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Released 3/10/2026.
Duration: 2:07.

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Artist commentary for Songs Along the Riverside:

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It's Rhine again—this is a theme for her and the neighbourhood musician ensemble she joins on her travels.

Waltz's commentary:

Along a wide, quiet river that snakes through plains sits a certain small port town. Though far from the open sea, and nearer to the mountains' placid lakes, it is strategically situated, serving as a trading hub for all the villages in the region.

Though the markets lying along the shore are always bustling, life moves slowly elsewhere in town, where the shops and smithies thin, bleeding out into the farmlands and rolling meadows beyond. In this fairly humble everyday, the people find simple pleasures, and despite the normal disagreements to be had, at the end of the day, most folks will find themselves brought together by their common loves—such as a love of song.

It was this love that saw a small ensemble—a collection of neighbors, nothing more, entertaining their families and friends, now and then playing a song or two at harvest fairs—welcome into their midst a strange girl who wandered into the town one day. She called herself a traveler, telling strange stories of far and wide. And yet, for all her apparent worldliness, she seemed rather happy to stay in this sleepy place a while. It was perhaps serendipity that she too was a lover of music, her voice clear, strong, true, exuding something from deep in her soul without the slightest pretense.

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For Waltz