Christine Lavin is a New York City based singer, songwriter, and promoter of contemporary folk music. She has recorded numerous solo albums, and has also recorded with other female folk artists under the name Four Bitchin' Babes. She has also put together several compilation albums of contemporary folk artists, including On a Winter's Night. City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - Land - Water 1,214. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... The Four Bitchin Babes is a well-known group of singer-songwriters working mostly in the folk genre. ...
She is known for her sense of humor, which is expressed in both her music and her onstage performances. Many of her songs alternate between emotional reflections on romance and outright comedy. Two of her more famous songs include Sensitive New Age Guys and Bald Headed Men.
In her youth, Lavin was a Cheerleader and she still has impressive baton-twirling skills; she often ends a concert by twirling a glow-in-the-dark Baton with the house lights turned off as she leaves the stage. Cheerleading is recreational activity and sometimes competitive sport involving organised routines including elements of dance and gymnastics to encourage crowds to cheer on sports teams. ... Baton is the name of one of two leaders of the Illyrian uprising against the Romans in Pannonia in 6 AD. The term baton refers to any of several types of cylindrical or tapered instruments composed of a wide variety of materials, and of differing functions: A baton (billy, billy...
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I Was in Love With a Difficult Man (Redwing, 2002)
Lavin, consisting of songs that are all “little stories that come from real life,” as she describes them, adding “I wish I could make things up out of thin air, but I can’t.” While other musicians were added in a regular recording studio to the tracks Ms.
Lavin was participating in a membership drive, and had just sung her latest song, which had yet to be given a title, on the air.
Lavin writes that the only college course in which she ever received a “D” was astronomy, and she tries to make it up with this well-researched song.
Christine created, directed, produced, and taught performance courses at the "Martha's Vineyard Singer /Songwriters' Retreat"; two, month-long events that gathered thirty American songwriters on that island to meet, collaborate, and record new material in September of 1992 and 1993.
In her free time Christine writes essays and articles (The Washington Post, The St. Petersburg Times, Delta "Sky" Magazine, The Performing Songwriter Magazine) and was the host and now guest host for the popular "Sunday Breakfast" radio program on WFUV 90.7 FM, public radio, from Fordham University in New York City.
ChristineLavin describes her local firehouse on the Upper West Side of New York, and how the mood changed from hope to despair as it became obvious that there were almost no survivors.
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