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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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 […]
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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, […]
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. […]
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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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