2020 is a very special year when it comes to Giving Tuesday. The entire arts community has been strongly affected by COVID. Venues are closed, musicians, artists, dancers, stagehands are out of work. This Winter looks to be an enhanced challenge as surging cases, weather, new closings, expiring unemployment benefits and eviction relief all combine […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #6- by Brett Perkins
Lessons Taught By 2020 2020 was to be my biggest year yet, with the launch of two additional songwriter festivals in Italy and Ireland. Then Covid struck, and every project fell in slow succession like socially distant dominos… March 15-21 Tuscany Retreat & Festival CANCELLED. June 3-10 Idyllwild Retreat & Festival CANCELLED. August 24-30 Copenhagen […]
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Lockdown Lemonade Thanksgiving Grateful Edition: https://far-west.org/a-special-thanksgiving-edition-of-lockdown-lemonade/ FAR-West Spotify Thanksgiving Edition: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3bGQq0f2vX1cmtiCYQvPRe FAR-West Positive Jukebox: https://www.reverbnation.com/farwest Don’t Forget to check out all Previously Published Lockdown Lemonade Posts at: https://far-west.org/lockdown-lemonade/ with blogs from Julie Zipperer, Susie Glaze, Tracy Newman, Brad Colerick, and Art Podell. For guidelines and submission, please contact Julie Zipperer at maxeyzip@me.com The FAR-West Positive […]
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A special Thanksgiving Edition of Lockdown Lemonade…
A special Thanksgiving Edition of Lockdown Lemonade… After 9 years of being homefree, I am grateful to finally have my own roof over my head again surrounded by my things here in my apartment in Oakland, CA. By divine grace, this place became available right when I really needed it after the shelter-in-place order and […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #5- by Julie Zipperer
I have never been so grateful for my iPhone, Steve Jobs and Zoom Before the lockdown, it seemed my family and I only got together once a year on the beach in Sarasota. In March when the lockdown hit, we all started meeting on zoom. And I mean all, from my immediate family, Mom, Dad, […]
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Send Us A Song or Story for our Positive Jukebox!
*A Request for Positive Music* One of the components of the FAR-West website is the FAR-West Jukebox. In years when we would gather in person, we would ask conference attendees to send a song to be heard on our Jukebox. We have started to add positive songs from some of our members including the song […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #4- The Spare Room by Susie Glaze
The Spare Room It sat there, unnoticed and taken for granted since the renovation relegated it to pass-through territory. It wasn’t a destination anymore, just a glorified hallway. Until a small miracle happened. I remember what the little room was like when we first saw the house, full of electronic equipment that didn’t match its old-world […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #3- My Lockdown Experience by Tracy Newman
My Lockdown Experience At the beginning of the COVID 19 lockdown, I assumed I would write a lot of songs, learn new guitar licks, practice, finish my book, clean and organize my house, etc. Instead, I stopped doing pretty much everything. I lost all motivation. Now, what is it, 8 months into this? Well, in […]
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Disruption, Innovation, Death and Survival My entire life I’ve been constantly reinventing and reinvigorating my career. Being creative, innovative, and persistent-as-hell has allowed me to move forward. So this complete meltdown of the musical ‘life as we knew it,’ was just another challenge on this rocky career path I chose — albeit a big one. […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #1- “Shh…They might hear me…” by Art Podell
Shh…they might hear me. I mean, I’m sure they are listening to everything that goes on here. It’s amazing how they were able to duplicate our house to the letter of perfection. The house, the neighborhood, all of it. It goes to show you what an advanced civilization can do. Truly amazing. Right now, all […]
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