Christine Lavin is an award-winning singer-songwriter, promoter of contemporary folk music, and author based in New York. She has recorded 25 solo albums, and 2 more with four musician-comediennes under the name Four Bitchin’ Babes. She has also produced 10 compilations showcasing the work of dozens of singer/songwriters she admires. One of them, “On A Winter’s Night,” has toured frequently with Patty Larkin, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt, and Lucy Kaplansky. Many of Lavin’s songs are now performed by Broadway performers — Betty Buckley, Sutton Foster, Karen Ziemba, Klea Blackhurst, and others. Neil deGrasse Tyson appears on her album SPAGHETTIFICATION. He loves it when science and music interact. Lavin also make videos for her songs, many of which can be found at christinelavin.com.
Lavin has an elegant voice and sings sweet, soft melodies, but 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 comedy and emotional reflections on romance.
Lavin has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and NPR. She was also the creator and host of xm satellite radio’s Slipped Discs, which featured the albums of fellow artists and aspiring musicians “slipped” to her backstage at her concerts.
Lavin has built a reputation as one of the observers and chroniclers of modern urban life, with recordings like “Prisoners of Their Hairdos,” “Sensitive New Age Guys,” “Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind,” and “Mysterious Woman,” a brilliant parody of folk-pop singer Suzanne Vega.
Her latest solo album, her 25th, ON MY WAY TO HOOTERVILLE, includes 10 new songs and one re-worked song, “Ramblin’ Waltz,” a re-telling of her time in 1975 when she was an entourage driver for the first week of Bob Dylan’s iconic “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour.
In his Penthouse article on Lavin, Scelsa called her “one of the country’s best songwriters. Period. Regardless of genre or backup instrumentation. For her literacy, humor, and compassion, her keen, observant eye and ability to translate the most mundane moments into magic, I can only compare her to the likes of, say, a [songwriting giant like] Paul Simon.”
Christine Lavin has been called “A fearless folkZinger!” by the Orlando Sentinel, “Wildly entertaining,” by The New Yorker, and “A fresh kick in the pants!” by the late Paul Newman!”
Samples of Christine’s storytelling and music:
Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, Students/Children: $10. Available at the church office, Gulf of Maine Books, or online at ticketstripe.com/christine.
