Boston, MA (Top40 Charts/ 1888 Media) On October 9, 2012, acclaimed 16-year old singer-songwriter Hayley Reardon will issue the second single from her forthcoming full-length debut album, Where The Artists Go (due October 23 via Kingswood Records). Containing the album version and an instrumental version, "Tribe" will be available at iTunes, Amazon and other digital service providers.
Coinciding the release of "Tribe" with
National Unity Day, Hayley explains the meaning of the song, "I know what it's like to want something different than everyone else around you. And to feel like the more you find yourself, the less of you they understand. I wrote this song about learning for myself that all we need to be is what makes us feel alive and eventually we'll find our "tribe," a group of people who understand and don't want for us to be anything but ourselves. So many times I think all I've needed to hear is 'let it go, little girl.' Let go of the ones who don't understand and hold out for the ones who do. Don't lose yourself in the search because your tribe is waiting and once you find them, you'll know what it means to belong."
Instituted by the PACER
National Bullying Prevention Center in Minneapolis, MN, "belonging" is the message that will unite our country on Wednesday October 10 as those who care about students who are bullied and want bullying to end, will make their color ORANGE on Unity Day. On this observed day of Unity, everyone will link together—in schools, communities and online— to send one glorious ORANGE message of support to students who have experienced bullying.
During "
Unity" week, PACER will premiere the official music video for "Tribe." Featuring handwritten messages of Unity submitted by students from across the country, the video furthers the message Hayley expressed in a "Teens Against Bullying" toolkit created for distribution to classrooms via PACER.
Additionally, Reardon was asked to design a custom "Unite Against Bullying" t-shirt. Her "celebrity" design, including layouts from YouTube phenom Rebecca Black, country music crooner Kylie Morgan, Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice, actresses Janel Parrish and Katie Leclerc and decorated Olympians, gymnast Nastia Liukin and diver
David Boudia, will be available for sale via CustomInk (https://www.customink.com/stopbullying).
Universal messages of "
Unity" and "Inclusion" are ones that Reardon has always held dear to her heart. Since developing an in-school performance program called "Find Your Voice" to deliver peer targeted messaging encouraging empowerment through self-expression, Hayley has been sharing her message in an official role as a
National Peer Spokesperson for the PACER Center (https://www.pacer.org/bullying). Enlightening young minds at middle school auditoriums and summer camps throughout New England, she has also played at schools in Michigan and Minnesota and will soon visit two middle schools in Anchorage, Alaska during 'Unity Day' week.
Reardon's "Find Your Voice" message stems from a song she wrote after winning multiple recognitions at the annual
Boston Folk Festival Songwriting contest at only 12 years of age. Entitled "Stand Together," the song, which appears on her Hope You're Smiling Ep, was penned to encourage students and young adults to find their own voice and take a stand against bullying.
Hayley vividly recalls the genesis for writing Together, "I wrote 'Stand Together' a few weeks after starting the sixth grade. I was always warned that middle school could be a hard time socially because kids are known to be so brutally mean to each other at that age. The song was my response after going in and seeing it for myself. It was basically me speaking to my peers, about how this whole 'growing up thing' would be a little easier on all of us if we could just face it as a team".
From the powerful team which was assembled for the making of the eleven-song Where The Artists Go [producer / drummer Lorne Entress (Catie Curtis, Lori McKenna), guitarists
Kevin Barry (Ray LaMontagne, Mary Chapin Carpenter) and Mark Erelli (Josh Ritter, Lori McKenna,
Kelly Willis), bassist Richard Gates (Paula Cole, Dar Williams, Patty Larkin, The Weepies) and pianist
Glenn Patscha (Ryan Adams, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson)] to a tribe of storied folk luminaries, Reardon continues to join forces with generations of highly artistic creative communities.
With a prominent appearance amongst the likes of Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Judy Collins, Taj Mahal,
Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Jackie Washington, Jim Rooney,
Peter Rowan in the award-winning documentary For The Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival, which won Best Documentary at the 2012
Boston International Film Fest, to official showcases at the 2011/2012 Folk Alliance Conferences, to appearances on DittyTV, WDVX's Blue Plate Special in Knoxville and Morning Edition on NPR affiliate WBUR in Boston, all signs for Reardon are pointing due north.
Fresh from graduating a summer performance program at the prestigious Berklee College of
Music in Boston, Hayley has been invited to join folk music legend Tom Rush as a special guest performer during his Tom Rush - Celebrating 50 Years of "Doing whatever it is he does" - Part 3 - The
Modern Times at Club Passim on Sunday
September 23 before returning to the iconic club on Sunday October 21 to celebrate her album release with an afternoon showcase.
Hayley Reardon
Tour Dates
09/23 - Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim (w/ Tom Rush)
09/27 - Framingham, MA @ MetroWest Women's Alliance Annual Gala
10/08 - Anchorage, AK @ Mears Middle School
10/09 - Anchorage, AK @ Goldenview Middle School
10/18 - Dedham, MA @ Paradise Cafe
10/23 - Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim (Record release show)
10/27 - Boston, MA @ Mass General Hospital -
Juvenile Diabetes Center
10/27 - Lynn, MA @ Walnut Street Cafe
11/20 - Concord, MA @ Concord Middle School
Hayley Reardon
Where The Artists Go
1. Where The Artists Go
2. Only Pretending
3. Change
4. Tribe
5.
Music (feat. PZed)
6. Scribbles
7. Like He Knows The Red Sox
8. Addicted To Conviction (feat. Sterling Higa)
9. There You Are With Me
10. Seattle
11. Goodbye Song
ONLINE
https://hayleyreardon.com
https://twitter.com/hayleyreardon
https://www.youtube.com/hayleyreardonvideo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hayley-Reardon/165329013266
AUDIO
"Tribe" https://soundcloud.com/1888media/hayley-reardon-tribe
"Where The Artists Go" https://soundcloud.com/1888media/hayley-reardon-where-the-artists-go-edit
VIDEO
"Tribe" (Lyric video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I399K99cwE
"Stand Together" https://youtu.be/unapqLyN2AA (Bullying prevention song)
"Where The Artists Go" (Lyric video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5_dCq9wL8
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