The Restoration Project is the creative identity of musician-composer-theologian Tracy Wispelwey. Tracy was born and raised in Boulder, CO. She loves backpacking and Colorado winters. She was classically trained on the piano and started composing music and writing stories by the age of 12. Among her favorite authors are Thomas Merton, Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. She also reads a lot of Latin American authors and theologians. She listens to all sorts of music and seeks out interesting indie artists. She learned Spanish growing up, taught herself Portuguese before her first trip to Brazil, and now is starting on Arabic. After graduating from Colorado College having studied comparative religion and music composition, she spent a year traveling through the Southwest United States, Peru and Bolivia. She sang in churches, schools, prisons and stayed in over 250 host homes from San Diego, CA to indigeous Quechua villages in the Andes Mountains. After that first year traveling the world, her dreams of seeing people, communities and nations restored and reconciled to each other and a loving Creator have only grown. She believes relationship is the primary catalyst for restoration and justice.

She married Seth Wispelwey, the man of her dreams, on Jan 9, 2010. Seth grew up in Charlottesville, VA and graduated from UVA as an English major and promptly moved to California wine country to work on a ranch and manage a wine bar/restaurant. His passion and leadership eventually landed him in Austin, TX as a grassroots organizer and hunger/poverty educator. Seth and Tracy's journey together started with a crazy year of traveling the United States and Africa but they finally landed in Cambridge, MA. Tracy is currently doing graduate work in theology and music at Harvard and Seth is finishing a Master's in Theological Studies at Boston College. Together they are re-imaginig the non-profit (Restoration Village) Tracy started and they continue to cultivate creative partnership together. Seth is also starting to collaborate musically with Tracy with the recording of Tracy's new world-electroacoustic project, "Border Watcher" (to be released fall 2010).

Tracy has been touring full time as an independent artist since 2000, playing on university campuses, in prisons, churches, living rooms and touring throughout North, Central and South America. She was accompanied by singer/songwriter/composer Aaron Strumpel full time from 2002-2006 when the Restoration Project gained wide recognition and popularity among colleges and universities and was selected among thousands of artists to showcase at the national N.A.C.A. conference. After the release of "Sobering," Aaron launched his own career and Tracy began pursuing opportunities and relationships in South America. Recognized as a creative peacemaker and leader, she was sought out for collaboration by authors and faith networks. In 2008 she co-produced a gospel project with Brian McLaren called “Songs For a Revolution of Hope” and joined Brian on a 3 month, 12 city tour in conjunction with the release of his book, "Everything Must Change." Following that tour she did an artist residency with New York Faith and Justice. She has also collaborated with such groups as Amahoro Africa, La Red del Camino and served as the international director of Enter the Worship Circle.  Currently she and her husband are collaborating with the David Group International in peacemaking projects and the launching of an interfaith theology and peace journal. Ultimately Tracy seeks to engage leaders and communities working for restoration and justice, and create music that proclaims goodness and hope.