04/18/2025
“Love grows mighty when it gives itself away.” A few months back, I had the great pleasure of writing string arrangements for three of my favorite local songwriters (Spencer LaJoye, Nathan Walton and Ralston Bowles) to be performed live onstage in a concert with an amazing string quartet. It was a whole ‘production’ as they say, and for the 250 or so lucky people in attendance, it was an undeniably emotional and powerful gathering on the week of a difficult election.
Nathan Walton facilitated having this concert recorded and he and I picked out three performances/arrangements that we felt encapsulated the pure energy of the evening - for you to relive or experience for the first time. So here they are in their raw, unfiltered and magical form; the human magic that only live music (with strings!) can bring. We hope you enjoy listening Friends.
-Cameron Blake (host and curator of Music in the Heights)
