There's plenty of beauty and meaning in a traditional funeral or memorial service, but that doesn't mean the usual funeral ...

Bird ended up composing an original, less jaunty melody to accompany Dickinson’s words. "I got kind of engrossed in this particular poem. That first line — 'I felt a Funeral, in my Brain' — just grabs ...

Bird came up with the concept for the song after reading a poem by Emily Dickinson, also titled “I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain,” which he said felt like an accurate description of his inner world.

Parrots can have foul temperaments. A long-viral internet rumor claimed that U.S. President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot got so rowdy and profane at Jackson's funeral that it had to be removed ...

Andrew Bird has enlisted the help of Phoebe Bridgers to create a tender folk interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s 1861 poem, “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain.”. Bird and Bridgers recorded the ...

“Fly, little birds, cut across the sky. Fly wherever you please,” he says, quoting a famous song by the late Arik Einstein. “No vulture will frighten you.

FRANKSTON — A funeral service for Jerry Clyde Bird, 77, of Frankston, is scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, March 28, 2025, at Autry Funeral Home in Frankston with Bro. Jerry Horine officiating ...

Photo by David Black. Today, Andrew Bird released a harrowing reimagining of Emily Dickinson’s poem, penned in 1861 and published in 1896 “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.” ...

Birds of prey such as this Harris’s hawk are sometimes used to reduce the danger of bird collisions with planes at airports. (File photo, April 13, 2007, Carrasco International Airport ...

Andrew Bird has teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers to reimagine Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" poem. "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" is Bird's first outing since August's "Rare Birds", ...

That first line — 'I felt a Funeral, in my Brain' — just grabs you right away. It doesn't' hold back at all," Bird said. Bird had read Dickinson in the past, but it had been years.