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Van Wild - Bluebird @VanWildMusic is about to be featured on @AVALiveRadio #NewMusicMonday
7.25 New Music Monday: July 25, 2016 - 6pm et: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/avaliveradio/2016/07/25/725-new-music-monday-industry-news-social-media-resources

Dr Yasmine Van Wilt is an award-winning published writer, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, producer and performance artist.   Her work can be found in print and on radios, stages and screens internationally. Van Wild is her current project. She has reached Top 40 chats in the U.S. and amassed several million plays online; she will will soon release “If You Want”, a Van Wild project collaboration with multi-platinum recording artists The Bellamy Brothers.  Yasmine is a Mellon Post-Doctoral, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and was a Thomas Holloway Scholar, an Overseas Research Scholar, and a Newcastle University International Scholar.  “Bluebird” is inspired by a combination of personal experience and current events. Whilst this story parallels my lived experience of domestic abuse and stalking, the character’s flight across the ocean and the context of the gallows is inspired by the flight of the Hugenots from France during the early period of colonization. My objective here is to, without bashing anyone over the head, challenge the notions of “Americanness” and “Canadianness”. With the exception of First Nations peoples and those who were victims of trafficking and persecution during during slave trade, everyone who lives in the United States or Canada was either a refugee, asylum seeker or economic migrant. This story, about Bluebird, describes a young woman’s flight from persecution; she witnesses the execution of her family, and she escapes to Quebec. This is an origin story common to many; this young woman is also fleeing from an obsessive jailer. Like “Momma”, this song is magical real; it is never clarified whether she succeeds in escaping, whether she is killed by her jailer…she fights hard, that much is for sure. And she certainly does not play a victim in this narrative; she is an intelligent, quick witted young woman with a hard-wired instinct for survival. Life is hard; we need stories that challenge ordinary representations of women, that comment on the current state of our world.
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