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OCTOBER 2026

Believe In Kindness - #1 Song on FAI Folk Radio Chart September 2026

 

My career first digital single, Believe In Kindness, was released to radio on September and the reception the song has received has been gratifying. I really appreciate folk DJs around the country embracing this tune and sending it out to their listeners. Believe In Kindness has resonated equally as well with audiences in my shows and I’ve come to feel its moral posture (as June Jordan calls it) is one that internally and externally we need to constantly affirm. We are in the 2026 mid-term election cycle; before and after November 3rd things will get harder. Music has the ability to heal and empower; Believe In Kindness is an unabashed assertion of what we value in this world. Julie Wolf produced Believe In Kindness and played keyboards. Joe Jencks added bouzouki and backing vocals. Vicki Randle also added backing vocals along with percussion and guitar. They were all awesome collaborators and I am eternally grateful for their contributions. The cherry on top for the project is the video photographer Irene Young made for the song. Its views on my Deidre McCalla Music Youtube channel have accumulated faster than any other music video I have done. Just another sign that Believe In Kindness is meeting the moment  struck the right notes for this moment in history in the hearts and minds of many.
In other news, November finds me once again doing a set of shows with my brother-from-another-mother Joe Jencks. Musicians Corner House Concerts is in Newport, MN, which is the Twin Cities area, and Mequon, WI, home to the Wisconsin Singer Songwriter Series, is just north of Milwaukee. Joe and I much appreciate the Madison Folk Music Society presenting us again at the North Street Cabaret. We have a mid-week house concert in Appleton, WI and on Friday we dip down to DeKalb, IL for a concert with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of DeKalb.

Michigan calls with shows in Bloomfield Hills at MAMA’s Coffeehouse, and the tour segment rounds out with a Sunday afternoon show at The Ark in Ann Arbor. Please, PLEASE spread the word on The Ark show in particular. The Ark does not normally do afternoon shows, but Joe and I lobbied that our audience would really appreciate a bit of relief from always having a night drive to events. Check out my concerts page for more information and links to all of these shows.

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