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"In the dark times, will there also be singing? 
Yes, there will be singing. 
About the dark times."
- Bertolt Brecht

• Enya
  Memory of Trees
  Paint the Sky with Stars
  
  Music is healing.  "For instance, after ten minutes of listening to Enya or other soothing selections
  (with a 60- to 70-beat-per-minute tempo identical to that of a heart at rest), a patient's pulse starts
  to follow along, mirroring the slow, restful beat." - Rebecca Norris
  
  

• Nancy Toran-Harbin
  Jewels of the Heart
  www.angelworks.org
  
  Listen carefully to Don't Rush the River.

• Enigma
  Enigma 3  Le Roi Mort, Vive Le Roi
  Enigma 2  The Cross of Changes
  
  The songs Why! ... and Return To Innocence are especially powerful and cause me to cry.

• Jody Thomas Gaskin
  Part of Being Anishinabe
  Think Good Thoughts
  Native American Flute Songs Volume 1 & 2
  
  Listen carefully to Cold December Day and Part of Being Anishinabe'.
  
  Part of Being Anishinabe' by Jody T. Gaskin
  
   And they ask me why I go into the sacred sweatlodge
  And they ask me why I suffer for the good of the people
  
  I can only tell them that it's part of being Anishinabe'
  I can only tell them that it's part of being Anishinabe'
  
  
  

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• Jerry Alfred & The Medicine Beat
  Etsi Shon
  Nendaa - Go Back
  Kehlonn
  
  I want and need to listen to "Pelly Song" more than once at a time and sing along.
  

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• Susan Aglukark
  Arctic Rose
  This Child
  
              Kathy I by Susan Aglukark
  
              "Kathy I set you free.
              Ride with the spirits, Fly like the wind
              On your journey to find your peace
              In my heart you'll always be.
              Kathy I set you free."
  
  

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• Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Coincidence And Likely Stories
  Up Where We Belong
  
  Listen carefully to Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee in which she addresses what happened to
  Leonard Peltier and Anna Mae Pictou Aquash ...
  
  

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• Marianne Faithfull
  Faithfull
  
  Listen carefully to Broken English.

• Annette Ducharme
  Bloom
  Sanctuary
  Tortured
  
  I feel Annette Ducharme's charm is her humble-I'm-human approach to life.
  
  Normal by Annette Ducharme
  
  "Everything's fine everything's normal
  But normal isn't normal as normal was.
  I'm more than a little maladjusted
  I'm sorry don't bug me cause
  I'm dealing with my problems."
  
  "Has everyone been abused?
  No wonder I'm so confused."

• Blue Rodeo
  Outskirts
  Diamond Mine
  Casino
  Lost Together
  Five Days in July
  Nowhere to Here
  Tremolo
  The Days In Between
  Palace of Gold
  Are You Ready
  Small Miracles

I feel deeply when I listen to their real music. 
They sing of "the dark times" with such beauty and grace. 

• Bruce Cockburn
  
  Listen closely to his songs A Dream Like Mine, If A Tree Falls, If I Had A Rocket Launcher, Life Will Open ...
  
  

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• Greg Keelor
  Gone
  Seven Songs For Jim

No Landing (lucknow) by Greg Keelor

"So I'll wait for the day when all my tricks fade away.
I just want to be free. 
Just want to be free."

Greg Keelor is a singer-songwriter for Blue Rodeo.

• Jim Cuddy  
  All in Time

Too Many Hands by Jim Cuddy

"Too many hands
fade away with time.
They're losing themselves in the plan.
I offer my voice
hear me if you can.
Too many hands
Too many hands."

Jim Cuddy is a singer-songwriter for Blue Rodeo.

• Pete Seeger
  Banks of Marble
  We Shall Overcome
  
  

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• Simon & Garfunkel
  Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel's classic songs Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Sounds of Silence warrant another listen.

• Tracy Chapman
  Tracy Chapman
  Crossroads
  Matters of the Heart
  New Beginning
  Telling Stories
  
  Listen carefully to The Rape of the World and New Beginning.

  New Beginning by Tracy Chapman
  
  "It's time to start all over make a new beginning.
  There's too much pain too much suffering.
  Let's resolve to start all over make a new beginning."

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• Suzanne Vega
  Solitude Standing
  99.9 F

Listen carefully to Luka and Blood Makes Noise.

            Luka by Suzanne Vega

            "They only hit until you cry.
            After that you don't ask why."

            "Just don't ask me how I am."

 

            Blood Makes Noise by Suzanne Vega

            "Doc  I think it's really 
             Cool that you're concerned
            But we'll have to try again
            After the silence has returned
            ' Cause blood makes noise."

• Compilations
  Various Irish Women Musicians:
        A Woman's Heart
        A Woman's Heart 2
   
  Listen carefully to Never Be The Sun and Solid Ground.

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