leah_abramson1Vancouver BC-based singer/songwriter Leah Abramson is wrapping up a month-long residency with Sitka’s Island Institute. Abramson’s latest project (for her Master’s Degree at the University of British Columbia) connects — through song — the lives and experiences of a resident pod of killer whales near Vancouver with her own family’s history in the Holocaust. With the Island Institute’s Peter Bradley and KCAW’s Robert Woolsey.

Downloadable audio.

Leah Abramson will lead a songwriter’s circle this evening (6:30 PM Wed May 27, Yaw Chapel). Songwriters and listeners are welcome.