Alane Brown is a writer. Her poetry and short stories have been published in the We’Moon calendar, in the Abre Tu Boca substack and in several anthologies of writing by New Mexico authors. She really loves performing her work in Spoken Word events such as those staged by the Baja Sur Writers & Poets League. She can be very dramatic.
Alane is also a singer-songwriter. She performs concerts and teaches workshops about pagan music. Alane has recorded and performed with the pagan choir Crow Women for many years. During the early stages of the pandemic, Alane used her time in isolation as a kind of writer’s retreat, writing a song every week, as well as many poems and short stories. When Alane emerged from that creative cave, it was like being reborn. She began performing her new store of music as a solo artist, and is having a blast exploring a whole new identity and repertoire.
Some of these new songs, like Calling Down the Moon, are grounded in similar themes as the songs Alane wrote for the Crow Women: aspects of the Goddess, music for magic and ritual, pagan perspectives on life. But many of Alane’s new songs are suitable for a general audience. I’m in the Middle of the Laundry is written from the perspective of a women with 5 children, Look Up Everyone is about getting our faces out of our cell phones and making meaningful connections, and Driving the Snowplow is a lighthearted tribute to a snowplow driver. These are just a few of many, many new songs for you to discover.
Alane is about halfway though recording her first solo album, which will be called Out of the Nest.
Alane lives in Albuquerque for the warm half of each year. She has performed as a solo artist at Albuquerque Pagan Pride and at the Untamed festival in Colorado. She performed her new material (as part of the duo Pan Fried) at Pagan Spirit Gathering. She enjoys opening for other artists, and has been the warm-up act for S.J. Tucker/Muses on the Road and for Celia Farran. And, of course, she continues to perform with the Crow Women.
In the winter half of the year, Alane lives in the artsy little town of Todos Santos, close to the southern tip of the Baja peninsula in Mexico. She is active in the Abre Tu Boca writing circles and participates in the Todos Santos Writer’s Workshop. Both have been engines for creativity and have resulted in published work.