Nelda Swiggett's Alaska Suite at Grace Church October 13 (WU-459)

Nelda Swiggett’s Alaska Suite at Grace Church October 13 (WU-459)

Nelda Swiggett wants to inspire her audience through her music to be proactive about addressing climate change. A Bainbridge native, Nelda has composed The Alaska Suite, a musical story of beauty. loss and hope. Nelda and her five-piece chamber jazz ensemble will be performing these pieces Saturday evening at Grace Episcopal Church.

But this is more than a concert. The Alaska Suite combines the emotional power of multiple mediums – live music, spoken words, images, and poetry. Nelda says Alaska is our “canary in the coal mine” and should be a wake up call for all of us.

Listen here as Nelda explains her creative process for this composition and tells the events that first moved her to become an active environmentalist and later to compose the Alaska Suite.

Tickets cost $15 and are available in advance at Eagle Harbor Books or at the door. The concert begins at 7:00, doors open at 6:30.

This event is being co-sponsored by Grace Episcopal Church, Cedars UUC, Eagle Harbor Congregational church, and Earth Ministry (an ecumenical Seattle nonprofit). For more information, visit http://neldaswiggett.com and https://www.gracehere.org/

Credits: BCB host: Sandy Schubach; audio editor and publisher: Diane Walker; social media: Jen St. Louis.

Abby Wyatt2018-10-10T19:30:01-07:00October 10, 2018|

Land Acknowledgment

“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.” – Chief Seattle 1854

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors.