How to find a tribe that loves your art: Heather Dale at TEDxUW
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
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In many ways, innovation requires that one have openness to new ideas coupled with a rich understanding of older traditions and ideals. In fact, some of the most notable innovations of our time -- combining a phone and a computer, for instance -- find their roots in this coupling. And for Celtic musician Heather Dale, keeping an open ear has paved the way for her entire career.
Dale has been many things in life, from the morning manager at a coffee shop to a 'solder-jockey' at an electronics firm to a university librarian. But it was while training to become an environmental educator that she discovered the world-wide Medievalist movement -- a discovery that paved the way for her career as a recording artist.
In keeping with the Medievalist movement's aim of fostering the best virtues of the Middle Ages and Renaissance period in the modern world, Dale uses the romance, courage and nobility of spirit found in the legends of the Medieval period as a guide to write songs that highlight modern themes in old material. As she side-steps the notion that the stories of the past are irrelevant to the present, Heather's music has also done away with stylistic stereotypes, fusing traditional stories with a healthy mix of Celtic folk, world music and rock influences to produce a truly unique sound.
Dale's career as an independent musician has been full of adventures, and her pursuit of these experiences has resulted in the formation of an indie record label, Amphisbaena Music, through which she manages her recording work and her extensive touring schedule. With over a decade of stories and touring experience to draw on, Heather's presence is bound to be anything but boring!
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You made my day, Sandra... I feel so fortunate to be supported by so many people around the world.
Heather Dale is my girl! I absolutely love her. It's wonderful that she keeps the old tales alive in her music and that she's always stayed true to herself regardless of what the status quo says. I look to her for inspiration all the time. I've also been fortunate enough to see her perform live and, yes, she is just as joyous and happy-go-lucky in person as she is in this video. You rock, Heather! Keep up the good work! Blessed be!
I've liked Heather's works for many, many moons, but up until tonight, have never seen her live, or had the opportunity to hear her talk. Well now I am SO pleased to say that the more I hear her, the more I like what I hear. I -adore- her personality, and it is -such- a delight to find someone whom you like just as much outside of their music as you do in. Thank you for sharing this, and AMEN to finding your tribe. It really can make all the difference in the world. :) ♥
I fucking love this woman! Her music, her style, her lyrics... it's all fucking intoxicating!
+Dawn Madsen I fucking know, right!?
Dawn Madsen
I like some of her music! I really want to travel with her. I currently travel and perform when I can with people or on my own at rest areas.she is my motivation
Brava, Heather! Pleased and proud to be part of the tribe. Keep following your dream, and using your wonderful talent to help the rest of us shape our 'dream.'
Finding a supportive tribe is good. Especially if they help you find healthy and positive coping skills, social skills, and productive creativity. Thankyou for being awesome 💜🏆👃☺️
The moment I came here for selfish reasons and u took me with your song by heart
Here here! She finally came to a town I was in (SJ, CA) but it was a private event... Nice to see her live, and look forward to seeing a live concert one day, and thanking her for the past dozen years! Huzzah!
It's good to see a confident and strong woman proud of her work
Just when I thought Heather Dale couldn't get cooler... She's played D&D and watched Dr. Who!
Also, I bet you could do elementary school assemblies. I know my old school had a medieval unit, and schools LOVE to incorporate the arts into their academic curriculum.
Damn she's got a great smile.
This woman is my hero.
I really enjoyed this, Heather! Much food for thought and definitely resonates with the way I've been thinking lately about the music I make and the musicians I perform with. Well done.
And I get to see you soon in Seattle this weekend!
Love,
Mary
heather, you continue tobe amazing
liam
She's the cutest thing. And she's very real, I think. Plenty of people in The Tribe can relate.
I have never seen someone who looks so happy with life, and with herself. Some of you call it boastful, but I prefer honest pride to false humility.
GO SIS!
Amazing and well-presented presentation of your work and your Tribe.
I've been a fan of her's for years. Loved this talk.
I like what you say...do you have the courage to be yourself or would you rather be a carbon-copy of all the other farm animals? - is what I ask myself several times a week.Keep asking yourself questions like that and eventually the old programming falls away. In the the end, you will just have to trust your own uniqueness, so you may as well start now,warts and all. You will never be better but you will become more, a lot more. cheers.
❤️💖💕
Whau truly beautifull and attractive voice and songs - And a very convincing story and a strong message about personal courage and finding your audience/ your tribe.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful message Heather. So inspiring! 🙏❤️🌠🌈🌞🌿
this was beautiful and i needed to hear this. Thank you Heather.
I adore all the music Heather has recorded professionally so far--my favorite song of hers is Mordred's Lullaby--but I really wish she would record one of those early songs about "why boys are weird" :)
Heather, can you please, please come to South Africa!
I found youre music on You Tube and I love it! Im a mytlogy and history geek and couldnt relate to music until I found yours
I have hugged Heather. You are totally jelly. HEATHERDALEFOREVER
You have reminded me that when Reynard and I went to Cleftlands many years ago to attend Coronation (we were still part of the Midrealm then), we bought a science fiction book from a merchant. Several months later, we went to Cleveland for a science fiction convention and bought The Midrealm Post-Rev Songbook. One of my dreams is to have an SCA barony on an O'Neill cylinder space station.
Ariadne
This really ought to be titled “How one person found her tribe.”
"LOOKING FOR LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS"
(you have to find minded individual first)
Thanks so much teflonpaladin! :)
Heather, you're awesome. I'm a fellow canadian, & I'm one of your many fans.
Totally got the message.
Would love to go to one of your concerts.
It would be a honor.
Wow Heather, this was just awesome to watch and listen to.
As wednesdaymac said, try checking out the Renaissance Faires down here. Definitely something that people would love to hear your music in.
What a beautiful song.
Thank you Heather! So inspiring! :-)))
This is absolutely fantastic. Wonder if she'd ever consider doing a house tour or convention in Nova Scotia...
discovering her through a fan edit of Mordred's Lulaby? - 10/10 can relate :D
Great speech! She makes great music as well.
Awww thank you Heather
My very own ren faire mom. There she is. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yeah. It's true. It's about finding your tribe. I haven't found my tribe yet. Still looking. Getting there. It's a life commitment but I think its all worth it
I'll come and hang out with you. I play Violin
I love her song Joan.
Heather, you are amazing! I believe someday you'r music will be big! You have such a beautiful amazing voice, i am in love with your music. keep ti up, were all lovin it!! :)
Well said. And really beautiful music there.
Great video.. Hats off to dis lady
Hey, I saw a woman in the audience singing along while that beautiful song was being played! A member of the tribe, perhaps? I wonder if I join the club myself... (maybe I am already in before even knowing it...)
i love this woman
Wonderfull music - inspirational in all ways -
Great ending!
Thanks. I needed that. Wonderful talk!
I don't have a tribe but I do Have a tepee, well more of a tent really
Great info.
Liked what you said
lovely!
thank you heather
best art vid EVER!
:) Thank you, lovey. It really helped.
Typical TED talk, saying something obvious and presenting it as new. Don't get me wrong, I like Heather Dale's music, have been listening to her for many years, but what she says here is basically just "Network! But with the right people.", which is something every artist knows. The problems artists encounter go way deeper - what if, try as you might, you can't "find your tribe"? She found hers in college, great, that's the ideal case. Or, in the other extreme, what if a thousand others are already doing exactly the same thing and you can't seem to set yourself apart? What if you have mental issues that make networking difficult? And so on.
She has a very unique and recognisable voice, she's pretty, she says she has a supportive family and a like-minded partner - these are all huge advantages that make success way more likely and that not everyone has. Plus, by her own admission, she got into the subculture that is her audience "before it was cool" and then it became fashionable when she was already sort of established in it. That's pure luck and, I guess, every artist's dream.
I don't begrudge her her success at all - she deserves it, and I'm not even planning on a career as an artist, so I don't see her as competition - but she makes something very hard seem easy by giving commonplace advice that every artist must have heard a hundred times and ignoring all the other factors that facilitated her success.
omg love this
Guys, it's real this time... I'm in love.
Its too bad you could give more info about some of your talkers if they have like website that would help grow your ted talk community. Thankyou.
It bothers me that musicians, singers and filmmakers have co opted the word "artist" - Doing searches on art, artists, artist marketing has become a nightmare of confusion.
Is what they do not art?
[mass] noun: The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
‘the art of the Renaissance’
‘great art is concerned with moral imperfections’
‘she studied art in Paris’
Music and lyrical "art" is a collaboration of sound image and lyrics; It is better classified when musicians and vocalists are labeled what they exactly do. Drake and Sinatra are vocalists, The Beatles and Jack White are better defined musicians.
That's only one definition. Art is like ice cream, there are hundreds of flavors - you still like ice cream if you only like one flavor.
There's visual art, expressive art, fine art. To many, the value of art defines it, which uses time as a factor. Like, for the song that she wrote and played - the copyright for that is good for her lifetime + 75years. It may fizzle, or her grandkids might be making money off it in 100 years. Value is the key.
Paintings and other forms of visual art work the same way. A paper mache garden statue might be very elaborate and pleasing to the eye, but it's not art - it's a craft. It's not meant to last, but to put outside and last less than a year. Craft the same thing out of granite? Then it could possibly be art. The debate was out for years - can color photos be considered art? Common perception was no, they fade and don't last while black and white photos were art, the silver emulsion process lasts for decades. A b&w photo today can be passed on, one in color can also be passed, but will be worthless.
Now we have digital media. Can something created to a file be art? Will a thumb drive last 350 years? Will it last 20 years? Does mirroring and backing up the file count? Does mirroring and backing up unique files on a regular basis actually increase their value? In some cases, yes, but in others, no.
One rule of thumb is, when a crafty creative person actually sells their crap - they are artists. Before I was an artist I used to cut my paintings up for giveaway bookmarks. This angered a lot of people and they started buying to keep my crap out of the fireplace. My "tribe" is crafty creative people. Average people don't like my stuff much, but people that can probably do what I do tend to buy, lol.
The definition you posted is only entry number 1. The other entries in the definition include musicians, singers, filmmakers and more.
2. the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
"the visual arts"
3. subjects of study primarily concerned with the processes and products of human creativity and social life, such as languages, literature, and history (as contrasted with scientific or technical subjects).
"the belief that the arts and sciences were incompatible"
4. a skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice.
"the art of conversation"
The definition of "artist" also includes practitioners off all of these many arts.
She's an artist.
Have yet to meet the first other member of my own tribe. Felt some kinship with Odo in this regard... at least until he found a whole other planet of shape-shifters. So, it's still just me.
Heather, one side of me hopes you haven't heard of Eva Cassidy so I can be the one to tell you, while the other side hopes you are well familiar with her music. Either way, you need to know about her. Search her for the sing Waly Waly
Well done :)
I'm 56 and still trying to fit in.
JASON BUTZ 51 ARTWORK
Like this video if you were singing along with Mordred's Lullaby! Tom Baker forever!!!
Nearest to my tribe is local dog owners community.
Finding your tribe who loves your art is probably easier to do in Canada. The USA is going through a rather anti-artist, anti-democratic phase right now, in case you hadn't noticed...
Join the Resistance.
You mean nobody, or almost nobody loves art in usa right now?
I don't have a 'tribe', I'm very odd and never found people who are as complex. Does that mean I can't find a fan base...hmm.. I don't know..
I can relate. Who needs a tribe anyway ?
And what a special little snowflake you are.
Snarking at someone who admits to feeling isolated and misunderstood, keep it classy.
Are you complex or just not willing to work on your social skills?
I can relate. I have a very diverse amount of interests but I am also an introvert and tons of anxiety and depression. I don't have the energy to pour into a vast social life. Add to that the amount of toxic attitudes in people these days...it often turns out more hassle than rewarding connection. So, I simply do my best on my own and take opportunities as they happen. I feel like ...I dunno... like one of these days I'll stumble upon where I'm meant to be when I'm happy doing my own thing. The more you look the more you have to look. Stop looking, be You, be the happiest You...put your work out there...see what happens
awr, I can hang out with her : D
"In 15 years I have 15 albums released, a hundred touring dates per year, no marketing budget, no insider connections, and no money for a bra. But I have great fans!"
what if you dont have a tribe?
Make your own.
"I would never join a club that would have me as it's member" so my "tribe" is...???😁😁😁😁😁
Heather you have the right attitude and a great message and I wish you even greater future success. You need an agent that will get you/your music on "The Big Bang Theory", expand your audience even further ;-)
mixing older ideas with newer ones = 'original' art .
More like all of human innovation ever.
Ari MVPDL nah.. it's post-modern... which imho has "evolved" into "post-post-modern" ;-)
she's not wrong but she's just a bit too pleased with herself to win this viewer over
+rabbitss11 Maybe you are just a little too hard on yourself. Think of all your accomplishments and the quality of your work. If you did your best, kept your morals and principles intact and produced something of quality then there is every reason to be pleased with yourself. If what you created is well received then that is just bonus. Do what you love and you will love what you do.
yikes... she's just actually happy with life
God forbid she be happy with her life or dare share that joy with others. People are allowed to be proud of their accomplishments.
I love her music but i have to agree, she comes across as quite boastful here.
She's actually one of the most genuine and genuinely nice people you will ever meet.
she is so awkward ahahaha xD
I'm glad she found some fans. I've listened to her top songs on Spotify and they are not enjoyable
To you perhaps. Luckily, you are not the entire world.
I like Joan better.
doing this might pay the rent, but it will never pay the mortgage on a house worth having. she got lucky. it's not this easy for everyone that tries to follow their dream of being an artist full time. unfortunately.
jjenn 33 I don't hear her claiming it was or is easy... she's made a lifelong investment and had the guts to put herself out there and keep on having a go.... check the mirror to see the one thing that's holding you back.....