The soulful wisdom of singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer, dubbed a “prairie mystic” by the Boston Globe, offers a balm for this anxious and exhausted age. Her 2023 album A Great Wild Mercy explores integration and living in process as we enter a post-pandemic era. The songs on this album address our personal and community longing for connection in this time marked by fear and rage. Carrie writes that she thinks of her songs as “three and a half minutes of empathy, a welcoming space where the news of the world and the news of the heart have equally important roles to play.”