Mayan Dawn / Winter Solstice

Isn't it fun to be at a moment when so many of us are looking at the world ending and not ending and continuing and re-turning? Exciting! A good correction to the narrow (though scary) "fiscal cliff" frame. Wealth is here for all of us in so many ways would we only lay our collective hands on it. 

Somehow this makes me envision a sea of French toast and getting one's fingers all sticky with maple syrup!

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Three Radio Interviews This Week: KKUP, KPFA, & KCSM

Check out the 3 radio interviews coming up this week celebrating my show Sat. 12/8/12 8 p.m. at Musically Minded Academy as part of the Celebrating Women Musicians series — a nonsectarian holiday gig with Alan Hall, Ben Flint, and Fred Randolph. You can call in to KKUP and KPFA to win tickets!

Tues. 11/27/12, 5:20 p.m.
Bajaba on JazzLine with Afrikahn Jahmal Dayvs
KKUP Cupertino 91.5 AM
Listen and call for ticket giveaways for my show 12/8/12

Tues. 11/27/12, 9:30 p.m.
Bebop, Cubop & the Musical Truth with Avotcja
KPFA Berkeley 94.1 FM - www.kpfa.org
Listen and call for ticket giveaways for my show 12/8/12

Sun. 12/2/12, 9:30 p.m.
Jazz Sessions with Harry Richard Hall
KCSM San Mateo 91.1 FM - www.kcsm.org

Details on the gig: 

Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) ~ Songs for Chanukah, Christmas and the Solstice

Saturday 12/8/2012  8:00 – 10 p.m.

Singer and poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and her Holiday Trio perform a diverse mix of songs celebrating  Chanukah, Christmas, and the Solstice.

With Ben Flint, keyboards, Fred Randolph, bass, and Alan Hall, drums.

 

Musically Minded Academy

5776 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94618

(510) 601-5700
http://www.musicallyminded.com/
 
General $15 door/$12 advance, students/seniors $12 door/$8 advance

Advance sales until Dec. 8: http://lisabchanukah-eorg.eventbrite.com/  or google “Lisa B Chanukah December 8” (spell “Chanukah”)

About my 2011 holiday CD, DJ and critic response included this:

“Can’t thank you enough for sending your new holiday record. It is wonderful and we are thrilled to be able to add it to our rotation. Your cover of the Matisyahu song is brilliant. Always happy to support your music.”- Eric Cohen, Music Director, WAER, Syracuse, NY, multiple-time National Jazz Programmer of the Year

“Vibrant, diverse... courageous… an energy that is enchanting.” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Should be playing in hipper households over the next few months. Tasty throughout.” - Midwest Record

“An ambitious undertaking… Ms. Bernstein’s energy is so palpable –- you can’t help but be drawn in… highly recommended.”  – Girlsingers.org

New Website! Lisabintuitive.com

Please check out the new website about my services as an intuitive reader, healer, and coach! I've been providing clairvoyant readings, healings, and coaching in hundreds of sessions since 1993, usually by phone. Go here to learn more: www.lisabintuitive.com.

I also have started a companion blog there. Topics so far range from astral travel in dreams to how our fervor to rid ourselves of bacteria is promoting diabetes.

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Poetry Reading for "Journey to the World," 6/1/11

 Enjoy these adorable pictures of second-graders from Anna Yates Elementary School in Emeryville, Calif., reading at nearby Barnes & Noble on 6/1/11 from their new poetry anthology, "Journey to the World." I edited the book; publication was funded by environmental consultants Weiss Associates.   

I taught these students poetry-writing weekly as a volunteer for two school years, second and third grade, with their fabulous teacher Emily Brunick (looking very pregnant in these shots) often writing poems along with the kids. I started every class saying, "Hi, poets!" I'm hoping they continue to think of themselves as poets for many years to come.

Get the book on Amazon: all proceeds benefit student activities - such as the camping trip the following year by these students, many of whom had never spent time in nature. http://www.amazon.com/Journey-World-Second-Graders-Elementary-School/dp/0578081989

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg from 1964: What A Treat

Saw the restored original "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" on DVD last night with the incomparable very young Catherine Deneuve and all dialogue SUNG to challenging (effortlessly delivered) melodies and score by Michel Legrand. Very hip and brighter than those little hearts we used to give at Valentine's Day. It was an early 60s French fable wrapped up in a jazzy-chamber opera musical package. Check it out.
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