{"id":21848,"date":"2021-12-02T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21848"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:19:50","slug":"victoria-singer-songwriter-uses-music-to-get-environmental-message-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/12\/02\/victoria-singer-songwriter-uses-music-to-get-environmental-message-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria singer-songwriter uses music to get environmental message out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria-based singer\/songwriter Kele Fleming recently released \u201cWhere the Rivers Meet,\u201d her sixth single from her 2020 record The Song I\u2019ll Write for My Whole Life<\/i>. The album is an amazing musical joyride that does a great job creating a transcendent musical experience while at the same time conveying Fleming\u2019s message about environmentalism and humanity\u2019s need to work together to fight for a better future for us all.<\/p>\n

Fleming says that \u201cWhere the Rivers Meet\u201d focuses heavily on her thoughts about the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote this song while spending some time in the Kootenays in BC, one of my favourite places in the world,\u201d she says. \u201cI spent a lot of time there in the summer of 2019, just about six months before the pandemic started. I was just awed by the beautiful landscape and the beauty of the place, and it got me thinking about how fragile everything is, really. And at the same time that I was writing the song and I was visiting there, there were forest fires raging in different parts of the world, in Europe and Australia and California and BC, of course, too. So the song was really rooted in thinking about trying to turn things around. It\u2019s based in kind of a love song where the chorus goes, \u2018Someday I\u2019m going to make this right,\u201d so it\u2019s talking about having a chance to turn things around and make things right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Local singer-songwriter Kele Fleming recently released her sixth single from her latest full-length album (photo by Jen Barker).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As evidenced by the fact that this is her sixth single from last year\u2019s record, Fleming says that she had no trouble keeping herself busy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the pandemic, I\u2019ve released a full album and about eight singles,\u201d she says, with a laugh. \u201cSo I decided to pursue my COVID silver lining and keep releasing music and try to keep active, because you know live music has been a bust during this time… Initially, it was difficult, as it was for many musicians\u2014independent or musicians who are signed. Everything shut down. I had tours planned and had an album release planned for 2020, so I talked to my publicist about it quite a bit and thought about it, and just decided to go ahead and release the album in 2020 anyway, because people need music, no matter what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleming says that the pandemic allowed her to make connections in a way that she had not done before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic\u2019s a sanctuary… for us all,\u201d she says. \u201cAlso, in a strange way, the pandemic has allowed me to build community in a way that I hadn\u2019t done before. I was lucky enough to connect with a whole bunch of musicians across the world over social media… I\u2019ve got I\u2019d say good friends now in the US and the UK and Australia and other parts of Europe, and we\u2019ve all been kind of communicating about how we\u2019re keeping on keeping on through this time, and we\u2019ve all been working to support each other\u2019s music during this time too, so I hope that as things are opening up that I actually get to meet some of these people in person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleming says that music to her is a way to deal with difficult subjects and emotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a way to maybe talk about things that aren\u2019t so easy to talk about verbally or face to face, to kind of process difficult emotions. I think The Song I\u2019ll Write for My Whole Life<\/i> was very much focused on the climate emergency and what\u2019s happening in the world, and so writing the songs on that album was very much a way for me to process my own feelings abut what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleming says the main thing that she wants her audience to take away from her music is that there\u2019s still time to make positive changes, for the benefit of both humankind and the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe album is really about processing my own grief and my own complicated emotions about the future of this beautiful planet that we live on. I guess one message would be that there\u2019s still time. Our world leaders are gathered in Glasgow for COP26 [the United Nations Climate Change Conference] and there\u2019s a lot of talk and not a lot of action, and I think that the album is really about hope and trying to pull that action and that hope into concrete action so that we can keep our place that we live in and have a future together here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victoria-based singer\/songwriter Kele Fleming recently released \u201cWhere the Rivers Meet,\u201d her sixth single from her 2020 record The Song I\u2019ll Write for My Whole Life. The album is an amazing musical joyride that does a great job creating a transcendent musical experience while at the same time conveying Fleming\u2019s message about environmentalism and humanity\u2019s need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-december-1-2021"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21850,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions\/21850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}