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In this episode, Belinda Ellsworth introduces singer-songwriter Delnora Reed Acuff, discussing her career and background in music. Delnora talks about her favorite performances and the importance of her faith in her music. She also discusses her experiences working with musical heroes and her new album, "Blank Page." Delnora shares her superpower of energy and her hands-on approach to engaging with fans. She emphasizes the importance of excellent customer service and staying true to oneself as an artist. The conversation also touches on the challenges of balancing creativity and business, being a mother, and finding joy in pursuing one's passion. About Delnora:Delnora is a singer/songwriter, The voice that brought her from West Virginia to Nashville has been recognized with consecutive nominations for ICMA's Female Vocalist of the Year and she is currently ICMA's reigning “New Artist of the Year”. She's released eight studio albums, including three as a member of the critically acclaimed duo Blue Eyed Grass. She is also a member of The Shotgun Rubies on Carl Jackson's “Orthophonic Joy – The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited.” She then received her first #1 on Sideline's “Return to Windy Mountain” which she penned with the one & only Carl Jackson. Feb-April 2022 her song “Blank Page” went #1 on PowerSource, Christianvoice & Cashbox. In May 2022, she released “Man at the Well” and it debuted at #1 on Christian Music Weekly! Most recently, Delnora's feel good song “Thankful” hit #1 on Cashbox May 2023.Connect with Delnora:https://www.delnora.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Delnora.Musichttps://www.youtube.com/user/DelnoraReedhttps://www.instagram.com/delnora/https://www.twitter.com/DelnoraReedhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4DTeNsKx2wwYHgT6vgLrOHAbout the Host - Belinda Ellsworth is a Speaker, Trainer, Best-Selling Author, and Podcaster She has been a professional speaker, mover, and shaker for more than 25 years. Having built three successful companies, she has helped thousands of entrepreneurs make better decisions, create successful systems, and build business strategies using her "Four Pillars of Success" system. Belinda has always had a passion and zest for life with the skill for turning dreams into reality. How to Connect with Belinda: Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/workfromyourhappyplace LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindaellsworth Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/workfromyourhappyplace/ Website - www.workfromyourhappyplace.com Join my membership program and discover the art of creating and sharing amazing experiences with like-minded people, all from the comfort of your own home. You get to connect with others online, learn new skills and techniques, and grow your network without ever having to leave your computer screen. To know more, click on the link https://workfromyourhappyplace.com/vip/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4939248/advertisement
Hello all! Imagine the sounds of rain beginning to fall on the roof of your mountain getaway. Deep in a faraway valley, a night train winds it's way down the mountainside; it's distant whistles echoing through the night air...
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Gom couldn't move. Couldn't speak. Was it a waking dream, coming upon him as they used to up on Windy Mountain? Out of nowhere, born of some urgent need, to warn him of some danger, or show him something hidden from his normal sight? “Gom, what is it?” Wycan's faraway voice faded into echo. Then everything went dark. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Jofor smiled coldly. “You like to dance, Gom Gobblechuck of Windy Mountain? Then you shall dance for us." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Chapter introduction by Caidren Adrianne, a young reader. . . . Gom turned his attention to the old men sitting . . . on the alehouse bench. All they did was perch out there, day after day in the sun, gossiping. What a life, he told himself. What a dull, dull life, living in a place where there were no surprises, where nothing ever happened. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“Tell me—how much more of this lovely gold is back through there?” Skeller put the edge of the blade to Gom's throat. “Speak the truth,” he added, “or it will go the worse for you.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Wings fluttered suddenly overhead . . . The mockingbird was back. “You've a tall, tall, tall, tall shadow,” it called. “A tall, tall . . . tall . . . ” It flew off again. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“Son: quick and clever is your mind, and marvelous strange. But too quick, and too clever it is at times, and lacking in proper thought for others.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Far Away. It did sound exciting. But scary. A body could get lost Far Away, Gom was sure, for hadn't he seen that bodies going far away grew smaller and smaller until they disappeared? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Skeller, his clothes still wet, was standing over him now, his eyes dark sockets in the wavering firelight. “Too bad your plan didn't work, little man,” he said, and raised the knife to strike. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“Aha! I don't make the same mistake twice! . . . One two three, Fiddle-dee-dee; Bust your knee But you won't catch me!” “But I will!” came a soft voice behind him, and before Gom could say bread-and-cheese, he was seized from behind and hoisted into the air. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“ . . . I'm sure that any common brown sparrow would envy a finch. . . . And why couldn't (she) fly away?” “Because . . . (she) was in a cage. . . . But nobody wants the plain old brown sparrow. Which leaves her free to fly wherever she wants.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Gom's panic increased. His father had fallen down the crevasse. How far? “Father! Father!” His voice echoed off the tunnel walls. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“Drat the boy, I said, not meaning it, mind. That nose of his will get him into a right pickle some day.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Horvin let out a howl of rage. . . . “Dwarf dwarf evil dwarf!” he yelled. “It's all because of you that our mother left us!” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
He thought of Stig up above in the warm sunlight. How grieved his father would be, when Gom didn't come home. Oh, Father. His hand closed about the rune. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
"When Father's gone, Clack'll need another wood cutter–and that's you, just as when Maister Craw's gone, I'm to be greengrocer in his place. It's our duty, you see.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
There came a loud rumble, then a cry, a full, long, roaring cry, that thinned away, down, and down, . . . and down. Then there was silence. “Father?” Gom whispered. There was no sound. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Far from being hailed as a hero as his father fondly thought, he had an uncomfortable feeling that some angry and disillusioned people might just be waiting to run him out of town after all! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“Well, look who's here!” Gaffer Gudgeon said, as Gom followed Stig into the inn parlor. “If it isn't the wizard himself and in person!” Around him, his cronies laughed. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Stig lifted the cover aside. Its skin was yellow-brown and wrinkled as the skin of an old chestnut, and its head was covered in dark brown hair. There it lay, squirming and kicking by the hearth . . . looking up at him with eyes that were quick and black as little buttons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Setting down the lamp, he reached out and touched what he sought. . . . It was light and smooth, hard and curved, grooved, and hollow as death. The skull. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Fool! Mandrik cried . . . This is what she would have you learn: bury a thing of great price and you deserve to lose it! Out there in the wide world, gold buys not cabbages, but kings! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“ . . . for all your smartness you're still but a simple mountain boy and ignorant of the great wide world out there. Gom: promise me you'll stay here and lead a sensible life and be a credit to yourself and me, then I'll rest happy.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
“If Father's dead, you must stay with Hilsa or me until the thaw. . . . You're woodcutter now. You promised Father.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
At this, as though he had understood, the new baby chuckled loudly. “Gom,” he gurgled, and landed a tiny bony fist right in his father's eye. “Gom, Gom, Gom.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Quote from Chapter: “I'm getting wed today” he said. “And this is Wife.” He reached for the woman's hand and drew her forward from around the cart to stand before the townsfolk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
After four days, the woman is still there. Stig has now found her such great company with her cooking and her tales of Faraway that he does not want her to leave.... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Stig goes home to find a strange woman in his cabin. She has cleaned up and made delicious supper. Mysterious as she is, he finds her comfortable company. Next morning, he is sad to think of her gone.... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
A young reader, Anya Eleni, reads her own introduction to the book. Stig, woodcutter, lives high on Windy Mountain. Too high. No one will marry him. Does he care? Not really. Until ... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grace-chetwin/message
Humanity and America, new music, and a movie with multi-award winning fiddle player Michael Cleveland and folk artist Gabe Lee. Gabe shares some insight into his latest release, Farmland. Then Michael shares his thoughts on music, his life, and bluegrass. Songwriter and picker Gabe Lee is a Nashville native and first-generation American. Drawing inspirations from John Prine, Wilco, Old Crow Medicine Show, Americana, and Bluegrass it was only a matter of time this classical pianist changed his musical destiny. Farmland is a look into America in its current state and makes you evaluate your thoughts its current state. Follow Gabe @gabeleetn for everything and updates. Michael Cleveland is one of the premier bluegrass fiddlers of his generation. A major player in the world of bluegrass, Michael has won the IBMA fiddle player of the year 11 times. His list of guest apperances over the years is a who’s who of bluegrass legends including Bill Monroe, Jim and Jesse, Ralph Stanley, Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson, and J.D. Crowe. Today Mike is a sought-after guest and has performed with Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, The Mark Newton Band, J.D. Crowe and the New South, Audie Blaylock and Redline, Melvin Goins and Windy Mountain and The Wildwood Valley Boys. Mike walks me through his life as we talk about his movie, Truly living an inspiring life with the challenges of alcoholism, blindness, and deafness. Michael is a powerful musical artist and an inspiring human being. Be on the lookout for his newest record set to release in August, Tall Fiddler and visit for tour dates, the movie, and music. Also follow Mike and the band @mcflamekeeper.
(0:00) Texas, 12/8/03 Fox Theatre, Redwood City, CA (15:32) On The Road, 6/22/02, Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN (31:10) Smile, 3/21/03, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO (40:08) Windy Mountain, 8/12/01, Horning's Hideout, North Plains, OR (50:02) Born on the Wrong Planet, 12/5/03, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA