Mama Joy Rising has been on the scene since the early turn of the century, barefoot and busking, performing for women's gatherings, primitive skills shares, house concerts, and local charities; speaking and singing for the people that need her voice the most. Her energy and words have a way of bringing people of all walks together to revel in the bittersweetness of their common struggles and triumphs, and to look forward to discovering their part in creating a more heart centered world. Her songs and spoken word pieces address injustice and redemption and talk of the vortex of victimhood and the journey toward personal empowerment. She's found a way to use her incredible story to heal her own life and spread that wholesome touch forward into the lives of her listeners. From single motherhood to escaping a cult; from using art for social and environmental change to rewilding Earth's children, her songs steer us away from our fear based problem avoidance into outside the box creative sustainable heart based evolutions. Sometimes they just make us thank our lucky stars for what we have, or laugh at the ironies we get ourselves into!