Natalie Spears Colorado Folk Musician

HYMN OF WILD THINGS OUT NOW

It’s the quiet awe of wild places that most animates Natalie Spears’ music. Outside her home in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, she listens to the language of birds, notices patterns of migration and sees the cosmos in the countryside. For Spears, the natural world offers a constant invitation to open the aperture of life to something wider, something wilder.

The "tired itches." Those moments after a long day of work or strenuous effort when my mind is wants to numb and can't sit still. I'm so tired of picking up my phone or hopping on the computer for one more scroll instead of nourishing my so

I've been thinking a lot about what wilderness means to me and my working hypothesis is that "wilderness is sacred space in which we re-learn how to connect with wildness; the earth's wildness, our own wildness, the wildness of others."

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A good omen for gig day 🥰

See you tonight at @truenaturehealingarts in the Kiva.

Photography by Emily Teague