Sing for Science featuring Neko Case and Rebecca McMackin

Join the Museum’s Center for the Environment for a special live taping of the acclaimed Sing for Science podcast, featuring Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and passionate gardener Neko Case in conversation with celebrated ecologist Rebecca McMackin. Together, they’ll delve into the rich interplay between music, native plants, and ecological restoration—illuminating how creativity and care shape our relationship with the natural world.  Moderated by Sing for Science host Matt Whyte, this conversation promises insight, inspiration, and an unforgettable blend of art and science.  <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2xXs2PTc16TYY34FTgpbIY">Listen to Sing for Science on Spotify</a>! And sign up for the Sing for Science newsletter <a href="https://www.singforscience.org/newsletter">here</a>.    FEATURING-  Sing for Science is an award winning, Top 10 Music Interview Podcast on Apple’s charts where musicians talk about science with scientists, scholars, and science journalists. Past episodes include Korn front man Jonathan Davis and science writer Mary Roach on mortuary science, SIA and sex therapist Alex Katehakis on attachment theory, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and Python creator Guido Van Rossum on coding, and dozens more that engage science-curious fans of music like no other podcast. The show is hosted by New York musician Matt Whyte, whose credits include composing for Netflix’s Tiger King, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, and fronting the mid-aughts band Earl Greyhound. Matt cites his participation in a Pete Seeger memorial concert at New York City’s Joe’s Pub as the podcast’s inspiration; it was there that he became acutely aware of the breadth of issues to which Pete applied the power of song in his pursuit of change.    Neko Case- Is there another songwriter so fearless and inventive? Bending decades of pop music into new shapes, Neko Case wields her voice like a kiss and her metaphors like a baseball bat. She has cast the fishing net of her career wide—from Seattle and Vancouver to Chicago and Stockholm, setting up her home base on a farm in New England.    Gathering power year after year, Neko sings with the fierce abandon of a newborn infant crying in a basket in the woods. Since escaping the labels of country and Americana, the gorgeous train-whistle vocals of her early career sit submerged in her later style, where their ghost can appear any minute. When her voice jumps an octave, it’s almost visible, like sparks at night. “I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice,” she says, “but I just wanted to do it so bad.”    With a career spanning over twenty years, she has famously collaborated with The New Pornographers and Case/Lang/Veirs in addition to releasing many critically acclaimed solo albums, including ‘Fox Confessor Brings The Flood’, ‘Middle Cyclone’ and most recently 2018’s ‘Hell-On’.    She’s doing it on her own terms, but the legacy she’s building is one that can stand up to music made by any other solo artist in her lifetime. Don’t look away; you never know what might happen. “I’m just trying,” she says, “to be myself as hard as I can.”     Rebecca McMackin is an ecologically obsessed horticulturist, garden designer, and writer. She is currently Lead Horticulturist for the American Horticultural Society and an Associate at the Harvard Divinity School's Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative . Prior to moving to the woods of Connecticut, Rebecca was Arboretum Curator at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, and managed Brooklyn Bridge Park for a decade. She has written for and been featured in Gardens Illustrated, the New York Times, NPR, PBS, and her TED talk has been viewed more than a million times.

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