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Virtual House Concert with Bernice Lewis: Friday, November 19, 2021

NOTE: The videos of this concert are now available on YouTube. You can view the 1st Half and the 2nd Half of the concert at your leisure!

I’m proud to announce that award-winning, multi-instumentalist singer/songwriter Bernice Lewis will be joining us for the November 2021 version of the Virtual House Concert Series. I’ve heard Bernice’s songs for a long time, and got to meet her this past year and I know you will very much enjoy her performances.

About Bernice

Bernice Lewis

With almost four decades of performing festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, colleges, and house concerts, along with a half dozen acclaimed CDs, Bernice Lewis has built a solid national fan base. She is also a published poet, a producer, and an educator extraordinaire. Lewis — who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar technique with Alex DeGrassi and Guy van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Cash and Cris Williamson — has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage program, as well as at the Kennedy Center. In 2008, she was awarded an Artist in Residence position by the National Park Service. In 1987, she was a finalist in the prestigious New Folk Songwriting Contest at the Kerrville (Texas) Folk Festival, where she continues to be a main stage favorite. Her ballad, “Bridges That Hold,” was included in Peter, Paul and Mary’s Lifelines video (PBS). She was featured in Yoga Journal for her work with sound and yoga, and has shared the stage with many renowned artists, including Dar Williams, Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, Pete Seeger, Ellis Paul, Rory Block, Livingston Taylor, Odetta, Christine Lavin, Marty Sexton, Patty Larkin, Catie Curtis, Mary Gauthier… it’s a long list. She has a forty-year old daily yoga practice, loves good coffee, and her religion is the Grand Canyon.

Bernice is The Artist Associate in Songwriting at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.  She also teaches at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO, Rock On Camp at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA, as well as at many schools and retreat centers. She has also been an Artist in Residence and workshop presenter at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, MA, and Esalen Institute in Big Sur.

Bernice is also becoming widely known for her History Alive presentation, a multi-media discussion of her family’s emigration from Nazi Germany, specifically designed for Junior and Senior High School classrooms. Her song, “Ways to Survive,” won an award from the American Zionist Movement in 1996.

She is a founding and current member of  The Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra and organizer of the Berkshire County Ukefest, held each October in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Bernice is sponsored by Mya-Moe Ukuleles, Taylor Guitars, and Elixir Strings.

Details

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This concert will be presented through Zoom, and may be recorded. Please pre-register for the event to make sure you have access. The waiting room will be opened at 7:25 p.m. EST, 5 minutes before the start of the concert.

This will be a low key event (think of it like being welcomed into our living room!) and we hope you will enjoy it. There is no cost, but Bernice is a full-time musician and this is one of the few venues for income. Please consider donating via her Venmo, PayPal, and Patreon accounts.

There will also be a post-concert reception at www.kumospace.com/kenmattsson.

We look forward to having another great virtual house concert!NOTE

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