  
The duet Little Windows' new audio recording Healing at the Roots: Songs of Renewal, is a companion CD for the new book "The Rice Diet Renewal: A Healing 30-Day Program." As the duet Little Windows, Mark and Julee Glaub Weems create a mesmerizing, eclectic and acoustic blend of traditional Irish, Scottish, Appalachian, Country, Sacred, and Original Song. They are known especially for their beautiful and delicate harmony blends. They perform together nationally and abroad and teach traditional singing and playing at music camps all over the country. Their music has been featured recently on the NPR's programs Thistle and Shamrock and The State of Things as well as in the soundtrack of Todd Johnson's new HarperCollins audio-novel "The Sweet By and By." (www.littlewindows.net)
They believe that beyond its entertainment value, music has a much deeper potential. They have always been interested in the spiritual qualities of traditional music and song and have witnessed on many occasions its power to heal the hearts, minds, and souls of people. On this record, they have fully explored some of this hidden potential. This is not "hop around" music. It is music to reflect and meditate upon, create art to, read a good book to, or take some rare quiet moments with. It includes ancient Irish prayer songs, unaccompanied songs, an old English poem turned into song, hymns from America, an African American gospel song, and a unique take on everybody's favorite - Amazing Grace. It also manages to blend this traditional material with newer songs by Franciscan troubadour John Michael Talbot, Carl Jones, Michael Kelly Blanchard, and Mark and Julee themselves. Instrumentation includes: guitar, fiddle, banjo, flute, piano, organ, harmonium, and mountain dulcimer.
What Others Are Saying About Little Windows:
"When Southern mountain folks talked about their 'old time music,' they meant everything, from reels to lullabies, hoedowns to laments since the string band revival of the '70s, however the old time genre has occupied itself primarily with the dance tune repertoire. Little Windows, the North Carolina duo of Julee Glaub and Mark Weems, puts the whispered moments back into the old time landscape. In place of yee-haw instrumentals, they offer songs of sweet quietude, lulling space and lonesome places. Both are lovely singers, with haunting harmony's that draw us deep inside the old ballads. Backed by banjo, guitar, fiddle, flute and piano, their music is achingly honest, as sweeping, secluded, and darkly pretty as the far places from which the songs first came."
-- Scott Alarik, Boston Globe
"Through these little windows that Julee and Mark have carefully arranged for us, we hear music at its best, as it was meant to be sung and played: spare, intense, eloquent and, always, stunningly beautiful. Open the window and listen."
-- Si Kahn
"With Little Windows, Julee and Mark weave the golden threads of their voices into the fabric of a lovely collection of ballads."
-- Tony Ellis
"Mark and Julee's vocals are totally symbiotic…it's like hearing two voices coming from one person."
-- Lane Gibson, Engineer, Eller's Studios Vermont
"The duo's harmonies are unequaled ... "
-- Bluegrass Unlimited
"Talk about synergy! When Julee and Mark perform they create something special ... a sound that is all their own. With their tight, luscious harmonies they deliver songs with a poignancy that reaches deep."
-- Lillie Morris, Augusta, GA Concert Series
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