Rose Street Music: News/Events

 

Sunday, 2/26, 7pm

Jane Selkye with Springhouse plus surprise guest

at Rose Street House of Music
http://www.rosestreetmusic.com

1839 Rose Street, Berkeley

No fragrances please

Chris Kee, Jane Selkye and David Phillips, Springhouse, roam the Americana borderlands, from artsong to the roadhouse and places in between.http://www.thespringhouse.net

“Though most known for his role as bassist and songwriterfor Bay Area powerhouse Houston Jones, Chris Kee [brings us his] Americanatrio Springhouse. His wife, Jane Selkye’s ethereal vocals lift the band’s acoustic soundscapes to great heights, while pedal steelguitar virtuoso David Phillips—who has worked with the likes of Tom Waits and Charlie Hunter—displays finger-picking mastery, and Kee maintains a steady bassline on the group’s original songs.”  Santa Cruz Sentinel

About Rose Street:Rose Street House of Music is a house concert & touring musical community bringing out women's voices through original poetic music of substance & depth. All genders are welcome as audience, volunteers, concert-hosts, & back-up musicians for the artists we feature

 

 

Wednesday, November 30th
Rise Up & Dance
PAM & JERI (OF BLAME SALLY), ANDREA PRICHETT (OF REBECCA RIOTS), GREEN&ROOT, IRINA RIVKIN, MICHELLE LEVY & JIM OAKDEN (of String Fire), KAREN SOOHOO, CARRIE GERENDASY (of Average Dyke Band), KATE KILBANE & THE CELLAR DOORS and SPECIAL GUESTS
Doors at 7:00 pm; Show at 8:00 pm
Night-club two step & Waltz lessons at 7:30 pm
$8-$20 Sliding

Some of the Bay Area’s best-known women musicians come together in Rise Up & Dance, a concert and dance party to support and benefit Laney College's CalWORKs, a program that helps families rise from poverty to careers through community college education. Performers will be playing together and in various combinations, and include Irina Rivkin, Pam & Jeri of Blame Sally, Andrea Prichett of Rebecca Riots, Green & Root, Carrie Gerendasy of Average Dyke Band, Karen Soo Hoo, Michelle Levy & Jim Oakden of String Fire, Kate Kilbane and the Cellar Doors, and special guests. Rise Up & Dance is open to all, whether you like partner dances such as West Coast swing, nightclub two-step, country-western two-step, Argentine tango, or just want to boogie, or sit down and enjoy the show. www.rosestreetmusic.com
Rise Up & Dance is organized by singer-songwriter Irina Rivkin, founder of Rose Street House of Music, a living room concert hall supporting women musicians. The lineup features an array of talent. Andrea Prichett is a founding member of Rebecca Riots, the ‘90s trio who inspired many young women to pick up guitars and sing from their hearts. Prichett performs some Riots favorites and some of her own topical and social justice songs.
www.rebeccariots.com
The duo Green & Root also point to the Riots as inspiration. Formed in 1999, they have written and performed together on record -- their CD “Down That Road” – and at concerts and festivals up and down the West Coast and Hawaii. Green was inspired by Prichett and Rebecca Riots to set up Berkeley’s FolkDiva performing and recording collective of women musicians. http://www.greenandroot.com
Of Russian Jewish parentage, OutMusic awardee Irina Rivkin has mixed her ancestral folk traditions with contemporary singer-songwriter settings. Referring to Prichett’s Rebecca Riots, Rivkin says, “When I hear them, I feel that music can change the world.” Rivkin's performance includes live-on-the-spot vocal arrangements, swirling vocal percussive beats, & textured interweaving harmony that she creates onstage using a loop station instrument. Michael Dougan in the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that Rivkin “performs her own breathtaking act as a ‘live one-woman choir’ (using digital looping technology to astonishing effect).”
www.irinarivkin.com and www.youtube.com/irinarivkin (live performance video)

Pam Delgado and Jeri Jones, founding members of the rising Indie Americana band Blame Sally, have become an underground phenomena in the San Francisco Bay Area. These two accomplished instrumentalist/singers combine strikingly different approaches to create a distinct and compelling sound. Their original songs have had national airplay including feature and rotation on San Francisco’s KFOG and Starbucks XM Cafe.
www.blamesally.com
Carrie Gerendasy of Ashkenaz favorite Average Dyke Band does a solo spot, high energy folk with her stellar vocals accompanied by fancy guitarwork.
http://www.carriegerendasy.com/
San Francisco bassist-singer Kate Kilbane writes and sings jazz-soul infused rock of often epic sweep in her inspiring songs about the lives of ancient Greek women including Philomela, Procne and Medea. She and her band the Cellar Doors are recording a rock opera based on the story of Medea.
www.katekilbane.com
Hailing from Texas and now living in the Bay Area, Karen Soo Hoo sings and plays guitar. Her original music has often been described as a "mosaic of sound." She serves a tasty blend from jazzy pop to bluesy rock. Soo Hoo was a grant recipient from the Asian American Arts Foundation & philanthropist S. Kneisley.
www.reverbnation.com/KarenSooHoo
From the contra dance band String Fire, Michelle Levy and Jim Oakden play dance-oriented tangos, waltzes and Celtic fare. Levy has been performing on and exploring the possibilities of bowed string instruments for more than 20 years. She studied classical viola & Old Timey fiddle and banjo at Brown University. She studies in Medieval performance practice on vielle with Shira Kammen and with members of Sequentia at the Vancouver Medieval Programme while performing throughout the country with an eclectic variety of ensembles and vocalists, from Celtic to Algerian Amazigh (Berber) with Moh Alileche.
http://www.michellevielle.com

Rose Street House of Music, a Berkeley house concert featuring women singer/songwriters, kicks off our 2011-12 concert series...

Friday, October 14, 8pm

Irina Rivkin & Kate Kilbane, + Rachel Bockover opening
at Rose Street House of Music

http://www.rosestreetmusic.com 1839 Rose Street, Berkeley
No fragrances please

About the artists:

Kate Kilbane (http://www.listn.to/katekilbane)

Imagine Fiona Apple and Sting wrote a rock opera based on ancient Greek tragedy: this is the sound of kate kilbane & the cellar doors. A bassist, singer and self-ascribed literary geek, kate kilbane and her band use jazz and soul-infused rock to retell stories of Philomela, Procne, Medea—ancient Greek women whose narratives still captivate audiences today.
"kate kilbane delivers a raw, passionate sound that’s gritty and seductive..." - postcardsfromsf.com

Irina Rivkin (http://www.irinarivkin.com and live performance video at http://www.youtube.com/irinarivkin)
Outmusic Awardee Irina Rivkin’s compelling, powerful songs blend jazzy folk & rhythmic world music, with an all-original sound influenced by her Russian heritage. She layers her poetic lyrics with rich textured harmonies, swirling with vocal percussive beats, all created live on-the-spot using her loop station instrument.
Rivkin “performs her own breathtaking act as a ‘live one-woman choir’ (using digital looping technology to astonishing effect)” Michael Dougan, SF Chronicle

Rachel Bockover (www.rachelbockover.com)
"Rachel's music brings together her years of musical experience, empowering her soulful balladry with a perspective that is all her own."- DJ Passive theory, The Rising Tide on KZSC

About Rose Street:
Rose Street House of Music is a house concert & touring musical community bringing out women's voices through original poetic music of substance & depth. All genders are welcome as audience, volunteers, concert-hosts, & back-up musicians for the artists we feature

 

Saturday, September 10, Rose Street founder and live-looping OutMusic Awardee Irina Rivkin featured at

 WORKS  IN  PROGRESS

Fireside Room, Plymouth United Church of Christ , 424 Monte Vista,  Oakland                                                   

Saturday, September 10, 6:30-10:30 pm

Featuring: Irina Rivkin  – Original old-world OutMusic Awardee layers poetic lyrics, rich textured harmonies and vocal beats, all created on-stage through live-looping.  Her compelling, powerful songs blend jazzy folk & rhythmic world music with an all-original sound.  www.irinarivkin.com.

                  and

 Delaney Henderson - Living in the bay area for over 30 years, writing and doing visual art, she has focused on fiction and memoir writing for the past couple of years.  Her published novel 'the Travelers' is about hashish smuggling from Morocco .  She is polishing a memoir about living with her lesbian mother in France when she was thirteen.

 JAN STECKEL AND JULIA VINOGRAD WILL ALSO SHARE THEIR POETRY!  (Come share in the magic!!)

 $7 - $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of five $25 certificates to a local restaurant.   Free CDs, DVDs, and books.  Come early to pick your favorites.

6:30 – 7:30    Pot Luck --– Bring your favorite dish to share.

7:30 - 10:30   Performance, Fireside Room

 Hosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser, Produced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser.   For information, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com.

 Works In Progress is a creative space for women's art:  Poets, Musicians, Comediennes, and Performance Artists.  All are encouraged to share their works, completed or evolving.   WIP is scent free and wheelchair accessible.

 

On tour in Alaska, including this house concert...

*Sunday, June 12*
House concert with live-looping "one-woman-choir" Irina Rivkin, on tour from Berkeley CA
Local folksinger-songwriter Inna opens the show

7pm (potluck at 6pm)

Goldstream Valley area of Fairbanks
For address/directions/RSVP, please email idrivkin@alaska.edu, or call 455-6947 (between 10 am and 10 pm).

All are welcome!

Concert is followed by a short participative live-looping activity for audience members who wish to hear their own voices/instruments live-looped!

$8-15 sliding scale donation helps cover tour costs

About the music:
http://www.youtube.com/irinarivkin (live concert video)
http://www.sonicbids.com/irinarivkin
www.irinarivkin.com

Outmusic Awards Recipient, top-10 winner in the Indiegrrl Songwriting Contest, & founder of Rose Street House of Music, Irina Rivkin's compelling, powerful, poetic songs blend elements of folk & world music, with an all-original sound influenced by her Russian heritage. Irina layers her poetic lyrics with rich textured harmonies, swirling with vocal percussive beats, all created live on-the-spot using her loop station instrument. Her CD "upwelling" has received airplay on over 100 radio programs.

"Bobby McFerrin reminds me of you" [Bodhi Goforth, house concert co-producer]

Rivkin "performs her own breathtaking act as a "live one-woman choir" (using digital looping technology to astonishing effect)" Michael Dougan, SF Chronicle
"rhythm & sound would pass as a Russian Sweet Honey in the Rock." [Angela Page, Sing Out! Summer 2004]

Inna (Irina's twin sister) opens and collaborates. Inna performs visually creative acoustic folk with echoes of the Alaskan wilderness.

To book future "Rose Street Harmony Tour" concerts or workshops with Irina Rivkin, please email rosestbooking(at)yahoo(dot)com or call (510) 857-7562

 

“Together we Rise” benefit for Laney College CalWORKs

Featuring live-looping singer-songwriter-beatboxer Irina Rivkin

& more artists TBA

Date TBA, late summer or early fall 2011

About the program:

LaneyWORKs helps families rise from poverty to self sufficiency through community college education.

About the music:

Rivkin “performs her own breathtaking act as a ‘live one-woman choir’ (using digital looping technology to astonishing effect)” Michael Dougan, SF Chronicle

 “jazzy & rhythmic, hot, harmony-rich vocals... rhythm & sound would pass as a Russian Sweet Honey in the Rock." {Angela Page, SING OUT!}

“Bobby McFerrin reminds me of you” Bodhi, house concert producer

see live performance video: www.youtubecom/irinarivkin 

For more info, to host a benefit, volunteer, or donate an item or certificate for the silent auction, please call 510-857-7562 or check out www.rosestreetmusic.com

A housemate is graduating and moving (we'll miss Xi), so we'll have a room for rent available at Rose Street -- for info email rosestspace (at) yahoo (dot) com

Rose Street Harmony Tour with Irina Rivkin & Jen Ambrose

Dates TBA: for info or to book a tour show email rosestreetmusic (at) yahoo (dot) com

Rose Street Harmony Tour, folk-world-harmony *live-looping OutMusic Awardee Irina Rivkin joins in collaboration with soulful singer/songwriter Jen Ambrose.

* Live-looping: Performing a multi-layered composition live, on-stage (in Irina’s case beatboxing, vocal rhythm-chords, harmonies, etc.), using a loop station instrument.
For an example of live-looping at a recent live performance, please see:
www.youtube.com/irinarivkin

About the artists:
 
Irina Rivkin, OutMusic Awards Recipient
Indiegrrl Songwriting Contest winner (2 songs in the top-7)
Music to Life Foundation Top 40 Finalist
PeaceDriven Song Contest Semi-Finalist
http://www.youtube.com/irinarivkin (live concert video)
http://www.sonicbids.com/irinarivkin (including live concert video)
www.irinarivkin.com

Outmusic Awards Recipient, top-10 winner in the Indiegrrl Songwriting Contest, & founder of Rose Street House of Music, Irina Rivkin's compelling, powerful, poetic songs blend elements of folk & world music, with an all-original sound influenced by her Russian heritage. Irina layers her poetic lyrics with rich textured harmonies, swirling with vocal percussive beats, all created live on-the-spot using her loop station instrument. Her CD “upwelling" has received airplay on over 100 radio programs. “Ya Eyo Lublu”, Irina’s “Russian-émigré-lesbian-coming-out-love-song” was included on the "Safe Haven" compilation raising funds for Portland LGBTQ youth services, along with artists such as Indigo Girls, Pamela Means, & Alix Olson.
 
“Bobby McFerrin reminds me of you” [Bodhi Goforth, house concert co-producer]

Rivkin “performs her own breathtaking act as a "live one-woman choir" (using digital looping technology to astonishing effect)” Michael Dougan, SF Chronicle

“rhythm & sound would pass as a Russian Sweet Honey in the Rock." [Angela Page, Sing Out! Summer 2004]

“Innovative and glorious! You were stunning…wow I was blown away…you are a deeply gifted woman.” [Linda Zeiser, concert producer]

“beautiful lyrical melody, the added voice over of earthy harmony, and finally the texture of beatbox all performed live with the benefit of electronic looping." [Janie Roberts, Venue Owner, Wild Janes]
 
Jen Ambrose

"Singer-songwriter Jen Ambrose is passion unleashed.  Her deeply provocative and entrancing music expresses vocal versatility and soul.  From subtle sultriness to bluesy rawness, her music dives deep into the heart of the listener with honest lyrical and melodic intensity.  Jen accompanies herself with an acoustic guitar style that ranges from driving rhythms to intricate finger and flat-picking, or with percussive djembe, or a cappella. Musical influences have included the old Delta Blues styles of the early 20th century, swing Jazz of the 30’s, classic rock of the late 60’s, Middle Eastern and Indian singing. Jen’s music has been likened to Janis Joplin and Ani DiFranco."
 Teresa Thomas - Mail Tribune Tempo - July 23, 2010
The artist's melodic originals revolve around human empowerment and creative expression.  Grants Pass artist Jen  Ambrose marries agile vocals and poetic lyrics...  While Ambrose's music dances through a variety of genres, her lyrics are based — one way or another — on human empowerment.
 www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100723/TEMPO/7230309/-1/TEMPO02

www.jenambrose.org
http://www.sonicbids.com/JenAmbrose
www.myspace.com/jenambrosemusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHv8P6bLaVA

Thursday, December 2, 8pm
Irish,  jazz and bossa nova!

Melanie O'Reilly - from Ireland!  
Celtic Jazz vocalist & Guests
Sean O Nuallain -Guitar,
John R Burr - Piano

at Rose Street House of Music
www.rosestreetmusic.com
1839 Rose Street (near MLK) Berkeley CA
Suggested donation $10-20, 5-9 for low income
No fragrances/perfume please

Named by “Downbeat” magazine as one of the most important celtic jazz artists from Ireland, Melanie O’Reilly has burst on the scene as a major innovator.  Her fusion of Irish lyricism and American jazz has won her phenomenal respect in both worlds – traditional and modern.  Introduced to jazz at age 11, she has pioneered a unique style of her own, melding it with native Irish folkways.
Tonight, she performs with guests Sean O Nuallain on guitar, and John R Burr on piano for an intimate evening of unique and spellbinding music.  Together they perform original songs, and  their crreative collaborations,   include  new material based on the Irish poet Sean O Riordan, as well as  songs that draw on Irish myth and sense of place.

 "…spellbinding... uplifting music from a true innovator…."  The Rough Guide to Irish Music)  Her most recent album, "Dust and Blood" with guitarist Sean O’Nuallain, and renowned musicians from both Ireland & USA, has received wide critical acclaim, described by the Contra Costa Times, as a "Gorgeous sound,,,,celtic cadence with a jazz sensibility".  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3Wa4SA_PA

Friday, October 8, 8pm
Amelia Hogan, Lucia Iman, and special guests

at Rose Street House of Music
www.rosestreetmusic.com
1839 Rose Street (near MLK) Berkeley CA
Suggested donation $10-20, 5-9 for low income
No fragrances/perfume please

Amelia Hogan, celtic/irish singer/songwriter
http://www.myspace.com/ameliaisaverb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFU1uvq8HY4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzNk2OnQ6CM.


Lucia Iman: http://www.luciaiman.net/
"Lucia has delivered an achingly beautiful album. Malcolm Burn (producer) has done an incredible job of sensitively capturing her songs and alongside Lucia has kind of created an almost luxurious atmosphere of musical velvet. Lucia has delivered stunning vocal performances throughout, the songs have real depth that will demand listening to over and over again."-Daniel Ward Murphy, 50K Magazine

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Saturday, September 11, 6:30 to 10 pm
Irina Rivkin and Elaine Beale featured

Fireside Room, Plymouth United Church of Christ, 424 Monte Vista, (corner of Oakland Ave), Oakland/Piedmont. The driveway on Monte Vista goes to the parking lot & wheelchair access to the Fireside Room.


Featuring: Irina Rivkin: Original old-world OutMusic Awardee layers poetic lyrics, rich textured harmonies and vocal beats, all created on-stage through live-looping. Her compelling, powerful songs blend jazzy folk & rhythmic world music with an all-original sound influenced by her Russian heritage. www.irinarivkin. com. "rhythm & sound would pass as a Russian Sweet Honey in the Rock." Angela Page, Sing Out!
www.youtube.com/irinarivkin www.sonicbids.com/irinarivkin

and featuring Elaine Beale - Elaine’s latest novel, Another Life Altogether, has received praise from The Boston Globe, Publisher’s Weekly, Lambda Literary, Curve Magazine, and The Bay Area Reporter. It was recommended by Oprah and More Magazines. Elaine is the winner of the 2007 Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Award. Originally from the UK, she lives in Oakland, CA.

Also performing: eight other talented lesbians!!

$7-$10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of seven $25 certificates for fine dinning at local restaurants.

6:30 - 7:30 Pot Luck! Bring your favorite dish to share !!
7:30 - 10:00 Performance!

Hosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser, Produced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull .
For information, contact Linda (510) 701-1022, ZeiserpoetMC@ aol.com.

Lots of women singer/songwriters (many of them frequent Rose Street performers) 
at this awesome festival!
FABULOSA Fest 2010, Women's music festival in Petaluma:  July 
16-18th, 2010, Info. at www.Fabulosafest.com  Music, workshops, 
crafts, swimming, good food, healing practitioners

Rose Street founder Irina Rivkin will offer a live-looping demo on 
Sunday July 18, 10-11am as well as 
performing around 2:30 or 2:40pm on Saturday July 17.  
See www.youtube.com/irinarivkin 

See you there!

June 17, Thursday, 7:30pm
Anne Weiss plus special guest Andrea Prichett
at Rose Street House of Music
www.rosestreetmusic.com
1839 Rose Street (near MLK) Berkeley CA
Suggested donation $10-20, 5-9 for low income
No fragrances/perfume please

For info on Anne Weiss:
www.anneweiss.com
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=61344

Compelling lyricist and powerful vocalist/guitarist/pianist, performing acoustic blues and funky folk with gospel influences. Has been described  as a mix of Joni Mitchell and Aretha Franklin with Bonnie Raitt and Janice Joplin thrown in. Known for humor and striking stage presence.

To volunteer at the show (volunteers get in free!), please call Anne directly at 914-924-2574 or 503-232-1720.

Due to lack of use (getting less than one call a month), the Rose Street infoline (510-594-4000 ext MUS) will be de-activated starting June 11.

Most folks are using the webpage, so this will be the way to communicate show information.

For booking Irina Rivkin & the Rose Street Harmony Tours at your venue, please call 510-857-7562.

For other contact information, please see the Contact page.

Thanks!

I’m happy to announce that on May 15,  I’m giving birth to … a video.  Some of the awesome crew members from “The Inappropriate Show” will be helping me with a live-performance video   I’d love to invite you to join the live studio audience for the taping!   Your energy and enthusiasm inspires me, so I’d love to share this experience with you.  It’s free for the audience, and I’ll even serve some yummy homemade piroshki and blini (mushroom crepes), along with chocolate, before the taping starts (no food in the studio though)

 RSVP required (when you RSVP I’ll send some more relevant info).  Please email irinarivkin(at)yahoo(dot)com

 

Join the live studio audience for the taping of “Irina Rivkin Live”!

Saturday, May 15, 1:30pm

Berkeley Community Media

2239 Martin Luther King Junior Way

fragrance-free event

 

It’ll go until 3 or 3:30pm, and we ask folks to arrive on time and stay to the end, to minimize disruption. 

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For info on the music (with all rhythms/harmonies performed live, on-the-spot, through live-looping), check out www.irinarivkin.com and/or one of the following links:

“Rise Up”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8sW_UnxOd4

“Stronger than Hate”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLn9kjyqetU&NR=1

 

Other Irina Rivkin performances & looping workshop:

 

05/22/2010, 3:45pm, Sacramento, CA, Harvey Milk Day rally, performing 3:45 to 4pm

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/26604/A_Chorus_Line_to_Highlight_Harvey_Milk_Day_Rally_Entertainment

I’d love to offer a house concert later that night – please email rosestbooking(at)yahoo.com if you’d like info on hosting one!

 

05/23/10 or 05/24/2010, Sunday or Monday 6:30pm, Berkeley, CA, Rose Street House of Music,live-looping workshop www.rosestreetmusic.com (tentative -- time/day depends on availability of participants)

05/28/2010, 8pm, Saratoga, CA, Blue Rock Shoot, 14523 Big Basin Way http://www.bluerockshoot.com/

Followed by South Bay mini-tour (to host a tour show email rosestbooking(at)yahoo(dot)com

peace&music, Irina

p.s. I’ve also applied to perform at the Lilith Fair talent search – the decision gets made based on votes and it would be a dream come true.  To keep the show announcement, I didn’t post the instructions here, but for info on how to vote, please contact me at irinarivkin(at)yahoo(dot)com and I’ll send you instructions.  If you do, I’ll also email you instructions for getting a free download of “Ya Eyo Lublu”, the Russian-Jewish-lesbian-émigré-coming-out-love-song.  Thanks!. 

4/2, Fri. 8pm Berkeley, CA
Rose St Harmony Tour kick-off concert at Rose Street House of Music
Live-looping OutMusic Awardee Irina Rivkin & soulful songwriter Jen Ambrose
www.rosestreetmusic.com
1839 Rose Street (near MLK)
(510) 594-4000 ext. 687 Suggested donation $10-20, 5-9 for low income
No fragrances/perfume please
www.irinarivkin.com & www.jenambrose.org

------Rose Street Harmony Tour April 2-11 in CA & OR------
Feel free to pass on to Northwest friends!
To host a show please email rosestbooking@yahoo.com

April 3, 8pm, 7:30 doors, Roseburg OR 97470
Benefit for and at UCAN Confidence Clinic
308 SE Jackson Street (541) 672-5392 www.ucancap.org
$10-20 no one turned away for lack of funds

April 4, 7:30pm, Detroit, OR
Breitenbush Hot Springs www.breitenbush.com 503.854.3320

April 6, 6pm, Portland OR
Mississippi Pizza
3552 North Mississippi Ave
(503) 288-3231   $5-10
+ special guest Anne Weiss

April 7 & 8 -- classroom presentations at OSU

April 8, 7-9pm, Corvallis OR
Concert at Pride Center 1553 SW A Ave.

Friday, April 9 Takilma (near Cave Junction) OR
Benefit for the Takilma Dome School and Women's Gathering
for info/time, please email Stephanie: foxonrocks@gmail.com

Saturday, April 10, 6-9 pm, Grants Pass, OR
Rogue Coffee Roasters
237 SW G St.
541-476-6134
www.roguecoffeeroasting.com $5

Sunday, April 11, 7pm, Mt. Shasta, California
The Flying Lotus
315 "A" S. Mt. Shasta Blvd. (upstairs) (530) 926-0527
www.theflyinglotus.com $5-10

To host a house concert on on a future tour, please contact rosestbooking(at)yahoo.com

Thanks, and hope to see you soon!

-----Join the live audience for Irina’s performance video---

May 15, Saturday, 12:30-2:30pm,
FREE concert at Berkeley Community Media
no perfume please, no admittance after 1pm (when taping starts)

---Booking Agent position or internship ---

p.s. I’m looking for a 20% commission-paid booking agent -- please email rosestbooking(at)yahoo.com for info if interested.  Thanks!

 “Bobby McFerrin reminds me of you” Bodhi Goforth, house concert co-producer

March 13, Saturday, 8pm
Artemesia Black, Robyn Landis, & Celia Slattery
Rose Street House of Music
www.rosestreetmusic.com
1839 Rose Street (near MLK) Berkeley CA
(510) 594-4000 ext. 687
Suggested donation $10-20, 5-9 for low income
No fragrances/perfume please

Frequently compared to Richard Shindell, and the 2009 Grand Prize winner of
the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Robyn Landis is a prolific writer
whose depth, honesty, intensity, and masterful wordcraft, along with
wistful vocals and irresistible melodies, have earned her more than 45 songwriting honors since 2005.www.robynlandis.com

ArtemesiaBlack - alternative gothic swamp lullabies - a theatrical music duo juxtaposing sweet melodies and masterly guitar work to create a sound that is captivating and heartfelt.
http://www.myspace.com/artemesiablack

Singer Celia Slattery's original music weaves elements of jazz, pop and folk/rock with perceptive lyrics inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Richard Thompson.  She will be appearing with Jane Potter on keyboard. http://www.celiaslattery.com

The 1/23 concert at Eth-Noh-Tec was videotaped by Duc Nguyen.

To see clips from this concert, of Irina Rivkin live-looping performance (harmonies and vocal rhythms all created live on-stage, using a loop station instrument), please see

"Rise Up": http://blip.tv/file/3133344 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X6oPMwOytc 
"Stronger than Hate": http://blip.tv/file/3133309 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLn9kjyqetU&NR=1

Two Rose Street off-site collaborations coming up in Nevada City & South Lake Tahoe -- enjoy activities in the snow by day and music by night!

** February 20 Saturday Nevada City CA

Singing for Haiti - a benefit for relief efforts.  Maren Metke,  Irina Rivkin and friends
$10 suggested donation
North Columbia Schoolhouse
17894 Tyler-Foote Crossing Road
Nevada City, CA 95959

http://www.northcolumbiaschoolhouse.org

http://www.sakthifoundation.org/haiti 

 

Links to music sites for Maren Metke:
http://www.myspace.com/marenmetke
www.youtube.com/user/MarenMetkeMusic

Links to Irina's music:
http://blip.tv/file/3133344
www.sonicbids.com/irinarivkin

Address: 14655 Applewood Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959 (please park on Applewood lane)
Date February 20th, 2010
Time 7-10pm
Suggested donation 5-10$

** 3/19-21 Women's Music & Snow Weekend in South Lake Tahoe
at Holly's Place in South Lake Tahoe!
Mention "women's music & snow weekend" to get the lodging special rates: $25-90 per night with 2 nights or more
$90 for a private room (45 per person double occupancy, sharing a large 2-person bed) or $25 per person "sleeping bag rate" (byo sleeping bag for either the living room or "Rainbow Room" community space)
Amenities include hot tub, rainbow room, cooking facilities, and 2 fenced acres for dogs to run around and play.
Dogs are $15 each per night, and must be well-behaved and not left unattended (dogsitting available).  
Events include:
* Friday 3/19, 6-10pm: Wine welcome social, potluck, game-night, and jam in the "Rainbow Room"
* Saturday 3/20, 6pm potluck, 7:30pm concert with OutMusic Awardee live-looping-artist Irina Rivkin & TBA in the "Rainbow Room"
During the day there will be informal hikes, maybe snowshoeing or x-country skiing
Space at this rate is limited: please call (530) 544-7040 early to reserve (pref. by 2/19).
www.hollysplace.com

If you'd like to help with carpool coordination, please email irinarivkin(at)yahoo(dot)com (otherwise everyone would be on their own to drive or find carpools)

Note: Due to allergies, performer request that dogs not be in the Rainbow Room during the concert

February 17, Wednesday, 7pm

Live-looping workshop/clinic at Rose Street House of Music with Live-looper Irina Rivkin

Learn to use the loop station for live-looping to multiply your voice, guitar and/or other instrument -- we'll discuss timing harmony-layering rhythm & lead & get hands-on (or foot&mic-on) practice using the loop station -- limited to 8 (so that everyone gets to loop) $25-55  
For info email rosestbooking(at)yahoo(dot)com or call 510-857-7562.

For an example of live-looping, please see the link to video in the news entry below

We're looking for a booking agent / tour publicist for the Rose Street Harmony Tours.  For info on this commission-paid position, please email rosestbooking(at)yahoo(dot)com

Hi everyone,
Lots of great multi-artist shows coming up, including off-site collaborations and an on-site Rose Street House Concert

2/12 Concert at Rose Street House of Music, featuring 4 amazing artists: Anne Heaton, Rachel Efron, Audrey Ryan, and Katherine Peck

2/13 Off-site Collaboration -- Irina Rivkin featured in a women's "Works in Progress" with other female performers (and maybe you -- there will be an open mic).  Artists can also audition for Rose Street by performing at the 2/13 open mic.


Also, check out the house concert article that just came out in the Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/15/DDKR1B7RGB.DTL

Upcoming concert Details below:

*2/12, Friday, 8pm Anne Heaton, Rachel Efron, Audrey Ryan, and Katherine Peck at
Rose Street House of Music
www.rosestreetmusic.com
1839 Rose Street (near MLK) Berkeley CA
(510) 594-4000 ext. 687
Suggested donation $10-20, 5-9 for low income
No fragrances/perfume please

http://www.myspace.com/anneheaton
With her joyous spirit, warm voice and spacious piano playing, Boston-based singer-songwriter Anne Heaton has been called "more of a storyteller than Norah Jones and definitely in the same category as far as talent and vocal range" (Newspapertaxi.com).

http://www.myspace.com/kpeck
Mix the complex and fluid guitar rhythms of Michael Hedges, a bit of Ani DiFranco's edge, and a range of understated yet direct and soulful lyrics reminiscent of Doves, and you've got Berkeley-based singer songwriter Katherine Peck.

http://www.audreyryan.com
Quirky multi-instrumentalist, one-man-band singer-songwriter on tour from the east coast.  “Ryan is like Joni Mitchell and Radiohead playing some kind of hybrid jazz music that -- and this is why her stuff is so good – just doesn't exist anywhere else.”  -Leo Weekly (Louisville, KY)

http://www.rachelefron.com
"The voice is airy, plaintive, the sound, seemingly detached, but it isn't long -- about three notes will do it -- before Bay Area singer-songwriter Rachel Efron hooks you by the heart" -- David Weigand, San Francisco Chronicle

*Off-site Collaboration: Saturday, February 13  Valentine Party WORKS IN PROGRESS  

+ An Open Mic for Women

SAN LEANDRO COMMUNITY CHURCH , 1395 Bancroft, San Leandro
Featuring Irina Rivkin – Outmusic Awardee Irina Rivkin’s compelling, powerful songs blend jazzy folk & rhythmic world music with an all-original sound influenced by her Russian heritage.  She layers her poetic lyrics with rich textured harmonies, swirling with vocal percussive beats, all created live on-the-spot using her loop station instrument.   www.irinarivkin.com.  “hot, harmony-rich vocals…rhythm & sound would pass as a Russian Sweet Honey in the Rock.”  Angela Page, Sing Out!
Special guests include the absolutely amazing poets Julia Vinograd Donna Lane and star pianist Shari Kline.  
Free champagne and chocolate for every woman !    
 $7-$10  Admission includes a raffle ticket for a chance to win a $25  restaurant   certificate.   
6:30 - 7:30      Pot Luck!       BRING YOUR FAVORITE FOOD TO SHARE!!
7:30 - 10:00    Performance!

Hosted by Feminist Author & Poet  Linda Zeiser.   Produced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull .
For information, contact Linda (510) 701-1022, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com.

Works In Progress is a creative space for women's art:  Poets, Musicians, Comediennes, and Performance Artists.  All are encouraged to share their works, completed or evolving.  We are scent free and wheel chair accessible.

If you will be performing original music at the open mic and wish for your performance to be considered as an audition for Rose Street, please let us know in advance.

To host a "Rose Street off-site collaboration" in your living room or other venue, please email rosestbooking(at)yahoo(dot)com

 

Rose St founder Irina Rivkin will offer a live-looping performance and participative experiential live-looping at "Bay Area's most innovative NYE for women", produced by Roke Noir
BLUE MOON PHENOMENON, New Year's Eve "Rejuvenation Ceremony & Dance Extravaganza"
Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 | 7 pm - 1 am Oakland
Fellowship of Humanity Hall & Garden, 390 27th St (at Broadway), Oakland
**For Women only | Smoke, Scent, Alcohol & Drug FREE | Wheelchair accessible
Tickets and info: http://www.rokenoirproductions.com/nye/press.htm
Please mention you heard about it from Rose Street / Irina