When I was feeling angsty in my first job out of college running literacy programs, I wrote a song.

While procrastinating on applications to grad school to study conflict resolution, I wrote a song.

After meeting members of the Greensboro truth and reconciliation commission, I wrote a song.

When I was feeling utterly overwhelmed organizing the resistance, I wrote a song.

As our holy rage burned because families were being separated at the border, I wrote a song.

When my heart was bursting with love and wonder, I wrote a song.

Over the past 15 years, while working by day (and night) toward social change, I've been writing songs.

And now there are enough for an album!!

My original songs speak to themes like:

rising up for truth, reconciliation, and justice in an imperfect world
cultivating self-compassion and emotional awareness
avoiding burnout and drawing on a deep well of resilience
acknowledging human foibles like procrastination with humor
finding empowerment as a woman growing up in a patriarchal society
teaching the next generation to cherish and protect the natural world

You can hear some of them on Soundcloud and YouTube — and watch my live house concert here! The style is folky and lyric-base, influenced by years of listening to Dar Williams and Tracy Chapman.

Living in a broken world, there's so much work to be done. But we can't do the work if we're not nourished and fired up along the way.

On my bedroom wall there's a quote by E.B. White:

I wake up each morning torn between a desire

to savor the world and to save the world.

It makes it hard to plan the day.

Singing is how I savor the world, and also how I get the energy to keep fighting for justice and building community. And I want to share that juice with others who need it right now.

Your contribution will help make it possible for me to:

Produce a digital album of 8-10 songs, and a small run of CDs
Access professional-quality recording and mixing services
Collaborate with other singers and instrumentalists for rich, varied harmonies
Do grassroots outreach to bring my music to the ears and hearts of those who need to hear its message
Possibly produce a short music video to express the essence of my project

Contributions of any amount are welcome. Please consider giving at one of these levels:

FAN | $25
- Includes free album download
GROUPIE | $50
- Includes 2 CDs (to keep or give as gifts — or, let's be honest, use as a coaster)
- And free album download
BAND | $100
- Includes exclusive T-Shirt with album title (TBD!)
- And all of the above
ROCK STAR | $250
- Includes a copy of songbook with lyrics and chords
- And all of the above
DIVA | $500
- Includes private concert in your home or office for 15+ guests (travel costs not included)
- And all of the above!

Please note: contributions are not tax-deductible.

THANK YOU! So deeply grateful for your listening, supporting, and sharing this passion project.

<3 Sarah

Watch live video of Sarah's house concert here!

Debut album to feed the activist soul!

By Sarah Beller

Debut album to feed the activist soul!

Help me record and share my music with the people who need to hear it.