This is a video of a performance at TED by Natalie Merchant. From her new CD, Leave Your Sleep, that takes a group of 19th poems and sets it to music.

For my friends in the music business: you must go and watch some of these videos produced by Derek Sivers.

Derek is the creator of CD Baby and put up a bunch of mini-interviews of people that he met at the recent South by Southwest Conference.  Derek’s posting on his site.

Here’s Derek’s presentation at the conference: