Beautiful, Dreamy Animated Video for our new song LOST


We have a brand new video to share with you all. We’re thrilled that The Bluegrass Situation premiered it last week, and we hope you will enjoy!

Directed and beautifully animated by our friend Alec Coiro, the video is a dreamy exploration that in his words “combines the stark, sublime melancholy of late autumn with the heterodoxy of pagan imagery.”

The song Lost is on our most recent 5 song EP Ferry Boat. Lily describes it as  “a meditation on remembering to stay in the now, choose hope over despair. There is a children’s book that says, ‘when you are lost it is the easiest place to be found.’ This song is about that.”

If you enjoy the video please share it with your friends, and wherever you are we hope you’re inspired. You can find the direct link to the video here.

More details on Spring tour dates coming soon.

Thank you for always sharing your lives and love of music with us, we’re forever grateful.

WE LOVE YOU,
The Chapin Sisters 

2018 Roundup- FERRY BOAT EP

 

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Thank you friends, for being a part of our year and to everyone who supported our new EP FERRY BOAT. If you haven’t heard it yet, please check it out. Thanks you to Loantaka Records, KCRW, Rolling Stone, Alternate Root, PopMatters, and everyone who supported it.

We also shared some music we have been working on with our dear friend Cass McCombs. Cass McCombs and the Chapin Sisters’ cover of Fred Neil’s the Dolphins can be heard on Starbuck’s Nation of Us compilation, and there is more music in the works for the new year.

The year has been filled with new beginnings. We were blessed to play some wonderful shows with friends and family, had a once-in-a-lifetime experience with some of folk music’s luminaries performing our song We Will Not Stop at Symphony Space in NYC (which was filmed for PBS- more on that soon), and our song Palm Tree (from our album Two) was featured in Alexander Payne’s magical film Downsizing.

We were able to able to continue to support organizations and causes that we care about-our uncle Harry’s organization WHY Hunger, the National Diaper Bank and Swing Left.

We hope your new year is full of magic, light and of course music.

 

Remembering Pete Seeger, 1 year later

dadandpeteIt’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year since Pete died, this year has been so full of him for us: his music, his legacy, his family and community. We sang his songs and our own for all five days of Seeger Fest in July, we sang them again at the 400,000-person-strong People’s Climate March in September, and again the next day at Flood Wall Street. We recorded his song “Quite Early Morning” with our dad for his upcoming album, and wrote our own Pete-inspired protest song “We Will Not Stop Singing,” which we recorded for our upcoming record. We sang “We Shall Overcome” at the November protests for Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and at the December candlelit vigil for NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. Pete made his presence felt in 2014. Wherever there are people rising up together in song to sing out against injustice, Pete Seeger is there.

On Saturday, January 24 we had the privilege of watching the film that Lincoln Center Out of Doors made of their SeegerFest concert last summer, and joining our good friend, SeegerFest producer and Pete and Toshi’s grandson Kitama Cahill-Jackson, and folksinger Dan Zanes on a panel about the Seegers’ legacy and music.

Let’s keep Pete’s legacy alive in 2015, let us not stop singing.

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Who’s Gonna Freeze: Behind-the-Scenes

We just received these great behind-the-scenes photographs of our video shoot for Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet by our talented friend and cousin Jonathan Chapin. It was a cold, cold day. Thanks so much to Jesse, Tracy, Na, Seth, and Jonathan for helping out and freezing your toes off with us!

xoxo Abigail and Lily

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For more photos by Jonathan Chapin, make sure you visit his website.

And here’s the full music video for ‘Who’s Gonna Shoe…’ in case you missed it:

 

The Chapin Sisters visit Paper Magazine

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We visited Paper Magazine’s New York offices as the Everly Brothers and sang them some songs in their kitchen. Check out the PaperMag site to read the full article and listen to a couple other songs.

PS – We are playing this coming Tuesday at the Standard Hotel East Village. To get in (it is FREE!) you must RSVP to tell us you’re coming!