Recent UNM News article highlights the impact of a class taught by Eileen O’Shaughnessy,
“Though the name of the class has changed over time, the goal to provide critical, interdisciplinary nuclear education remains the same. Each course includes field trips to key sites around the state, guest speakers from organizations like the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and Tewa Women United, as well as a final project to apply learning to social or environmental justice.”
Announcing a brand new release from Eileen & the In-Betweens! This is How We Show Our Love (2022) is the 4th studio album from Eileen & the In-Betweens. Featuring enchanting and uplifting songwriting from Albuquerque's premier social justice folk band. Physical CD’s can be purchased in Albuquerque, New Mexico at Nob Hill Music or Back Alley Brujas (Old Town). Outside of Albuquerque, CDs can be ordered HERE. The album is streaming everywhere with links available HERE
Eileen will speak along with panelists from around the world about the impact of the nuclear ban treaty and the connection to dismantling nuclear colonialism. January 25, 2022 11am MT Register for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZIpfu2prz0vH9B3AXJ9wUg6l3j1B...
Eileen & the In-Betweens is excited to officially release our brand-new music video for our song “Wide Open Skies” starring the incredible MorningStar Angeline and Becki Jones. Filmed and directed by Jazmin Harvey. Watch here: https://youtu.be/I9Og6mPDO5Q
Eileen is honored to be joining Oakland-based musician Lydia Violet on a 3 week tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England from July 25-August 11th, 2019. Eileen will open with original music and also play guitar and sing with Lydia’s band “The Bones.” Lydia, like Eileen is also facilitator of Joanna Macy's "Work that Reconnects" and she writes heart-opening songs about facing our planetary crisis with grit, wisdom, and resilience. It's the musical medicine we need right now. You don't want to miss these shows if you are in the area! Share with friends and spend the word!
Eileen was featured in the environmental-themed week of Humans of New Mexico, which is “a community project collecting the oral histories of everyday New Mexicans.” Read an excerpt from a lecture by Eileen titled “The Nuclear Beast” HERE.
Edible Magazine featured Eileen Shaughnessy as one of New Mexico's top talented songwriters in a special "Food & Music" Issue (August/September 2017). The article includes an extensive interview which can be read here: https://issuu.com/ediblesantafe/docs/esf-latesummer2017 (page 68).
We traveled over 7,000 miles, played 30 live shows and 2 Canadian radio shows, hugged redwoods, sang to llamas and greyback whales, ate too many ketchup flavored potato chips (it's a Canadian thing), planted sunflower seeds at each stop, endured car breakdowns, shared a lot of laughter and some tears, saw firsthand the web of resistance rising up across this earth in creative, humble, and powerful ways,... and I can safely say: WE AIN'T GIVIN' UP.
View all four stories from Eileen & the In-Betweens "We Ain't Givin' Up" Tour 2017...
Eileen Shaughnessy (in collaboration with Cathy Rowsome) was awarded an "Equal Justice Residency" at the Santa Fe Art Institute for 2017/2018. The residency will focus on answering the following question: "How can art be used to engage systems of power and foster social and racial equity?" As a musician and educator, Eileen will explore music as a tool for social change with a focus on environmental justice in the Southwest.
More info here: http://sfai.org/equaljustice/
Eileen & the In-Betweens: Eileen Shaughnessy Lazarus Letcher Ben Martinez Tanya Nuñez Colin Baillio "Honor the People" mural completed by artist Nani Chacon with mural assistance by Jaque Fragua and Jaycee Beyale. Footage of the Albuquerque Women's March courtesy of Mary Heather Browne and Charles Arasim. Special thanks to Sue Schuurman.
