Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud
#AllisonRussell x #FindARainbowDay #Haiku 🐸 🪕 🌈 🎶 🪄
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I give thanks daily
To Jim Henson and Muppets
They taught me magic
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She got a Lifetime Achievement award, and we got a moment of a lifetime as #JoniMitchell performed with #SarahMcLachlan and #AllisonRussell at the Juno Awards.
youtube.com/watch?v=bdwm...
#jonimitchell joins the tribute performance to herself! The star power! Sarah, Allison & Jully!
#cbc #canadasky #canadianmusic #music #musicsky #allisonrussell #sarahmclachlan #jullyblack
Watch Joni Mitchell Perform ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ With Sarah McLachlan, Allison Russell at Juno Awards: The musician was honored with the lifetime achievement award at the Canadian awards ceremony on Sunday night #JoniMitchell #BigYellowTaxi #SarahMcLachlan #AllisonRussell #JunoAwards
🎼Magic’s only magic if you believe
First you dream, then you see
Magic’s only magic if you believe
First you dream, then you be
#Rainbows #Rainbows #Rainbows
#AllisonRussell
The JUNOs have announced a performance from Cameron Whitcomb alongside Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell honouring Joni Mitchell with the Lifetime Achievement Award. #CameronWhitcomb #SarahMcLachlan #AllisonRussell #JoniMitchell
Tibet House Benefit 2026 Lineup Announced Featuring Toro y Moi, Allison Russell, Debbie Harry & More
#TibetHouseBenefit #ToroyMoi #AllisonRussell #DebbieHarry
music.mxdwn.com/2026/01/12/n...
#EmojiSounds 🩸
#AllisonRussell #AllWithoutWithin
In tribute to Variety’s special music writer & great ally to many artists Chris Willman who won at recent awards, this is his ♥️ AR
🎼Spin my straw up into gold
Weave my 💧 into 🍷
Make my 🍷 into hot 🩸
Turn my bones back into brine
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽
Our culture has a critical empathy deficit / impairment
Our lack of empathy has a body count, and it has to stop
A #Superlover is anyone who leans into
#empathy and #forbearance and #compassion and #understanding and #forgiveness and #nonviolence
m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxef...
#RelativeSounds
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 we played at one of Jimmy LaFave’s final shows … that was the most spiritual, communal experience I’ve ever been part of
This 🎥 is around then. Jimmy x Goodnight Irene & his son / community. So emotional & beautiful
🌺 💔 🎵
#RelativeMusic
Continuing our tour of hidden 💎 here’s one of the very first #BirdsOfChicago performances of Child’sGame / Kinderspel
I’m in ♥️ with this 🎶
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 JT Nero wrote this [just] before he knew he was going to be a dad
2013 LIVE in Eindhoven
#RelativeMusic
#AllisonRussell moved from Montreal to Vancouver to escape her abusive stepfather
Her folk singer aunt Janet lived there & invited AR to sing w/her at the South Hill Candy Shop
There she found her salvation - in music
#TheRunner tells the story
🎼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Kk...
youtu.be/dxefUewo2_0?...
2025
"There's no God of fire and blood
If there’s a God, God is Love ."
#music #musicsky #musiciansky #AllisonRussell #AnnieLennox
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽
Our ancestors survived worse.
For their sake & our children’s sake
We can do better
We can be better
We are one family, blood & bones
One race - human -
And so many beautiful colours.
We have love.
We can take better care of each other.
Music helps
Music heals
Happy New Year 🌈
"Odetta was born Odetta Holmes on New Year's Eve, 1930!" - ALLISON RUSSELL, Musicians: Odetta, Womanica #Womanica #NewYearsEve #AllisonRussell
#EmojiSounds 🎸
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 She invented modern guitar playing with the first use of distortion
She was the prime influencer, the foundation of all of it
#SisterRosettaTharpe #UpAboveMyHead
(also written by SRT)
Colourised LIVE 1964
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkZ...
#EmojiSounds 💤
#AllisonRussell x RobertBurns x Can Ye Sew Cushions
ARs 🏴 grandma Isobel passed c.2008
✍🏽 Even when she didn’t know who we were, when i sang these 🎶 she would sing w/ me still
Music was the last, Alzheimer’s couldn’t take it
LIVE 2007 m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PL...
#EmojiSounds✊🏽
In tribute to #AllisonRussell returning to #Hadestown today ♥️ 🌹 ♥️
One the great Anais Mitchell resistance songs with that chilling twist at the end
The amazing Patrick Page & OG cast
🎼Why do We Build the Wall?
We build the wall to keep us free…
🌹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VD...
Remembering bell hooks who passed OTD 2021
#AllisonRussell posted a tribute poem for bell hooks, including this passage…
still
I will meet you in the pages of your books
your work
endures
transforms
for each new mind
That inhabits it
#EmojiSounds ⏳
#FunFacts ❤️ #AllisonRussell
Q. The first album AR ever bought?
Q. The artist who inspired her to whistle?
Q. Her wedding song?
A. #TajMahal
A. #TajMahal
A. #TajMahal
🎼Just want u to go w/ me thru #time
Every step of the way
#FartherOnDownTheRoad
🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVuM...
#EmojiSounds 📕
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Mabel Mercer was the singer’s singer. A famous cabaret performer & inspiration to voices from Holiday to Sinatra
🎼As Juliet said in her Romeo’s ear
“Romeo, it’s time to face the facts, my dear”
It was #JustOneOfThoseThings
22:15~
🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRde...
#AllisonRussell #ToTheMorning
Written by AR for Holocaust remembrance but especially sad today 💔 in solidarity for the victims 🫂
🎼Sing oh we sing, we sing to the morning
We didn’t think that it was coming
We didn’t think that it was ever coming back
m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3WL...
A transparent blue vinyl record sits on a turntable. Behind the turntable, a vinyl album outer sleeve is displayed. The front cover shows Allison Russell in front of the ocean holding up flowers as birds flock around her.
Now Playing: Allison Russell – The Returner
album.link/us/i/1689486...
#NowPlaying #NowSpinning #Vinyl #Music #AllisonRussell #Soul #Folk
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
💥 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 💫
💃 m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyin...
SUPERLOVER 💜💜✌🏾🌈
#AnnieLennox
#AllisonRussell
#lovehumanityequally
#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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#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
🫂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJ...
#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
