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Unofficial page of quotes, lyrics & music to spread the inspiration of Allison Russell & intersectional artists

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · Nov 6
#AllisonRussell

We are not alone
We are not what we’ve lost
We are more than the sum of our scars
We are the dust of the ✨
The bones of the 🌍
The breath of the void
The arc of art
The expanse of our imaginations.
And we are the love in our ♥️
And we are a beloved community
And we lift each other up
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Divine
Eternal
A prophet of our times
Shuhada Sadaqat
Better known as
Sinead O’Connor

#AllisonRussell x #ThisIsToMotherYou

LIVE Birthday tribute from 8/12/2023
Allison Russell covers This is to Mother You (Sinéad O’Connor) @ Portland House of Music, 12-08-23
Beautiful cover of a beautiful song by the late Sinéad O’Connor Portland House of Music Portland, Maine Lyrics: This is to mother you To comfort you and get you through' Through when your nights…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#EmojiSounds 🛸

The incredible Barbara Hannigan 🇨🇦x Simon Rattle x the Mysteries of the Macabre

🎼Codename LochNess Monster
Comet in sight!
Red glow! Burns bright!
Pst!
Satellite!
Asteroid!
Planetoid!
Polaroid!
Coming fast!
Hostile!
Perfidious!
Menacing!
Fatal!

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New ! BARBARA HANNIGAN & LONDON SyO Sir SIMON RATTLE dir GYöRGY LIGETI "MYSTÈRE DU MACABRE" LIVE
György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian: Ligeti György Sándor [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a composer of contemporary classical music. H...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Saw the incredible 🇨🇦 soprano / conductor #BarbaraHannigan y/day & was blown away 🥰

Here’s an amazing LIVE performance (not to mention stage entrance!) x Simon Rattle from Le Grande Macabre

(+ Gershwin to follow 😊)

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December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The incroyable Barbara Hannigan conducting/ transforming & singing Gershwin’s Embraceable You & I Got Rhythm 🔥 🇨🇦 🎵

LIVE in 🇫🇷

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December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#EmojiSounds 🎬

Dec is Cab Calloway’s BD month, & here he is w/ the incredible Nicholas Brothers
#JumpinJive 🕺 🕺

Rhiannon Giddens ✍🏽 some call it the greatest dance sequence ever filmed; for me it’s also a moment to look on the genius of Fayard & Harold Nicholas
Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
Here's a clip from the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943) featuring Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing "Jumpin Jive". After awhile they let the Nicholas Brothers jump in and lend their feet to the…
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December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#EmojiSounds

When you 🎵 a 100mph tongue twister song so fast you fall into an Irish accent… 😆

Allison Russell x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking

🎼Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac…

💍 another LIVE 💎 from 1999
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December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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#EmojiSounds 🕊️

Brandi Carlile “Do not leave without this woman in your soul”

Allison Russell x Brandi Carlile #Nightflyer

🎼I’m the dove thrown into battle
I can roll & shake & rattle

LIVE Oct-21, one of the first times they shared the stage together ♥️ ♥️

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Allison Russell & Brandi Carlile - NIGHTFLYER - Album Release! 10-2021
Allison Russell and her band Po’Girl opening for Brandi Carlile at the beautiful, oak hugged Frost Amphitheater on the Stanford University campus. Her debut album “Outside Child” is nominated for…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥

#PeteMuller x #AllisonRussell #OneLastDance

Pete Muller “Allison Russell is a gem, & I’m deeply honoured to have her as a collaborator”

The stellar new song from his new album 💫

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December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#MusicChallenge

Day 5 🎺

Dolly Jones - I May Be Wrong

The first female trumpeter to record a jazz record (1926). Taught by her mother—also a trumpet player, Dolly Jones worked with Josephine Baker and Ma Rainey, and here is featured in Oscar Michaux’s film SWING!
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Dolly Jones (trumpet) - "I May Be Wrong" (1938)
YouTube video by vintage video clips
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#EmojiSounds 🎺

#KateRusby “Colliery brass band 🎵 You hear it & it’s full of tragedy & pride & strength & esp here it’s somehow born into you, this heart-wrenching sound”

When Kate hits that last note & the trumpet sounds…

My Young Man
Kate Rusby ~ My Young Man (full)
From documentary Kate Rusby: My Music With a quintet from the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band. Lyrics: My young man wears a frown With his eyes all closed and his head bowed down My young man…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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#EmojiSounds 💰

Now, would you pay 18 pence for an old chemise at the #CoalQuayMarket?

2 mins of sound advice from #AllisonRussell x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking 😊 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

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The Coal Quay Market Song
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby The Coal Quay Market Song · Tim Readman and Fear of Drinking In Black & White ℗ 1999 Tim Readman Released on: 1999-01-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Allison Russell x Ahya Simone (harp) #Transa #AnyOtherWay #JackieShane NYC 12/6

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December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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#EmojiSounds

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 #Sade’s voice gives me strength & hope

I remember how electrified I was the 1st time I heard her - a mixed heritage woman like me - not fitting easily into any box - transcending them all

A living, breathing goddess

#ByYourSide

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December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Tim Readman “We ended up performing & recording together as a duo and as the band Fear of Drinking…

Barrett’s Privateers was one of our crowd pleasers & a fav of Allison’s & found its way onto the album by virtue of the manic energy & audience participation” ♥️ 🎶
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Tim Readman “I met Allison Russell in Vancouver in 1998 just after she’d moved here from her native Montreal

It was in the SouthHill Candy Store, a small venue where her Aunt Janet often performed

She joined her aunt for a couple of songs & blew my mind w/ the power & emotion of her singing
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#EmojiSounds 🇯🇲

👋 Hands up who wants to hear #AllisonRussell lead us all in a classic sea shanty?

🔥 A young Allison x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking
Vancouver, 1998 🇨🇦

#BarrettsPrivateers

🎼We were 91 days to Montego Bay

LIVE (🧵 to follow)
⚓️https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFY6Xjh4wU
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#EmojiSounds ⚖️

In honour of our host, am starting this challenge in a majestic Paris church 🇫🇷

#EMEL is one of the great voices for justice over oppression in the world atm

Words of hope to Persian melody & a voice that is beauty in any language #Holm / Dream

LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZW8...
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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#MusicInMusic

#WeRaiseOurCups to🔥 host @bwodotbc.bsky.social 🥂

#AllisonRussell returns to Hadestown as Persephone in Dec 🌹

An amazing story as 6yrs earlier, AR had written her own song Persephone for her first ❤️ who saved her

🎼for the ones who 🎶in the dead of night…
To #Orpheus
& all of us
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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#MusicInMusic

#BirdsOfChicago #AmericanFlowers

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Thanks for reminding us that we’re better than we’ve been, JT ♥️

🎼I was sipping red cream soda
I was listening to Johnny Prine

LIVE Chicago 2025, a beautiful 🎵
📷 credit: Shauna Ireland 🙏🏽

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November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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#MusicInMusic

#AndyWhite’s tribute to touring artists

#56 reasons (why your concert will be empty tonight)

Ft Ani, Radiohead, Bruce, Corrs, U2, Jimi & Nirvana

🎼46 The 🇮🇪 singer-songwriter is dead
47 the N Irish 🎼songwriter is still alive (but not very popular)

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November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#MusicInMusic

Eddie Balchowski d. OTD 1989

The moving story of the one-armed pianist &🇪🇸 Civil War veteran, immortalised by the stories of #UtahPhillips & woven w/ the magic of #AniDiFranco🎵

🎼I wrote him his death song
About a week later I got a call from Eddie…

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November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Perhaps #MemphisMinnie’s greatest claim to fame is that she was the first known person, male or female, to play the electric guitar 🎸 🖤 🎵

#MusicInMusic 👇
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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#MusicInMusic

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽Lizzie “Kid” Douglas aka #MemphisMinnie (1897-1973) was the Queen of Country Blues

Her strong voice & masterful fingerpicking 🎸defied gender & genre

& laid the foundation for Chicago blues, R&B & RocknRoll

#MeAndMyChauffeurBlues

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November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#MusicInMusic

I think of this #BeGoodTanyas 🎶 as the 🪕 playing cousin of The Smiths How Soon Is Now?

🎼Promise we won’t go into a nightclub
I really think that it’s obscene
What kind of people go to meet people
In a place they can’t be heard or seen?

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light enough to travel
music
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#MusicInMusic

Frank Turner’s 🎸tribute

🎼#SisterRosetta
Godmother of RocknRoll
The original sister of soul
All our🎵was in her

NYC it was 1938
The 📻 couldn’t wait for Rosetta to rock it
&little Elvis, Chuck Jonny at🏠
Heard her on the gramophone
&wouldn’t forget it

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November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM