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  • Victoria Lavington Fundraiser at Christopher Street Coffeehouse

    Almost two years ago, I discovered a duo named Sweet Bitters. Since then, we’ve seen them perform a number of times and have become friendly with both Sharon Goldman and Nina Schmir (also known as Nina Soka). For many years (at least nine I believe), Sharon has been a member of a female […]

  • Vienna Teng, Alex Wong and Glen Phillips at Workplay

    This post is a day late because we didn’t complete the trifecta and follow Vienna Teng and Alex Wong to Louisiana. Instead, we kept our word and drove home from Birmingham, AL, a trip that took a day and a half of driving. On Thursday, we drove from Atlanta to Birmingham to catch […]

  • Vienna Teng, Alex Wong and Glen Phillips at Variety Playhouse

    We are huge fans of Vienna Teng and Alex Wong. I’ve written about them together and separately many times. You can read the original one about the two of them together here. We were in Florida visiting my folks for the past few days and heading back to NY yesterday. When planning the […]

  • Susan Werner at The First Unitarian Society of Westchester

    We must have been living under a rock for a very long time, because Susan Werner is exactly the kind of singer/songwriter that we love, and Lois is particularly good at finding them. On September 20th, 2009 we saw Red Molly at Joe’s Pub and they closed the show with an a cappella […]

  • New York Sings for Haiti

    On most days even compassionate people go about their lives in a near bubble-like existence. The problems of the rest of the world aren’t one’s first thought. Unfortunately, it often takes a tragedy to break us out of that routine and remind us that we are dramatically more alike than we are different, […]

  • ambeR Rubarth, Ian Axel, Greg Holden and Joey Ryan at Tin Angel

    ambeR Rubarth is very good about disseminating information about upcoming shows once they’re set. When she tweeted a couple of months ago that she would be appearing in Philadelphia at Tin Angel with Ian Axel, Greg Holden and Joey Ryan on January 22nd, 2010, we grabbed tickets. A month later ambeR announced that […]

  • Vienna Teng at Rockwood Music Hall

    We’ve been up later than normal this past week, including one 2am night. It was all great, but at our age, it takes its toll. 😉 We were looking forward to vegging this weekend so we headed to the house on Thursday evening with the intention of not emerging from our cocoon for […]

  • Alex Berger and The Bowmans at Living Room

    We weren’t scheduled to be in NYC last night. When we ran into Alex Berger on Saturday night at City Winery and he mentioned that he was playing on Monday at The Living Room. That was all we needed to hear to rearrange our schedule and stay in the city a few extra […]

  • Vienna Teng and Alex Wong at City Winery

    I decided to label this post Vienna Teng and Alex Wong at City Winery because we specifically went to see them. They were part of a lineup in one of many Showcase performances during the 4-day APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) Conference. I’ll cover everyone who appeared on stage, which will make […]

  • Rachael Sage and Michelle Citrin at Joe’s Pub

    The world puts out breadcrumbs and we follow them. Some people don’t notice, others notice but don’t care. One of the more intense paths that we’ve followed began with Alex Berger posting a YouTube video from a concert we attended. After establishing a Twitter and Facebook relationship with Alex, we finally met in […]