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After a successful tour across England, Wales and Scotland this summer, piano-playing singer-songwriters Carol Hodge and Julia Othmer are reuniting for another round of the Selenite Songs Tour in November 2024. From the unlikely locations of Huddersfield, Yorkshire and Kansas City, USA, these artists have been holding a unique songwriting pen pal correspondence since December 2023.

The Selenite Songs tour features songs Carol and Julia wrote during this ongoing songwriting project and includes conversation about the process and the stories behind each song. There is an element of audience participation, including a live co-creation with the crowd, ensuring each night of the tour is a magically unique experience. Carol and Julia premiered the Selenite Songs tour in the summer of 2024 with several sold out dates.

With over 40 years of live touring and recording experience between them, this is an invitation to explore the artistic alchemy of two veteran performing songwriters. Openly sharing their process, these artists cultivate a warm and humorous dialogue of collaboration, inspiration and craft at each performance.

Julia and Carol met on tour in 2018, opening up in the UK for Welsh legends The Alarm, and quickly bonded over their shared love of all things heart-centred and magickal. They toured together again in 2019, and vowed to make it a regular occurrence, until the pandemic hit. The Selenite Songs Project sees these two powerful women joining forces to reflect light and create connection.

Carol and Julia have ritualized a songwriting commitment to one another. Each month, they challenge themselves to write a song on the first new moon of each month. A few strict rules apply: 1. Write in response to the songwriting prompt (prompts are brainstormed by the artists and their audiences on supporters of social media) 2. Spend a maximum of 2 hours writing the song 3. The resulting recordings are to be only piano, voice, and found sounds.