Catholic priest before deciding it wasn't right for him. Tom writes and sings frequently of love and its rightness, regardless of laws. Tom and his partner will be married in October in D.C., one of the areas that provides for gay marriage.
Let the Goodness In - Tret Fure's Song of the Soul
September 11, 2011 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBTret Fure has a rich and lengthy career as a singer/songwriter, starting at 16 in Midwest coffehouses, moving to Berkeley and performing with Spencer Davis, as a force in the blossoming field of Women's Music, and founding her own label, Tomboy Girl. She's on a path guided by Light & Angels and her heart shines through her music.