Performed by Lydia Violet and Leah Song.
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Lullabies are some of the first songs we ever hear.

This one is an Iranian lullaby that I got to sing it with my dear friend Leah Song at a Singing the Bones retreat in North Carolina. This oral traditional was arranged by my teacher Mahsa Vahdat, a living treasure of Iranian music and advocate for women's rights.

Songs like this carry the people and the landscapes that surround them. They holdwhere we come from, who sang to us, and what our elders wanted for us. That’s the heart of Singing the Bones. Each of us researches a folk tradition from our own roots, and we study its songs from inside that tradition.

Ps… Singing the Bones, the ancestral studies program that Leah and I run, returns in a new shape in spring 2027, and the waitlist is open now.

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