Throughout the first year of the pandemic, Sabine McCalla, like many of us, found herself deeply isolated from friends and family. She wrote songs that spoke of that loneliness, grounding herself in her environment and space in time. Using the poetry she’d written during this time McCalla worked to produce songs that lament this historical period, combining r&b/soul/ gospel and folk with lyrical poetry that speaks to the soul. McCalla used her residency to write and record songs at A Studio in the Woods.

Headshot by Camille Lenain