How I Spent My Covid “Vacation” Before Lockdown, I spent much of my time hanging with my tribe at music shows; either on stage, as a singer-songwriter; or in the audience, as a photographer. With music show venues closing due to the Lockdown, I had nowhere to sing, and no folks to photograph. So, Gigs […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #16 by deb Ewing
Don’t Come Over My parents locked down before the nation did. “Don’t come over,” my sweet momma said. That was in February, just before her birthday. By the end of March, I could feel the encroachment of COVID across the nation; I watched the news carefully to see if I’d have to cancel travel plans […]
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FAR-WEST VIRTUALLY at the FAI CONFERENCE ~ MONDAY-THURSDAY, FEB 22-25, 2021
FOLK ALLIANCE REGION – WEST (FAR-WEST) VIRTUALLY AT THE FAI (FOLK ALLIANCE) CONFERENCE ~ MONDAY-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22-25, 2021 Watch the full re-broadcast playlist of FAR-West’s Folk Unlocked here. As winter storms blanket parts of the country in snow and ice, many in the FAR-West Region have been reminiscing about the warmth of hanging out […]
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The Gift of Time This pandemic has resonated across all borders, social, economic, spiritual and personal. As we are all aware, it has simply put the brakes on everything that we have come to know as normal. Staying home for a road warrior like me could have been a depressing and disheartening experience, unless viewed […]
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FAR-West Teaches: “Stream Now, No Waiting” with Dan Navarro
The archive of FAR-West Teaches: “Stream Now, No Waiting” with Dan Navarro (Part 1) is now available for viewing! Co-Hosts: Joel Tepp & Julie Maxey Zipperer Video Edited: John Zipperer Music https://youtu.be/FmmE56288FI Live streaming is here to stay, not just as a substitute for in person shows, but as an effective way to connect with and grow […]
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You Musicians Saved Me I am not a musician. But you musicians have saved me during this pandemic. I’m a fan of music and especially enjoyed going to listening venues to hear live performances. Every weekend I’d typically have 1, 2 or 3 events to choose from within traveling distance. Facing the difficult choices. And […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #13 by Pat Nason
Always Be Ready We were five or six weeks into the lockdown when it crossed my mind that the all-clear might arrive suddenly, with little notice. I posted something to that effect, suggesting that we all need to be ready for that. A smart aleck friend replied: “Yeah? How, exactly? What are you doing to […]
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The Key to Going Global: Never Leaving Home I just checked our battered old 2019 wall calendar: that year, I played 174 gigs. Many Petty Chavez shows, of course, but also Irish bar gigs, fiddle band shows, events with our five piece British Invasion cover band, acoustic duo gigs, solo shows, etc. I even played […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #11 by Gary Paul
Creativity Rechanneled For the past several years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with music. Since I was five, I’ve given it my heart. I’ve poured my soul into writing narrative story songs for 20 years, winning several awards and producing two CDs, but with little else to show for it. In 2019, I was finally […]
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Cocooning As I sit down to write this on a sunny SoCal Autumn afternoon, after a morning walk on the beach, a strong sense of change and flow still feels fresh. Perhaps, months ago, like many in the FAR-West community, I had hoped by now we could be coming out of the pandemic. I had […]
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