"Dear Elisha"
Corinne West
“Dear Elisha” is love letter & message for adults who survived childhood abuse. This song is an invitation to move Through - Not Around residual pain to discover life on the other side of old wounds.
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Corinne is honored to be a grantee for the Upstate California Creative Corps!
Grantees' projects are designed to increase awareness for issues such as public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief and recovery, with extra emphasis on reaching Northern California's most vulnerable communities.
Corinne's project, “Transformations In Song” will have her writing, producing, recording, & performing a collection of four songs on an EP titled “Through Not Around” bringing awareness through music to mental / emotional well being, as well a song for the health of our planet's life blood... Water.
     “Through Not Around” is a 4 song EP whose center themes are Mental & Emotional health, & our Waters. The aim of these pieces is to bring awareness & healing through the power of music. This project “Transformations In Song”, is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, through the Upstate California Creative Corps.
“Dear Elisha” is love letter & message for adults who survived childhood abuse. This song is an invitation to move Through - Not Around residual pain to discover life on the other side of old wounds.
A surreal piece traveling the landscape of hurdles a person can be left with as an adult from childhood negligence or abuse. It is about Crossing Over & using the power of Music to aid in changing pain to wisdom.
"Water Calls Out" is a call to action for the health & vitality of our rivers, oceans, drinking water, rain…all of it. Water asks what one might be willing to do to turn the pollution around.