Janine Nichols, a Brooklyn performer and leader of the band SEMI-FREE, has plenty to be excited about.

First, she got a glorious CD review wondering why she is not famous by David Malachowski! Click below to read it:

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2013/08/23/entertainment/doc5216d71ea3c14007168306.txt

Second, SEMI-FREE now has a band photo (see above). Pictured are Nicols and bandmates Brandon Ross and Charlie Burnham.

And third: Semi-Free now has a video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObT_hq7-2oA

The photo and video were shot by the visual artist Peter Seward at John Brown’s Farm in Lake Placid, NY. It was from there that John Brown organized his assault on the Kansas Territory and, later, Harper’s Ferry. Hallowed ground.

The song in the video, shot wild on borrowed guitars, is a new one, MOON OR NO MOON, the story of a slave escape. Nichols based it on a character in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World by Edward P. Jones.