Becky Graber

In June, the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus premiered Becky’s latest composition, “Everyone Sang”, a work for string quartet and women’s chorus, with words by Siegfried Sasson and music by Becky. You can see and hear “Everyone Sang” HERE

BECKY’S SONGBOOK, All I Need Is Here, will be available very soon! You are invited to an in-person celebration and official release of the songbook (and the new Big Woods Voices CD!) on October 21 at 7:00 pm at the Brattleboro Music Center. (Vaccinations and masks are required at BMC events.)

BIG WOODS VOICES: Becky, Alan Blood, Amanda Witman, and Will Danforth are happy to announce the release of their new CD, Poetry in Harmony, a CD full of Will Danforth’s beautiful four-part musical settings of poetry. The CD is recorded, engineered, and mixed by Julian McBrowne. Big Woods Voices will celebrate with a concert at the Brattleboro Music Center on October 21 at 7:00.

The Brattleboro Women’s Chorus will resume rehearsals, both in person and on zoom, in September. Visit the chorus website for up-to-date information.

On Sunday, September 13, 2020, community song leaders Dr. Kathy Bullock, Becky Graber, Peggo Horstmann Hodes, and Jane Lowey virtually united for Women Sing 100. Together, they recounted the complex, rich, and diverse history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement through powerful songs and compelling stories. This musical journey vividly shows the many challenges women faced along the way, and more importantly, highlights how racism and white supremacy shaped the outcome. The virtual program is still available for viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqx1ERBbQU0

On December 30, 2020, Becky was featured in an interview on Teresa Healy’s radio show We’re All In This Together, on WVEW, “Brattleboro’s Community Radio Station.” Teresa spent the year interviewing Brattleboro community leaders “exploring practices of solidarity as they are lived and made real by people in the Brattleboro area and within the radio station’s listening range.” Her interview with Becky concludes her year of interviews. The interview includes two tracks of music: the first is “Japanese Bowl” by Peter Mayer, from Becky’s one-woman cabaret from October 2018, “Clearing” (words by Martha Postlethwaite, music by Becky) from the BWC concert in 2016, and finally two of Becky’s compositions – “Oh the Comfort” and “Eat What’s On Your Plate” –  that can be found on the BWC recording, “A Garden of Our Own”. You can purchase the CD, “A Garden of Our Own” HERE, at the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus site.