This is an exciting lineup and a great cause. I’ve been volunteering for the Alameda County Food Bank through various organizations for over a decade. Things are getting tough out there for a lot of people and the Food Banks are feeling it. Here is one way to provide support for families in need over the holidays. All you have to do is show up and enjoy some really finely crafted, well-honed, local music.
So… “The original concept was to feature sidewalk street performers – hence the title of the series,” says Lee. “The early seasons presented dancers, fashion designers, cultural performers, independent filmmakers, magicians, other artistic and novelty acts, and rising musical talents.”
So you can likely see why I was so excited to have been interviewed at Sidewalks.tv….
Sidewalks is a regional show situated in the Bay Area, but it has a wide and colorful roster of local and global celebrities, giving this humble, local gem a broader experience. I am enamored that a show with such humble and varied artistic roots has continued its mission to capture the creative experiences of the artists we love.
I’m not usually supposed to say things like this but I’m a proud local bitch and these people have been extraordinarily sinficant contributors to my musical journey in the Bay Area so here it is: Cindy Rhodes and her husband Ray Alvarado have not only been my champions for many years, they have been the champions of so many musicians and artists in the Bay. Whether it’s behind the camera or up in your face asking you all the intimate questions about your life and career, they have been there every precarious and precocious step of the way. I love this team and these people. And I love the Bay Area arts and music scene. And this is a very proud moment for me. <3
Check out my conversation with Cindy Rhodes and check out Sidewalks.Tv for more interviews with artists from all corners of entertainment.
My friend Sara is having a birthday concert in her backyard (and YOU are invited)!
The deets:
Doors to the backyard will open at 5:00pm on Saturday, June 14, and the music will start at 6:00. There will be two one-hour sets with a 15-30 minute break in between. Feel free to bring any snacks/drinks to share (or just for you!). Tickets are sliding scale, $20-40 (or more, if you really like to support artists!) and there may be some available at the door, too. I’ll have some chairs and pillows set up, but feel free to bring anything else that will make you comfortable. Please be mindful and respectful of neighbors, and I can’t wait to have you join as we bring together sweet community with sweet music!
Here’s a little Maddy, if you’re not familiar (she’s amaaaaaazing): https://www.madelinetasquin.com/
Madeline Tasquin is an artist of the in-between — composing from the liminal space where grief meets beauty, where ancestral ache meets quantum physics, where the olive grove burns and the calendula blooms. Her new body of work lives in the superpositionality of it all — between the rational and the mysterious, the garden and the war zone, the hymn and the scream. Wordplay and raw testimony. Art-pop and folk. Poetry and fart jokes. A tapestry of harmonic entanglement stitched from complexity, tenderness, and the nerve to stay with what hurts.
“I am one little door in a great portal opening.” — Superposition
GET TICKETS HERE: https://lu.ma/j54rqixg
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Come on out all ye SouthBay loves! Can’t wait to share songs with these amazing artists.
This event is in support of some serious future stakes. Invest in musical education and you are, quite literally, saving our sacred souls. Not to be too histrionic about it, but these are tryin’ times.
Just thought I’d drop a wee post to keep you in the loop about the progress on The Haunted Album.
This is the part of the recording process that is the most challenging for me because I have so little understanding of what goes into making a killer mix. I know how to sit behind a microphone and sing and pluck some strings into a soundboard. But, after that, it’s pretty much a smoke and mirrors show to me.
I have been receiving some preliminary mixes for these songs and, honestly, I can’t stop listening to them. The folks at Plaiddog Recording certainly know what they are doing, and this is the part where all I need to do is breathe, be patient, and sit on my hands.
It’s not easy. I want to share these songs with you SO BADLY. But I also understand that making something with intention and finesse takes a lot of meticulous and patient steps.
I can tell you that the magic is real, I just can’t explain it. Kind of like witnessing a really good card trick or slight of hand.
