Blog Archives - Catherine Dalton, composer

Guest Post by Converging Consciousness Collaborator Dana Boyle

September 8, 2023

I asked Botanical Painter and Fierce Environmental Activist, Dana Boyle, to talk about our current collaboration: "When Catherine Dalton reached out with an invitation to participate as an illustrator in…

Ummm… ok… sure…

November 9, 2022

As an artist, I feel like I’m always collaborating with my muse. That voice that gives me compositional and lyrics ideas I never would have come up with myself! She’s…

Demolishing and Building Anew: Making Meaning out of Chaos

September 8, 2022

What is the relationship between demolishing and building new? Or, here’s a related question: How does Catherine deal with change? The answer to the second question is, Not so well, which…

Music and Poetry as a Way Forward

March 10, 2022

I’ve been hearing from folks recently that they feel a bit helpless. We go about our lives each day, as we must, because to shut down completely doesn’t help. As…

Finding Kindness

March 2, 2022

In the following blog, I will be talking about the war in Ukraine. Feel free to make a decision that feels right to you about continuing to read. March 2-4,…

How Kate Bush Saved Me!

November 8, 2021

One thing I love about hanging out with people, especially people of varying ages, is that I get inspired! Because where do composers get ideas? Anywhere and everywhere they can!…

Telling the Whole Story: Bold and Radical Lyrics

November 1, 2021

Why do we know more about Alice Paul’s contemporary, Ghandi, than about Alice Paul? The Alice Paul who put women’s suffrage on the front page of newspapers, making it impossible…

They did what? Missing Stories of Powerful Women from the American Suffragist Movement

October 18, 2021

It’s kind of odd to think about now, but when I was growing up, I really did not question the role models that were put in front of me. Even…

Living into Liminality: Five Tips for Traversing Transition

September 14, 2021

I’ve been thinking recently about the concept of liminality. How do we emotionally traverse liminal time? Transition can make us feel uneasy and the sense of being in transition day-in…

Georgia O’Keeffe is following me

August 30, 2021

I will admit I have a favorite visual artist, it’s Georgia O’Keeffe, hands down! AND she’s following me. Well, technically of course, the artist herself is not following me, but…