If you had a chance to meet your childhood self, what would you say? Our friend Hannah Shin created this lovely documentary. Music by Leslie Early. Dear Kid from Hannah Shin on Vimeo. What would you say? -Jessica
Our lovely friend Hye Sook Jung is a Korean singer/songwriter who has just started recording some of her music. Check out her first track “Haji” on her brand new myspace page and become a fan! I am helping Hye Sook record at our home studio and am really enjoying trying on the role of engineer. [...]
Our friend Mike Stewart is a really talented print maker and artist who lives in Seoul. Some of his work can be seen April 7-17 in Insadong at the Creatures of Habit group exhibition. Mike also teaches fine art classes in English in Myeong-dong in Seoul… interested? -Jessica
Check out our friend Leslie Early’s new music on Myspace. Leslie is an American friend of ours that also lives in Seoul. She’s writing some really nice music, recording at home and sharing the songs for free online. You can download her songs “Your Car” and “Snowflakes” for free on her ilike page. The animation [...]
A story about an artist, told by a writer and a photographer, all boyhood friends of mine whom I am so happy to see are using their talents to bring beautiful things into the world. Through Kevin Bouldin’s vivid words and Daniel Collin’s communicative images, I was able to catch up with an old friend [...]
I love Christmas carols, often starting into my Christmas playlist in early October. Maybe it’s because I was born so close to Christmas, but I find these songs so rich and moving. When I recorded my first album, Tonic, I opened it with a carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Then we moved to Korea, [...]
Today was our fourth and final day in Balti/Falesti, Moldova visiting Felicia. We’ve had an amazing time. Everything has been even better than we had imagined, and I think we were able to encourage Felicia in addition to spoiling her with some nice things. On top of that, we had two nice afternoons getting to [...]
I just wanted to touch base and let you know that the last leg of The Great European Adventure is going great so far. We have arrived in Bucharest, Romania and were welcomed by Tony, our amazing host from the baptist church here. I sang some songs for their evening prayer meeting tonight from my [...]
Last week, Amy Robbins-Wilson posted her raving review of Laughing Tree Lullabies, Vol. 1 on her Lullaby Link blog. As we were corresponding about our record, she interviewed me about who we are as Laughing Tree, what we’re up to, our lullaby record and our partnership with Sweet Sleep.She posted our interview today. I hope [...]
Four years ago, Adam and I saw this adorable photo of seven-year-old Felicia Stavila, and we knew we had to love her. Felicia lives in an orphanage in the little village of Falesti, Moldova. Moldova is one of the smallest and poorest countries in Europe– a tiny crescent between Romania and the Ukraine. Moldova has [...]