Gigi Love’s National Parks Centennial Songs project is all about her passion for our National Parks and capturing the story of our parks through the power of song. Yosemite Gold was the first song that she wrote about a National Park. “I was performing in Yosemite and a rock climber offered to sell me his mandolin for $25 because he needed gas money. I bought it and immediately walked into El Cap meadow and wrote the song. Something sparked in me that day and I had the vision for this project. That was 10 years ago.” 2016 is the 100th Anniversary of the Parks and this album will celebrate that milestone.

From 2015 – 2017 Love visited about two dozen national parks where she gathered notes, learned the history, absorbed the surroundings, and wrote songs for many of the parks. Several of the songs are included on Love’s full-length album National Parks Centennial Songs. This album and many songs have charted in the top 100 from the Folk DJ stations as reported by Acoustic Outpost during 2016- 2017. As the NPS Trails & Rails Troubadour Gigi is on 4 trips in the summer/fall of 2017, visiting and performing in several of the parks and on multiple Amtrak trains.

Performing, communing with nature, learning about the parks’ history and meeting the community within the parks will create the soundscape for the songs; exquisitely crafted and recorded to express the uniqueness of each park.

To commemorate the 100^th Anniversary of the National Park Service, says Love; “The songs are dedicated to the future generations, for the founders of our parks, for the kids that don’t live near wilderness but need it so desperately, and for the earth.  Let’s get to know Mother Earth again and again by visiting the parks, singing her songs, and protecting the environment where these special places exist.”

The full length CD National Parks Centennial Songs released Dec. 2016.

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Discography:

• Utah Remembers Bruce “Utah” Phillips-Tribute to Utah Phillips, Waterbug Label, featured song “Going Away”
• Sweet Relief 2012, Cosmic Tales of the West 2008, Turning to Gold 2004, Coyote Bones 2001