THEA HOPKINS

More tour dates coming soon!

Very excited and honored to have my song, "Tamson Weeks" featured as Song Of The Week for the week of October 15th - 21st on Art Of The Song and the Standing 'O' Project!

My great, great aunt, "Tamson Weeks", was a renowned medicine woman of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha's Vineyard.

Art Of The Song and the Standing 'O' Project are wonderful organizations! Many thanks to them for all the work they do to support performing songwriters. Here are the links: http://artofthesong.org http://standingoproject.com/

Amazing experience at the Western Arts Alliance last week. So honored to have been selected for the Advancing Indigenous Arts Program, with all these amazing fellow native artists!!! I am inspired by each and everyone of them. This pic was taken at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on August 28th.

'Love Come Down" is getting more airplay in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany. It is getting some lovely reviews too! (Check out the press section, when you have a chance, I just posted one!)

As of May 14th, "Love Come Down" is starting to get airplay in the UK & Europe :

AIRPLAY LIST MAY 2018

www.baarnfm.nl    The Ghost Of Emmett Till

http://www.nporadio2.nl/afslagthunderroad/playlist   Mississippi River, Love Come Down

http://www.mysterytrainradio.com/ Love Come Down

http://www.celticmusicradio.net/  Love Come Down

https://www.rte.ie/rnag/an-ghealach-ghorm/ Almost Upon A Time

https://www.radiotroubadour.com/ Mississippi River, Mississippi Town

www.radiosummerhall.com   Love Come Down

http://40upradio.nl/jandonkers/ The Ghost Of Emmett Till

http://www.drive105.co.uk/for-folks-sake Mississippi River, Love Come Down

https://www.radiosummerhall.com/ Almost Upon A Time

http://www.rte.ie/rnag/an-ghealach-ghorm/  Mississippi River, Mississippi Town

www.Havenstad.FM    Almost Upon A Time

www.americanaradio.nl The Ghost Of Emmett Till

www.rootsparadise.com The Ghost Of Emmett Till

Very happy to announce my CD "Love Come Down" is being mastered this month! Can't wait to share it with you:) 

1. LOVE COME DOWN

2. THE GHOST OF EMMETT TILL

3. MISSISSIPPI RIVER, MISSISSIPPI TOWN

4. ALMOST UPON A TIME

5. TAMSON WEEKS

6. UNTIL THEN

PRODUCED AND MIXED BY MIKE DAVIDSON AT PLAID DOG STUDIOS, BRIGHTON, MA,

Additional recording by Gerry Bellegarde and by Dave Minehan (Wooly Mammoth Studios); MASTERING BY IAN KENNEDY

Dedicated to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation for their generosity.

The players: trumpet & flugelhorn: Tom Halter; violin: Kathryn Parks (1), Ian Kennedy (2,6), Mimi Rabson, drums: Steve Scully (5), bass: Tom Appleman (1,2,4,6), Ken Steiner (3); harmony vocal & guitar: Noel Paul Stookey (2); piano: Tim Ray; elec. guitar: Lance Riley (1,6); elec. guitar & ebow: Dave Minehan (3). Acoustic guitar, banjo & vocals: Thea Hopkins.

Design and recording help: Daniel Gewertz.

My endless thanks to Noel Paul Stookey for the inspired music he gifted to me on “Emmett Till.” Thanks to all my wonderful Indiegogo contributors, notably executive producers Terry Eagan, & Caroline Kurtz,

All songs written by Thea Hopkins

www.TheaHopkins.com

Recording Update:

The new CD, "Love Come Down" is almost completed! The last two weeks has seen more work done at Gerry Bellegarde's studio. Many thanks to violinist, Mimi Rabson, for the lovely violin parts she recently added to my song, "Tamson Weeks".Yesterday we edited some of the parts and it sounds quite nice. Big thanks to Gerry B & Danny G! Yes, to teamwork:) "Love Come Down" is scheduled for a Spring arrival!

Season’s Greetings!

The long awaited CD is near completion. There are just a couple more instruments to be added to the sixth and final song.

Here are all my songs, which will be on the CD :

1. Love Come Down
2. The Ghost of Emmett Till (harmony vocal and guitar by Noel Paul Stookey of (Peter, Paul and Mary!)
3. Mississippi River, Mississippi Town
4. Almost Upon A Time
5. Tamson Weeks (a song I wrote about my great, great, great aunt, a legendary Wampanoag Indian medicine woman)
6. Until Then

So many wonderful and talented people have contributed and supported the recording. The instruments are violins, guitars, banjo, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass and, on occasion, drums.

The CD begins with a song of love and ends with one. I am very honored and touched that Noel Paul Stookey added his harmony vocals and guitar to “The Ghost of Emmett Till.” With trumpeter Tom Halter (of the Either Orchestra) and violinist Ian Kennedy, it is a magnificent rendition, produced, as all the songs will be, by Mike Davidson at Plaid Dog Studios in Brighton.

Additional recording work has recently been done by Gerry Bellegarde of Belltower Studios and Dave Minehan of Woolly Mammoth Sound.

(Dave also  a wonderful ebow part, to “Mississippi River, Mississippi Town,” which heightens the spooky mood of the song.)

Your generosity and support helped bring this project to fruition. I know it has been a long haul, but the CD will be out before the last snow melts in 2018!

Happy Holidays!

Here we are in October! Just more tune for the CD and then voila, it will be complete. Thank you for your patience and support!!!

Cooler weather is upon us finally, and I could not be happier! I can appreciate the summer months but autumn has and always will be my favorite time of year.

This September finds me pulling together a lot of loose ends. Recording for the CD is continuing this month. Everything is being gone over very carefully, one note at a time:)

The middle of August is finding me back in Dave Minehan's recording studio, Woolly Mammoth Sound, putting the finishing touches on one more tune.  Today, the wonderful bass player, Ken Steiner, added some very tasty licks to, "Mississippi River, Mississppi Town". 

Looking forward to doing more recording and mixing next month!