Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #35 / Community TONIGHT Monday, June 21st / Campfire June 29th / Community Archives / FAR-West Teaches Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / New! FAR-West Website Events tab / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, June 21st Lockdown Lemonade #35 “How You […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #35 by Arielle Silver
How You Survive a Pandemic When it rains — when the droplets bounce in the birdbath, off the pebble-strewn bed of pooling water, rippling outward in concentric circles, each drop disrupting the rings of its predecessor — and the cat watches from its perch on the paint-chipped dining room windowsill of the home we have […]
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Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #34 / Campfire June 15th / FAR-West Teaches June 17th & Archives / Community Monday, June 21st / Campfire June 29th / Community Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / New! FAR-West Website Events tab / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, June […]
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So Far So Good The pandemic has been cruel to countless people. Compared with others I have no real complaints. My graphic business did go into a coma. But I think the pandemic is telling me to give up the ghost and retire. I have food and a roof over my head. My music life, […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #33 by Michael R.J. Roth
I’m Not Dead Yet My first thought was, “I’m too old for this.” When I retired a few years ago and decided to become a full-time singer-songwriter, I had been out of the music scene for many years. I had to start all over again, doing open mics, and re-learning all my songs, many of […]
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60 to 0 Before the lockdowns, before the quarantine, before the stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, I knew I was burning out and reaching a point in my music career where I needed to stop and think. 2019 had been an incredible year: I went to FAI in February and all the regionals, traveling from […]
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FAR-West News of the week, May 24th, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #31 / Community TONIGHT May 24th / FAR-West Teaches THIS Thursday, May 27 / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / Where to Post your Gigs / FAR-West on Undiscovered Music Network / FAR-West on FolkWorks / Subscribe to our YouTube! —- JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, May 24th Lockdown Lemonade […]
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The Silver Lining By Susie Glaze Nobody would have wanted to bring on a global pandemic so that we would develop innovations in almost everything we do, connecting dots where, we were jolted to realize, a lot of the dots had disappeared. We had to find new ways of doing things. And find them we […]
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Planes, trains, automobiles and… MUSIC! I made career decisions long before I was equipped to gauge the meaning of them. I had nearly infinite interests during childhood, with parents both amazingly supportive, yet rarely directive… Today, a clear result is that when a stranger asks what I do for a living, my fast and flip […]
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FAR-West Teaches with Laurel Thomsen and Susie Glaze “Virtual Teaching for Success”
FAR-West Teaches with Laurel Thomsen and Susie Glaze “Virtual Teaching for Success” Thursday, May 27 / 2pm PDT Watch the video here https://youtu.be/FpiE5TJ_Fow For the next episode of our popular “FAR-West Teaches” series, FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region West) is proud to present “Virtual Teaching for Success”, on May 27th at 2 PM PDT, featuring […]
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