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.
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
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.
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.”