At a Showcase for VOCAL (“Virginia Organization of Composers and Lyricists”) in March, 2023, there was enough time for 5 songs, several with connections to Michigan, and one from the current project, my set of songs and narratives about the 19th Century American environmentalist and folk hero John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed. A link to the VOCAL Showcase performance is here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfTUd2zWRs — and the 5 song titles plus a log of the approximate starting times are here:
Blue Star in the Window (42:00)
Mastodon Conversation (46:00)
First Class View (52:00)
Maple Sugar Snow (58:00)
River Nearby (1:03:00)
The Virginia Organization of Composers and Lyricists is a not-for-profit serving all of Virginia and headquartered in Richmond. https://vocalsongwriter.org/
Also performing in the March 2023 VOCAL Showcase were Matthew Costello, https://costello-music.com/ and Burke Ingraffia, https://burkeingraffia.com/, which made for a wonderful evening of original music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfTUd2zWRs
