Inga Swearingen performs regularly on the live radio broadcast show, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, which can be heard on public radio stations throughout the world. She also appeared on the Prairie Home’s 30th Broadcast Season Celebration DVD, along with the superb cast, gospel star Jearlyn Steele and country band BR5-49. Sign up for Inga Swearingen’s mailing list for upcoming shows and other updates.

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At New York Town Hall on Dec. 1, 2007, with singer/songwriter legend Joe Ely and his pal, Joel Guzman, Inga swings “I Hear Music” and pays tribute on guitar to Joni Mitchell with “The Crazy Cries of Love,” a song for lovers in apartment buildings. She gets the audience to sing along to a Bobby McFerrin-style a cappella version of “Blackbird” in two-part harmony.

Listen to “The Crazy Cries of Love” (81 minutes)
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At Tanglewood — Koussevitzky Music Shed in Lenox, Mass. on June 28, 2008, with The Del McCoury Band and poet Donald Hall, Inga drifts melodically over Mr. Hall’s poem “Summer Kitchen” and weaves the Flower Duet from “Lakme” into a summer camp diary script. With her acoustic guitar, Inga plays her composition “Two Trees,” which will be on the upcoming album due in October.

And again, at Tanglewood on June 30, 2007, with unpretentious superstar James Taylor, Inga sings her arrangement of “Skylark” with bassist Gary Raynor and cellist Owen Young, described as Stravinsky-esque with a repeated bass line and cello motive.

Listen to “Skylark” (34 minutes)
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