Hello Blair Pathways fans,
This has been a busy and productive month for our project! With your donations, we have been able to move forward in paying our musicians for recording costs and are looking forward to printing the CD later this summer! Here are some updates about how things are going:
New Music!: We […]
At the end of this month we reached our fundraising goal on Kickstarter! Thank you for all of your support. We’re working hard to insure the CD’s release in a few months, and we couldn’t be accomplishing this without your help!
Below are some initial sketches for the CD we’ll be printing through discmakers. […]
We’ve just launched our final fundraiser for the Blair Pathways Project on Kickstarter.
Check it out here, along with a new video and music!
Every amount counts! Please consider giving even $25 or $50 to make this project happen! We completely rely on grassroots funding for this project.
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It’s been a busy month for Blair Pathways, and this spring it’s only going to get busier! Our biggest accomplishment is that all the songs for the CD have been pitched (and most of them confirmed) with a given artist. That means that almost all the pieces for the project are now out in the […]
Hello all,
So much has happened this past month and the Blair Pathways Project is coming along wonderfully!
I’ve begun assigning songs to several musicians, including Jubal’s Kin, Morgan O’ Kane, Rev. Robert Jones, Elizabeth Laprelle, Bret Ratliff, Jason Shelton’s Nashville Choir […]
The past few months have been pretty exciting. As you all know from my last update, I made some visits to the Library of Congress, the WV State Archives and the Whipple Store to conduct research. As a result of all those hours listening to compelling recordings and digging up old songs in manuscripts I […]
“We commandeered every freight train
To the Kentucky line
Took every car that crossed our path
And all the guns and ammo we could find”
-David Rovics, The Battle of Blair Mountain
Aurora Lights has just made available its middle-school lesson plans for the Blair Mountain Lesson Plan Project! Learn more and look at the plans yourself by clicking Alcohol increases the severity of side effects of Tadalafil Soft gel Capsule to dissolve faster and since it us pH neutral, it will not have any side […]
If you were on the March on Blair Mountain this summer, you may have a story to contribute to Blair Pathways! Blair Pathways is interested in short stories and recollections of how songs and singing affected those participating at the March on Blair Mountain.
How did particular songs move you? Did you […]
It’s been an exciting few weeks of research for the Blair Pathways Project!
In the first weekend in October, I headed up to the West Virginia State Archives to listen to music recording s as well as check out historic articles from the states’ quarterly Goldenseal Magazine. Many Goldenseal articles are available on […]