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Molly Pinto Madigan
@mpintomadigan.bsky.social
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Singer. Songwriter. Novelist. Dancer. 🦂 My folk/rock opera “The Ballad of Tam Lin” 🥀 is streaming everywhere 🎶 https://open.spotify.com/album/1H5YOEM485IVGg3osFmHsq?si=oSFbeVbWTdq40cDZndAz3w https://www.patreon.com/mollypintomadigan
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So excited to see everyone joining the Bluesky community! Thanks again to @jay.bsky.team for inviting me to join the party here, and for being such a champion of the arts.
Excited to welcome @mpintomadigan.bsky.social, a singer-songwriter with an ethereal voice whose Ballad of Tam Lin I have had on repeat for the past few months.

The whole album is a modern re-envisioning of a medieval ballad. This might be my favorite track
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Fortune's Fool
Molly Pinto Madigan · Song · 2020
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They do look like tomatoes! Festive tomatoes. 🎃
Sneak peek at a video shoot we did last week! My song Nightingale.
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Compendium #232- Song 10

Molly Pinto-Madigan - Here Comes The Night
Album: Wildwood Bride
Date: 2015
Web: www.mollypintomadigan.com
Blue Sky: @mpintomadigan.bsky.social
Can’t wait for this!
Our new single, 'Hold On Soul' is out Friday! We celebrate with a gig at tomorrow night:

@ne-americana-assoc.bsky.social presents @dirtroadsouls.bsky.social @waywardvineband.bsky.social and @mpintomadigan.bsky.social at @obrienspub.bsky.social doors at 7!!

Links here linktr.ee/dirtroadsouls
Hey, somehow I’m nominated for Americana Act of the Year in the New England Music Awards, and if anyone feels like voting, here’s the link: nemusicawards.com/vote/ #americana #livemusic #newengland
Sometimes I play piano. 🙃 My song, “Summer Lament.”
I want tan and salted skin,
Sundresses worn thin, clothes that smell of him.
I don’t want to be alone —
The ghost of his cologne still haunts my collarbone.
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Also, if you're interested in the subject of fiction inspired by traditional fairy lore & ballads: @profrmaslen.bsky.social, @ngjeannette.bsky.social, @ellenkushner.bsky.social and I did a talk about this at the British Library a while back, with music from Sam Lee. youtu.be/pF_mr0ETyQA?...
Journeys to the Land of Faerie.. and telling the Tale
YouTube video by British Library
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And maybe off topic for Tam Lin, although it relates to retellings + certainly my own novel retelling of the ballad, but @terriwindling.bsky.social, I read The Wood Wife as a teen and remember being so enchanted with the idea of America having its own unique faerylore. It was a game changer.
Your “Thomas the Rhymer” has always been one of my favorites! ❤️
As a writer coming from a trad. folk music background, I loved hearing you speak about faerie and ballads @ellenkushner.bsky.social, and the performance at the end was wonderful.
For all my fellow Tam Lin junkies. ❤️ 🥀🎶
Rachel Ayers highlights six of the many fine retellings of the fairy ballad Tam Lin. I was honoured to publish @pameladean.bsky.social's extraordinary Tam Lin in the Fairy Tale Series (Tor Books), and I'm delighted to see it listed as one of the greats. It truly is. reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...
A Knight to Remember: Six Retellings of the Story of Tam Lin - Reactor
A gripping tale about a woman determined to hold on to what she wants.
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Just watched the whole thing — amazing talk!
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