Welcome to Make. Believe., the new regular newsletter from Shelley Headquarters in bustling Toronto, Canada.
make: (māk) to cause to exist, to create. (she likes to make music)
believe: (biˈlēv) feel sure of the truth of. (do you believe in yourself?)
In these newsletters you will find updates on my life as a songwriter, including song bites, videos, lyrics, inspired collaborations, and my List of Alight-ment: Places, People, Things that this song-bird likes to land on to motivate, inspire or nourish. MORE…
In my mythology, I am not in the rainy day that is today in Toronto. I am wandering the arctic, dressed in capes of stars and night, with my two white-bear familiars safeguarding me. The air is so cold that even sound freezes, and the melodies that make it from my mind to the ...
My apartment is a mess. A creative mess: cords, microphones, a pulled out and opened up piano, sheets of lyrics, a computer, and various instruments that I have varying levels of skill at playing: a skull shaker, a banjo, a few ukuleles… It’s winter, the season of inward-looking, endings, dark, cold. For me the perfect ...
September 11: Cafe Rosenberg, Reykjavik September 14: Taiteiden Yö – Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi September 14: Mendocino, Helsinki September 15: Nurmijärvi Library September 15: Songscape Workshop, Nurmijärvi September 15: Ravintola Duetto, Nurmijärvi September 17: School Visit, Hameenlinna September 17: School Visit, Tampere September 20: Cabaret des Grauens, Burghausen September 22: Fanfulla, Roma September 23: Festambiente, Rome September ...
