#winter grain

Lively Hearth is a folk duo that's 50% lesbian by volume, so please enjoy some images of me doing classic Lesbian Activities such as playing dress-up for pride, enjoying nature, being a fun auntie, and loving my bi fiancée and bandmate 🏳️‍🌈

Also featuring: signing the guest book in Shibden Hall

And an extreme throwback to my early lesbian-with-guitar days:

Need a soundtrack for the day? Here's a playlist featuring us, and some of my favorite lesbian musicians!

26 songs for International Women's Day 2026!

An eclectic mix of genres, but leans toward folk/country/americana and other "woman with guitar"-type music. There are some obvious choices and some deep cuts, and we organized them reverse-chronologically by release year.

PREMIERE: LA folk-pop outfit Winter Grain encourages growth and positivity in new single ‘A Better You’ and announce new EP Hollywood & Hard

Living in LA by way of Salt Lake City, Winter Grain is made up of singer-songwriters and musicians, Secily and Kate Anderson, a married couple who found love through their passion for making music. Today, we are thrilled to exclusively share the first single and music video ‘A Better You’ from their upcoming EP Hollywood & Hard, their second project produced by Grammy Award-winner Ryan Hadlock (Brandi Carlile, Vance Joy, The Lumineers), out December 3. Watch and listen below. Pre-save the single HERE.

Effortlessly blending indie pop, acoustic folk and Americana sounds, they employ jangly guitars and catchy songwriting, influenced by the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Fleetwood Mac. Trading off on vocals that weave together stories of nostalgia, growth, frustration, love and all the in-betweens, Winter Grain's Secily Anderson shares that ‘A Better You’ is all about "being real when it comes to being disappointed in people, whether someone else or your own self."

You know that relatable yet frustrating feeling of hoping that someone in your life will finally be the better version of themselves that you know they could be, and having them prove your worst suspicions correct when that doesn't happen? The way that Kate Anderson belts out the question “are you a better you yet?” during the climax takes that frustration and turns it into catharsis.

Behind the inspiration for ‘A Better You’, the duo explains, “In our lives we often find ourselves disappointed with other’s unkept promises and often even our own unkept promises… To us, life is constant learning. And learning is often the result of “mistakes.” As we get older we have found ourselves being more interested in being better people than being “cool” people, whatever that means in the end."

6 – Black Sea Region Cuts 2016 Winter Grain Area

• 6 – Black Sea Region Cuts 2016 Winter Grain Area | AgroNews

"Russia and Ukraine, the leading wheat producers in the Black Sea region, have cut their 2016 winter wheat sowing area due to dry weather, analysts and traders said, signaling more risks of next year’s crop and exports.

The two countries combined are expected to export 38.5 million tonnes of wheat this 2015/16 marketing season,…