Winterize Your Voice: Voice Health in Winter Months By FAR-West President, Susie Glaze Happy New Year! I hope this month’s Lemonade Stand finds you all in good health, and that you’re getting out there to make music and engage in your community! I want to thank you all for your continued support of FAR-West, and […]
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The Lemonade Stand for December 15, 2022 From “Lockdown” to “Stand” By Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band After playing during the lockdown with friends on live-stream Facebook and YouTube “shows” every week, by 2021 we were ready to play in front of a live audience! But Covid was still a presence in LA, […]
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LOCK DOWN LEMONADE – TWO YEARS LATER By Gary Stockdale The fabulously talented Susie Glaze asked me (and, I’m guessing, many of you as well) to write another Lockdown Lemonade column, about how we’re “transitioning (our) music and life out of pandemic world and being creative.” When the pandemic hit it was obvious that […]
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“Is it Possible to be a Visionary with No Plan at all?” By Bruce Hayden Dale Barcellos is a friend who asked a question on his Facebook page last week: “Is it Possible to be a visionary with no plan at all?” I wrote a reply which I haven’t as yet posted regarding one of […]
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LIVE Lemonade! By Gail Dreifus After two years of keeping my passion, Yosemite Songwriting Retreat, going on Zoom for four retreats, we will be LIVE in October! Although I was getting used to seeing and hearing people in their “Zoom box,” I am excited to be live (although a little cautious) for our tenth anniversary […]
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Welcome to the Lemonade Stand! Coming Soon! Watch this space for the upcoming launch of the new monthly blog from the FAR-West Community. This space will be the place for the reconstituted lemonade (formerly known as the “Lockdown Lemonade“) of ideas, trends and stories from our FAR-West membership and beyond, writing monthly pieces of 300 […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #60 by Storm
Gratitude for the Zoomiverse I am grateful for Zoom. It has no doubt been a major contributor to keeping me sane and physically here. I live a fairly isolated existence, with a number of medical issues and physical limitations without a car or much money or resources, yet through Zoom I can and have shared my songs, poetry, prayers, […]
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Letting Go to Make a Difference I became redundant at my corporate job shortly before the quarantine hit. In my case, it simply moved our 5-year plan up a bit. My spouse is a private music instructor. Due to the pandemic, he moved his business online and began working from home. At the end of […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #58- Special Thanksgiving Gratitude Edition
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING GRATITUDE EDITION I feel grateful to live where I live (on a cherimoya ranch) and to do work (psychotherapy) that makes a difference in the lives of other people. I feel grateful for the communities I am a part of — that, though hampered by not being able to gather in person, have […]
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So Many Songs The first six months of the pandemic were a mix of “What am I going to do?” and “Oh shit, what just happened?” It wasn’t until the beginning of 2021 that I learned to relax enough to let the songs flow. Also in February 2021 I released my new CD, Overdue, which […]
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