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Pushing Forward
Wes Weddell & Ailisa Newhall

RELEASE USA Featured Release Americana Folk / Roots Singer-Songwriter

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One’s a classically-trained soprano and distinguished choral conductor. The other’s an award-winning songwriter and tireless presence on Seattle’s live-music scene. Both are in-demand session-musicians, though with very different credits. Together, Wes Weddell & Ailisa Newhall bring a shared passion for craft and community to an original duo project that combines two complementary arsenals of skill and experience.

Longtime friends, the pair have teamed for years to teach a songwriting unit in Newhall’s public school choir classes, culminating in a week-long studio session where students record their work with Weddell and Newhall accompanying. Over time they began to wonder what they’d sound like playing behind their own compositions, and the two began collaborating as songwriters. The result is Pushing Forward, an album of engaging narrative songs that delivers true dual-lead vocal arrangements supported by nuanced instrumental excellence.

Practicing what they preach as teachers, these songs show rather than tell across styles at once diverse and cohesive. There’s Americana, folk, country, old-time, maritime, even a nod to shape-note singing—fresh sounds with deep roots in tradition, all complementing one another in relentless, live-tracked harmony. “Pushing Forward” reflects on community and history’s cyclical nature, themes revisited in “The Valley” and “The Songs of Spring.” “Voyage of the Robert C” sets sail with the true story of a Northwest research vessel, while “Mother of the Trail” heads inland to offer a tribute to Catherine Montgomery, who first proposed the idea for the Pacific Crest Trail. And the open questions of the medley “Farewell / No One Can Say” balance nicely with the gratitude of “Thanksgiving,” which puts an 1896 poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox to music.

The album is available in Japan and worldwide on the main music services.

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