Alice Di Micele
We are delighted that Alice will again share her musical gifts with us. When she last visited us in December, she and Rev. Kathy created wonderful new songs and chants.
Alice is an Americana/Folk Singer-Songwriter based in Southern Oregon. The combination of her deep acoustic groove, unique vocal style, and heartfelt lyrics creates an unmistakable sound that is all her own and makes her a truly delightful performer. Her voice is rangy, sometimes soft and intimate, other times bold and brassy, evoking a distinct mood in every song she sings.
“I love solid, moving rhythm, and do a lot of improvising vocally. My job as a musician is to communicate emotion and stir that place inside that feels connected to other souls.”
- Alice Di Micele
Career
An accomplished songwriter with 16 albums, Alice draws on folk, jazz, blues, R & B, and rock & roll influences, landing her music consistently on syndicated shows and AAA, Folk, Americana, and Community radio stations, around the country and internationally.
She has built a dedicated fan base as an independent musician with stirring live performances spanning a three-decade career and is focused and clear on her mission.
“I love solid, moving rhythm, and I do a lot of improvising vocally. I feel completely at home on stage. My job as a musician is to communicate emotion and stir that place inside that feels connected to other souls.”
She has shared stages with Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, JJ Cale, David Grisman Quartet, Steve Winwood, Ferron, Peter Rowan, Richie Havens, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and many, many others.
Select festivals that Alice has performed at include:
- Joshua Tree Music Festival
- Strawberry Music Festival
- High Sierra Music Festival
- Kate Wolf Music Festival
- Oregon Country Fair
- Britt Festivals
Beginnings
Originally from New Jersey, Alice grew up singing in school choirs. “I sang on the way to school and back home. I just made stuff up.”
On her twelfth birthday, Alice’s Grandmother gave her Stevie Wonder’s album, Songs In The Key Of Life. “I learned every word, every note, and every nuance of that album by listening to it over and over.”
She picked up the guitar at age 17 and honed her skills playing in coffeehouses in upstate New York and New Jersey. In 1986, she found her home in Southern Oregon and released her first recording in 1988, Make A Change.
New Album
Her new album, Every Seed We Plant, is her sixteenth release and a snapshot of life in these times: gut-wrenching, hopeful, vulnerable, intense.
The title track, Every Seed We Plant, was inspired by Alice’s dear friend and elder of the Takelma Tribe, Anges Pilgrim Baker.
“It was written on the way to Grandma Aggie’s memorial. The song overtook me, flowed out of me like Grandma was there guiding me. I wrote it, played it once, then sang it that day for her family and friends.”
The singles, Long Dry Winter and Alone, explore the grief, loss, and depression that many people experience these days.
“I hope the songs remind folks to reach out and just simply be a presence for someone.”
The new album balances the deeper emotional waters it treads with uplifting, lighter love songs like Free, and the fun, sparkly track, Sunrise.
every seed we plant
Alice's new album is available from her website along with her other albums.
Alice collaborated with producer Bret Levick, who co-produced, arranged, and co-wrote the first track on her new release, leading Alice’s music into new territory. Pop, jazz, and rock and roll undercurrents flow beneath a folk bedrock on this record.
On this album, her long-time bassists, Rob Kohler and Damian Erskine were joined by several talented musicians:
- Bret Levick (Gifthorse)
- Christo Pellani (Air Supply)
- Terence Higgins (Ani DiFranco)
- Gene Black (Joe Cocker’s guitarist)
- Jenny Conlee-Drizos (The Decemberists)
- Skip Edwards (Dwight Yoakum, Johnny Rivers)
- David Jacobs-Strain, Andy Thorn (Leftover Salmon)
- Barry Phillips, Dean Angermeier, Bob Evoniuk, Mikey Stevens, Matthew Kriemelman (Blue Man Group)
Alice’s vocals and guitar tracks were recorded at her Tiny Wonderland Studio in Southern Oregon.
Learn More
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