21 Oct 2026 · Traditional ballad
Fare You Well, My Darling
A soldier asks his sweetheart not to grieve. Early twentieth-century collectors preserved the words; this new performance keeps the uncertain promise of return.
Cinematic historical ballads
Songs for those history left in the smoke.
Original stories of courage, fear and mercy, grounded in historical research. AI-assisted, human-directed, made as acts of remembrance.
A worn drum, campaign map and letters — the objects that remain when the ranks disappear.
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Three new ways into the archive.
A recovered traditional farewell, three voices at Appomattox, and a letter that arrives too late. Lyrics, sources and listening notes accompany each release.
14 Oct 2026 · Listening edition
A Civil War Trilogy
Three existing ballads follow the road to Appomattox, a Confederate infantryman’s defeat, and a Union soldier’s question after surrender.
5 Oct 2026 · American Revolution
I Haven’t Found the Ending Yet
She keeps his room and writes him home. The news of his death at Cowpens crosses the Atlantic while she is still imagining his return.
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Not celebrations of war.
Not celebrations of war.
Acts of remembrance.
Bloody Hopes follows ordinary people caught inside great events: the promise before the charge, the doubt inside an order, the mercy that survives violence.
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