Christina Blust
Christina Blust is a singer-songwriter and player of accordion, guitar and piano. She's performed as an official SXSW showcasing artist three times with her band Yearbook Committee. Two of Christina's songs were used in the Emmy-award-winning documentary "Baring It All" (2011). Born in Northern Kentucky, Christina currently lives the scenic surroundings of Nashville, TN. In addition to her various musical projects, Christina is also a designer, developer and one half of Blustery Day Design. She is an active Wikimedia contributor and supporter of open knowledge and is the co-founder of The Live Sincerely Project.
Jimmy and I recorded this lovely secular hymn with lyrics by our friend Mark. It’s a canticle of sleepy children and long, starry nights.
“In dead fields reach lilies to the sky…” On toxic relationships, supporting each other, and hope that blooms even in the midst of cynicism.
Recognizing a milestone, reflecting on change, letting my history and my gratitude fill me up.
On the slow march of my sister’s cancer, the swirling chaos of uncertainty in the face of change, and the kind of soul-searching that leads to the deepest questions of self, soul, and science.
On reclaiming songs about loves that are over, not letting things mean more than they have to, and paying attention to the way that very hard things make our true colors show in bursts of glory.
IT’S SWEATER WEATHER, YOU GUYS. (A reflection on hugs, a theology of closeness, and the most sort-of-suggestive song I’ve ever written.)
In honor of school starting in August around these parts, here’s my song about my first day of preschool.
A song about an old man and a house and the lingering, swirling passage of time.
The entire book is a personification of that feeling when you think you know someone well and then become aware there was this whole other secret world percolating underneath them all along that you knew nothing of.
I wrote this song in college, after what Wikipedia says is called the “Northeast Blackout of 2003.” Also, atoms.
In 2010 several of my songs were featured in the Emmy-award-winning documentary Baring It All. This clip features photographer David Jay talking about the project and utilizes the song “Spilled.”
Official music video for the Yearbook Committee song “Tall Trees.” Filmed at various tree-y locales around Terre Haute, this video was done by Johnny Hazard.