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"Sleep, child" from If I had a key to the dawn
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"Years, heavy years" from If I had a key to the dawn
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"A bird flew to my darling's window" from If I had a key to the dawn
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"Green leaf of a pear tree" from If I had a key to the dawn
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Bio

Lily Storm

Lily Storm is a singer specializing in traditional music, with particular experience in Eastern European styles. She has studied with many traditional singers (Donka Koleva, Kremena Stancheva, Merita Halili, Mariana Sadovska, Christos Govetas, Carl Linich, Tsvetanka Varimezova, Radostina Kaneva, Tatiana Sarbinska), and has traveled extensively, living for some months in Hungary and Greece and visiting Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia and India. She also makes use of archival recordings to study ancient styles preserved into the early 20th century.

Lily has performed with several ensembles in the Bay Area, working with musicians including Ryan Francesconi, Dan Cantrell, Beth Bahia Cohen, Peter Maund, Shea Comfort, Bill Lanphier, and Lucia Comnes. She also performs early music with Shira Kammen, and Tim Rayborn; Scandinavian folk music with the Swedish duo Dråm, and she has collaborated with Kane Mathis, an accomplished kora and oud player.

Highlights include singing with the Toids to open for Joanna Newsom, and performing in Greece at the Voices of Stone (Φωνές της Πέτρας) Festival, sharing the stage with Petro-Loukas Halkias and Domna Samiou, among others.

Previously she sang with the Bay Area vocal ensemble Kitka for 5 years. As part of Kitka, she recorded as a soloist (The Vine, Wintersongs), collaborated in concert with ensembles including Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Ziyia, Ensemble Alcatraz, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Davka, and Mariana Sadovska, and appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and NPR's Performance Today.