“In a sometimes chaotic world, Althaea's Welcome Home gifts us with an unusual and compelling acoustic blended outpouring of body, mind and spirit. The listener receives comfort and is lead to search.”

- Kim Kashkashian, Grammy-winning violist, international soloist

“I felt like I was being hugged by sound. The sense of feeling the most welcomed one could ever feel traveled straight through Althaea’s vocals and strings to my ears and into my soul. Mission accomplished!”

- Nick Platoff - Principal Trombone, Houston Symphony Orchestra; Associate Professor of Music, Rice University Shepherd School of Music

Althaea (Charlotte Malin Collins) sings from the fullness of her heart. A consummate musician and composer, and a multi-talented instrumentalist and arranger, she has also written most of her texts. Her album is an auspicious debut, and a pleasure to listen to. It is well-paced, and with a good variety of melody, harmony, texture and emotion. Althaea’s gentle lyrical voice reflects contradiction, longing, and resolve, as well as the sacred that lies around and within. Welcome Home opens the heart.

- Monica Jakuc Leverett - Elsie Irwin Sweeney Emerita Professor of Music, Smith College, Northampton, MA