Singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, author and videographer, Christine Lavin, will present a selection of her most requested songs with a unique modern twist on Monday, November 22 at 8:30 PM at Birdland Theater. She will also include highlights from her 25th solo album, On My Way to Hooterville, which includes 10 new songs and one re-worked number, “Ramblin’ Waltz,” a re-telling of her time in 1975 as an entourage driver for Bob Dylan’s iconic “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour.
Lavin performs concerts all over the US, Canada, and points beyond, including Australia, Germany and Israel, often hosting knitting circles and Downton Abbey-style napkin folding backstage at each show. Songs of hers have been performed by artists as diverse as Broadway stars Betty Buckley, Sutton Foster, Karen Ziemba, and Klea Blackhurst; cabaret divas Andrea Marcovicci. Barbara Brussell and Colleen McHugh; the a cappella Dartmouth Decibelles, and The Accidentals. In June 2021 her song, “The Best Summer” made it to #12 on the International FolkDJ Music Chart.
Lavin’s book Cold Pizza for Breakfast, with a foreword by Jeff Daniels, won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. She has also won five ASCAP Composer Awards, The Kate Wolf Memorial Award, and her album Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind won “Album of the Year” from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors. For four years she hosted “Slipped Disks” on XM Satellite radio, playing CDs slipped to her backstage by compatriots, and was guest host for City Folk Sunday Supper on WFUV-FM at Fordham University. She also writes freelance for various publications, including The Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Performing Songwriter.
There is a $30 music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call 212-581-3080 or visit www.BirdlandJazz.com.
Birdland Theater is located downstairs at Birdland Jazz Club, 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
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