RADIO: The Great Connector

Saturday, Oct. 6 at 12 p.m., Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St.

Think back to the last time you sang along to your favorite song. Were you alone? If you were singing along to a song on the radio, you were one of thousands singing along to that same song, at the same moment in time. The truth is, in the digital age, we live in an increasingly fragmented world, where opportunities for shared experiences, in real time, are precious few. Now more than ever, radio – especially independent radio – has a crucial role to play in connecting and engaging us all. It is the forerunner, and perhaps final bastion, of active community building on a mass-media level. Though not immediately obvious, community in action occurs daily on (and off) the airwaves. How is this accomplished? In this panel, we’ll find out, and have a thought-provoking look at the myriad ways radio continues to stay relevant and vital to our daily lives.

Moderated by: Carmel Holt (WFUV 90.7 FM)

Panelists: Jimmy Buff (Radio Kingston — WKNY 1490 AM), Greg Gattine (Radio Woodstock — WDST 100.1 FM), Lynn Sloneker (WGXC 90.7 FM), Steve Pierce (Media Alliance)

 

Carmel Holt

A lifelong student of music, Carmel Holt grew up singing and playing the piano, acting, and performing in musical theater, and received a BA in music composition and vocal performance at Bard College in 1994. Holt joined the staff of WDST in Woodstock and worked her way up to become midday host and three-time award-winning music director before being selected to fill the full-time mid-day shift at WFUV and serve as Assistant Music Director in 2013. The life of a radio DJ and music director has been perfect for Holt, who has an enduring belief in the power of music to bring people together.

Jimmy Buff

Jimmy Buff is the current Executive Director (and on-air host) at Radio Kingston. Buff began his radio journey at the legendary WNEW-FM. He came to the Catskills in 1993 to work at WDST and along the way has had stops at NYC’s K-Rock and WEHM in East Hampton, NY. In addition, Buff has done national TV, for ESPN and the Outdoor Life Network (now NBCSN), and locally hosted “Kingston Now” on RNN. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Buff has written about adventure for the Poughkeepsie Journal and the Catskill Mountain Region Guide and loves dogs and his family’s ancient (20!) cat. “I’m so excited to be a part of Radio Kingston and to focus on this city. My wife is a Kingstonian (her grandfather was fire chief, dad was deputy fire chief) and we chose to raise our son here. With this community at what seems to be an important crossroad in its future, I hope to help facilitate positive conversation about what works for the whole community. And I can’t wait to provide a soundtrack for that too.”

Greg Gattine

Greg Gattine is the current Program Director and Morning Show host at WDST Radio Woodstock. A graduate of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, Gattine’s voice has been heard on the Hudson Valley airwaves since 1982, starting with oldies and standards station, WHVW/WJJB in Hyde Park. After a few years in the mid-1980s at WBNR/WSPK, Beacon, Gattine moved on to legendary WPDH in Poughkeepsie, for over a decade, and was Program Director and afternoon drive host for many years, prior to beginning his current tenure at WDST in Woodstock in 2000. Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, Gattine’s greatest joy in his role in broadcasting is the opportunity to be of service to the Hudson Valley community.

Lynn Sloneker

Lynn Sloneker has served as Station Manager and Managing News Editor with WGXC in Greene and Columbia counties since 2012, motivating and leading staff, and ensuring that the station’s objectives are met in terms of output, audience and revenue. Her belief in the critical importance of local media is informed by her experience as a print journalist, public official and parent. Before joining WGXC, Sloneker was a writer, editor and blogger for more than 20 years. She is a resident of Hudson.

 

Steve Pierce

Steve Pierce is the Executive Director of Media Alliance. He is a media reformer, activist and multimedia producer, with three decades of experience in the organizational and technical implementation of the telecommunications infrastructure. His PhD is from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is also a member of the adjunct faculty, teaching: Radio Production, Engineering Ethics, and Leadership. His past experiences in media reform include: Executive Director, Deep Dish TV Network, New York NY, 1989-92; Assistant Manager, Pacifica Radio WBAI, New York NY, 1988-89; Program Director, WWOZ Radio, New Orleans, LA, 1987- 88; and Journalist, New Orleans LA, 1980-87.

Brought to you in collaboration with and support from Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Radio Kingston and ReverbNation. Special thanks to Bear Call Mastering. Refreshments provided by Variety Coffee Roasters and More Good.

Holistic Career Advice for Today’s Independent Musician

Saturday, Oct. 6 at 1:30 p.m., Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St.

It’s tough to be a DIY artist in the music industry. With more than 360K emerging artists in the U.S. each year it seems impossible to grow your fanbase and career. You can look at the industry’s focus on algorithms, streams, social media followers and music-as-marketing (not a product) as a negative, or you can look at this as an huge opportunity. Hear from a panel of industry experts including a label representative, a publicist, a lawyer, a manager and a DIY artist about how to build a sustainable career.

Moderated by: Craig Snyder

Panelists: Loren Chodosh, John Burdick, Mike + Ruthy, Kevin Calabro

 

Craig Snyder

At ReverbNation, Craig Snyder facilitates the artist development program impacting 5 million-plus artists on its platform. Using their curation-at-scale product, leveraging algorithms and human curators, ReverbNation identifies artists early in their career for the music industry and brands.

Snyder earned a master’s degree in rock n’ roll while producing radio shows on SiriusXM for some of the greatest music movers and shakers, including Andrew Loog Oldham, Joan Jett, Kim Fowley and Little Steven Van Zandt. Drawing from this experience, Snyder has been able to extract and implement campaign ideas as both a music marketer and an artist manager. When he’s not working, he’s creating podcasts, brewing coffee and playing hockey.

Loren Chodosh

Loren Chodosh is an entertainment law attorney and native New Yorker. Over the years she has represented a varied clientele, including Shawn Colvin, EMF, Moby, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Swans, Live and Tricky, currently representing The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, TV on the Radio, Liars, Buddy Guy, Steve Jordan, Nada Surf, Mercury Rev and many, many others. Lacking any discernible musical talent, Chodosh went to law school in the hope of figuring out how to work with bands. Decades later, she is still standing.

John Burdick

John Burdick is a regional music critic for Almanac Weekly. As a freelance writer, he composes biographies and release announcements for a variety of signed and unsigned artists. Burdick is one of the founders of SubFamily Records, a Hudson Valley cooperative that has released five records since forming late in 2017. As a guitarist and songwriter, he performs with his band The Sweet Clementines. He has recorded and/or performed with a variety of artists, including Laura Stevenson, Matt Pond PA, Dean Jones, Pelican Movement, and many others. Burdick is a multiple-time O+ alumnus with The Sweet Clementines and other projects. He will be performing this year with Hiding Behind Sound.

Mike + Ruthy

Mike + Ruthy (of The Mammals) are Hudson Valley-based songwriters who have made waves in the Americana world and beyond. In 2018 they released their self-produced LP, Sunshiner, which Tape Op magazine called “some of the best folk-rock music you will ever hear.” These two believe in the transformative power of a great live performance. Touring upwards of a 100 shows a year (with their two kids in tow), Mike + Ruthy also produce a bi-annual folk festival called The Hoot of which the late Pete Seeger called “one of the best song gatherings I’ve seen in all my 94 years.”

Kevin Calabro

Kevin Calabro began his career at the PR firm Susan Blond Inc., where he met Grammy Award-winning producer Joel Dorn who’d just launched the label, 32 Jazz. Calabro would work with Dorn for the next 10 years, earning production credits on many albums and received a Grammy nomination as executive producer for Vernon Reid’s production of “Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions” by jazz and blues legend James Blood Ulmer. In 2009, Calabro formed his own firm, Calabro Music Media, which oversaw campaigns for Chris Robinson Brotherhood, The Wood Brothers, and Medeski Martin & Wood, while his current roster includes Marco Benevento, Seth Walker and Leslie Mendelson. Calabro and Benevento formed Royal Potato Family, a record label imprint that’s released titles by Garage A Trois, Stanton Moore and Lukas Nelson.

Brought to you in collaboration with and support from Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Radio Kingston and ReverbNation. Special thanks to Bear Call Mastering. Refreshments provided by Variety Coffee Roasters and More Good.

Art in Public!

Saturday, Oct. 6 at 3 p.m., Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St.

Who owns public space? Who gets a voice in the commons?

This panel will examine the challenges and opportunities involved in the creation of a work of art in public. Together we will discuss the ways that the public nature of muralism can expose the social undercurrents of a community, who gets to “own” the visual field and the line between graffiti, street art and muralism.

Moderated by: Jessica Pabón-Colón

Panelists: Ori Alon, Tani Ikeda, Riisa “Boogie” Tochigi, Callie Mackenzie Jayne, Sarah Wilson

Jessica Pabón-Colón

Jessica Pabón-Colón is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at SUNY New Paltz. She published her first book, “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora,” with NYU Press in June 2018. Featured in Bitch Magazine’s “Bitchreads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read In June,” Pabón-Colón’s book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary transnational feminist ethnography that examines how “graffiti grrlz” negotiate their place within a heterosexist male-dominated subculture. She tweets @justjess_phd and blogs at www.jessicapabon.com.

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Ori Alon

Ori Alon is the Director and Founder of the Empowering Clerks Network (Center for Supportive Bureaucracy), the largest international organization issuing Playful Paperwork documents such as the Joy Permit, Forgiver’s License, Racism Release Form, Refurbished Report Cards, OK Parent Award, Peer Review Certificate of Recognition, Apology Declaration and more. He creates interactive street art such as the Hidden Fortune Wheel and Alternative Memorial Plaques, satirical government entities like the NY Diversity Authority which facilitated the White Men Registry, a comics series with postage stamps and children’s book series The Magic Bagel. Currently Alon is running for Mayor of Beacon NY, offering free ice cream for elders, 17 percent tax deduction for men who express vulnerability, spending zero dollars on the campaign and reducing the voting age to 6, among other promises. Alon vowed to only say positive things about his opponents. www.supportivebureaucracy.org

Tani Ikeda

Tani Ikeda is an Emmy-winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Sundance’s 2018 intensive screenwriting lab’s fellows and was also named one of Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers as a Project: Involve Directors Fellow. Ikeda was an Executive Producer and Director on the Blackpills Documentary TV Series “Resist” with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the fight against LA County’s $3.5 billion jail plan. At the age of 21, Ikeda co-founded imMEDIAte Justice, a nonprofit that fosters the talents of young women artists working in virtual reality. She is the current executive director of imMEDIAte Justice and was named one of the “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by the Utne Reader. Ikeda tours the country speaking at universities and national conferences about storytelling as a tool for social justice. She holds a B.A. in Film Production from the University of Southern California and currently resides in Los Angeles. (@taniikeda)

Riisa “Boogie” Tochigi

Boogie is a Japanese-American street artist who crafts detailed imaginary creatures, flowing abstractions and fun-loving characters. Her body of work taps into the flow of the streets, the vibrations of dance culture and blends the technical mastery of traditional Japanese prints with urban imagery, materials and locations. boogierez.com

 

Callie Mackenzie Jayne

Callie Mackenzie Jayne is the Founder & Executive Director of Rise Up Kingston, and Radio Show host at Radio Kingston. Her desire to fight for justice began in eighth grade protesting against unequitable dress code policies. Jayne’s career started off in sales, bouncing from job-to-job, and struggling to make ends meet. Her life, work and educational experiences led her to discover the institutionalized issues that were preventing her and many others — from all walks of life — from achieving a quality standard of living. Her desire for change comes from the belief that all people deserve a basic standard of living, and if we could all come together and hear many differing perspectives, we can use our struggles to achieve collective greatness.

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson currently serves as the Chair of the Poughkeepsie Public Arts Commission in Poughkeepsie, and she is also the Vice President of the Board of Directors at Barrett Art Center.  She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Art History from Michigan State University and Brooklyn College, respectively. Wilson works as an attorney with McCabe & Mack, LLP where she handles intellectual property and art-related matters. www.mccm.com

 

Brought to you in collaboration with and support from Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Radio Kingston and ReverbNation. Special thanks to Bear Call Mastering. Refreshments provided by Variety Coffee Roasters and More Good.

Andrea Lubrano, Holistic Nutritionist at Gut Feeling

Born in California, grown in New York, rooted in Caracas, and adulting in the Hudson Valley, NY. I am an enthusiastic wide-eyed traveler, whose respect for cultures and societies develops intrinsically through the foods and flavors of lived experiences. Through it all, I have come to realize that food is the most important way in which I relate to the world.

After years of working and traveling at a cost of living consulting firm my curiosity and passion for foreign cultures became a constant search for the flavors that make up uncharted territories. It was through market walks, chats, and nibbles in Khan el-Khalili, Cairo, Tsukiji Market, Tokyo, and Porta Palazzo, Torino, to name a few; that my appreciation for authentic food as a portal to a culture’s heart was fully unveiled.

Cooking for others, sharing a meal, the passing down of food traditions, are all a vehicle for human connection. But I needed more, so I turned my passion for healthy and culturally-sensitive eating into something bigger. In 2014, I obtained my Master’s degree in Gastronomy from Boston University, followed by my chef’s cap from the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. And in 2020 I became a certified Nutritional Therapist through the Nutritional Therapy Association.

In the past, I have developed recipes and menus while exploring food photography, styling, and writing. Currently, I am focusing my energy on Nutritional counseling through Gut Feeling, managing the DJ Cookbook, Food styling with Schneur Menaker Photography, and raising my daughter Alma Champagne – after Evelyn Champagne King, and our newest addition Ali Levan – after Larry Levan; two of the greatest if you ask me 😉

http://gutfeeling.us/

Alyssa Dann

Alyssa Dann is a 16 year old singer songwriter raised in the legendary artist enclave of Woodstock, NY. The daughter of acclaimed producer and session musician Mark Dann and his wife, Lisa Klotz, herself a voice major, Alyssa began writing stories in elementary school. At 15, she was already a strong singer and guitarist when a creative writing class ignited her desire to write her own songs. In 2016, she received a youth scholarship to the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) conference and received favorable reviews in the pool of professional singer songwriters. She continues to build her repertoire and hone her performance and songwriting skills.

https://www.alyssadann.com

https://soundcloud.com/alyssaadann

SCHMAVE

SCHMAVE is the indie / lo-fi / jazz project of Avery John, based out of the thriving music scene of New Paltz, NY. In Avery’s New Paltz bedroom, there is a small path weaving between music equipment, leading to the recording gear and a blanket-lined closet that serves as makeshift vocal recording booth. The debut album, Painted Post, is filled with references to books, cryptic and relatable personal experiences, and stream-of-consciousness thoughts that often reflect indecisiveness. The live ensemble creates an intimate, yet energetic atmosphere, drawing everyone’s eyes and ears to the stage.

http://schmavemusic.com/

 

Survivor Love Letter

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Tani Ikeda is an Emmy winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Sundance’s 2018 intensive screenwriting lab’s fellows and was also named one of Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers as a Project: Involve Directors Fellow. Ikeda was an Executive Producer and Director on the Blackpills Documentary TV Series “Resist” with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the fight against LA County’s 3.5 billion dollar jail plan. At the age of 21, Tani Ikeda co-founded imMEDIAte Justice, a nonprofit that fosters the talents of young women artists working in virtual reality. She is the current executive director of imMEDIAte Justice and was named one of the “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by the Utne Reader. Ikeda tours the country speaking at universities and national conferences about storytelling as a tool for social justice. Tani holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Production from the University of Southern California and currently resides in Los Angeles. (@taniikeda)

PUBLIC ARTIST & CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Jess X. Snow is a queer asian-canadian public artist, filmmaker, poet and educator. As a result of the rootlessness and migrations that marked her childhood, she developed a stutter which she overcame through her discovery of visual and written language. Her work explores survival, memory, joy, and our relationship to the Earth by amplifying the voices of women, queer people of color, and migrants who refuse to be defined by borders and time. Her work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute Migration Co/Lab, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, and has appeared on PBS Newshour, The LA Times, and NBC Asian America and outdoor walls across the country. Through film, mural-making, poetry and youth art education, she is working toward a future where queer, migrant youth of color may see themselves heroic on the big screen and the city walls & then can face the possibility to grow up and create their own. (@jessxsnow)

PUBLIC ARTIST & ART DIRECTOR

Layqa Nuna Yawar is a migrant latinx artist, large scale muralist, agitator, educator and organizer born in Ecuador and based out of Newark, NJ. He migrated to the USA from Cuenca, Ecuador during one of the country’s most severe economic and political periods of instability in the late 1990’s. He works in a range of mediums, including studio painting, public murals, installation, project curation, sculpture, public art and street interventions. His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Star Ledger, The Huffington Post, NBC Latino, Fusion, Brooklyn Street Art and other publications, books and online. The artist’s practice also extends to curation, project production, mural-making workshops and educational lectures through spaces like El Museo del Barrio, Rutgers University and The Newark Museum as well as projects like Creative Art Works in New York City, City Without Walls in Newark and Conect Arte with the UN World Food Program in El Salvador. (@layqanunayawar)

https://www.survivorloveletter.com

 

Evan Dando (of The Lemonheads)

Evan Griffith Dando formed The Lemonheads with two high school buddies in late winter ’86, in their senior year at Boston’s tiny Commonwealth School.

A few months later, they spawned what is now one of the most sought-after punk relics of the 80s, the indie EP Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners. Boston-based Taang! Records immediately picked up on The Lemonheads, with three college radio pleasers to follow: the LPs Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988), and Lick (1989). In 1990 Atlantic Records took notice of the massively expanding Lemonheads fanbase in Europe (where they toured in 1989) and America by signing the band and releasing their well-received (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) fourth LP, Lovey.

Even by this time, The Lemonheads lineup had been volatile: more than a dozen different configurations over a period of just five years, all sorts of bit parts and reshuffles, with Dando as the only constant. At one point it got so confusing that an ex-drummer, just a week after getting kicked of the group, answered The Lemonheads’ ad to replace himself. By a conservative estimate, the band has had more than ten bass players and at least a dozen drummers over the years.

But out of this primordial chaos came a veritable Golden Age for The Lemonheads. A 1991 tour brought Evan to Australia, where by chance he met songwriter Tom Morgan and future Lemonheads bassist Nic Dalton. Their collaboration made all the difference for the next Atlantic release, It’s a Shame About Ray (1992), a concentrated blast of pure pop perfection that clocks in at just under 30 minutes. Thanks to songs such as “Confetti”, “My Drug Buddy”, “Rudderless”, and “Ceiling Fan in My Spoon”, Dando hit a whole new audience (“they’re getting younger,” he confessed to Kathie Lee Gifford at the time).

Mainstream media hype of The Lemonheads shifted into high gear, with lots of wild speculation as to the exact nature of the relationship between Dando and long-time friend Juliana Hatfield (who played bass and sang on Ray). It also didn’t hurt when a 1993 People magazine spread devoted a full page to Evan as one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world. That news came to Evan in New Zealand, on his 26th birthday. When a magazine rep called to tell him he was among the “fifty dishiest people”, Dando recalled, “I thought she said busiest”. And I thought, ‘kin right!” With all the traveling, I was busy!”

Atlantic released a smash follow-up, Come on Feel The Lemonheads, in October 1993. The album brought Dando a genuine charting single (“Into your Arms”) as well as instant classics such as “Great Big No”, “Down About It”, “Being Around”, and “You Can Take it with You.” In winter 1993/1994 Evan Dando was in your living room, thanks to live appearances on the Letterman and Leno late night network TV shows. Inevitably, in Warrington, Pennsylvania, a 20-something named Jeff Fox published the first issue of his backlash ‘zine Die Evan Dando, Die.

Two years of brutal touring for The Lemonheads followed, which Evan punctuated with some high-profile personal meltdowns on various continents that caught the imagination of a press ever eager for negative copy. Still The Lemonheads (now with Boston friends John Strohm on guitar and Murph on drums) managed to crank out a defiant 1996 release Car Button Cloth, with some of their best melodic pop/punk to date: “It”s All True”, “If I Could Talk I”d Tell You”, and “Tenderfoot”. After a year promoting the record, Dando announced at the 1997 Reading Festival that he was disbanding The Lemonheads. Atlantic released a Best of The Lemonheads album in 1998, and a lot of geezers surmised that that was that.

“I just decided to duck out for a while”, explains Dando of his self-imposed exile from the scene. “I didn’t have it in me. It took until I met my wife in 1998 until I got back into making music.” That would be Elizabeth Moses, Newcastle-born English supermodel and musician. Once married in 2000, Dando started to come alive again like Frampton, first with a 2001 live album Live at the Brattle Theater/Griffith Sunset, and then in 2003 with a well-received solo LP, Baby I”m Bored.

In 2004 Evan Dando found himself fronting the MC5, the most incendiary rock band of 1960s America, as lead vocalist in a 41-show tour. And it was hard to miss Dando during 2005 and early 2006, as he toured widely in North America and Europe with various bass players (Juliana Hatfield and Josh Lattanzi) and drummers (Bill Stevenson, Chris Brokaw from Come, George Berz of Dinosaur Jr), and occasionally as a one man electrical wrecking crew. Memorably, in September 2005, Dando, Stevenson, and Lattanzi played two instantly sold-out shows in London as part of the Don”t Look Back series, where they rocked through It”s a Shame About Ray from start to finish.

In 2006 came The Lemonheads, released on Vagrant records and recorded with Bill Stevenson and Karl Alvarez of The Descendents. Stevenson co-produced with Dando, and wrote or co-wrote three of its eleven songs, while long-time collaborator Tom Morgan added another two. There were cameos from bassist Josh Lattanzi (“Poughkeepsie”, “Rule of Three”, “In Passing”), Garth Hudson (of The Band, who plays keyboards on “Black Gown” and “December”), and some real foot-on-monitor guitar work by Dinosaur Jr’s J. Mascis (“No Backbone”, “Steve’s Boy”).

“We started out in Jam and Buzzcocks territory,” explained Dando at the time, “We got some psyched-out country on there as well, but all of it is squarely in The Lemonheads tradition.” Following a Rhino reissue of …Ray in 2008, complete with stripped-down demos, next up for The Lemonheads was a covers LP, Varshons. The idea for the band’s new covers record was inspired by Gibby Haynes, ringmaster of the Butthole Surfers, who for years has made mixes for Dando, a longtime friend. “Making a good mix is an art, and Gibby has it down,” says Dando. “I thought it would be fun to share these songs with other people like he shared them with me. So I picked the ‘greatest hits’ from his mixes and covered them, along with a few other songs I always wanted to play.”

Varshons was produced by Haynes and features Dando along with Vess Ruhtenburg (bass) and Devon Ashley (drums). The collection is filled with strange bedfellows – from G.G. Allin to Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt and garage rockers The Green Fuz. The Lemonheads make each track their own, with help from actress Liv Tyler, singing back up on Leonard Cohen’s “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye,” and Kate Moss, who sings over the dance groove of Arling & Cameron’s “Dirty Robot,” which also features lead guitar by John Perry on loan from The Only Ones.

Varshons unearths a pair of psychedelic treasures with “Yesterlove” – a song recorded in 1969 by the group Sam Gopal featuring future Motorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister – and “Dandelion Seeds” from July, record collector’s Registered Landmark Band. For “Layin’ Up With Linda,” the band filters Allin’s cold-blooded tale through the swaggering country-honk of The Stones’ “Dead Flowers.”

Filled with obscure nuggets, the tracks on Varshons cut a wide swath, jumping from early British psychedelic to Dutch electronica and like all good mix tapes, you never know what is coming next.

http://www.thelemonheads.net/

Lee Mirabai Harrington

Kirtan and Healing Mantras–An Experiential, Musical, Self-Healing Practice

Class Description:

“Mantra” translates as “mind-protection” or “mind-training. Please join acclaimed mantra musician Lee Mirabai Harrington for an evening of kirtan and healing mantras. Through the recitation of sacred syllables, divine Names and Tibetan medical mantras, we can align ourselves with divine energies and achieve a state of unity, oneness, transformation and inner peace. Kirtan music is participatory call-and-response chanting that cultivates a state of oneness and joy. Chanting helps reduce stress, open the heart, and connect with your authentic self. No experience required and all ages welcome. You don’t need to be a singer to participate–just bring your curiosity, your open minds and your heart.

Bio:

Hailed as “one of the best kept secrets in the chant world,” internationally acclaimed vocalist Lee (Mirabai) Harrington leads chants from the Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh traditions. For decades, she has explored how these combinations of practices and teachings can enrich the body, mind and spirit. With a musical background in Classical Indian Vocals, rock and gospel, Lee loves to lead high-spirited, uptempo kirtans, combining the metta and wisdom energies of Buddhist mantras with the heart-opening euphoria of the devotional Bhakti tradition. Her kirtans are deep and profoundly healing. It’s an opportunity to really discover one’s own basic goodness, which exists in each one of us. Lee’s critically-acclaimed album of mantra music, “BEYOND THE BEYOND: A MANTRA MUSIC EXPERIENCE” was released in 2016 with Spirit Voyage Records and placed on several “best of” conscious music lists. A student of His Holiness Karmapa, she is currently working on a second album of Buddhist mantra music with California producer Ben Leinbach.

Lee Mirabai Harrington Mantra Music

https://leeharringtonmantramusic.com/

mirabaimantra@gmail.com

8453997184

PO Box 1250

Woodstock, NY 12498