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Leslie Hudson
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Singer songwriter, pianist, storyteller, recording artist & touring musician. Deep loves: folklore, poisonous plants, wolves, crows, Star Trek. They/them, queer, autistic, poly, enby, hedgewitch & sonic alchemist. https://lesliehudson.com
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#wanderlingwednesday
one for every week of the year

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The silhouette of a young woman walking across a wide, deserted plain, beneath the beating sun, to find a cure for her partner. She walks until she wears out her shoes.
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#wanderlingwednesday
one for every week of the year

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Young woman with sword raised and loyal dog at her side, prepares to attack serpent monster who wants to eat them. The serpent guards its hoard of bones.
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I have been sitting on a pile of smoldering rage since receiving this 2 weeks ago. I feel impotent and small and unequal to any task of public resistance beyond my continued existence and choice to not cross the border.

"Unfair system." Doesn't go anywhere near far enough.
July 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Today's reading 📚 Death in the Garden: Poisonous Plants & Their Use Throughout History, by Michael Brown

Singing about plants, folklore & poisons TWICE this coming weekend at Keycon : noon Sat in the main room; 1pm Sun in the Dandelion 🌼🌿

#poisonousplants #deathinthegarden #keycon #winnipeg
Redhead with black glasses holding up Michael Brown's book, Death in the Garden: Poisonous Plants & Their Use Throughout History
May 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Me & my favourite Great Lake (Superior)
Redhead in a denim bucket hat and silver glasses standing on a rocky shore
May 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Up very early this morning to catch the Chi-Cheemaun ferry, crossing Lake Huron from Tobermory to Manitoulin Island

#travelcanada #manitobabound
The Chi-Cheemaun ferry waiting at the dock for cars & passengers to board
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Daffodils 💛
April 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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This quote is going to stick with me a long time:

However you frame yourself as an artist, the frame is too small.

- Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Excellent read for any creative, beautifully explored.

#ArtIsLife #ArtistLife
Text on a book page that reads "However you frame yourself as an artist, the frame is too small." From Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being.
April 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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STICKERS! 🍯🐝💜🌼🌻 #lyricquotes
4 kiss-cut stickers: (top) purple background with white lettering saying "free from what they said i could be" with a small child holding a kite on a string (right) purple flowers on white background growing out of the ground with the purple words "grow wild" (left) back of yellow jacket with purple flower on hood and left sleeve, white skull on right sleeve, white letters across purple back say "acolyte of aconitum" (bottom) three yellow hexagons as honeycomb cells with an illustrated yellow and brown bee nestled beyween them, in the cells are the purple words "trouble" "are you trouble" "are you madness"
March 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Started making set lists before my back seized up a week ago today. Recovering slowly but surely.

There's a free Bandcamp listening party today at noon EDT where you can hear these songs and more. Join the chat 30mins early! I'll be there.

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Hand written set list in black pen on yellow, lined, note paper for a Hemlock in the Honey tour show. Set 1 - Jagged Bliss, Colette, If It Harms None, Beautiful as the Moon, Silent Era, Grow Wild (or Ghost in the Garden), Nettles and Roses (or Circling Back), Haunting the House. Set 2 - Welcome To Eden, This Isn't You (or Bow My Head, or Cracked), 11 Feathered Sons (or Reap the Gale), Honey (or Last Thing I'll Beg), Mossycoat (or Witch's Lover), Fate is Twisted, Wisteria (or Murmuration, or Thunderheads), Hemlock in the Honey.
March 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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First shows announced! Happy to be sharing a few with @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social @infamousfiddler.bsky.social @cathymcmusic.bsky.social
(more coming as they're confirmed)
Leslie Hudson, singer-songwriter and pianist announces their Hemlock in the Honey Tour SCHEDULE THU MAR 20 - Touchstone Co-housing, Ann Arbor MI, 7pm SAT MAR 22 - House Concert, Columbus OH, 1pm SAT MAR 29 - Welcome Spring! with S. J. Tucker, OAC Art Centre, Belle MO, 7pm FRI APR 04 - Sharing Songs with Amy McNally, Muso, Madison WI, 7pm SAT APR 12 - Dangerous Garden Night, Alano Club, Boise ID, 6pm SAT MAY 10 - Online with Cathy McManamon, Bandcamp, TBD More dates coming soon. Keep updated at lesliehudson.com Pictured is a large jar of honey with a wooden spoon leaning against it, honey pooling from it. Within the honey jar are floating 3 silly, illustrated skulls, with a red label of "Made in Canada" above them on the glass. Illustrated bees leave dotted trails behind them as they fly, top and bottom of the image.
February 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Went to say a happy hello to the Atlantic Ocean at Point Judith RI today with @ltzwitch.bsky.social
The Atlantic Ocean with the tide coming in, blues waves under blue skies rolling up to a rocky shore during golden hour
January 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Not sure if I'm the monster or the rowboat. MAYBE BOTH.
Gigantic open-mouthed whale monster at a curio museum of insanity with a tiny rowboat in its gaping maw
January 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Saying goodbye to Stratford for a while. My last walk downtown before I head to the US this weekend. Winter skies & crow flight are my delight ❄️ #winterjoys #winterjourneys #crowsky
Silhouette of a bare branched tree against a light blue winter sky, the sunlight peeking through clouds behind the branches An American Crow taking flight from its perch on a house gable, where it had been calling out a repertoire of songs seconds before
December 27, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Love, truth, wonder, vision, worth, health, joy, plenty, travel, song ❄️ #solsticeblessings #foci2025
A lit tea light in a silver candle holder on pale blue cloth with white & dark blue snowflakes, surrounded by 10 birch wood stars painted silver with the words: love, truth, wonder, vision, worth, health, joy, plenty, travel, song. The flame shines through 6 cut-out evergreens making a star of light on the cloth. A lit tea light in a silver candle holder on pale blue cloth with white & dark blue snowflakes, surrounded by 10 birch wood stars painted silver with colours & symbols: bubblegum pink with silver heart (love), teal with silver X in a square (truth), ocean blue with silver star (wonder), orchid purple with silver eye (vision), pale grey with silver faceted triangle (worth), tangerine with silver person (health), lemon yellow with silver cup (joy), mint green with silver horseshoe (plenty), turquoise with silver wheel (travel), sky blue with silver mouth (song). The flame shines through 6 cut-out evergreens making a star of light on the cloth.
December 25, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Opening of the winter light, sound & art installation in Stratford square last night, after drinks with @nyxieh.bsky.social at Gillys ❄️
#tinyjoys day 100
December 14, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Finally - after years of knowing I needed one, and not being able to afford it (and I still can't afford it but) - I got myself a Fishman amp.
Fishman Loudbox Mini amp for one instrument & one mic
December 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Little 3"x5" moon pouch from Gentle Rain in Stratford made by Colibri Canada. Every time I go in I get another one - so far I have moons, planets, mushrooms, mermaids & bears
#tinyjoys day 98
3" x 5" zippered pouch made of deep blackberry-coloured fabric covered with white moons, stars and comets
December 12, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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When I found a flamingo in my colouring book with a suggestion on how to colour it, I flatly refused and wrote things like WHY SO MUCH PINK and PINK IS THE WORST in all my pink markers because a) I don't like flamingos b) pink is the worst.
#tinyjoys day 97
A flamingo in a colouring book that has been coloured with all the pinks, despite the prompt to "Fill the flamingo's plumage using all the colours under the sun... hot pink, jade green and vibrant purple." Above this prompt I wrote "Don't tell me how to colour!" All over the flamingo are letters in pink marker from phrases like WHY SO MUCH PINK and PINK IS THE WORST.
December 11, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Decorating my winter altar. I observe the winter solstice. It's my favourite time of the year: stillness in the darkness with snow and cold and muffling and sweaters and soup and fuzzy animals. Summer is DEAD and winter is wonderful. THE BEST.
#tinyjoys day 96
Winter solstice altar: light blue cloth covered in snowflakes; large wooden star with tea light in the centre, surrounded by tiny stars, with tiny animals on the points (quartz bear, amethyst rabbit, hematite wolf, jade turtle, glass swan); clusters of stones surround the large star in the crooks of the arms, in shades of blue, green, grey and white, with stone mushrooms; a sparkly bare silver tree with lights at the tips of the branches; framed and pinned art of winter scenes and animals; fossil dish of tiny things of importance to me
December 10, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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My owl tree. Every time I find or buy or am gifted an owl I add it to the tree.
#tinyjoys day 95
Collection of 19 owls - stuffed toys, pendants, stained glass, carved from stone or gourd, pins, ornaments, a painting, and a doorstop - arranged on and around a cut trunk of juniper
December 10, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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Chocolate cake is the best cake #tinyjoys day 94
Dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and chocolate curls
December 9, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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A fuzzy picture of a fuzzy face. I missed this little Ivy girl! Happy to be home with her.
#tinyjoys day 93
Close up picture of a sable sheltie named Ivy with floppy ears, bright eyes, and mouth open, chewing a stick.
December 8, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Sunrise this morning, from my hotel in Kalamazoo MI where I waited out the snow storm the last couple days. I rarely see the sunrise. It painted the room orange. Then I drove clear roads under clear & cloudy skies all the way home to Canada.
#tinyjoys day 92
Brilliant orange sun just rising and peeking through evergreens, tingeing the blue grey clouds with its colour, lighting up the horizon line. Snow covers the ground and rooftops, and is visible through the empty winter branches of deciduous trees.
December 6, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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AXOLOTL! Had to make a last minute travel change because of the snowstorm and landed in Kalamazoo. Drove through WI, IL, IN & MI today and stopped at GeoScape Rock Shop on the way. Found tiny axolotls, owl, and lovely stones to take home.
#tinyjoys day 90
Close up of a tiny axolotl carved out of a creamy marble with lines of scarlet orange running through. It has two wide eyes and a tiny open mouth with gills to either side, 4 stubby legs, and a tail behind.
December 5, 2024 at 1:32 AM