tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:/blogs/blog?p=25
Blog
2024-03-25T02:53:07-12:00
Deborah Crooks
false
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7372012
2024-03-25T02:53:07-12:00
2024-03-25T02:53:07-12:00
Singer-Songwriter Wednesday March 27 at Golden Gate Bandshell
<p>Catch me this Wednesday, March 27 at 6pm on the Golden Gate Bandshell Stage in Golden Gate Park</p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/fb9627f16e844da8624b2f9defdb05cb642b8408/original/3-27-bandshell.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="1350" width="1080" />
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7369289
2024-03-19T03:36:19-12:00
2024-03-19T03:36:19-12:00
Santa Rosa Show postponed
<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">I'm disappointed to report that the show this Friday in Santa Rosa is NOT happening as scheduled as the Lost Church SR is still contending with permit hell. Ticket holders will be notified by the venue. Stay tuned for new show dates when I have them. </span></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7367292
2024-03-14T14:25:47-12:00
2024-03-14T14:25:47-12:00
Clear for Takeoff: "Flight Lessons" in Santa Rosa, March 22
<p><span dir="auto">I'm happy to report that the “Flight Lessons” show at The Lost Church - Santa Rosa is officially back on! </span></p><div class="row"><div class="col"><div class="pts-screen-header mb-4">
<h3 style="text-align:center;">
<strong>Friday, March 22, 2024</strong><br><strong>7:30pm doors/8:15pm show</strong>
</h3>
<h4 style="text-align:center;"><i>"Flight Lessons" folk opera</i></h4>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">
<i>with Brightdarkdawn</i><br><i>at The Lost Church</i><br><i>575 Ross St. Santa Rosa</i><br><i>all ages, $</i><a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksBrightdarkdawn" target="_blank"><i><u>20 adv/door</u></i></a>
</h4>
</div></div></div><p>This has been rescheduled from March 6th. All tickets holder's tickets will be honored for the new date if not already refunded.</p><p>$20 General Admission Doors at 7:30pm. Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission</p><div>
<a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksBrightdarkdawn" target="_blank"><i><span><u>Earlybirds! </u></span></i></a><i><span>$5 off each ticket when you use the code </span></i><span><strong>earlybird19</strong></span><i><span> </span></i><span>at checkout. </span><i><span>Offer ends March 17.</span></i>
</div><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/7290ca31ca4b3ca9c8c5e316e80162e3f9b73b84/original/fl-tlc-quartet.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="2048" width="2048" />
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7355688
2024-02-22T12:25:03-12:00
2024-02-22T12:25:03-12:00
Talking "Flight Lessons" on KRCB
<p>We had a nice time talking about the next "Flight Lessons" show and playing a few tunes on Doug Jayne's Midday Music show on KRCB yesterday. If you didn't catch us live, take a listen <a class="no-pjax" href="https://norcalpublicmedia.org/local-music-news/deborah-crooks-and-kwame-copeland-visit-midday-music-aired-february-21-2024">HERE</a></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/6a749d18f413811855f95740bc517b00c097e5dd/original/flight-lessons-masks.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="1770" width="1770" />
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7345628
2024-02-01T15:00:00-12:00
2024-02-04T02:53:31-12:00
February Comes Alive
<p>I spent much of the past month either writing or listening to other music and I'm looking forward to getting back to performing in the coming months. In February, I'll be taking a turn with Bay Station at a new-to-us venue in Livermore, and I'll be getting ready for my next<a class="no-pjax" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/flight-lessons" data-link-type="url"> "Flight Lessons"</a> show with a wonderful group of musicians who are helping me share this musical story. Mark your calendars — February 17 in Livermore and March 3 in Santa Rosa — and join me! xo, Deborah</p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksBrightdarkdawn" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/7e5386c1ea74969a175a9aca9b32c93ca9f77d49/original/tlc-march-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.laspositasvineyards.com/event-details-registration/bay-station-band" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/fd6f09fd24251b6aa298ad5a13c65f0792af8964/original/bay-station-livermore.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7322910
2023-12-22T05:56:21-12:00
2023-12-22T05:56:21-12:00
What's in store for 2024: More Flight Lessons!
<p>I'm looking forward to bringing “Flight Lessons” to Santa Rosa! Sunday, March 3, a late-afternoon matinee with Brightdarkdawn. Mark your calendar and pick up tickets <a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksBrightdarkdawn%20" data-link-type="url">HERE.</a> </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksBrightdarkdawn%20" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/ecc59fc7ff8499294bd83ed50c311d6dca116c50/original/tlc-march-3-ticket-image.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7322908
2023-12-21T06:00:00-12:00
2023-12-22T05:49:17-12:00
'Shapeshifter' lyric video
<p><span dir="auto">Here’s to opening our hearts wider, restoring justice and generally shining light into the dark in 2024 and beyond! </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbaystation.hearnow.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1T4B6kg3fcky87Q8YcQaztVNBsok4652tpc34Cf_K1A3vsccXC6nSadKY&h=AT1Wa6aILvWEsRnmwMQaV8LW1y1aujuiuu1aFZCep9qCudy-x2wDmxBBTpiETreGQEqOdKc_WI8pf57c8RRUuvG6gOePQ4VEu0iIjODkucoKYudeXwh3vT5FSJ-W73WvmCMcviQ&__tn__=-UK-y-R&c%5B0%5D=AT2FuHI0azkoxsrOgmSKhEuhOmDhByQ9Q4xCbzRSojpomyKMJUalMKkHWtX3kcgsDhIRUX1lJkG4ba-I6LFT22E6Hmol5Y5gIqvRQYGiYSTSpcZrqLJ5T_PcErTcYvyGL2vKnyM8Yn1Zn-yqTBzMbh3d6BpsITyGETb8iwY3t7BRaDKujf3_qkovb7Pp-W68nBgxW5EclZ9T9KmcL89ARtCDJBNgbBup1Z4_30U" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto"> </span></a></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="KUzpaVdLi3s" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KUzpaVdLi3s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7301715
2023-11-09T15:00:00-12:00
2023-12-01T04:06:24-12:00
Flight Lessons write-up in The Alameda Post
<p>Thanks to the Alameda Post for writing up this week's performance of ‘Flight Lessons’ at the Lost Church in San Francisco:</p><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-50b7f68 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child" data-id="50b7f68" data-element_type="container" data-settings='{"content_width":"full","jet_parallax_layout_list":[]}'><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-2381dad e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child" data-id="2381dad" data-element_type="container" data-settings='{"content_width":"full","jet_parallax_layout_list":[]}'><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-973d8b8 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="973d8b8" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><h1>Deborah Crooks’ ‘Flight Lessons’ at The Lost Church this Friday</h1></div></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-d8c275e elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="d8c275e" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container">
<h2>Alameda singer-songwriter’s folk opera features Fruitvale Bridge falcons</h2>
<p>Alameda singer-songwriter Deborah Crooks will present her folk opera, “<a class="no-pjax" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/flight-lessons" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener">Flight Lessons</a>,” on Friday, November 10, at The Lost Church, 988 Columbus Ave., in San Francisco. The story is based on a pair of peregrine falcons—and some humans—living on the Fruitvale Railroad Bridge, next to the automobile bridge that connects Alameda and Oakland. Peregrine falcons, who mate for life, have nested on that bridge for more than a dozen years. Continue <a class="no-pjax" href="https://alamedapost.com/features/arts/deborah-crooks-flight-lessons-at-the-lost-church-this-friday/?fbclid=IwAR2hJx4WbniYCIY-I9ZvF5yCMrBcDmLrd2d17jEWa8xJrzlS0w65_W0Ih4k" data-link-type="url">reading HERE.</a></p>
<h6>Show info:</h6>
<p><strong>Deborah Crooks’ “Flight Lessons” + The Welcome Matt w/CALI&CO Dance</strong><br><strong>When</strong>: Friday, November 10. Doors 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m.<br><strong>Where</strong>: The Lost Church, 988 Columbus Ave., San Francisco.<br><strong>Tickets</strong>: $20 <a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksWelcomeMattNov10" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="follow external noopener">in advance</a> and at the door.</p>
</div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7298203
2023-11-03T03:48:13-12:00
2023-11-03T03:48:14-12:00
A fall flight in the heart of North Beach
<p><span>Hello and happy November,</span><br><span>I'm gearing up for the next performance of my </span>"Flight Lessons" folk opera, a project that's both near and dear to me and expanding my creative horizons. I'm writing today to invite you to its next staging, Friday, November 10 at The Lost Church in San Francisco. This latest version of my bird-themed musical-in-progress features the considerable talents of actor/songwriter/multi-instrumentalists Mick Shaffer, Melissa Phillips-DePrato, Kwame Copeland and Craig Miller. The Welcome Matt, whose opening the show with a special set along with CALI&CO dance, is even making a cameo. This is my last, and most personally important, show of the year — please join us. 🙏🏼 💫 Deborah</p><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:9px;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table" style="float:left;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0 18px 9px;vertical-align:top;">
<h3 style="text-align:center;">
<strong>Friday, November 10, 2023</strong><br><strong>7:30pm doors/8:15pm show</strong>
</h3>
<h1 style="text-align:center;">
<strong>"</strong><a class="no-pjax" href="https://thelostchurch.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/instances/a0FHu000011XcqzMAC" target="_blank"><strong><u>Flight Lessons" folk opera</u></strong></a>
</h1>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">
<i>with a special set by The Welcome Matt w/CALI&CO DANCE</i><br><i>at The Lost Church</i><br><i>988 Columbus St., San Francisco</i><br><i>all ages, $20 adv/door</i><br><i> </i>
</h4>
</td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0 18px 18px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table"><table style="background-color:#2BAADF;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:12px;text-align:center;" valign="middle"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksWelcomeMattNov10" target="_blank" title="Flight Lesson Nov 10 at The Lost Church"><strong>Buy tickets</strong></a></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><p><u>About "Flight Lessons"</u> </p><p>When I was a child, the first thing I’d do when I woke up each morning was to look outside my window to see who was in the yard. We lived in a rural part of Santa Cruz County and beyond the yard, was an undeveloped hillside full of quail, rabbits, coyotes and other creatures. I went on to study natural history in college spending summers in the mountains releasing Peregrine Falcons, who were then an endangered species, back into the wild. Since then, life has led me on a host of other adventures, but my curiosity about who else is sharing my home environment has never left me. In "Flight Lessons," I explore a story about present-day Peregrine Falcons living at the intersection of the urban and natural environment near my current home in Alameda. Come take a listen on November 10!</p><p> </p><blockquote data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzMEd-jLuM5/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style="align-items:center;display:flex;flex-direction:row;">
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:50%;flex-grow:0;height:40px;margin-right:14px;width:40px;"> </div>
<div style="display:flex;flex-direction:column;flex-grow:1;justify-content:center;">
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;margin-bottom:6px;width:100px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;width:60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding:19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block;height:50px;margin:0 auto 12px;width:50px;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzMEd-jLuM5/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"><svg width="50px" height="50px" viewbox="0 0 60 60" version="1.1" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)" fill="#000000"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top:8px;"><div style="color:#3897f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;line-height:18px;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzMEd-jLuM5/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding:12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="align-items:center;display:flex;flex-direction:row;margin-bottom:14px;">
<div>
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:50%;height:12.5px;transform:translateX(0px) translateY(7px);width:12.5px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;flex-grow:0;height:12.5px;margin-left:2px;margin-right:14px;transform:rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px);width:12.5px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:50%;height:12.5px;transform:translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);width:12.5px;"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left:8px;">
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:50%;flex-grow:0;height:20px;width:20px;"> </div>
<div style="border-bottom:2px solid transparent;border-left:6px solid #f4f4f4;border-top:2px solid transparent;height:0;transform:translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);width:0;"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left:auto;">
<div style="border-right:8px solid transparent;border-top:8px solid #F4F4F4;transform:translateY(16px);width:0px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;flex-grow:0;height:12px;transform:translateY(-4px);width:16px;"> </div>
<div style="border-left:8px solid transparent;border-top:8px solid #F4F4F4;height:0;transform:translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);width:0;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display:flex;flex-direction:column;flex-grow:1;justify-content:center;margin-bottom:24px;">
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;margin-bottom:6px;width:224px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;width:144px;"> </div>
</div>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzMEd-jLuM5/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> </a></p>
</div></blockquote><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7289428
2023-10-18T01:53:46-12:00
2023-10-18T01:53:46-12:00
More "Flight Lessons" Nov 10 in SF
<h4 style="text-align:center;">
<i><strong>Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:30pm</strong></i><br><i>"</i><a class="no-pjax" href="https://thelostchurch.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/instances/a0FHu000011XcqzMAC" target="_blank"><i><u>Flight Lessons" folk opera</u></i></a><br><i>with a special set by The Welcome Matt w/CALI&CO DANCE</i><br><i>at The Lost Church</i><br><i>988 Columbus St., San Francisco</i>
</h4><h4>
<br><strong>The latest iteration of my bird-themed musical-in-progress features Deborah along with Mick Shaffer, Melissa Phillips DePrato and Kwame Copeland. Theater, dance and music — be there! Buy tickets: </strong><a class="no-pjax" href="https://tinyurl.com/DeborahCrooksWelcomeMattNov10%20" data-link-type="url"><strong>HERE</strong></a><a data-link-type="url"><strong>.</strong></a>
</h4><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/flight-lessons-musical" data-link-type="url"><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/77224a0eed67d6e7eb34230f23b8b0f61a76962f/original/tlc-nov-10.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_left border_" /></strong></a></p><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000000;"><i><span><strong>How to support "Flight Lessons"</strong></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"> </div><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;">
<span style="color:#000000;"><span>Since my first performance of this bird-themed folk opera last March, I’ve been working to further develop its script into a fully-fledged musical. We recently performed the current version of “Flight Lessons” as a house concert and were buoyed by the response including the curiosity about birds and conservation it inspired.</span><strong> I’m currently </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/flight-lessons-musical" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>raising funds</strong></span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><strong> to continue to develop the work for a fall production and, in general, further expand its reach to more audiences. Read more about the project and how to make a donation </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/flight-lessons" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>HERE.</strong></span></a>
</div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7276900
2023-09-21T22:00:00-12:00
2023-10-16T02:55:08-12:00
New Music from Bay Station: Shapeshifter
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://baystationband.bandcamp.com/album/shapeshifter" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/6a783a98122542c37f41d436b74f87f0f4bfd9b8/original/shapeshifter.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_left border_" /></span></a><span dir="auto">Pivoting between the ‘Flight Lessons’ house concert of last weekend to </span><a class="no-pjax" href="http://baystationband.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto">Bay Station</span></a><span dir="auto"> music this week as we release a new EP </span><i><span dir="auto">Shapeshifter. </span></i><span dir="auto">Four new songs, written/co-written by myself, Kwame Copeland and Steve Waters with able co-production by Ben Bernstein. The four new </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">songs on the new EP double-down on hope and taking action. <strong>‘</strong><span><strong>Shapeshifter</strong></span><strong>’ </strong>features a Pretender’s-like groove as we imagine a world without bullets or disease, everyone sings and justice is restored. <strong>‘The Past is Over’</strong> is another uptempo track which puts the past in the rear view to risk love anew and without fear. Sandwiched between those two rockers are two California-centric songs:<strong> ‘To the Bears,’</strong> a sing-along-able ode to returning the state to its original inhabitants penned by Kwame; and <strong>‘Three Days of Rain’</strong> written by Steve, which prays for rain white reflecting upon the parched Bay Area landscape. <i>S</i></span><i>hapeshifter </i>releases September 22, 2023 and will be available everywhere you stream music. CDs will be available at Bay Station's EP-release show Friday, Sept. 22 at<a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.thefiresidelounge.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"> The Fireside Lounge</a>, 1453 Webster St., Alameda, CA 94501. 8pm doors/9pm show. With The Stratospheres and The Secret Identities. </p><p dir="ltr"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://baystationband.bandcamp.com/album/shapeshifter" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><i><strong>Shapeshifte</strong></i><strong>r</strong></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><strong> Tracklist:</strong></span></p><ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><span>Shapeshifter</span> (2:54)</span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">To the Bears (4:49)</span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Three Days of Rain (3:47)</span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">The Past is Over (2:36)</span></li>
</ol><p dir="ltr"><span class="text-small">Co-produced by Deborah Crooks, Kwame Copeland and Ben Bernstein </span><br><span class="text-small">Recorded at East Bay Recorders, Oakland, CA </span><br><span class="text-small">Mastered by Ben Bernstein </span><br><span class="text-small">Cover art by Nugget Rising-Waters </span><br><br><span class="text-small">Deborah Crooks, vocals </span><br><span class="text-small">Kwame Copeland, vocals, guitars </span><br><span class="text-small">Steve Waters, electric guitar, vocals </span><br><span class="text-small">Andrew Griffin, drums </span><br><span class="text-small">Ben Bernstein, Bass </span><br><span class="text-small">Art Khu, organ</span></p><p dir="ltr"><i> </i></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7267274
2023-09-02T02:04:12-12:00
2023-09-14T06:25:42-12:00
September's Musical Monkeys, Flights and Shapeshifting
<figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px 18px;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table" style="float:right;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="264"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:18px;padding-right:18px;padding-top:18px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><div style="text-align:left;">I've <span dir="auto">a variety pack of shows coming up next month showcasing three different projects: my solo songwriter material; musical in progress 'Flight Lessons', and Bay Station Band. Join me for one, two or all three!</span>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:12px 18px;"><figure class="table"><table style="border-top:2px solid #4CAAD8;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:9px;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table" style="float:left;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0 18px 9px;vertical-align:top;">
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#2F4F4F;"><strong>September Shows</strong></span></h3>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">
<span style="color:#696969;"><i><strong>September 10, 2023 7:30pm </strong></i></span><br><i> Judea Eden, Amy Meyers & Deborah Crooks</i><br><i>at The Monkey House</i><br><i>1638 University Ave, Berkeley, CA</i><br><i>Sliding scale $10-$40.</i><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.themonkeyhouse.org/calendar" target="_blank"><i><u>RSVP </u></i></a><br><br><i><strong>Sunday, September 17, 2023, 3pm</strong></i><br><i>'Flight Lessons’ House Concert</i><br><i>Oakland, CA</i><br><i>The latest edition of my bird-themed musical in progress will feature Tania Johnson, Mick Shaffer and Kwame Copeland. </i><br><i>Sliding scale $20-30 </i><a class="no-pjax" href="mailto:ramonahouston@gmail.com?subject=Flight%20Lessons%20RSVP" target="_blank"><i><u> RSVP </u></i></a><br><br><i><strong>Friday, September 22, 2023, 9pm</strong></i><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1394888657723122" target="_blank"><i><u>Bay Station Shapeshifter EP Release Show</u></i></a><br><i>with The Stratospheres and The Secret Identities</i><br><i>at The Fireside Lounge </i><br><i>1453 Webster St. Alameda, CA</i>
</h4>
</td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:12px 18px;"><figure class="table"><table style="border-top:2px solid #4CAAD8;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table" style="float:left;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0 9px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/latest-music-news/blog/7257441/more-flight-lessons-september-17-house-concert" target="_blank" title=""><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/a5568927-12f3-db93-05f1-d2799281fdae.jpg" class="size_orig justify_middle border_" alt="" width="564" /> </a></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:12px 18px;"><figure class="table"><table style="border-top:2px solid #4CAAD8;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure><figure class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px;vertical-align:top;"><figure class="table" style="float:left;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0 9px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1394888657723122" target="_blank" title=""><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/7e3c0ded-125a-03c5-34c1-c49be6c64cf9.jpg" class="size_orig justify_middle border_" alt="" width="564" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></figure>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7257441
2023-08-15T09:31:42-12:00
2023-09-14T06:25:42-12:00
More Flight Lessons: September 17 House Concert
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/1678b8accbb7c1a6ff70ced1473df73aa181e787/original/flight-lessons-9-22.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p style="text-align:center;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 3pm </span></p><p style="text-align:center;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">at the home of Rich Dahlgren and <span>Ramona</span> Houston</span></p><p style="text-align:center;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Outdoor show, all ages welcome</span></p><p style="text-align:center;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">$20 suggested donation</span></p><p style="text-align:center;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">RSVP </span><a class="no-pjax" href="mailto:ramonahouston@gmail.com"><span translate="no" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1">ramonahouston@gmail.com</span></a><span translate="no" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"> to reserve your seat</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">‘Flight Lessons’ is based on a true story about Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the intersection of wild and urban habitats in Oakland, CA. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Performing along with Deborah will be Kwame Copeland, Tania Johnson, and Mick Shaffer. </span></p><p dir="ltr"> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7257733
2023-08-09T11:00:00-12:00
2023-08-16T03:13:29-12:00
Just Added: Amy Meyers, Judea Eden, Deborah Crooks at The Monkey House September 10
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/2c950c6a45d7a3ee7deff107e2be092948e12846/original/monkey-september-10.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p><span dir="auto">I'm excited to join Judea Eden and Amy Meyers on Sunday, September 10th in Berkeley for an intimate evening of sharing songs and stories in this inimitable 55 seat black box! To learn more and reserve your seats, visit</span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.themonkeyhouse.org/calendar" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto"> The Monkey House site</span></a><span dir="auto"> /email Ira ira@themonkeyhouse.org. It will sell out, so make your plans early! Show time 7:30pm - 10pm. Sliding scale $10-$40.</span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7257442
2023-08-01T09:00:00-12:00
2023-08-15T09:33:44-12:00
August Music News
<figure class="table" style="float:left;"><table width="264" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom:18px;padding-left:18px;padding-top:18px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong>August</strong></h3>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">
<i><strong>August 25, 2023 9pm </strong></i><br><i><span>BB Mixtape at Hotel Utah</span></i><br><i><span>Songwriters in the round</span></i><br><i><span>500 4th St, San Francisco, CA </span></i><br><a class="no-pjax" href="https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Thadeus-Gonzalez-Lauren-Hulbert-Deborah-Crooks-Levee-Wolf/562274?afflky=HotelUtahSaloon" target="_blank"><i><span><u>Tickets $10 adv/$15</u></span></i></a><br><br><i><strong>August 26, 2023 5pm-7pm </strong></i><br><i>Bay Station Duo, Erica Sorenson</i><br><i><span>Blue Barn - Novato</span></i><br><i><span>819 Grant Ave, Novato, CA </span></i><br><i><span>FREE</span></i><br><br><i><strong>August 27, 2023 12:15pm </strong></i><br><i>Golden Mile Beer & Wine Garden</i><br><i><span>JFK Promenade- Golden Gate Park</span></i><br><i><span>San Francisco, CA</span></i><br><i><span>FREE</span></i>
</h4>
<h3 style="text-align:center;">
<br><strong>September </strong>
</h3>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">
<i><strong>September 17, 2023, </strong><span>3pm</span></i><br><i><span>'Flight Lessons' house concert</span></i><br>$20 donation<br><i><span>Oakland, CA</span></i><br><br><i><strong>September 22, 2023 </strong></i><br><i>Bay Station Shapeshifter EP release</i><br><i><span>w/The Stratospheres & The Secret Identities</span></i><br><i><span> </span></i><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1394888657723122" target="_blank"><i><span><u>The Fireside Lounge</u></span></i></a><br><i><span>1453 Webster St, Alameda, CA</span></i><br><i><span>$10 adv/$15 door</span></i>
</h4>
<div style="text-align:center;"> </div>
</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7230253
2023-06-21T09:19:26-12:00
2023-06-21T09:19:27-12:00
More Shows: Blush! and SF Summer of Music
<p style="text-align:center;"><i>June 22, 2023 7pm-10pm</i> <br><i><strong>Songwriter Showcase</strong></i> <br><i><strong>Blush Wine Bar</strong></i> <br><a class="no-pjax" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?&q=476+Castro+Street+%40+18th,San+Francisco,California,US"><i><span><u>476 Castro Street @ 18t</u></span></i></a><i><span>h, </span>San Francisco, CA</i> <br><i><span> Free with wine.</span> <span>18+ </span></i><span>With Emily Zisma, a great songwriter and human.Blush! is a cozy, cool wine bar/bistro on Castrol. I'll be playing solo and sharing a bunch of new songs. Come on out and see us!</span> <br><br><i>June 24 , 2023 2pm-5pm</i> <br><i><strong>Summer of Music SF</strong></i> <br><i><strong>Cary Lane, 1615 Haight, </strong>San Francisco, CA</i></p><div class="fe-block fe-block-ee46fff0bc882916ca2c"><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-ee46fff0bc882916ca2c"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-html-content">
<p style="text-align:center;"><span>The Summer of Music series, sponsored by Civic Joy Fund and produced in partnership with Noise Pop, brings local musicians to perform throughout 9 neighborhoods across the city all su</span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/7a9cbf38dd367741178bae3f255541d11f2128a3/original/summer-of-music.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></div></div></div></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7221948
2023-06-06T01:49:17-12:00
2023-06-06T01:49:17-12:00
Watch Love the Bay Tour 2023!
<p>Bay Station's Love the Bay set sail last weekend, meeting up with musical pals in Sausalito for a spirted bunch of live performances and interviews. This year, we focused on how artists and activists are staying inspired. Check out the <a class="no-pjax" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3kIhwfilfDpIIjpI9LRu7W9" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">Love the Bay Video playlist</a> for songs and stories from </p><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Teja Gerken</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Maurice Tani</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Jeanine Richardson</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Peter</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Aireen Espíritu</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Liz Stuart</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Jeff Wessman</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Susan Ives</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Erica Sorenson</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Mokai</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Stacey De Polo</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Matt Langlois</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">Christine Cali</span></div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto">plus myself and Kwame Copland!</div><div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"> </div><p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3kIhwfilfDpIIjpI9LRu7W9" title="YouTube video player" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7215971
2023-05-26T02:12:34-12:00
2023-05-26T02:12:35-12:00
Livestreaminess: Quaranpalooza turns 3 and NW Folklife Quilt Sessions
<p>I've two livestreams and a live set ahead this long weekend. </p><p>On Saturday, Quaranpalooza turns three with another full day of live sets by songwriters across the globe. I play a short set at 4:45pm PST. As usual, a portion of proceeds are donated to Cancer Connections. Tune/get tickets in <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/may-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-635646153757?aff=erelexpmlt" data-link-type="url">HERE</a>. </p><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r4e:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a">
<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto">The 52nd Annual NW Folklife Festival is happening all weekend, including a virtual component. My Quilt Session streams on Monday amid a full weekend of music programming. Check it out:</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnwfolklife.org%2Ffestival%2Fstream.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1PFX2hpgfLKMiYmIyhXhNvj5t4uKGnLA1Ff2YVJnOPuudT2SuVQy5Ck9o&h=AT0JtFpyMlx_GYX1hbW1Ybuhr6gJgw3DDFqVu9SvZszCYdDKgn9HnRN8dtC0baoDG-IlYm9jAJKUMDaOYQ86ODbJfKof8KMadFMNtTts7A0ZVQik3lCl_KVLrjdSRl0Yc9bVFKM&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT0OnFGpzQ_0EFOagbEu6AeFA3yRDWeeCz-yTjTXNVG8z-xFU5YISBx4lFEyYeA7JFD2kC--PQWW0bdf-njgHY-wRRN-kvNhxwTstjeikaz88pWR-j-xqrSTudB7tgNikecK4NZVzdtTurxEfyCIiYkMWc15OUETvKWgHEYISzxUgJmq56aGCSznz68J_o8wIyXllWUCrtOm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">https://nwfolklife.org/festival/stream.html</span></a></div><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/904c89b75367956a72ea97c472710cf1ea522f5f/original/may-music-livestreams.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></div></div></div></div></div><p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7212021
2023-05-19T04:00:00-12:00
2023-05-19T04:34:19-12:00
Watch 'Synurbic' from Flight Lessons
<p dir="auto">With fledge watches occurring around the Bay Area right now, it seemed like a good time to <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/tb/" role="link" tabindex="0">#TB</a> to my performance of ‘Flight Lessons’ earlier this year. Here’s a bit of ‘Synurbic’* at The Lost Church w/Tania Johnson and Kwame Copeland (Full video on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/YouTube/" role="link" tabindex="0">@YouTube</a> channel)<br>l’m looking forward to presenting another iteration of this musical project later in the year. Stay tuned! <br>synurbic 1. species that thrive in an urban ecosystem. <br>2. adaptation of a wildlife species population to changes in the environment caused by human (i.e. anthropogenic) factors.</p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="h09Bf-qo9ak" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h09Bf-qo9ak?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7172649
2023-03-16T02:34:37-12:00
2023-04-25T13:36:06-12:00
Bay Are Mini-Tour: March 18-22
<h4>This weeks musical fun:</h4><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 x1l90r2v" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_gh"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/0fb5eedf31d0a042fc9bbdbb6b653aee41303796/original/march-shows.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><ul>
<li style="text-align:start;" dir="auto">
<span dir="auto">Saturday, March 18 </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/BayStationBand?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXCGW56YGJ4K2NcI0ctg-qGjnXWwHMkjIITgbEaEfCpt2e4gMU0JaW-JoYb5bFf-T8oruXadN9IlEk_1PzZ5kRdxxBic8l5SyBiRYUkTAHQiP8gZrP1vIfzgRZ6SrH-qAItPYE2wxn9f8oixoOKPag7GLeNjSQMr8tvcOaZHNEs_8XgIN9qpxyB3vZ1htxKBUM&__tn__=-%5DK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">Bay Station</span></a><span dir="auto"> Duo returns to </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/monkeyhousetheater?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXCGW56YGJ4K2NcI0ctg-qGjnXWwHMkjIITgbEaEfCpt2e4gMU0JaW-JoYb5bFf-T8oruXadN9IlEk_1PzZ5kRdxxBic8l5SyBiRYUkTAHQiP8gZrP1vIfzgRZ6SrH-qAItPYE2wxn9f8oixoOKPag7GLeNjSQMr8tvcOaZHNEs_8XgIN9qpxyB3vZ1htxKBUM&__tn__=-%5DK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">The Monkey House</span></a><span dir="auto"> in Berkeley for </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/913307089867308/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXCGW56YGJ4K2NcI0ctg-qGjnXWwHMkjIITgbEaEfCpt2e4gMU0JaW-JoYb5bFf-T8oruXadN9IlEk_1PzZ5kRdxxBic8l5SyBiRYUkTAHQiP8gZrP1vIfzgRZ6SrH-qAItPYE2wxn9f8oixoOKPag7GLeNjSQMr8tvcOaZHNEs_8XgIN9qpxyB3vZ1htxKBUM&__tn__=-UK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">Singer/songwriter Night: Partners in Life and Music</span></a><span dir="auto"> 7pm doors/7:30pm show RSVP ira@themonkeyhouse.org</span>
</li>
<li style="text-align:start;" dir="auto">
<span dir="auto">Sunday, March 19 Michael McNevin, Aireene Espiritu continue the musical birthday celebration at the one and only Mudpuddle Shop in Niles 2pm </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/589025153140340" data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto">Afternoon in the Round</span></a><a data-link-type="url"><span dir="auto"> seats/info </span></a><span dir="auto">RSVP: Michael@MichaelMcNevin.com</span>
</li>
<li style="text-align:start;" dir="auto">
<span dir="auto">Wednesday, March 22 I join Aireene, Sara Rodenburg in a show at the Wednesday </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/747910400181525/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXCGW56YGJ4K2NcI0ctg-qGjnXWwHMkjIITgbEaEfCpt2e4gMU0JaW-JoYb5bFf-T8oruXadN9IlEk_1PzZ5kRdxxBic8l5SyBiRYUkTAHQiP8gZrP1vIfzgRZ6SrH-qAItPYE2wxn9f8oixoOKPag7GLeNjSQMr8tvcOaZHNEs_8XgIN9qpxyB3vZ1htxKBUM&__tn__=-UK-R" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">Songwriter Night at Spreckels Temple of Music GG Bandshell</span></a><span dir="auto"> in San Francisco 4-7pm (I play at 6pm) FREE</span>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:start;" dir="auto"><span dir="auto"> Music, community, peace, love and happiness! Join us!</span></p>
</div></div></div></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7158274
2023-02-21T14:02:47-12:00
2023-02-21T14:02:47-12:00
'Flight Lessons' hatches
<p><span dir="auto">No better crew to cap off my birthday week with! Thanks dear people and the </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/_u/thelostchurchsf?fbclid=IwAR2ra8RJhv4mHnYA7OPYgSZsrj8rwu-Cm_MhRst74DCnn3R5Th7f6wk4zgo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">The Lost Church - SF </span></a><span dir="auto">for catching my musical curveball and </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2F_u%2Fmichaelmcnevinmusic%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2jGRMkUXoDVWLdxxaRTfV6YF6N58AOy2m7Ew2ayiAWhOeOjUO1S__i3ws&h=AT2esrPRD95Y53O_Zh_Hpzd_MDtfnqXbFik9yybd-xkpkKFwCHzYNasTvGiW-Sr-NpHldybBLb4sAFXXj2AIC_lZIGNlz6SgXx1bI1aI_PH3ZCkat2fy3OOBMb6J99jjXoJAV2g&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT02aVsHWuQFay_CMhA8qu9DCRxh59f9Yd4wpfNbZI6tcF25bc6jCrDS0uLKEDaca0rXnd0t3Fp_mgI9U3mUzH8UM0Z32gTkVVrvYY-9yCoEvpzTBmRl6cFq5XtunuhaiH7o2sSgIoBMBrqYGmP0zfLsBq3cHfVOI4wuxzEP44BhmXBU75mn9fl7zRt4C4Jj3KAueDzGWo1ZwuA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0"><span dir="auto">Michael McNevin </span></a><span dir="auto">for sharing another memorable show. My heart is full! I’m excited to continue developing ‘Flight Lessons’!</span></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/392193/3fcfc9ce5b64146b5718b91a6b5c62a98fb47528/original/flight-lesson-taking-flight.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" />
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7148648
2023-02-04T03:22:41-12:00
2023-02-04T03:22:41-12:00
It’s my birthday month and I’m debuting new work!
<p>In March 2020, just before the pandemic lockdown, I spent two weeks as a resident at Chalk Hill Vineyards, initiating work on what I envisioned to be a bird-themed musical. Then the world shutdown, it was hard to imagine staging anything, and my creative energy pivoted to porch concerts and local zines. But I've kept chipping away at the project here and there over the past few years, playing the occasional ‘bird song’ around the house and tending to my initial inspiration. So when me and Michael McNevin booked a reboot of our annual February birthday show, it seemed like a great time to ready a performance of the project in its current folk opera form. <br>Please join us in San Francisco, Saturday, February 18, 2023 and help us celebrate! I'll be debuting Flight Lessons followed by a set of Michael's inimitable songs. </p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Deborah Crooks &amp; Michael McNevin Birthday Show " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/McNevinCrooksBdayFeb18" target="_blank">Deborah Crooks & Michael McNevin Birthday Show </a></h3>
<p>Award-winning songwriter and tireless troubadour Michael McNevin spent most of the pandemic years live-streaming shows from his renowned Mudpuddle Music Shop. He was recently signed to Baker Booking roster and expects to be touring much of the remainder of the year so it's a great time to catch him in SF. <br>I'll be joined by Kwame Copeland and Tania Johnson to fledge the first iteration of my musical-in-progress Flight Lessons which I began writing as an artist-in-residence at Chalk Hill. Come help us celebrate! </p>
<ul> <li><strong>Saturday, February 18, 2023 </strong></li> <li><strong>The Lost Church, 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco </strong></li> <li><strong>$15 Doors at 7pm; Show at 7:30pm. There’ll be an intermission between acts.</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Buy Tickets" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/McNevinCrooksBdayFeb18" target="_blank"><span class="font_large">Buy Tickets</span></a></h3>
<p><span class="font_large"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/af3a56b40a197e37eb9c69e80b6c3f52e050a22c/original/tlc-2-18-23.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7137226
2023-01-12T19:00:00-12:00
2023-01-12T19:00:02-12:00
Tickets on Sale Now for The Lost Church Feb, 18, 2023
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/McNevinCrooksBdayFeb18"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/af3a56b40a197e37eb9c69e80b6c3f52e050a22c/original/tlc-2-18-23.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>I'm very much looking forward to resuming my tradition of sharing a bill with my pal, songwriter Michael McNevin, around our respective February birthdays. We return to the Lost Church San Francisco in its cool, new location in North Beach. We'd love to see you THERE. Pus, I'll be debuting all new material— songs from my musical/folk opera that I started in 2020. Join us! Tickets can be purchased in advance<a contents=" HERE. " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tinyurl.com/McNevinCrooksBdayFeb18" target="_blank"> HERE. </a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7137225
2023-01-12T11:34:24-12:00
2023-01-12T11:34:24-12:00
Bay Station in the East Bay Express
<p>Always nice to get some local press! Check out the feature on Bay Station in this week’s <a contents="East Bay Express." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://eastbayexpress.com/bay-station/"><em>East Bay Express.</em></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://eastbayexpress.com/bay-station/"><em><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/2c7d835b3cfd4381b7dbaad28e67d80742c0db43/original/bay-station-in-east-bay-express.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></em></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7128884
2022-12-25T08:00:00-12:00
2022-12-27T03:20:48-12:00
'Happy Holidays' Lighted Boat Edition
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="hz6xNaLunxo" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/hz6xNaLunxo/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hz6xNaLunxo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7093111
2022-11-01T05:20:34-12:00
2022-11-01T05:20:35-12:00
November Music: 19 Voices and What's Next
<p>It was exceedingly gratifying to help platform 19 women and nonbinary Voices for Choice to benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds on Sunday. Thanks again to those who came out to Casements Bar and supported our efforts. Between the amazing music and OvinLoven's off-the-hook bake sale we raised close to two thousand dollars to help those who need safe, fair reproductive health care. An energizing and inspiring day all around. My co-conspirator in 19 Voices, Aireene Espiritu, and I plan to do more such events in 2023. For now, its back to regular programming, preparing for a handful of shows in November and December, working on some recording ...and voting!<br>Take care out there 🎶🙏🏼 Deborah <br><br>19 Voices 10/30/22 at Casements Bar featuring Aireene Espiritu, Amie Penwell, Amy MacClain, Cecilia Long, Deborah Crooks, Emily Bonn, Emily Zisman, Francesca Lee, Genesis Fermin, Gisela Tangui, The Keller Sisters, Laura Benitez, Marina Crouse, Megan McLaughlin, Melissa Phillips, Meredith Edgar, Nina Jo Smith, Vicki Randle & Ziva.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/c9698451fe90074d1c017935e8d5685335cf246f/original/19-voices-show.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7075655
2022-10-06T03:01:26-12:00
2022-10-06T03:01:26-12:00
Fall into Music: Music in the park and for a cause
<p>The San Francisco arts nonprofit Illuminate has created what it calls the “Golden Mile Project” along the JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park, several weeks of delightful art programming including music! I'll be playing a solo set as part of the series of performances this coming Friday on the Golden Stage. Come on out! </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Friday, October 7, 2022 3:30-4:15pm </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Deborah Crooks at Golden Mile Project's Music Mosey </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Golden Stage, JFK Promenade, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/39ac0f983ce6b0eeb07bbbaf56a308baaf33cf32/original/untitled-design.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>For the past several months, my pal Aireene Espiritu and I have been putting our heads together about how to support the moment with our music and voices. We landed on organizing a fundraiser featuring 19 women/non-binary artists lending their voices in support of freedom of choice. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="19 Voices for Choice&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/622534049513157">19 Voices for Choice </a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A benefit concert for reproductive rights </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sunday, October 30, 2022 3-6pm <br>Casements Bar (outdoor back patio) <br>2351 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 </p>
<p>Featuring Aireene Espiritu, Amie Penwell, Amy MacClain, Cecilia Long, Deborah Crooks, Emily Bonn, Emily Zisman, Francesca Lee, Genesis Fermin, Gisela Tangui, Laura Benitez, Marina Crouse, Megan McLaughlin, Melissa Phillips, Meredith Edgar, Nina Jo Smith, Vicki Randle & more. No cover. All proceeds will go to the National Network of Abortion Funds. Save the date! And then come out and enjoy music from this amazing lineup and yummy baked goodness from @ovinlovin and more!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/8da5e34c6b193bdcd7978ede0c60875309428450/original/19-voices-instagram-post.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7052565
2022-09-03T05:44:48-12:00
2022-09-14T03:20:22-12:00
September music: Join me in Novato, San Francisco and Alameda 🎶
<p>Hello there, <br>With shows around the SF Bay and on the coast most every weekend in September, it's gearing up to be another full month of music and community. I'd love to see you in the mix. 🌸 Deborah </p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Live music in September </h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> Saturday, September 3, 2022 5:30pm-7:30pm </strong></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Bay Station, Erica Sorenson at Blue Barn Novato </h4>
<p style="text-align: center;">819 Grant Ave, Novato, CA 94945 <br>Free, all ages, outdoor performance </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Sunday, September 4, 2022 3-6pm </strong></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Bay Station duo at SF Brewing Company </strong></h4>
<p style="text-align: center;">3150 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109 </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Sunday, September 11, 2022 9am-1pm </strong></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Bay Station duo at West Point Inn </strong></h4>
<p style="text-align: center;">Fire Road, 100 Old Railroad Grade, Mill Valley, CA 94941 </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> The Inn is accessible by foot or bicycle. For various starting points that offer different levels of hiking and biking trails (plus parking options) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Sunday, September 18, 2022 2pm-4pm </strong></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Bay Station (trio) at The Preacher's Daughter </strong></h4>
<p style="text-align: center;">1629 Park St, Alameda, CA 94501, Alameda, CA </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/7029132
2022-08-02T05:40:44-12:00
2022-08-02T05:40:44-12:00
Live music in August
<p>I'm just returned from three weeks of camping, glamping, gigging, cabining, friends & family-ing, birding, hot springs-dipping, dinosaur-visiting adventures across the Western states. It was good for my mind and body to get out of town, see some new sights and generally reset for what's next. This month features playing a lot of relaxed, outdoor gigs with Bay Station and planning for some special shows and another Love the Bay tour this fall. I'd love to see you out there!</p>
<p>Live music this month </p>
<p>August 6, 2022 Bay Station Duo, Calicraft Brewing, 2700 Mitchel Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 5-8pm </p>
<p>August 10, 2022 Bay Station Duo,, Wood Family Vineyards, 2407 Research Dr., Livermore, CA 4pm-7pm </p>
<p>August 13, 2022 Bay Station Duo, Bottletaps, 3020 Bernal Ave, Suite 160, Pleasanton, CA 6-9pm </p>
<p>August 14, 2022 Bay Statiom Trio, The Preacher’s Daughter Wine Bar, 1629 Park St. Alameda, CA 2-4pm </p>
<p>August 20, 2022 Pt. Reyes Farmer’s Market, 11250 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 9am-1pm </p>
<p>August 26, 2022 Bay Station Duo, Charles R Winery, 8195 Crane Ridge Rd, Livermore, CA 5-8pm</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6995397
2022-06-16T05:54:22-12:00
2023-12-10T06:26:43-12:00
Music My Mother Would Not Like 2nd Anniversary Show - June 28
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/2132d1a3572f0d4f29f6037615189bf5f8affdfa/original/fb-events-6-28-2022.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />I'm looking forward to playing this songwriter showcase — the Music My Mother Would Not Like 2nd Anniversary Show — on June 28 with the amazing and excellent Michael McNevin and Tom Prasada-Rao! Register now to save your Zoom-room seat.</p>
<p>A showcase concert celebrating two years of presenting Music My Mother Would Not Like shows on Zoom with National touring artists. <br>Our guest performers will be: <br>Deborah Crooks <br>Michael McNevin and Tom Prasada-Rao </p>
<p>REGISTER <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocO2pqDwtHtKVXA8DBsohgXcHAbjiBMiY?fbclid=IwAR3ISLiBw5CtBKdoH2BAhnUNKhy9YHAXGTAx_m-T92MTBAcfMz9e-oQUjNI">HERE</a></p>
<p>There may be a surprise or two as well. <br>We are limiting our virtual seats to 100 so please register early: <br> <br>The concert is by donation. We depend on your support to keep the series running!</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6961139
2022-05-01T03:37:34-12:00
2022-05-01T03:37:34-12:00
May Day and more music this month
<p>With shows around the SF Bay and on the coast most every weekend in May, it's gearing up to be a busy month. I'm so down to play a bunch of new and vintage songs at these mostly outdoor events and venues, starting tomorrow, Sunday, May 1 with Bay Station, when we play outside at Alameda's new Waterfront Park on The Point. Join me! <br> </p>
<h4 class="null" style="text-align: center;">Live music in May</h4>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sunday, May 1, 2022 1-3pm</p>
<h3 class="null" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/487613199736336" target="_blank">Bay Station Trio at Waterfront Park on Alameda Point</a></h3>
<h4 class="null" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:17px">Free, outdoor, all-ages show made possible by Whippoorwill Music aLIVE and The City of Alameda </span></h4>
<div style="text-align: center;">2151 Ferry Point, Alameda, CA </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">Bike, bus or ferry to the new Alameda Point Waterfront Park on Alameda Point at the end of the Cross Alameda Trail. Regular weekend service to Alameda Main street from SF Ferry Terminal. The waterfront park is a 5 minute bike ride from the Main street terminal where you can also catch the free Trolley service to nearby Almanac Brewery.<br><br>Sunday, May 8, 2022 9am-1pm<h3 class="null" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.westpointinn.com/" target="_blank">Bay Station duo at West Point Inn</a></h3>
<h4 class="null" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:17px">Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast </span></h4>
<div style="text-align: center;">Fire Road, 100 Old Railroad Grade, Mill Valley, CA 94941</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"> The Inn is accessible by foot or bicycle. For various starting points that offer different levels of hiking and biking trails (plus parking options) see <a href="https://www.westpointinn.com/hike-bike-park" target="_blank">HERE.</a><br><br>Saturday, May 14, 2022 6pm-9pm<h3 class="null" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://deborahcrooks.com/shows" target="_blank">Deborah Crooks at Davenport Roadhouse</a></h3>
<h4 class="null" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:17px">Acoustic Duo on the coast </span></h4>
<div style="text-align: center;">1 Davenport Ave, Davenport, CA 95017</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">I've a lot of history in and around Davenport so I'm doubly excited to<em> play</em> in this oceanside town.<br><span style="font-size:12px"><em>visit site for full calendar</em></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6961140
2022-04-22T03:00:00-12:00
2022-05-01T03:39:16-12:00
Watch "Beauty Everywhere" (Earth Day Edition)
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i_P13V2dOP4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6940072
2022-04-04T06:55:47-12:00
2022-04-04T06:55:47-12:00
Episode #259 Hangover Sessions
<p>I was a guest on a recent episode of DJ Webble's Hangover Sessions podcast/radio show. Take a listen here:</p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="232" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/5SXAkT2ELnEWSV9fY52lBX?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius:12px" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6917934
2022-03-09T05:22:45-12:00
2022-04-11T02:23:49-12:00
April Open Studio at Chalk Hill
<p>At the very beginning of March 2020 I was immersed in a songwriting residency at Chalk Hill, slated to perform some of what I'd worked on there at their Spring Open Studio. Well, that got shuttled as the pandemic shutdowns began. I went home and started a residency of another kind altogether, and porch concerts and other pandemic-related projects got underway. Blink, and here I am, two years later, happy to say that belated Spring Open Studio is happening Saturday, April 2, 1-4pm at Warnecke Ranch and Vineyards in Healdsburg. I'll be playing music and a dozen visual artists who have spent time at the residency in 2020, 2021, or 2022 will be showing their work.</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3IQusPQ18/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3IQusPQ18/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3IQusPQ18/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div>
</div>
<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3IQusPQ18/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Chalk Hill Artist Residency (@chalkhillartistresidency)</a></p>
</div></blockquote><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6910624
2022-03-01T06:30:18-12:00
2022-03-01T06:30:18-12:00
Lift Every Voice! March is International Women's Month
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mailchi.mp/0b5a33e29a2f/join-me-at-the-golden-gate-bandshell-march-16-4-7pm?e=2a3b34c9a0" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/545217c1f0f08c684a126c9a44951a3481b6a1ca/original/dc-lift-every-voice.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6903913
2022-02-22T03:17:57-12:00
2022-02-22T03:17:57-12:00
Illuminate Arts SF, Recreation & Parks, SF Parks Alliance Music Series at Golden Gate Bandshell
<p>Very much looking forward to returning to play the Golden Gate Bandshell on March 16 as part of the music series that Illuminate Arts SF Recreation and Parks and SF Parks Alliance are presenting at the iconic stage. Full band show with an opening set by Aireene Espiritu. Free/All Ages | 4pm-7pm. Mark your calendar and join us in this <a contents="special place!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sfrecpark.org/1570/Golden-Gate-Bandshell-Concerts">special place!</a><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/8774a80fc321a2ef987e12ce7d64acabe63dbda4/original/march-16-flyer.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6897282
2022-02-14T04:16:46-12:00
2022-02-14T04:16:46-12:00
Happy Valentines Day + New Show added March 16 at Golden Gate Park Bandshell
<p>Happy Valentine’s Day “My New Sweet” redux for you. Put on your red dress, eat some chocolate and love who you love! In other news, I’m starting to add some live music dates to the calendar, including a March 16 return to the Golden Gate Bandshell with my band. Save the date! Woo-hoo! </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="spcqJMW-a50" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/spcqJMW-a50/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/spcqJMW-a50?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6881055
2022-01-27T06:18:15-12:00
2022-01-27T06:18:15-12:00
This Saturday! January's Quaranpalooza Livestream
<p>I haven't embraced live streaming as much as may have been advisable for an indie artist making music amid a pandemic; nonetheless, I've participated in a bunch of the monthly Quaranpalooza livestream music fests since John Rybak started them in 2020. Equal parts virtual music fest, song-relay and musician 'open-studio', each Quaranpalooza represents a wide swath of the musical stew out there bubbling away while we all weather the variables and variants of living amid Covid. I'm going to put into the Quaranpalooza stream again this Saturday, one of more than two dozen acts Zooming in from NYC, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Malaysia, Upstate NY as well as here in the Bay Area. The $15 price not only supports all of our musical efforts, a portion goes to Bay Area Cancer Connections. Join in anytime 11:30am-9:30pm PT (My set is at 6:15pm). Tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/january-2022-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-250110877367" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/january-2022-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-250110877367"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/a1aea082399974759971de9b1ebcc1030fd65b9c/original/livestreaming.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6864496
2022-01-10T06:17:58-12:00
2022-01-10T06:17:58-12:00
Looking back, going forward
<h3 class="null" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size:24px"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,times new roman,serif"><strong>Looking back, going forward </strong></span></span><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/9d9af44c-b62e-b7c5-3be0-43cb80a09349.jpg" class="size_orig justify_right border_" height="300" style="border: 0px; width: 300px; height: 300px; margin: 0px; " width="300" /></h3>
<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size:18px"><em>aka what I created/co-created in 2021 and what's brewing/continuing into the New Year.</em></span>
</div>
<h3 class="null" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Music</strong></span></h3>
<ul> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">Bay Station's <a href="https://baystationband.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-safe-and-sound" target="_blank"><em><strong>Beyond the Safe and Sound</strong> </em></a>(April 9, 2021). Six new songs co-written with Kwame and recorded at home, in porches and remote studios. </span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong><a href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/twin-lakes" target="_blank"><em>Twin Lakes</em> EP </a></strong>(May 21, 2021): Three new songs relfecting the events of 2020-21. Recorded at home and via flying in parts from the rythm section. </span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">Bay Station's<strong> Love the Bay Video Series: </strong>We produced two new artist spotlight artists episodes (with Ben Bernstein (<a href="https://youtu.be/RcxyLUnC0Sg" target="_blank">#16</a>) and Francesca Lee (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VUEPFrN3eQ" target="_blank">#17</a>)) during a brief free & easy feeling window this summer AND a pandemic-themed<a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3ndEmVSzklmgKNp5ZseGPhe" target="_blank"> Love the Bay Tour</a> featuring single-song performances by nearly a dozen Bay Area artists. Available for your viewing pleasure on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRcPy2O--P9DphKS-C4pZSQ" target="_blank">YouTube.</a> Kwame and I plan to do another LTB SF Bay tour in the spring. We'll resume filming features when it feels safe to do so.</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">"A Whole Lotta Reasons to Freak Out" My co-write with Stefan Gustafson was released as a single. Watch the video <a href="https://youtu.be/_uc6VFR7eoo" target="_blank">HERE. </a></span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">Upon review, I've a growing collection of as-yet-unreleased songs. Likewise, Kwame and I just came out of a week-long writing intensive in the desert so expect new music in 2022.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class="null" style="text-align: left;"><strong>Words</strong></h3>
<ul> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">I ramped up my prose writing again this year, doing more freelance <a href="https://deborahcrooks.com/writing" target="_blank">writing,</a> continuing to edit <em><a href="https://deborahcrooks.com/bay-station-eagle" target="_blank">The Bay Station Eagle</a> </em>zine, leading generative<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvceutqj0qHNGrS45Dha7txNOAkrx9teqC" target="_blank"> workshops</a> and re-envisioning my old Bird in the Tree blog on Substack. Read/subscribe <a href="https://deborahcrooks.substack.com/" target="_blank">HERE.</a></span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class="null" style="text-align: left;">Yoga </h3>
<ul> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">The by-donation yoga classes I taught in the early days of the pandemic have morphed into a regular schedule. Find out more<a href="https://deborahcrooks.com/yoga" target="_blank"> HERE.</a></span></li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br><span style="font-size:14px"> Let me know if you have any questions or comments: I'd love to hear from you!<br>Here's to a happier new year, Deborah</span>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6854235
2021-12-29T02:56:15-12:00
2022-01-25T14:55:04-12:00
Join me and New Year's Eve Quaranpalooza LiveStream
<p>The latest in this series of multi-performer, multi-genre livestream music festivals is a true extravaganza. QuaranPalooza NYE is number 20, with 22 performers and 9 3/4 hours of music for you. This Friday 12/31<strong> 2:30PM - 12:15AM PDT</strong>, with performers from NYC, Wisconsin, Malaysia and more from The San Francisco Bay Area! </p>
<p><a contents="A $15 ticket" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-229468455327?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb" target="_blank">Pick up a $15 ticket</a> to join artists in The Zoom, with 25% of the ticket price going to Bay Area Cancer Connections. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-229468455327?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/48911ef86a430cc328c778aad951436d1da4060b/original/qupnye.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Featuring:</p>
<p>2:30-2:50 Ladies Rock Night </p>
<p>2:55-3:15 Craig Greenberg </p>
<p>3:20-3:35 Nikki Nash </p>
<p>3:40-3:55 Az Samad </p>
<p>4-4:30 David Gans </p>
<p>4:35-4:55 Deborah Crooks </p>
<p>5-5:15 Sunny </p>
<p>5:20-5:40 The Sapsuckers </p>
<p>5:45-6:05 Bert Lee </p>
<p>6:10-6:30 Mjoy </p>
<p>6:35-6:50 David Jesitus </p>
<p>6:55-7:10 Katherine Park </p>
<p>7:15-7:35 Annie Hendrix </p>
<p>7:40-8 Aharon Wheels Bolsta </p>
<p>8:05-8:25 Michael Rosen </p>
<p>8:30-8:55 Lisa Graciano </p>
<p>9-9:25 Frances Ancheta Becker </p>
<p>9:30-9:50 Laura Benitez </p>
<p>9:55-10:15 Kevin Radley </p>
<p>10:20-10:40 John Rybak </p>
<p>10:45-11:25 DB Walker Band </p>
<p>11:30-12:15 The Genie </p>
<p>Tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-229468455327">HERE</a></p>
<p> On <a contents="Facebook" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1067839437402077">Facebook</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6850926
2021-12-24T07:11:35-12:00
2023-12-01T04:06:24-12:00
"Celebrate (Happy Holidays to You)"
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="gbvSYFf42gg" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/gbvSYFf42gg/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gbvSYFf42gg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="320" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6839112
2021-12-12T13:00:00-12:00
2022-05-17T18:40:00-12:00
Read Bird in the Tree on Substack
<p>While I send out a monthly music newsletter about my upcoming gigs and new recordings, I've been doing a lot of writing these past couple of years — about living in the Bay Area during the pandemic, about the local music scene, about creative projects and process of different kinds, about learning to be a better sailor and my avian conservation volunteerism — that doesn’t all fit that category… so I've started a Substack called<em> Bird in the Tree</em>! I'll be sharing a new post each week and I'd love for you to check it out. Read and subscribe here:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="320" scrolling="no" src="https://deborahcrooks.substack.com/embed" style="border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;" width="480"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6831974
2021-12-06T09:52:18-12:00
2021-12-06T09:52:18-12:00
Department of the West Turns 2
<p>“To get from then to now/I don’t know how we did it….” Two years ago today — a lifetime ago and then some! — I released The Department of the West. I loved making this record with an amazing crew of musicians - Danny Allen Kevin White, Mike Stevens, Maryam Qudus, with special guest artists Heather Davison, Maurice Tani and Kwame Copeland. kevintwhitebass While I’m looking forward to future recording projects, I’m appreciating I got this out there before #covid times.</p>
<p><a contents="Read the review at The Rocking Magpie" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/deborah-crooks-the-department-of-the-west/">Read the review at <em>The Rocking Magpie</em></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/4eNAkk0nELmakOezozccaP?utm_source=generator" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1658118236/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6831971
2021-12-05T10:00:00-12:00
2021-12-06T09:48:12-12:00
Lighted Boat Parade!
<p>Kwame and I have talked about doing the local Lighted Boat Parade in our folk boat for years but time constraints or something else have always interfered. Last year, we ordered oodles of extra lights in preparation and they arrived the day before the event was canceled due to Covid. We did up the porch instead but we're glad the parade was on again for 2021. We started decorating earlier in the week and got it together to be on the water last night (including a live musical component). Fun! And beautiful out there on the Oakland-Alameda Estuary. There were 45 official entrants at last count and, if we heard the VHS correctly at the end of the night, we came in second place among the sailboats! <br>Thanks to friends & neighbors for footage of Espresso from shore/their vessels.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/f97ec6c74b44c2d47c94cd722bc9e90d18b54309/original/20211204-180142.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6824106
2021-11-29T02:38:56-12:00
2021-11-29T02:39:35-12:00
Friday Music Series at El Vaquero Winery December 3 6-9 pm
<p>I'll be making a solo appearance at El Vaquero Winery in Corralitos, CA, this Friday amid Michael Gaither's Friday music series at <a contents="El Vaquero Winery" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.elvaquerowinery.com/events" target="_blank">El Vaquero Winery</a> featuring Henry Chadwick. El Vaquero is a family owned and operated winery in Corralitos that specializes in producing small lot single vineyard designate wines from Corralitos, Santa Cruz Mountains, and neighboring appellations. A beautiful spot not far from where I grew up. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A night of live music Friday, December 3 6-9 pm </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">at <a contents="El Vaquero Winery&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.elvaquerowinery.com/events" target="_blank">El Vaquero Winery </a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Make a reservation <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/evwevents" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/c8f9875098671963e7befa09db182b205aad9a78/original/el-vacquero.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6822285
2021-11-26T11:12:52-12:00
2021-11-26T11:12:52-12:00
November 27 Quaranpalooza Livestream Music Fest for a Cause
<p> I've so enjoyed starting to play and see live music again more regularly in recent weeks. Nonetheless, there's still ample opportunity to enjoy livestreams from the comfort of home, including this Saturday, for the next <a contents="QuaranPalooza Livestream Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-213821183917">QuaranPalooza Livestream Festival</a>. This is the 19th multi-performer, multi-genre event John Rybak has produced since 2020. The latest iteration features 20 (!) different artists, including myself, Michael McNevin, Amy MacClain, Az Samad, David Gans and many more. Music starts at noon; I'm on to close out the day at 7:05 pm. Grab a ticket <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-213821183917">HERE</a> and Zoom in. It's not only an opportunity to support local musicians, a portion of proceeds benefit a good cause, with 25% of ticket sales going to Bay Area Cancer Connections. Tune in!</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-213821183917" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/1c82f650e7dbe3037ad3495b6e1af513fbb85384/original/https-cdn-evbuc-com-images-188413679-110646061461-1-original.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6822753
2021-11-25T03:30:00-12:00
2021-11-27T03:17:50-12:00
A bit from the Bandshell "Department of the West"
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWwZwpGDhWj/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWwZwpGDhWj/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWwZwpGDhWj/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div>
</div>
<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWwZwpGDhWj/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a></p>
</div></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6812605
2021-11-16T16:00:00-12:00
2021-11-17T04:00:41-12:00
Live Music in Point San Pablo Harbor, Richmond FRIDAY Nov. 19
<p>Point San Pablo Harbor is a once-upon whaling station along Richmond's San Pablo Bay which has more recently been transformed into a groovy hangout for those looking for a local getaway. Over the past few years, a band of creatives have installed an outdoor gallery of large sculpture, lighted paths, gardens and a goat farm(!), a community hall and restaurant. <br>The restaurant, <a contents="Black Star Pirate BBQ" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.blackstarpig.com/" target="_blank">Black Star Pirate BBQ</a>, serves up tasty plates, cocktails and generally good vibes on its sheltered back patio complete with a stage overlooking the marina. I played there with Bay Station a couple of weeks ago and we had a great time. This Friday, I'm returning to play a set to open for Kate Burkart Band. I'll be accompanied by Danny Allen, the excellent artist/guitarist/producer who helped me create and fledge The Department of the West record before the pandemic changes all our courses. I'm on early, at 5pm and music goes til 8pm. Join us!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/76bfc1f31f263826f0406847d576d928c37783a0/original/pirate-show-11-19.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6793761
2021-11-01T05:32:37-12:00
2021-11-01T05:32:37-12:00
November Music News: Live and Virtual
<p>Many years ago, during October, I spent a weekend with a bunch of artists and then hiked up a favorite trail to hang a wedding dress in a yellow-leaved cottonwood tree. No one tells you what to do with a wedding dress after a split, and I'd moved around Colorado with the boxed relic for a few months before that weekend, wondering what to do with it. I finally arrived at leaving it to the elements. Surprisingly, the dress would make it through wind, rain and a snowstorm before finally disappearing altogether on November 1, the Day of the Dead. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/1130b24684825767f57982bfcd3648b102fd6948/original/portland-in-fall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>In the more than two decades since, I've thought of Nov 1 as both a day to celebrate my departed loved ones and my commitment to the creative path. Art-making — be it music, writing, or marking up the sidewalk with chalk — has been a key through line amid a lot of challenges since... and enriched my life more than I could possibly have imagined during that long-ago Colorado autumn.</p>
<p>This most recent October, I had an exceedingly fun and special afternoon playing the Golden Gate Bandshell as part as the Golden Gat Bandshell Folk Fest. It was even more so to see some beautiful faces I haven’t see in way too long. The day reignited my excitement about playing live, and I'm happy to have added another date to the calendar this month at another outdoor venue. I'll also be taking another turn at the monthly Quaranpalooza fest. Come out, tune in and take care. 💕Deborah Upcoming Performances </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/e08cbb41460a815304b7da9ac43b9d619c096d47/original/bandshell-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Friday, November 19, 2021 5pm-8pm Point San Pablo Harbor, 1900 Stenmark Dr, Richmond, CA 94801 Opening for Kate Burkart Band <br>Saturday, November 27, 2021 Quaranpalooza, Online music fest. Set time tbd </p>
<p>Subscribe to the newsletter <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mailchi.mp/ada1160abdf1/november-music-live-and-virtual" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6791792
2021-10-30T06:49:28-12:00
2021-10-30T06:49:28-12:00
Department of the West #TB
<p>It's been almost two years since <em>The Department of the West </em>was released and I'm happy to see its staying alive out there in people's ears and memories. I appreciated this review from Rocking Magpie when it came out:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">At times even I forget what great and such diverse music we've brought you over the last few years; as a for instance .... here's Deborah Crooks THE DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST <a href="https://t.co/g4qv2NenFv">https://t.co/g4qv2NenFv</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/deborahcrooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@deborahcrooks</a></p>— Rocking Magpie (@RockingMagpie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RockingMagpie/status/1454511010048585732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2021</a>
</blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6784347
2021-10-22T11:57:29-12:00
2021-10-22T11:57:29-12:00
WOS Podcast #1294 Building Community & Coming Together
#1294 Music by Frances Ancheta, World Fusion Music Productions feat. Nwankwo Mercy aka June, Deborah Crooks, Merrill Collins and many more
<iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/20801822/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f80592/" height="90" width="100%" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6784367
2021-10-20T12:00:00-12:00
2021-10-22T12:04:01-12:00
Live at the Bandshell
<p>So fun and special to play the Golden Gate Bandshell on Sunday as part as the GG Bandshell Folk Fest and even more so to see some beautiful faces I haven’t see in way too long. <br> <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/8def2a8dff47ce7a90c0fae9aac2d4c4801f7964/original/bandshell-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>Extra thanks to Steffen Franz, and Pete Kronowitt for rounding us all up and these photos!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/e08cbb41460a815304b7da9ac43b9d619c096d47/original/bandshell-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6777063
2021-10-15T05:31:26-12:00
2022-05-09T06:57:26-12:00
WOS Music with a Conscience Playlist
Hear “We’re All In This Together” on the Women of Substance WOS Music With A Conscience playlist on Spotify!
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7CggVK8vonwMTOegqWo85C?theme=0" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6774684
2021-10-13T03:55:21-12:00
2021-10-13T03:55:21-12:00
Sunday in the Park!
<p>Though I’ve been enjoying spending a lot of time standing on boats and hills during the past few weeks, I’m looking forward to standing on a stage this coming Sunday in San Francisco at the Golden Gate Park Bandshell. Amid a full afternoon of music, I’ll play a set at 3pm. Come on out!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sunday, October 17, 12-4pm</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Golden Gate Park Folk Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sfrecpark.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=1484" target="_blank">Golden Gate Park Folk Festival</a> Music Concourse Drive <br>San Francisco, CA 94118</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Featuring Adrian West, V Maund, Megan Keely, Pete Kronowitt, Deborah Crooks, and Brother Spellbinder</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/991c84b3a2a44ff86f5922e4d7e174e37572bc02/original/ggpark-bandshell.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6768822
2021-10-07T04:22:47-12:00
2021-10-07T04:22:47-12:00
Whole Lotta Reasons to Freak Out
<p>I'm always game for a cowrite, in no small part because it helps give me a very different perspective. So it was fun to play a small lyrical hand in this new tune by Stefan Gustafsson (whose wheelhouse is pretty different than mine!): </p>
<p>Whole Lotta Reasons To Freak Out (feat. Xan Gotz, and Danny Shorago </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="_uc6VFR7eoo" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/_uc6VFR7eoo/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_uc6VFR7eoo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="630" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6767236
2021-10-05T13:24:26-12:00
2021-10-06T01:46:39-12:00
Love the Bay tour '21...and that's a wrap
<div style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;">Wow, what a fun long weekend of sailing and music it was in Bay Station world. It was so awesome to welcome another amazing crew of artists aboard <em>Espresso</em>. Kwame and I feel fortunate to know so many dedicated artists in the Bay Area and were doubly grateful for beautiful weather and fair winds. We’re looking forward to doing more Love the Bay excursions using this short video format!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3ndEmVSzklmgKNp5ZseGPhe" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/3e4b111c43b80314d143c60647384e238485e247/original/ltb-tour-21.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Check out the full video playlist featuring performances by Alex Walsh, Paul Griffiths, Maggie Forti, Teja Gerken, Erica Sorenson, Kwame Copeland, Bay Station, Danny Allen, Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan and Kate Burkart on the Bay Station <strong><a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3ndEmVSzklmgKNp5ZseGPhe" style="" target="_blank">YouTube Channel.</a> </strong>Let us know what you think!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="2pr20H1OAmU" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2pr20H1OAmU/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2pr20H1OAmU?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6758291
2021-09-26T15:01:43-12:00
2021-09-26T15:01:43-12:00
One Year of the Bay Station Eagle
<p>Winter, spring, summer and fall…the latest fall issue of <em><a contents="The Bay Station Eagle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/bay-station-eagle" style="">The Bay Station Eagle</a></em> is actually the fifth issue of the ‘neighborhood journal’/ zine borne out of sheltering in place in 2020. As the world began reckoning with the COVID-19 pandemic, I got to know and appreciate my neighborhood that much better and wanted to celebrate it. I reached out to local writers and artists, neighbor Jennifer Daley whipped up a great design & voila!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/4d1d1152dca9ef7685c6af80f9c0dd1970e893b2/original/bay-station-eagle-4top.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6743502
2021-09-12T08:00:00-12:00
2021-09-12T08:00:01-12:00
🎶 Venturing out 🎶 Saturday 9/18 at The Lost Church Santa Rosa
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/dfab8fc9364029457af54c8825bf1d39b8d5b8b0/original/tlc-logo.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />I’m playing a real live show next weekend at the newly reopened (and still pretty new) <a contents="Lost Church- Santa Rosa" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/instances/a0F3s000008SpcCEAS">Lost Church- Santa Rosa</a> on a bill with Alison Harris. This show was rescheduled from March 2020 & TLC has since put in a bunch of safety measures — including excellent ventilation through the venue's large roll-up doors, proof of vaccination at door, a mask policy, distancing and capacity limits. I hope you’ll be there. Saturday, September 18. Tickets available in advance <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/instances/a0F3s000008SpcCEAS">HERE.</a> <br>I've really missed playing out regularly, something I notice every time I actually do play for others in a live setting. Expression and connection are lifeblood. Here's to more of it! </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/d410d3c87ff784b5efeb15ea2fbde6249226620c/original/tlc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6743500
2021-09-11T14:45:33-12:00
2021-09-11T14:45:33-12:00
Twenty years
<p>I notice in nearly all the memory posts of 9/11 I've made as we've ticked through the years since that day, a mention of blue sky. Adrenaline sharpens one's senses and that vivid blue is among the details emblazoned in my mind, like the sound of the other people who had stopped to watch from a small park gasping at the actual sight of seeing the towers fall. What did it mean that a sky could be so clear and something so dark could come from it? What did it mean that the sky was so bright and blue even after something so terrible had happened? What did it mean to be standing on green grass, unscathed, as thousands of people were being killed a couple of miles away? <br>As much as that day was traumatic, it reminded me both what a privilege it is just to be alive and how short life is. <br>All week, as this 20th anniversary has approached, and the phrase 'never forget' keeps coming up, I'm aware that I still somehow have the privilege of asking and attempting to answer those questions, even as we simultaneously lurch through the slower-motion disaster that is the pandemic and the accelerating catastrophe that is climate change. If you're reading this, you do, too. <br>While a whole lot of less considered and consequential responses came from 9/11, among the other imprinted memories I have of that day in New York is of people being selfless and kind and considerate to one another. If there's ever a time to make efforts toward the good, of others not just yourself, it's now.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7b9e2021e4622752b4fa19b12986307d0e182580/original/pelicans-at-elsie-roemer.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6735232
2021-09-03T06:17:47-12:00
2021-09-03T06:17:47-12:00
Video: "Department of the West" live + Bandcamp Friday
<p>I played a virtual set for San Francisco Free Folk Fest 2021 with Kwame and Ben a couple months ago. This tune, the title track of my latest full-length record "Department of the West" has been on heavy rotation in my performing and rehearsing life again these days. And I'm proud of the full-band version on the record, available everywhere including <a contents="Bandcamp, " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-department-of-the-west">Bandcamp, </a>which is waving its fees today and sending all proceeds from sales to artists. Get it <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-department-of-the-west" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="cLhm-VpFn6Q" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/cLhm-VpFn6Q/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cLhm-VpFn6Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6733441
2021-09-01T11:03:35-12:00
2021-10-07T00:59:05-12:00
New Love the Bay with Ben Bernstein
<p>Kwame and I had a great time having producer/engineer/bass-man/songwriter pal Ben Bernstein on the boat this summer for the 16th episode of Bay Station's Love the Bay music and sailing series. Check it out!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="RcxyLUnC0Sg" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/RcxyLUnC0Sg/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RcxyLUnC0Sg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6724934
2021-08-23T08:25:27-12:00
2021-08-23T08:25:27-12:00
August QuaranPalooza: Music Livestream for a Cause
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>August 2021 QuaranPalooza Livestream Music Fest Saturday AUG 28</strong></p>
<p><strong><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-167159503575"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/f1cd319a583e5fdb22ebb969486c1e2c599ac862/original/quaranpalooza-august-2021-featured-1200x675.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></strong>I'm making another appearance at QuaranPalooza, a monthly livestream extravaganza. My set is at 6:45pm at the tail end of a very full day of music. Join us!<a contents=" $15 tickets via Evite" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-167159503575"> $15 tickets via Evite</a> support we musicians and a good cause with proceeds going to Bay Area Cancer Connections.</p>
<p>The show will feature : </p>
<p>12-12:15 Mjoy </p>
<p>12:20-1 David Gans </p>
<p>1:05-1:30 Kevin Radley </p>
<p>1:45-2 David Jesitus </p>
<p>2:05-2:40 Craig Greenberg </p>
<p>2:45-3 Mei Lin Heirendt </p>
<p>3:05-3:30 Frances Ancheta Becker </p>
<p>3:45-4:05 Tomi Rose </p>
<p>4:10-4:40 The Hughes Effect </p>
<p>4:45-5:15 Le Duo: Mimi and Gabe </p>
<p>5:20-5:40 Nikki Nash </p>
<p>5:45-6:05 John Rybak </p>
<p>6:10-6:40 Kathryn Grimm </p>
<p>6:45-7:15 Deborah Crooks </p>
<p>7:20-8 The Genie </p>
<p>We’ll all be doing live music sets with some live Zoom interaction/Q & A between performances. $15 tickets will be available for purchase if you’d like to support your local artists and also join the Zoom with audio and video interaction. It will also be available to view for free if you’d like to just watch, and tips will also be welcome through paypal/venmo for performers. A $15 ticket gets you into the fest and onto The Zoom with us + we donate 25% of ticket sales to Bay Area Cancer Connections! </p>
<p>Tickets: https://bit.ly/quarantickets Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/528037631608208/</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6715896
2021-08-13T11:25:20-12:00
2021-08-13T11:25:20-12:00
Road tripping with Bay Station
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="AWqfzke0Gl4" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/AWqfzke0Gl4/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AWqfzke0Gl4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="620" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6733440
2021-08-11T11:00:00-12:00
2021-09-01T11:00:40-12:00
Interview with Crazy Women Country
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="dloM1aT6SLg" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/dloM1aT6SLg/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dloM1aT6SLg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6708207
2021-08-05T10:28:03-12:00
2021-08-05T10:28:03-12:00
About Friday...
<p>I’m sad to report I’ve bowed out of the indoor songwriter show in SF I was scheduled to play at Tarragon Cafe on Friday. I loathe cancelling and with all the current knowns and big ? about the Delta variant it seemed wisest to go with an abundance of caution. </p>
<p>Take care out there!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/e2055b9e3002d61e0029e6ccdb6af8ba78eef6a6/original/dc-guitar-plough-stars.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6708205
2021-08-04T10:40:00-12:00
2021-08-05T10:26:27-12:00
Thinking about Hope
<p>A fb friend posted a query yesterday: what gives you hope? A good question for days like this which have me worried. As I started making my list (waking up in the morning, nature, making things, growing things, humans opting to be kind and look out for one another….) I was reminded how active, and generous, being hopeful is. You make it, and give it, as much as receive it. So the question may be, how do you make hope?</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/d2cc4d6a345dd71f56540220152bef4f2da9a9c2/original/rose-hope.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6698382
2021-07-26T03:52:06-12:00
2021-07-26T03:52:06-12:00
Postcard
<p>Occasionally, when I’ve gone on vacations in the past, I’ve sent myself a postcard with a note “remember this” so when I’m home and the world has crowded back in (or, you know, the weather is grey and the water is cold), I’ll be reminded I can feel very differently. <br>This is my digital postcard to myself from the last couple of weeks.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/232a02acef8a35a66a21d302df2e8a9c7a8e6521/original/camping-postard-2021.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6682273
2021-07-08T03:37:44-12:00
2021-07-08T03:37:44-12:00
Good news from The Lost Church + A TB Wiggle
<p>Good news from The Lost Church! I'm happy to report I'll be performing at TLC Santa Rosa in September with Alison Harris. Mark your calendars for <a contents="September 18 and buy a ticket HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/instances/a0F3s000008SpcCEAS" target="_blank">September 18 and buy a ticket HERE</a>! In the meantime, I wrote a bit about a favorite memory for <a contents="The Lost Church Bulletin" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://t.e2ma.net/webview/02tywg/0fb7c14697e7061305b330a5db629810">The Lost Church Bulletin</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Wiggling in Church </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7917c51fd18d03f7e3bbac19319b9f3e65581e13/original/tlc-wiggle.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>I squirmed through many church services while growing up the daughter of a devout Catholic. The only thing that got me through all those Sundays was a live band that the fairly progressive priest hired to arrange the hymns. There's nothing like tapping your feet to the beat to channel restlessness. Better yet is to wiggle with full abandon, especially if it's in one of your favorite venues with some of your favorite people. Which is why I decided to close out my 2017 birthday show at The Lost Church with the <a contents='"Bay Station Wiggle."&nbsp;' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://baystationband.bandcamp.com/track/bay-station-wiggle" target="_blank">"Bay Station Wiggle." </a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I love the way you wiggle/just the right amount of jiggle/shake, shake, shake/shake and wiggle! </em></p>
<p> — Deborah Crooks</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6678166
2021-07-03T12:00:00-12:00
2021-07-03T12:00:03-12:00
"We're All In This Together"
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6macFb8LF3U" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/6macFb8LF3U/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6macFb8LF3U?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="620" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>“This is our chance to make it better/ call a friend, help your neighbor/ speak out when you see wrong/cause everyone belongs.” </em></p>
<p>Available on all digital platforms including Bandcamp https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/ </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6672985
2021-06-28T06:10:37-12:00
2021-06-28T06:10:37-12:00
A Live Show! August 6 in SF
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/503653060847936" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/26dd35eaedc50115ddb3da2e954592674a2f52e1/original/august-6-show.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6670570
2021-06-25T09:25:52-12:00
2021-06-25T09:25:52-12:00
Summer #Quaranpalooza Saturday June 26
<p>QuaranPalooza: Playing For A Cause </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-159935137301" style=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/085714abddecd151fd67acd2c10b88473c25773e/original/qp-june.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>QuaranPalooza is back! On Sat 6/26 John Rybak and Friends hosts another 4 1/2 hour <em>exstreamaganza</em>. There's only one place you can see a performer in Arkansas, one in Brooklyn, a full band in Troy, NY and a bevy of great music coming out of The Bay Area. I'll take a turn at 6:30pm. <br>25% of ticket sales go to Bay Area Cancer Connections. <a contents="Buy a ticket&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-159935137301" target="_blank"><strong>Buy a ticket </strong></a>and support both local music and a great cause.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6670571
2021-06-22T09:00:00-12:00
2021-06-25T09:28:56-12:00
The Bay Station Eagle - Summer 2021 Out Now
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/dc5ab7555eac60be514f3432048a4215fb24ce9e/original/eagle-cover-front-back.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />A quarantine project ventures afield: the fourth issue of <em>The Bay Station Eagle</em> is available now! This Summer issue features art and writing by Chrissy Collins, Alice Lewis, Emily Brock Lewis, Tania Johnson, Gil Garitano, Nicole Gouguet, Norman Moore, Woody Minor, Jennifer Dailey, and Janet Lenore. Available now at<a contents="&nbsp;Books Inc-Alameda" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.booksinc.net/Alameda"> Books Inc-Alameda</a> and <a contents="Modern Mouse " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://modernmousegifts.com/" target="_blank">Modern Mouse </a>Gifts and/or email baystationeagle@gmail.com for info on how to get a copy delivered or mailed to you. </p>
<p><br><em>The Bay Station Eagle</em> is a hyper-local, pocket-guide size, print-only quarterly penned by local residents and reflective of Alameda island past and present. </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6657976
2021-06-12T16:11:54-12:00
2021-08-19T13:58:24-12:00
San Francisco Free Folk Festival
<p>Today is the <a contents="San Francisco Free Folk Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021/">San Francisco Free Folk Festival</a>! Online I'm doing double duty, presenting a set of my solo material and taking a turn with <a contents="Bay Station Band" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/RsM1vnFyK3w">Bay Station Band</a>, amid a virtual feast of music including comrades Aireene Espiritu, Bob Hillman, Matt Jaffe, Maurice Tani Judi Jaeger, Jo D'Anna and more!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="w7w-TaStQAA" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/w7w-TaStQAA/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w7w-TaStQAA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="680" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6649723
2021-06-04T06:24:47-12:00
2021-09-11T14:53:04-12:00
New Video "River Stones"
<p style="text-align: center;">Revisited the beautiful inspiration for “River Stones” last week, the amazing, dynamic, ever-changing Salmon River:<iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="67WsOGho_f4" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/67WsOGho_f4/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/67WsOGho_f4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="320" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6648384
2021-06-03T02:43:31-12:00
2022-05-21T01:44:12-12:00
Retreat and re-entry: SFFF
<p> I'm just home after a week-long songwriting retreat in the mountains with small group of beautiful humans, an extra special and slightly overwhelming experience after so much time spent sheltering in place. It's so good to shake off the dust and the rust of the past year+ and look forward to brighter days ahead.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/6a420f71e97612028e32718791c1c9af14188abf/original/stanley-boots.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>While I expect to add more live dates to the calendar later this summer, my next performance will be virtual, as I'll have a showcase video at the<a contents="&nbsp;San Francisco Free Folk Festival&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021/"> San Francisco Free Folk Festival </a>on Saturday June 12. Go to the <a contents="SFFF site anytime that day" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sffolkfest.org/program-2021/">SFFF site anytime that day</a> to find my performance and many more Bay Area musicians showcasing their music.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/88b9c6ed7e366d6b7a659d893bd35a6191371ef8/original/sfff.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_right border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Have you heard Twin Lakes yet? Take a listen to my postcard from 2020 anywhere you stream music including Bandcamp.</p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4079387204/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;"></iframe></p>
<p> </p>
<p>All songs ©words & music Deborah Crooks (ASCAP) <br>Deborah Crooks, acoustic guitar, vocals <br>Kwame Copeland, guitar, dobro, backing vocals <br>Ben Bernstein, bass <br>Mike Stevens, drums, percussion </p>
<p>Mixed by Mike Stevens <br>Mastered by Ben Bernstein </p>
<p>San Francisco Free Folk Festival, Saturday, June 12, 2021 </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6636932
2021-05-21T10:33:05-12:00
2021-12-23T03:29:28-12:00
Out Today: Twin Lakes EP
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4079387204/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;"></iframe></p>
<h4>Three new songs that address the zeitgeist while holding on to hope for the future. </h4>
<ol> <li>New Roots </li> <li>Twin Lakes </li> <li>We're All In This Together </li>
</ol>
<p><em>“This is our chance to make it better/ call a friend, help your neighbor/ speak out when you see wrong/cause everyone belongs.” <br>— from "We're All In This Together" on Twin Lakes.</em></p>
<p>All songs ©words & music Deborah Crooks (ASCAP) <br>Deborah Crooks, acoustic guitar, vocals <br>Kwame Copeland, guitar, dobro, backing vocals <br>Ben Bernstein, bass <br>Mike Stevens, drums, percussion </p>
<p>Mixed by Mike Stevens <br>Mastered by Ben Bernstein </p>
<p>Listen & Buy</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6633414
2021-05-18T01:38:58-12:00
2021-06-28T14:37:20-12:00
Big Blend Radio Interview: Bay Station Band - Beyond the Safe and Sound
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180px" src="//percolate.blogtalkradio.com/offsiteplayer?hostId=64265&episodeId=11941828" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6623228
2021-05-06T05:23:10-12:00
2021-05-06T05:23:10-12:00
May Days: Twin Lakes EP & More 🎶
<p>I feel as if I've woken from a dream or come back from a long trip overseas. Everything feels familiar but different. Seeing friends I haven't seen in person in more than a year is energizing and...amazing! Wow and yay to the best of humans and heart connections. Still, I'm taking the whole re-opening of things slow if steady. Upcoming performances are still hyper-local and virtual and I've more recorded music to share: Amid working on the Bay Station EP, I recorded Twin Lakes, containing three new folk-oriented and somewhat topical songs releasing May 21. More info and a preview below. Wishing you well! Deborah</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/deborah-crooks/twin-lakes/s-mD6ua2Ad7kO" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/1921e04776a8554bfd13dc73645e11fd8a136faa/original/twin-lakes-cover.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>New Deborah Crooks EP: Twin Lakes (May 21, 2021) </p>
<p>A three-song collection that addresses the zeitgeist while holding on to hope for the future. </p>
<p>New Roots <br>Twin Lakes* <br>We're All In This Together </p>
<p>All songs ©words & music Deborah Crooks (ASCAP) <br>Deborah Crooks, acoustic guitar, vocals <br>Kwame Copeland, guitar, dobro, backing vocals <br>Ben Bernstein, bass <br>Mike Stevens, drums, percussion </p>
<p>Mixed by Mike Stevens <br>Mastered by Ben Bernstein </p>
<p> *click the photo to preview </p>
<p>Alameda Porch Concerts! </p>
<p>Our run of safe-social-distance porch shows last year kept the wind in our musical sails when lives shows at traditional venues stopped due to the pandemic. Find us next playing at a safe distance Friday, May 7, 6pm PT.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6609648
2021-04-20T11:48:11-12:00
2021-04-20T11:48:11-12:00
New 🎶 from Bay Station + more in the stream
<p>Anyone else feel like they’re waking up from having a weird dream after falling asleep in a hotel, having checked in late at night after a long drive? (I’m talking starting to emerge post-vaccine and seeing people you haven’t seen in person in a year here, not 4/20). While I CAN’T wait to get back to playing out in the world, there's new music and more virtual and porch music programming on deck here in Bay Station! Tune in, take a listen and please continue to take care out there. </p>
<h4>New Music from Bay Station</h4>
<p>Kwame and I chipped away at this recording project all year – six new songs reflecting on a time like no other— recording parts at home, on the porch, and at the respective studios of our rhythm section. It was a very different process than we anticipated; nonetheless, we're very pleased with how it turned out and happy the songs are making their way out into the world.</p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2305268818/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;">Beyond the Safe and Sound by Bay Station</iframe></p>
<h3><strong>LIVE & LIVESTREAMING MUSIC in April </strong></h3>
<h4>Bay Station Porch Concert April 23 6-7 PM PDT </h4>
<p>We've at least two more porch shows on the calendar for Spring including this Friday. Locals are welcome to come by (bring a chair) for a listen or stream from afar via the <a contents="Bay Station Facebook Page." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/BayStationBand" style="">Bay Station Facebook Page.</a></p>
<h4>QUARANPALOOZA - April 2021 <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/8b9b2721a9eafaeafffa03f8d6f2a76042026001/original/qp-april.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_right border_" /><br>Sat, April 24 2021 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT </h4>
<p>Musician John Rybak continues to round up this monthly musical variety show with a rotating cast of songwriters/. I'll be performing a few songs between 7pm and 8pm amid another diverse lineup. Check out this lineup, pick up a ticket and join us to help us raise money for Bay Area Cancer Connections <a contents="HERE&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/april-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-150839377639?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing">HERE </a></p>
<p>The show will feature : </p>
<p>Mjoy 4-4:15 </p>
<p>John Rybak 4:20-4:35 </p>
<p>Katherine Park 4:40-4:55 </p>
<p>Frances Ancheta Becker 5-5:15 </p>
<p>David Jesitus 5:20-5:35 </p>
<p>Dawn Ellerbeck 5:40-5:55 </p>
<p>Kevin Radley 6-6:15 </p>
<p>Pat Nevins 6:20-6:40 </p>
<p>Rick Hardin 6:45-7:05 </p>
<p>Deborah Crooks 7:10-7:30 </p>
<p>Gail Weisman 7:35-8 </p>
<p>Cello Joe 8:05-8:25 </p>
<p>Nate Lopez 8:30-9 </p>
<p>We'll all be doing live music sets with some live Zoom interaction/Q & A between performances. Buy tickets HERE.</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5b5aZBb7-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5b5aZBb7-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5b5aZBb7-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div>
</div>
<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5b5aZBb7-/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a></p>
</div></blockquote><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6604027
2021-04-14T06:58:06-12:00
2021-04-14T06:58:06-12:00
Emerging? Butterfly Wisdom.
<p>I've been feeling cautiously optimistic. ...and like a blinking bird, thin-skinned and gangly, discombobulated by the resumption of so many activities at once. How will we emerge from this time? A time of pandemic and climate crises, social strife and division? I’m looking to the butterfly that fluttered by the other day, listing and dropping down and rising up, seemingly precariously but never wavering from its path. Gentle, beautiful, intentional.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/ce989d15ab3fcd8d2efe56614538cafdcd1fea76/original/butterfly.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2987017040/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=2948598449/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;">Beauty Everywhere by Deborah Crooks</iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6599280
2021-04-09T03:57:36-12:00
2021-04-09T05:02:29-12:00
Hear New Music from Bay Station: Beyond the Safe and Sound
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2305268818/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;">Beyond the Safe and Sound by Bay Station</iframe></p>
<p>Hear our new EP Beyond the Safe and Sound out today. Six new songs reflecting on a year like no other:</p>
<p>1. What to Do When the Lights Go Out (3:21) </p>
<p>2. 103 Degrees (4:43) </p>
<p>3. Enough (3:48) </p>
<p>4. Beyond the Safe and Sound (3:16) </p>
<p>5. Masked Marauders (3:59) </p>
<p>6. Everything Adds Up to Now (2:37) </p>
<p>All songs Deborah Crooks & Kwame Copeland (ASCAP) except Masked Marauders by Deborah Crooks, Kwame Copeland and Karen Hildebrand. </p>
<p>Kwame Copeland, vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica <br>Deborah Crooks, vocals <br>Steve Waters, backing vocals and electric guitar <br>Mike Stevens, drums and percussion <br>Ben Bernstein, bass </p>
<p>Recorded at K2 Studios, Alameda, CA, Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland and Lost Monkey, Ashford, CT </p>
<p>Mixed by Mike Stevens at Lost Monkey Studio, Ashford, CT <br>Mastered by Ben Bernstein at Petting Zoo, Oakland, CA </p>
<p>Produced by Kwame Copeland and Deborah Crooks</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6592765
2021-04-02T15:18:35-12:00
2021-07-10T23:00:10-12:00
Unplugged and Connected
<p>I grew up in a then-rural area with a party line and two-and-a-half channels on the TV (one rarely got decent reception). The lights went out every time there was a storm and the internet was a distant planet. Books —a librarian-staffed bookmobile visited the nearest intersection every couple weeks for us to peruse its small shelves — local radio, what was outside and what sprung up in my imagination provided most of my entertainment. Though I couldn't wait to get out there at the time, lessons learned living remotely in my youth have helped me hang tight at home amid this pandemic year. And just like when I was a kid, I've been looking forward to the world opening up again. <br>After getting some very welcome shots in the arm, we split the difference, going away to the desert to unplug that much more, listen for the muse under the hum of worry we've grown used to, and harvest a bit of what has grown in the dark days of 2020. I'm happy to share Bay Station is releasing our latest EP, Beyond the Safe and Sound, next Friday, April 9, and I'll be releasing three new songs in May. Already songs from the Bay Station EP are getting radio airplay and we're looking forward to performing them live to locals, in trio formation, at another porch concert on the day of the release! More info in the April newsletter <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mailchi.mp/ee86151ed435/unplugged-and-connected">HERE</a><br> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/c0395364323829bcbe9ad26a6c8a1f068d749e82/original/jt-respite.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6578256
2021-03-18T09:35:00-12:00
2021-06-08T02:13:13-12:00
Porch shows return, Quaranpalooza and Sisters in Song
<p>There's so much to say about the one year anniversaries that have been ticking by this past week. Today though, I'll keep it short and let you know about a string of upcoming performances I'm doing to round out the month. Tomorrow, Friday, Bay Station returns to playing a weekly porch concert (yes, a year to the day from our inaugural safe-social-distancing porch show in 2020). Next weekend, March 27, I'm part of another Quaranpalooza Fest, and I'll close out the month with a turn at Sisters in Song. More details follow .Please tune in, say hello and take a listen! </p>
<h4>Bay Station Porch Concert March 19 6-7 PM PDT </h4>
<p>Porch concerts got us through much of 2020 and we're getting back to performing for our Alameda friends and neighbors. Swing by for a listen or stream from afar via the <a contents="Bay Station Facebook Page.&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/2boUHfy1M" style="">Bay Station Facebook Page. </a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/d5d82f4b8dd767eeffe16016ac53434155f44486/original/sfcv-porch-concert-jpg.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<h4>QUARANPALOOZA <br>Sat, March 27, 2021 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT </h4>
<p>Musician John Rybak has been tirelessly putting together a monthly musical variety show in the form of Quaranpalooza since early in the pandemic. I'll be joining the March party to perform a few songs amid another rich, diverse lineup. Check out this lineup, pick up a ticket and join us to help us raise money for Bay Area Cancer Connections <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/march-2021-quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-145961906993">HERE</a></p>
<h4>SISTERS in SONG 2 April 1 6:00 PM -10 PM ET (note new date)<br>Another festival of diverse voices curated by GeneVieve Music! Watch via Facebook or on <a contents="Twitch TV" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.twitch.tv/genevievemusic/">Twitch TV</a>
</h4>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6575446
2021-03-16T05:18:59-12:00
2021-12-15T04:10:10-12:00
QuaranPalooza: Keeping Live Music Alive
<p>Check out this lineup and pick up your tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://lnkd.in/gn_uC9y">HERE</a> for the March edition of QuaranPalooza We're making music online to help get us through this pandemic. Get a ticket and join us to help us raise money for Bay Area Cancer Connections. </p>
<p>Sat, March 27, 2021 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/78beeed202de3623f272303fa5005d9eb8279ed2/original/quaranpalooza-march.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_right border_" /></p>
<p>The show will feature : </p>
<p>Sara Rodenburg 4-4:10 pm </p>
<p>Mjoy 4:15-4:25 </p>
<p>The Eastern Highs 4:30-4:55 </p>
<p>Frances Ancheta Becker 5-5:10 </p>
<p>Amalgamation 5:15-5:30 </p>
<p>David Jesitus 5:35-5:45 </p>
<p>Dawn Ellerbeck 5:50-6 </p>
<p>Deborah Crooks 6:05-6:20 </p>
<p>Sariyah Idan 6:25-6:35 </p>
<p>Eline Chavez 6:40-6:50 </p>
<p>Kevin Radley 6:55-7:05 </p>
<p>John Rybak 7:10-7:25 </p>
<p>Pat Nevins 7:30-7:45 </p>
<p>David Gans 7:50-8:10 </p>
<p>Cello Joe 8:15-8:35 </p>
<p>DB Walker 8:40-9 </p>
<p>We'll all be doing live music sets with some live Zoom interaction/Q & A between performances. </p>
<p>$15 tickets will be available for purchase if you'd like to support your local artists and also join the Zoom with audio and video interaction. It will also be available to view for free if you'd like to just watch, and tips will also be welcome through paypal/venmo for performers.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6573339
2021-03-14T02:13:44-12:00
2021-08-13T01:43:03-12:00
The Spring issue of the Bay Station Eagle
<p>Hot off the presses! Spring Issue of the<em> Bay Station Eagle</em> has landed. A hyper-local, pocket-guide size, print quarterly penned by local residents and reflective of the Bay Station corner of Alameda island past and present </p>
<p><br>In this issue: </p>
<ul> <li>Like All of You by Chrissy Collins </li> <li>Spring Favas by Vanessa Barrington </li> <li>Jazz on Mozart by Bill Chapin </li> <li>The Longest Year by Alice Lewis </li> <li>Star Harbor Transforms Anew by Steve Gorman </li> <li>The Benevolent Biome by Hugh Morgan </li> <li>Small Gifts on Park St. by Elizabeth Flanagan </li> <li>Meyers House by Gail Howell </li>
</ul>
<p>$5 each DM here / email <a contents="baystationeagle@ gmail t" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:baystationeagle@gmail.com">baystationeagle@ gmail t</a>o order or pick at Frank Bette Center for the Arts, and Books Inc -Alameda</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/43f17df812fec1390d55dd559eba901eb9809075/original/spring-eagle-promo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6563238
2021-03-02T12:01:15-12:00
2021-03-02T12:01:15-12:00
CNF Tweet Suite: #TheHeart
<p>When I'm adrift in getting longer pieces done, I like writing "CNF Tweets", short, tweet-length flash fictions.<a contents=" Creative NonFiction" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.creativenonfiction.org/"><em> Creative NonFiction</em></a> ran a #CnfTweet challenge of sorts on the them of #TheHeart during the week before Valentine's Day. I submitted several, one of which — my entry from Feb 10 — I was pleased to see made it into the magazine's <a contents="newsletter." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twitter.com/ChrisGNguyen/status/1366440643422216194" target="_blank">newsletter.</a> </p>
<p>Here's my "suite" of CNF Tweets on the the subject:</p>
<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><em><span class="font_regular">Feb 8 The Indian scholar’s face beamed onscreen alongside 24 other animated squares holding eager faces. "Focus on the lotus in the heart as a daily practice for joy,” he said. I gasped, but it wasn't due to an awakening: The cat on my lap had just flexed her claws. </span></em></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><em><span class="font_regular">Feb 9 He turned away, his face a profile in stone, his decision made before she'd finished speaking. Every cell in her body was alert, like that time tide-pooling, when the anemone curled inwards after she touched a tentacle, its sting more exciting than painful. </span></em></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><em><span class="font_regular">Feb 10 I dried my tears and went for a walk, my heart still ragged. Around a park, through open space and home via the slow street. Despite my hurt, signs of life were everywhere. Kinglets flitted, dogs wagged and a hawk flew across my path, showing the way: forward.*</span></em></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><em><span class="font_regular">Feb 11 “There you are!” she said. It had been a year since they last talked but it could have been a day. Instantly they were laughing, like the day they met, riding up the pass, surrounded by blue skies, snowy peaks and columbine, their friendship already a fact. </span></em></li> <li style="text-align: justify;">
<em><span class="font_regular">Feb 12 He showed up in a dream first. That woke her up and turned her toward him. She'd passed him by for months, his worried brow putting her off. Then she saw, no felt, he, his heart, was right there. She left a note in his helmet. Then he was right at her door. </span></em><span class="font_regular">— Deborah Crooks</span>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="font_small">*editors pick</span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6561852
2021-03-01T06:51:46-12:00
2023-12-10T06:09:57-12:00
Marching toward the light
<p>Hello there, <br>It feels like spring in these parts: magnolia blossoms are bursting from branches, birds are nesting, and it's warm enough to play music on the porch again. Last year's porch shows really carried us through much of 2020 and we're glad to get back to it this month. Plus, Bay Station has a new EP cued up for an April release. Dates and more information follow. Here's to a happier, healthier, new month! Take care there, Deborah</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7f42cdefc70a52b5c84ef8134c0df5fe921a2347/original/magnolia-blossoms.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>MUSIC </p>
<p>New Bay Station EP Beyond the Safe and Sound </p>
<p>Bay Station is pleased to announce the release of its new 6-song EP <em>Beyond the Safe and Sound</em> (April 9, 2021). After we got over the fact that we wouldn't be recording everything in a studio together, Kwame, Steve Waters and I recorded our parts at home (and on the porch!) while drummer Mike Stevens and bassist Ben Bernstein added their parts from their respective studios. We're happy with how it came together despite the circumstances and look forward to sharing it with you. <br>Track list: </p>
<ol> <li>What To Do When the Lights Go Out </li> <li>103 Degrees </li> <li>Enough </li> <li>Beyond the Safe and Sound </li> <li>Masked Marauders </li> <li>Everything Adds Up to Now </li>
</ol>
<p>All songs Crooks/Copeland except for "Masked Maruaders" by Crooks/Copeland & Karen Hildebrand </p>
<p>Porch Concerts Return! </p>
<p>Our run of safe-social-distance porch shows last year kept the wind in our musical sails when lives shows at traditional venues stopped due to the pandemic. Find up playing at a safe distance Friday, March 19, a year to the day we began last year. Read the full newsletter <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mailchi.mp/8fdf0ee1e0c6/marching-toward-the-light-more-music" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6552194
2021-02-17T12:00:00-12:00
2021-02-18T04:43:09-12:00
Watch My Folk Unlocked Showcases Tues & Thurs
<p><a contents="FOLK UNLOCKED&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/folk-unlocked-virtual-showcases-public-access-tickets-129353276131?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing" style="">FOLK UNLOCKED </a></p>
<p>View Two Livestream Performances </p>
<p>The last trip i took before sheltering in place was to New Orleans for the Folk Alliance Conference. We had an adventurous week of hosting a Love the Bay-inspired showcase room and taking in as much of NOLA as we could. Flash forward to 2021, and I'm pleased to share that I'll be performing twice as part of the Folk Unlocked Virtual Conference this coming week: Tues 2/23 and again as Bay Station on Thurs 2/25 6:30pm CT/8:30pm PT. Usually, the in-person version of the event is only available to artists and industry professionals, but this year viewers from anywhere can tune in! </p>
<p>Please mark your calendar and join me in the stream Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:30pm PT/8:30pm CT - <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sok8_UVJRuw&feature=youtu.be">HERE</a> - and Thursday, February 25, 2021 for a set of Bay Station (duo) tunes 6:30pm PT/8:30pm CT <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnpAqKeORo&feature=youtu.be">HERE.</a> </p>
<p>Donations for public access to this event will go to The Village Fund, a grant program for folk artists and independent music industry professionals experiencing financial hardship, administered by Folk Alliance International. Support the cause and access all of the conference performances <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/folk-unlocked-virtual-showcases-public-access-tickets-129353276131?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing" style="">HERE.</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/4d28d0f95fca8482651822769d54152563f5798c/original/village-fund-showcase-artist-instagram.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sok8_UVJRuw" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6553285
2021-02-17T04:00:00-12:00
2021-02-19T04:39:13-12:00
"I work in the bakery..."
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/3b9a38e2c225af8d48fbf968e58e2b78ffabff3d/original/cake.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="birthday cake bakery song" />The first song I wrote was called “I Work in the Bakery.” I was five or six years old and I made it up because I thought I looked like a baker while getting out of the tub in my shower cap. My older sister transcribed it for me. It’s not particularly good, but I’ve never forgotten it: <br>“I work in the bakery/I make cakes and pies/I work every day inside/I make bear claws and wreaths and pancakes for a feast/and on your birthday/when you can have anything you like/be sure to come here” <br>As requested Kwame brought home a gluten-free chocolate cake for my birthday. It was the smallest size you could get from Mariposa Bakery, but we barely made a dent in it. That much leftover cake in a house with two people during a pandemic is dangerous, even if it is gluten-free and vegan. <br>The next day, I texted the neighbors on each side of our house, both with young children under 10, to see if they might like some. They were both enthusiastic, so I carefully put generous portions on paper plates and wrapped them in foil. Something about handing out slices completed the whole birthday ritual. Cake is meant to be shared!</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6548842
2021-02-14T12:00:00-12:00
2021-06-26T01:25:34-12:00
Watch the new music video for "My New Sweet"
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="spcqJMW-a50" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/spcqJMW-a50/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/spcqJMW-a50?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6547074
2021-02-10T00:00:00-12:00
2021-02-12T10:23:49-12:00
Beauty Everywhere Missive #2
<p>More beauty, yes? I got a 'memory' notice about a fun show I did at The Lost Church four years ago, a February birthday-themed gig with Michael McNevin, which had a great poster design by NEMO. It felt like time to share what other bits of beauty have been keeping me afloat this month:</p>
<ul> <li>This amazing essay in <em>Guernica</em> "The Grief Artist" by Traci Brimhal. read it <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guernicamag.com/the-grief-artist/">HERE.</a>
</li> <li>A look at <a contents="Rachel Rod" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.rachelrodi.com/">Rachel Rod</a>i's latest mosaic in San Francisco can be found <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CK-Mh9_lBXE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" style="">HERE</a>
</li> <li>Almost any day's photo from Nasa's <a contents="Astronomy photo of the DAY " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" style="">Astronomy Photo of the Day </a>is great but today's Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350 is especially groovy. This description alone: <em>"Inhabited by young blue star clusters, the tightly wound spiral arms of NGC 1350 seem to join in a circle around the galaxy's large, bright nucleus, giving it the appearance of a cosmic eye."</em> Check it <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2102/NGC1350_crop.jpg" style="">HERE</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P2Va17AtfyM" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6543900
2021-02-08T00:00:00-12:00
2021-02-09T07:10:08-12:00
Tonight on the Wendy Love Edge Women in Music Show
<p>Tune in to <a contents="WJAE 420" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.wjae420.com" style="">WJAE 420</a> this evening 7pm CT/5pm PT as I'm a guest on the Wendy Love Edge Women in Music Show.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/d297bb6fa26d80dee78acd29d3a2939914367f30/original/2-9-wendy-love-edge-show.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6536694
2021-02-01T11:44:12-12:00
2021-02-01T11:45:34-12:00
February Newsletter: Folk Unlocked and more
<p>My work has truly come to embody the term 'cottage industry' this year. As we stay close to home and at a distance, our bungalow continues to be the site of music making, yoga instruction, video production and 'zine creation. Island walks (post-storm view pictured below) and keeping the bird feeder full are filling in the time between. Read on for details!</p>
<p>MUSIC </p>
<p>Livestream </p>
<p>This year's Folk Alliance International conference will be virtual. As such I'll be doing two streaming showcases for Folk Unlocked on YouTube—one of my material, one of Bay Station's— and you too can watch! Live from home. Join us in the stream Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:30pm PT/8:30pm CT -Click <a contents="HERE&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/sok8_UVJRuw">HERE </a>for a reminder - and Thursday, February 25, 2021 for a set of Bay Station tunes 6:30pm PT/8:30pm CT <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnpAqKeORo&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </p>
<p>Recording </p>
<p>Bay Station is this close to completing a new 6-song EP called Beyond the Safe and Sound. We're looking at a mid-March release date (right around the time we expect to resume our porch shows). Kwame and I have also been recording songs I've written of late and tunes from my musical-in-progress. </p>
<p>Radio </p>
<p>While playing out is still both memory and future (esp. now that the #SaveOurStages act recently passed, yay!), I'm pleased to find songs from The Department of the West continuing to be broadcast via the radio airwaves, including from stations in Alaska, New York, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Scotland this past week. Thanks to all the DJs, music lovers and musicians for keeping the flame alive! </p>
<p> Read the full newsletter and subscribe<a contents=" HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mailchi.mp/9d81a3b6ecb5/new-music-new-streams-and-new-views-2021-continues-to-look-up" target="_blank"> HERE</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6534152
2021-01-29T06:35:40-12:00
2021-08-05T09:28:21-12:00
"Look Up" GGRO Season Summary Edition
<p>“Look Up” my ode to Hawk Hill &<a contents=" Golden Gate Raptor Observatory" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/golden-gate-raptor-observatory" target="_blank"> Golden Gate Raptor Observatory</a> paired with an awesome collection of photos by some my fellow hawkwatchers.</p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/505715589" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/505715589">Golden Gate Raptor Observatory 2020 Season</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user131607944">Golden Gate Raptors</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6532958
2021-01-28T07:39:27-12:00
2021-09-11T14:53:50-12:00
#Tb Real Live Music
<p>#tb reminder of playing music in venues! While playing out is still both memory and future (esp. now that the #SaveOurStages act recently passed, yay!), I'm pleased to find songs from <a contents="The Department of the West" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-department-of-the-west" target="_blank"><em>The Department of the West</em></a> continuing to be broadcast via the radio airwaves, including from stations in Alaska, New York, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Scotland this past week. Thanks to all the djs, music lovers and musicians keeping the flame alive!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/b4c3ae36fb6d6181898a2b104d84ff1c94982595/original/makeoutroom-2020.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6521955
2021-01-15T08:02:35-12:00
2021-11-13T09:36:16-12:00
Beauty Everywhere Missive
<p>In 2016, I released a 7-song EP <em><a contents="Beauty Everywhere." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-everywhere">Beauty Everywhere.</a> </em>The title song sprung out of a practice I'd made one year, making lists of beautiful things to raise my spirits during less hopeful moments. As I've sang the song regularly over the years, the literal practice of listing beautiful things has become internalized. Beauty <em>is </em>everywhere if I look and I'm ever more grateful that I notice it. Today's mental beauty list kept growing and I felt duty bound to share my findings. Especially now, when it's easy to get distracted from all that's good about being alive. </p>
<ul> <li>Live performance of<a contents=" Blue Moon by Jacqui Naylor and Art Khu Watch on IGTV" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKDQ4Z2BgfO/" target="_blank"> Blue Moon by Jacqui Naylor and Art Khu Watch on IGTV</a>
</li> <li>Essay <em>T<a contents="hese Precious Days&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/these-precious-days-ann-patchett-psilocybin-tom-hanks-sooki-raphael/">hese Precious Days </a></em>by Ann Patchett in <em>Harper's Magazine</em>
</li> <li>Winter 2021 Almanac: <a contents="An Illustrated Guide to Northern California Natur" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://baynature.org/article/winter-2021-bay-nature-almanac/">An Illustrated Guide to Northern California Natur</a>e by Jane Kim in <em>Bay Nature</em>
</li> <li>Sunlight streaming through the window and the red of the house finches at the feeder</li>
</ul>
<p>Finally, I've been making chalk art on my sidewalk since early in the pandemic inspired by the rangoli I saw on my visits to India. Here's a few slivers of my recent efforts: </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/798755511f179b7f5beed519c32b68dbe5524d55/original/rangoli.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>What beauty have you found today?</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6523474
2021-01-14T13:45:00-12:00
2021-09-13T01:05:07-12:00
Italian Radio
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2FRaffaellaPiccirillo%2Fdeborah-crooks%2F" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6518290
2021-01-11T08:12:57-12:00
2021-08-06T05:01:21-12:00
Interview in The Other Side Reviews
<p>Amid everything, I was interviewed by <em>The Other Side Reviews </em>about songwriting, <em>The Department of the West </em>and what's next Read it <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.theothersidereviews.com/a-chat-with-deborah-crooks-07-01-2021/" style="" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1658118236/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=1169793761/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;">The Department of the West by Deborah Crooks</iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6516590
2021-01-08T08:29:23-12:00
2021-01-08T08:29:23-12:00
Calm does exist
<p>Two Yellow-rumped warblers fly upwards from the sidewalk in a near spiral, sparring over a seed or courting, I can't tell. It's a brief moment, but stunning in its beauty: a light flutter, a flash of white, like looking at a cross-section of a kaleidoscope, their wings and tails and feet and bills synchronized for a moment until they break away from one another. </p>
<p>I'd looked up from weeding our patch of yard which I've mainly ignored, past bedecking it with holiday lights, for several months. There are soggy leaves and new green shoots of sprouting bird seed and weeds or both. It's not a great look and just the thing for my dispassionate mind. Two classes in a row do that. Plus another bout of rain is on its way and this is my window. of time to get things done </p>
<p>So I'm surprised, after a morning of happy texts and emails, by what afternoon brings:</p>
<p> "Are we having a coup ?" a friend messages me. My husband checks in as well, and I look at the news. </p>
<p><em>Convulsions.</em> One headline describes it. I wince to read about the offices getting ransacked. But I don't have a TV and the full weight of what has happened in the Capitol don't sink in fully until evening. </p>
<p>Since then, I'm not sure what to do but scroll through the news and write my representatives, which feels like <em>something.</em> I'm sad and worried. It's hard to concentrate.</p>
<p>I'm still not sure what to do, but I do know staying grounded, connected to others, our shared humanity, is key. As is seeking out beauty and the good that is all around, anytime we want to slow down and pay attention, take a breath. Please take care and stay safe. <a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-everywhere" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/9c6a0b3b8d2cfec0bdf5422a3102f65a14a23ad0/original/crab-cove-view.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6513183
2021-01-04T03:02:01-12:00
2021-01-04T03:02:01-12:00
Happy New Year from Bay Station
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/32c09a0028cf3553da76d70f796cd86636b9a2b4/original/sailing-san-leandro-bay.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>We began the year with a sail. Espresso was one of 10 vessels—sailing, motor and one small tug —assembled near the Park St. Bridge at 10:30am on January 1 to gather for the annual New Year's Cruise 'Round Alameda Island. In the year's past, the tradition included pit-stopping at several yacht clubs along the way to toast the New Year. This year's Covid-safe event entailed masks for all aboard, communications via VHF channel 68 and waving to other boats as they drew alongside us. </p>
<p>To circumnavigate Alameda, you must negotiate four drawbridges — Park, Fruitvale, High St, and Bay Farm — and a shallow channel before reaching the Bay. The bridgemasters knew the cruise was en route, opening the bridges and waving from their perch in the bridge tower. Our flotilla formed a neat line as we threaded our way through San Leandro Bay before passing under Bay Farm Bridge and the shallow inlet between the Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary and onto San Francisco Bay proper. We hope the calm waters and lights winds bode well for 2021. <br>It felt fitting to start the new year by taking a long look at all angles of the place we call home, and where we'll be conducting most of our lives and music for a bit longer as we shelter in place. Bay Station expects to resume our porch concerts again at the beginning of March, around the same time we'll be releasing a 6-song Ep <em>Beyond the Safe and Sound. </em>Stay tuned for more. In the meantime, we updated <a contents='"Covid-19 Self-Quarantine Blues"' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/Ea4SCvYg5vM">"Covid-19 Self-Quarantine Blues"</a> and recorded a video for the <a contents="Hanukkha Harry NYE Variety Show." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/S0CWsx0PAlM">Hanukkha Harry NYE Variety Show.</a> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6510819
2020-12-31T07:40:04-12:00
2020-12-31T07:40:04-12:00
New year, new song, "New Roots"
<p>I wrote “New Roots” as part of the FAR-West-invented <a contents="Now See Hear Project" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://nowseehear.org/">Now See Hear Project</a> developed by Phil Ward, which pairs songwriters with a piece of anonymous artwork to use as a springboard for writing (the art itself is inspired by another song). After I sent the completed result to Phil, he let me know the image I’d received was painted by <a contents="Jennifer Flack" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://instagram.com/iwillartonyourwalls">Jennifer Flack</a> in response to a song by <a contents="Dy Arthur" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itsabouttimeband.net/">Dy Arthur</a> called “Tumblin.’ (Hopefully, we’ll all get together to show and perform this trail of songs at a future conference.) The painting, events of the past year, my continual unpacking of my own family history and participating in an anti-racism study group this year all fed into the song. Take a look and listen below.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="VjsT6NZemZE" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VjsT6NZemZE/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VjsT6NZemZE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6506253
2020-12-23T04:58:09-12:00
2020-12-23T04:58:09-12:00
You should be dancing...
<p>We watched The Bee Gees documentary, "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," last night which delighted me for all sorts of reasons. I loved the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack when it was released, even though my mom thought I was too young to see the movie. It was huge (as was dance and disco music during that time. We grade-schoolers went through a phase of doing The Hustle for PE). My pal Sally of course had the album at her house, and I annoyed the hell out of her asking if we could play the record yet again. But I completely swooned a year later, when the younger Gibb, Andy, released his album Shadow Dancing. Oh wow! I'd ride my bike around our driveway for hours singing the title song. Later in the year, I won a poster of Andy by playing some game at the County Fair and pinned it up on my bedroom wall. Better yet, that Christmas, Santa brought me my own Andy Gibb record. Sigh. <br>Back to the new documentary, I was struck by the incredible work ethic the Gibbs had when it came to songwriting and just how many of those songs I actually know (and have a soft spot for)… and how the subsequent disco backlash was actually rooted in homophobia and racism. Ugh. <br>Conveniently, our holiday light display efforts earlier this month make for a pretty disco porch. Now I’ll be driving Kwame nuts overplaying those 70s records! “You should be dancing, yeah!”</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/5499bb106ed369b8ada42c607ffcc6ac13b4ef96/original/porch-disco.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6504971
2020-12-21T11:20:45-12:00
2020-12-21T11:20:45-12:00
Happy Solstice! "Being Here" on Lockdown Lemonade
<p>I don't know about you, but I am ready for the big shift that's happening, change of the season, <a contents="Grand Conjunction" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn">Grand Conjunction</a> of planets, upcoming holidays and a new year around the corner. I was pleased to teach a class this morning, then find my "Being Here" piece for the Far-West<a contents="Lockdown Lemonade Blog" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://far-west.org/lockdown-lemonade/"> Lockdown Lemonade</a> Blog went live. A summary of how I pivoted this year amid the pandemic can be found <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://far-west.org/lockdown-lemonade-9-by-deborah-crooks/" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>
<p>take care out there!</p>
<p> <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/b3baf6651e4018410f4c4c5a977957bc14b775ae/original/light-on-water-sail.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6498191
2020-12-12T15:02:38-12:00
2021-08-14T06:35:57-12:00
Bay Station Eagle Winter 2020 Issue
<p><span class="font_regular"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/bay-station-eagle" style=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/3caf1fe4b00e634add30b2a71ab09a9c375d0e22/original/eagle-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>The second issue of the <em>Bay Station Eagle</em>, the hyper-local quarterly ‘zine I started earlier this year to reflect my corner of Alameda, is hot off the presses! Available for sale at Frank Bette Art Center, Books Inc -Alameda and directly through me for $5 by clicking below.</span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular"><a contents="This Winter " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.com/bay-station-eagle">This Winter </a>Issue features work by another great crew of local Alameda artists and writers:</span></p>
<ul> <li><span class="font_regular">Alice Lewis </span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Jean Chen </span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Candace Rowe, </span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Patty St Louis </span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Joan Wilson Rueter </span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Hugh Morgan</span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Jennifer Dailey & </span></li> <li><span class="font_regular">Vanessa Barrington</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="font_regular">email <em><a contents="Bay Statin Eagle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:baystationeagle@gmail.com" style="">Bay Statin Eagle</a></em> for more information.</span></p>
<div id="smart-button-container">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div id="paypal-button-container"></div>
</div>
</div>
<script src="https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js?client-id=sb&currency=USD" data-sdk-integration-source="button-factory"></script>
<script>
function initPayPalButton() {
paypal.Buttons({
style: {
shape: 'pill',
color: 'silver',
layout: 'horizontal',
label: 'buynow',
},
createOrder: function(data, actions) {
return actions.order.create({
purchase_units: [{"description":"Bay Station Eagle quarterly zine","amount":{"currency_code":"USD","value":5}}]
});
},
onApprove: function(data, actions) {
return actions.order.capture().then(function(details) {
alert('Transaction completed by ' + details.payer.name.given_name + '!');
});
},
onError: function(err) {
console.log(err);
}
}).render('#paypal-button-container');
}
initPayPalButton();
</script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6497111
2020-12-10T19:30:00-12:00
2020-12-11T08:29:59-12:00
NYE Quaranpalooza Style
<p>Save the date! QuaranPalooza Goodbye 2020 party NYE 7:30pm-12:30am PST - </p>
<p>Cello Joe 7:30-7:45 </p>
<p>MJoy 7:50-8 </p>
<p>David Jesitus 8:05-8:15 </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/daecf7eec976b6ac02f0bbc9bf178975de4eef32/original/quaranpalooza.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_right border_" />Josh Needleman 8:20-8:30 </p>
<p>Lisa Graciano 8:35-8:45 </p>
<p>Dawn Ellerbeck 8:50-9:05 </p>
<p>Deborah Crooks 9:10-9:25 </p>
<p>Frances Ancheta Becker 9:30-9:45 </p>
<p>Kevin Radley 9:50-10:05 </p>
<p>John Rybak 10:10-10:25 </p>
<p>The Genie 10:30-10:45 </p>
<p>David Gans 10:50-11:10 </p>
<p>The Steve Lucky & Carmen Getit Show 11:15 -11:45 </p>
<p>Syzygy 11:50-12:30 </p>
<p>More info soon! http://quaranpalooza.eventbrite.com/</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6497360
2020-12-08T12:35:00-12:00
2021-08-15T21:35:39-12:00
Lighting it up
<p>The little things that are big: I'm continuing to get a ton of mileage out of my bird feeder and porch during SIP. I’m so grateful for our porch! Which has been supporting our music endeavors both as a venue, and more recently, a recording studio this year. Kwame and I are finishing up tracking six new Bay Station tunes with the assistance of guitarist Steve Waters, here safe-social-distance overdubbing one evening on the porch. Yes, the porch is now blinged out in holiday lights. We were all set to do the Lighted Boat Parade when it was cancelled as we entered another shutdown. So the lights are now all over the yard and porch. I appreciate that the chickadees and finches don’t seem to mind all the holiday light strings and netting.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7af3aa5d935160b46cd6ea6ddffd5629231f1577/original/porch-recording.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/984b7e38ed297023ac2196ebf64d4e8d403ad880/original/feeder-watch.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6491390
2020-12-03T16:18:46-12:00
2021-08-10T05:06:18-12:00
Re-rentering the stream: Friday 7pm PST
<p>Re-entering the stream this Friday, December 4 at 7pm PST to play a set of my tunes from my personal, private newly lit up #SIP venue (aka our hyper-holiday-lit porch) to commemorate playing Amado's last year at my record release. What a year it’s been. Take care and tune in, say hello via <a contents="Facebook.com/DeborahCrooksMusic/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fb.me/e/cqmAzPYGv" target="_blank">Facebook.com/DeborahCrooksMusic/</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/96cbdd87bd765fc04947efb2e43c05ca700828cb/original/dc-lights.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6488119
2020-11-30T04:51:35-12:00
2020-11-30T04:51:35-12:00
New song & video "Look Up"
<p>One of the benefits of so many changed, stalled and cancelled plans and projects this year has been room for the new, different or random to emerge. In the music department around here, that’s meant for some new tunes and home recording. I wrote "Look Up" a couple weeks ago inspired by one of my favorite activities. </p>
<p>This was my 8th season volunteering as a Hawkwatcher for Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, a season that due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the calamitous wildfire season nearly didn’t happen at all. After months of planning and figuring out how to safely conduct the count, the annual volunteer crew, usually numbering in the hundreds, was whittled down to 15 volunteers who counted five days a week between September and November. I was on the Thursday team. We missed a few scheduled count days due to the hazardous smoke from the fires combined with the usual weather vagaries — fog, heat, rain, more fog — but we gave it a go whenever we had a chance.</p>
<p>The fact of bird migration itself is wondrous and life affirming. This year more than ever it really felt like privilege to be there, perched atop a hill with one of the best views in the area, watching falcons, hawks and vultures soar. I wrote “Look Up” after a day on the hill two days after the election. <br>I recorded it at home and made the video using footage from my last day of counting on the hill this year along with some photos taken by my teammates.</p>
<p>Take a look and listen, and then head on over to the GGRO site to learn how to support the organization. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/40PnJcuaLUs" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6487469
2020-11-27T08:35:00-12:00
2020-11-28T04:35:41-12:00
"What the Land Will Tell You' video
<p>I can't believe its been nearly a year since I released The Department of the West. While I didn't play the songs out as much as I'd envisioned, I've released several videos for songs on the record. "What the Land Will Tell You" incorporates video of some loved landscapes across the American West and live footage from the record release show. Look and listen here:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6x9THVVsu_c" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6487468
2020-11-26T08:25:00-12:00
2021-08-10T06:34:27-12:00
Thanksgiving
<p>Most holidays growing up were spent at my Nana's house in San Mateo. Nana and Papa came to the San Francisco in 1935 from a fishing village on the Adriatic, raised my mom and aunt while working at times in markets and bakeries and shipyards to make ends meet. Nana lived into her 90s, and until her last year, cooked and gardened and walked to the grocery store five blocks and one steep hill away for meat and dry goods. So many holidays involved sitting at her kitchen table, eating the <em>krustula </em>or <em>fritule</em> that she'd made earlier, while she stood at the counter, one eye on us, one eye on the stove. Late-afternoon, she took a break to play a few hands of Briscola with us. Sometimes she'd pour herself a small glass of <em>rakia</em> home-brewed by one of her friends from the 'old country.' <br>While I miss being fed by Nana, I do like to cook. Slowing down to make things I might otherwise buy has been another hallmark of the 2020 shelter-in-place experience (dosa batter, almond butter and pomegranate juice from our tree, today, brined turkey breast). Like I do while driving, which I’m not doing much of these days, I get a lot of my thinking and listening done as I chop and stir. <br>I'd forgotten about Briscola, but a combination of watching The Queen's Gambit and reading The Biggest Bluff (plus the onset of holiday season), reminded me of the games I most remember playing growing up. Perhaps I can relearn Briscola today (or Pinochle, which dad taught us) while the turkey rests and the Brussels sprouts roast. <br>Happy Thanksgiving everyone!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/e67cbdf6ef66a98b6647c68f0f337cdf73b32769/original/pomegranite-briscola.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6482949
2020-11-20T19:05:00-12:00
2021-07-20T12:31:14-12:00
St. Nick's Of Niles Benefit Bash w/ McNevin & Friends for "Giving Hope"
<p>Quite a lineup for the virtual 2020 version of the annual St. Nick's Of Niles Benefit Bash w/ McNevin & Friends for "Giving Hope" Join the party by Zooming/FBing in Saturday, Nov. 21. I'll be doing a tune between 6pm & 6:30pm PST</p>
<p> a rompin' round robin with: Stevie Coyle, Teresa Tudury, Tom Prasada-Rao, Aireene Espiritu, Johnsmith, Sheryl Thirlwall, Brad Colerick, Deborah Crooks, Michael McNevin, Paul Griffiths, Dolly & JJ of Cool House, Phil Bennett, Angie Heimann, Dan Bracken, Sara Glaser, Rob Cassidy, Michelle Powell, Dennis & Laura Show, Dawn & Maddy & Shasta Ellerbeck, Kaitlin Huwe, Page Frakes, Lucy Nirvana, Matt Hayden, Arturo Tello, Janet Lenore, Bruce Cates, other Mudpuddle & St Nick’s Favorites. BYO nog, wear whatever you want, it's your couch. PJs and wallet is good. All donations go to Fremont’s “Giving Hope Program”, helping Fremont's less fortunate families & seniors.</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/401180867584076/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/1eff1b1dd99467903d61af7e5dd2b3901adbbad1/original/mcnevin-niles-nick.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Easy simulcast viewing on Mike's Facebook wall - </p>
<p>www.facebook.com/mudpuddlemusic </p>
<p> or watch in Mike's Mudpuddle Zoom Room & Green Room (seats 100), ask Mike if there’s room. </p>
<p>Donate DIRECTLY online to the COF Giving Hope Donation Link: <br>Fremont.gov/1654/Giving-Hope </p>
<p>Donate via PayPal to Concert Host Tom Smyth: <br>www.PayPal.me/TomSmyth1 — Tom hands all proceeds over to City Of Fremont Giving Hope.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6480755
2020-11-18T10:53:07-12:00
2020-11-18T10:53:07-12:00
#TB /Right now
<p>This photo from a trip to India in 2010 came up from the memory bank yesterday. I think I was walking back from the chai stand to the place I was staying in Mysore. Some mornings I’d see a pack of pigs cruising along this road. Another day, a funeral procession went by carrying the body for all to see. Most days it was more like this: slow pace, sun filtering through palms, parrots and the occasional Indian crow squawking: </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/3768b6262bfd5da16d322f49685e611148baaa9c/original/india-2010.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> If I squint, life in SIP Alameda doesn’t look or sound so different these days: slow streets, home practice instead of crowded shalas, chickadees instead of parrots, plenty of American crows. Another reminder that a lot of the time I can find whatever I'm looking for right where I am.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6478164
2020-11-14T19:05:00-12:00
2020-11-15T03:03:24-12:00
Beauty where you find it: Pomegranates
<p>I spent an hour this morning, carefully peeling these pomegranates from our tree, to make two small glasses of juice. It felt just like yoga practice: slow down, breathe, carefully work through the pith, and then, gold! (or in this case, a ruby red elixir). The tree is just beyond our porch, which has become so many things as we weather this pandemic: music venue, cafe/dining room, entertainment (bird feeder watch!), simple respite, and Sunday, recording studio, as we continue working on tracking, both songs from my musical-in-the-making, and the new Bay Station record. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/b9088070534966734a170b182bc0131515f45c87/original/pomegranates.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>In other news, I wrote a bit about the song "Beauty Everywhere" for the Beauty Everywhere site. Read that here: <em><a contents="On the Song Beauty Everywhere" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.beautyeverywhere.com/beauty-everywhere-the-song/">On the Song Beauty Everywhere</a></em></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6475130
2020-11-10T08:50:00-12:00
2021-08-06T05:01:08-12:00
Role Models
<p>When the notification about Joe Biden finally being called as president-elect on Saturday morning we whooped and high-fived and danced around the house. The somatic experience of the day surprised me most as a heavy brick in my chest began to loosen. </p>
<p>There was a lot of scrolling and texting over the subsequent hours, posting in lieu of getting together to celebrate. How to share moments during a pandemic, a continual challenge. Later risers woke up to the sounds of horns and neighbors hollering. Musician friends penned songs on the spot and uploaded them to their socials. Oaklanders danced in the streets. I went outside on my suburban streets to pull some weeds and smiled and waved at any dog walkers who passed. So much energy released. Woohoo was all I could say for a while. </p>
<p>Later, when I watched the Kamala Harris and Biden give their acceptance speeches, I couldn’t help but cry. Especially Kamala. She’s the same age as my sisters. I felt proud as well as relieved. </p>
<p>The next night, it was back to my usual 2020 sleep pattern. I woke up in the middle of the night worried again. 3am my phone told me, which I kept in hand to read the latest Heather Cox Richardson letter and an article in The Atlantic about all those people who voted for Trump anyway. Outside it was 43 degrees. <br>Amid the 3am scroll, I saw a collage of photos of little girls watching Harris deliver her speech. They all appeared riveted, as much as I was, and I could feel their inspiration. The power of role models cannot be overstated. </p>
<p>I remember being 8 years old and watching Dorothy Hamill win her Olympic gold medal. We sometimes went roller skating in Santa Cruz but the nearest ice rink was in San Jose. Still, I got the same wedge haircut and ‘skated’ around the kitchen linoleum for months afterward, swirling my hair just so. <br>When I was looking for another the day after my sleepless night, I happened upon a photo of my champion Little League team. I’m standing in the back row next to my coach, Travis. Another player, Manny, is standing between me and my brother. I’m 10 years old, the only girl on the team, one of two in the league. My Dorothy Hamill cut is grown out. <br>Because I had two sisters and my brother was the only boy, my mom told me she’d drive him to baseball practice but wouldn’t do that and take me to the ballet class the other girls at school were taking. I could sit in the car or try out for Little League. For years, my brother and I played catch in the driveway. I was as good or better than anyone else in the league, as I’d prove shortly. Still I ruffled a lot of feathers just by stepping onto the field. Boys teased each other about getting tagged out by a girl. Parents groused about their sons being benched while I got to play second base. I was sad, but it made me more determined. I knew I was as good as the boys. <br>One day, the great San Francisco Giants player Willie McCovey was visiting the league during an important game. The bases were loaded when I stepped up to bat and connected solidly with a pitch, hitting it high over left field. My brother, for the most part my ally, told me later he prayed it wouldn’t go out of the park. It didn’t, though my triple helped win the game. </p>
<p>I don’t remember it making much of an impression on McCovey. But I didn’t care. I was playing to stay in the game. To not be relegated to a back seat before I had a chance to try. </p>
<p>It’s disheartening to learn how many people are already slandering Harris. Who voted against the ticket just because of the fact of her. But mainly I feel like I did as an eight-year-old, taking more courage from her achievement (and all the staying in the game she’s had to do up until now that it demonstrates), and redetermining to show up fully in my own life. And I’m excited to see what all those little girls who are watching her will do next. </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6467960
2020-11-01T06:26:14-12:00
2021-07-21T09:15:39-12:00
November: Staying the Course
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/kMHApr_mI2s" style="" target="_blank"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/e001cdd4-7f72-4480-a820-a74bb2b6460a.jpg" class="size_orig justify_right border_" height="300" style="border: 0px; width: 450px; height: 300px; margin: 0px; " width="450" /></a>I love this time of year, even if this week is ...nail biting. When I've traveled to India in the past, it's always been during the fall. And I was in Mysore for the 2008 US Presidential Election. That evening, I found my way to an internet cafe that catered to international yoga students. The owners lived in the back part of the house but used the front of their home for the cafe. The night of the election, they let a group of students watch the news on their living room TV. I was struck by the fact that I was one of only two Americans sitting on the floor amid people from Spain, Mexico, Canada, as well as the two Indian women who lived there. We were all riveted and <em>everyone cheered</em> at the outcome.<br>I really got that night how even when we feel isolated—as an individual, a state or a country—our actions impact so many.<br>Showing up for one another requires something different this year. And showing up is what keeps things alive, be it faith, music, community, or democracy. <br>Toward that end, I dropped my ballot off ASAP and have been doing what I can to encourage others to vote, through letter-writing and a variety of actions. Last week, Kwame and I were invited to play as part of an Election Defenders action in Oakland. It was fun and just as encouraging for us to see lots of people voting early. We also signed on with Play for the Vote on Election Day, and will be doing a set at a local polling place late in the day. In early October, we participated in a Vote by Boat rally on the Bay. We used footage from the voyage for a new video for a vintage a Bay Station (nee KCDC) tune <a contents='"Your Own Reaction".' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/NJa-pCR73tM">"Your Own Reaction".</a><br>Meanwhile, work continues on new recording, a reimagined version of the musical I started at Chalk Hill in March, some end-of-the-year Love/SIP the Bay fun and periodic porch concert pop-ups.<br>Stay tuned. Stay safe. Show up! And if you haven't already, please vote! Deborah<br><br><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">PHOTO COLLAGE BY MAURICE TANI</span></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6464312
2020-10-26T16:10:00-12:00
2020-10-27T05:11:29-12:00
Play for the Vote
<p> Busking for votes: We were invited to play as part of an Election Defenders action today. Fun and encouraging to see lots of people voting early in Oakland. We also learned about, and I signed on with, Play for the Vote on Election Day. Perhaps some of our fellow troubadours would like to do the same at a polling place near you? #playforthevote</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/4452f4c2c34127215ee272c5a2689df7947eadb8/original/play-for-the-vote.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6464307
2020-10-23T09:55:00-12:00
2020-10-27T04:57:24-12:00
Staying flexible
<p>“A flexible spine is a flexible mind," a yoga teacher told me long ago, and seeing how much I’ve been able to change my mind, and can change my mind each day, has kept me practicing for more than 22 years as much as anything else. This year practice has felt imperative. If there’s ever a call to stay flexible, active, creative, open to trying new things and considering the perspective of those who look or feel differently, it’s NOW. Voting is many of those things all at once: active, imaginative, creative, hopeful. Please #vote. T-shirt by the ever-flexible-in-spine-and-mind creative @unrulyascetic for @sorayajune /@bhavanayogastudio led fundraiser for @iamavoter</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/20ddacd203f4eb1fa0eb39bbad4d915ca93d0307/original/yogisvote.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6458536
2020-10-18T07:18:32-12:00
2020-10-18T07:18:32-12:00
Beauty Everywhere turns 4
<p>Time flies. It's been four years since I released <em>Beauty Everywhere, </em>a 7-song record I made with some of my favorite people.While I haven't played with a full band in, ahem, several months, I'm still taking in as much beauty as possible these days and was very pleased that Corrina Carter recently covered this tune at one of her recent shows. </p>
<p>Take a listen here:</p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2987017040/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;">Beauty Everywhere by Deborah Crooks</iframe></p>
<p>The songwriting on Beauty Everywhere leans towards the personal, with songs covering the middle of a relationship (“Jumped in Anyway”), the end of a love relationship (“Record of a Day”), and moving into a new home (“Make this House”). Topics also explored are the impact of these uncertain times upon others, on (“Shattered” co-written with Maurice Tani) about the lengths someone will go to put the pieces back together.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/ca32a2aac311081fa9b09cb0360fb12186dcc600/original/beauty-everywhere.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>©Deborah Crooks, vocals; Art Khu, guitars, keys; Kwame Copeland, acoustic guitar; Mike Stevens, drums; Ben Bernstein, bass. Produced and arranged by Art Khu. Recorded and mixed by Shawn Alpay at Tiny Telephone Oakland & SF. Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Coast Mastering, Berkeley, CA.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6457343
2020-10-13T11:20:00-12:00
2020-10-16T06:19:14-12:00
Watch "Your Own Reaction" Get out the vote/Vote by Boat/SIP they Bay Edition
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="NJa-pCR73tM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/NJa-pCR73tM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NJa-pCR73tM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6452447
2020-10-05T08:40:00-12:00
2021-07-31T07:42:37-12:00
FYC: The Department of the West for BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
<p>For Your Consideration first-round GRAMMY Awards®<em>The Department of the West</em> for BEST AMERICANA ALBUM </p>
<p>"...what Americana music is all about for me; imaginative, cinematic, informative and last but not least ... entertaining." — The Rocking Magpie</p>
<p>With<em> <a contents="The Department of the West," data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4eNAkk0nELmakOezozccaP?si=vdxo2L1TQ5ORWq0LsllsXQ" target="_blank">The Department of the West,</a></em> Crooks continues to explores themes of natural history, while also addressing the nature of land ownership and Native American history, and the #metoo movement and relationship.</p>
<p>Listen:</p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1658118236/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;">The Department of the West by Deborah Crooks</iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6448003
2020-10-02T08:57:11-12:00
2021-08-02T04:15:10-12:00
Food & Information
<p>"The two most important things you can give a person," Swamiji told me, "are food and information.” I was on my first trip to India in 2004, sitting in his cave temple, a few stone steps down from the top of Chamundi hill, after hiking close to 1000 steps to his door amid a jumble of grey stone painted in white and red stripes. Several grey monkeys were milling about outside when I arrived. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/62865c6088f96671b470f858c9ab55b6be668dea/original/swamiji.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_" /></p>
<p>The hike up the hill was steep, the air was hot and I was sweating when I finally stepped onto a road where the tour buses delivered their passengers. A tall skinny man was selling coconuts from the back of a truck. He looked at me and nodded to the rocky outcrop across the road where a large, black Nandi bull sculpture sat impassive. Beyond this, I could see a shorter, unevenly shaped boulder painted with stripes and the words: “Cave Temple.” </p>
<p>For years, my yoga teacher at home had played a tape of Swamiji chanting his prayers during practice, which the Sadhu did every morning in India while scrubbing the altar of his temple. So I made a point of visiting his hallowed cave on this first and three subsequent trips to India. </p>
<p>“Don’t bump your head,” a man's voice said in accented English when I poked my head inside. A low, red-tiled altar took up its far wall, and there, Swamiji, a small man dressed in an orange-red cloth jacket and a white dhoti was sitting on his heels. </p>
<p>He nodded and gestured to the floor, then resumed singing his half-chant, half-sung devotional prayers. His hair, beard and mustache were long and brown with grey streaks, and he had lines around his eyes, but his skin was otherwise smooth. His voice; however, was at once ancient and young, clear in pitch but slightly crackly, as if coming from a radio on a distant planet. </p>
<p>I think because my friend had become a devotee, Swamiji allowed me to sit quietly in the back of the cave as he cleaned and chanted. He picked up each object one-by-one — a gold serpent and a silver chalice, a framed photo of two ancient looking, long-haired Indian men whose names you didn’t know — then dipped a cloth into a small bucket of soapy water. After he finished lathering the statues, he went back to each one again with a dry cloth and polished them again. After an hour of singing and soaping, drying and rearranging, the statuettes and pictures gleamed. </p>
<p>When he finished, he turned again to me and poured milky black tea out of a thermos in two small tin cups. He nodded again, took a few sips from one, then opened the small wood door to anyone else who wanted in. </p>
<p>For the next couple hours, a steady stream of Indian families and rickshaw drivers, business owners and several other students from the yoga school entered. Everyone bowed to the altar and then sat, some in silence while staring at the shrine, some full of questions. One man came in and talked about a cricket match; a woman in a red floral sari talked about an unmarried son. It wasn’t a big space. Maybe 15 people would fit comfortably inside at any one time. </p>
<p>All the while, Swamiji sat to the side of the altar, half cross-legged, his bare feet tucked in. When it was time to go, the visitors put a few coins on a plate and held out their hands to receive prasad, a small heap of rock sugar which the sadhu doled out with a small spoon. </p>
<p>My friend had told me Swamiji could read minds, and I felt, as I sat quietly on the cold stone, as if my brain had been reorganized. On the hike up the hill, my heart had been heavy and my head full of worry, but after sitting in the cave, I found I had nothing to say. </p>
<p>“Time for lunch,” Swamiji said at noon, and closed the door. While he’d greeted visitors, someone had left a set of stacked tins and another thermos of tea at his door. With the cave quiet again, he divvied up two plates of homemade chapati, dal, and some unrecognizable cooked vegetables. The statues gleamed in the half light. The air in the room felt thick. </p>
<p>“Pickle?” he asked, raising a thick eyebrow, and offering me a jar full of fiery mango pickle, more like relish or kimchee and infinitely hotter and spicier than American dill pickles. </p>
<p>His eyes shone and he laughed when I winced at the heat. Then he put another piece of flatbread on my plate. </p>
<p>I hadn’t expected something so practical that day. But I’ve thought of his guidance about food and information many times since. Swamiji gave food and information unsparingly, to me, and to anyone else who showed up. It was simple. It was also compassion in action. Food and information are all anybody really needs. It's also why misinformation is so damaging and food insecurity so destabilizing. — DC</p>
<p>Thank you for Jamana Giri Swamiji for your life of devotion and service. It was an honor to meet you.</p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6448004
2020-10-02T06:00:00-12:00
2020-10-02T09:00:17-12:00
Bandcamp Friday!
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/f86f5a1ba98c2a31a864612307066cc2b9fbcdf3/original/bandcamp.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>When things are this nuts it’s that much more reason to listen to a bunch of music! Conveniently, it’s @Bandcamp Friday! Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue #today and upcoming first Fridays in order to help artists and labels impacted by the pandemic. Plus you can get all 6 of my releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%. Includes unlimited streaming via the free <a contents="Bandcamp a" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp a</a>pp, plus high-quality downloads of<em> The Department of the West, Adding Water to the Ashes Remix (10th Anniversary Edition), Be Your Own Bird, Beauty Everywhere, Something Special EP,</em> and <em>Little Bird.</em></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6445215
2020-09-29T02:47:24-12:00
2021-07-20T08:20:05-12:00
Watch NEW Video “Let the River do the Running”
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="QOdUMLw9KDM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/QOdUMLw9KDM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QOdUMLw9KDM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="292.5" width="520" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Dreaming of rivers amid the fires. Watch the new video for “Let the River do the Running,” a song from <em>The Department of the West</em>, featuring the Salmon (alongside which it was written), Snake, Russian and Yellowstone Rivers. Take a look and listen at the link in bio. <br>About “Let the River do the Running” <br>What <em>The Rocking Magpie</em> had to say about the track:</p>
<p><em>“Let The River Do The Running sits comfortably in both Americana and Alt. Country camps, with its rustic imagery being a metaphor for a struggling relationship. The band sound as if they’ve been unearthed in a boarded up roadside diner somewhere West of Vegas and dusted off and plugged in, such is their authenticity.” </em></p>
<p>“Let the River do the Running,” words & music by Deborah Crooks <br>Recorded and mixed by Maryam Qudus at Tiny Telephone, San Francisco. Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound. <br>Acoustic guitar, vocals: Deborah Crooks; Electric guitars & backing vocals: Danny Allen; Bass: Kevin T. White; Drums: Mike Stevens</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6443599
2020-09-26T07:31:40-12:00
2021-07-24T07:33:54-12:00
28 Weeks
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/a66652c6c87b42f5e454b9f9438d5b1a11e7ccbf/original/dc-on-trail-photofox.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>It's been twenty-eight weeks since I left Chalk Hill, stocked up on groceries and headed home. Twenty-eight weeks of canceled trips and revised plans and loaded up pantries and bird feeders and neighborhood walks, daily writing and Zoom yoga. Twenty-eight weeks of porch concerts, SIP the Bay videos, chalk on the sidewalk, new songs, a musical in progress and a neighborhood zine. Petitions, postcards and letters. Colorful masks and new air filters, hand sanitizer and soap and water and safe social distancing. <br>I'm so fortunate. <br>Twenty-eight weeks and more than two-hundred thousand lives lost to Covid-19, plus George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks and<a contents=" more names " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://saytheirnames.io/"> more names </a>I should learn and say. <br>One name I'd rather not say. <br>3.6 millions acres of California and nearly 7000 structures burned. Boarded up windows and ashes in the sky and checking the AQI. RBG lying in state and 'pro-lifers' choosing courts when there’s nothing pro-life about their stance. <br>Black Lives Matter <br><a contents="Climate chang" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climate-action/">Climate chang</a>e is real <br>Persist. Resist. <br><a contents="Please vote." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.betterknowaballot.com/">Please vote.</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6440322
2020-09-22T06:10:20-12:00
2020-09-22T06:18:48-12:00
Happy Autumn Equinox
<p>Happy autumn equinox. Sun over the equator, equal day and night. Pretty cool! The start of my favorite time of year. It’s also national voter registration day. Check your registration, register as needed, request a mail-in ballot. Please vote! </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/2b482d3fd4f4502f61cf6242ce080d6cacb5085c/original/autumn-equinox-dc.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6440328
2020-09-20T11:20:00-12:00
2022-04-10T05:56:42-12:00
Introducing The Bay Station Eagle
<p>My hyper-local SIP orbit inspired another hyper-local SIP project! The Bay Station Eagle (Bay St. & Eagle Ave. are two intersecting streets in Alameda’s Bay Station neighborhood where I live) is a pocket guide-size print quarterly, equal parts field guide and literary zine, penned by local residents and reflective of our corner of Alameda island.<a contents=" Email i" data-link-label="" data-link-type="email" href="mailto:baystationeagle@gmail.com"> Email i</a>f you’re interested in a copy.<a contents=" $5 each" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks" target="_blank"> $5 each</a> plus postage (if out of Alameda.<strong> In this issue: </strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/1ebe53b51c0a6fe4f5be60c1f70cabee15c56817/original/bay-station-eagle-collage.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_right border_" /></p>
<ul> <li>Bay Eagle Community Garden </li> <li>Waterfront Stories </li> <li>Sourdough on the Island </li> <li>Chasing Neowise </li> <li>New Frontiers at Bay Station </li> <li>& more</li>
</ul>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6437921
2020-09-18T11:00:00-12:00
2020-09-18T16:48:01-12:00
SIP West: Live & Local Music +
<p>As a lover of land and nature my heart has been especially sore these past weeks as many wildfires rage across the western states. The Department of the West was inspired by so many places that are acutely suffering right now. And while some of the songs from DoW are elegiac in tone, I couldn't imagine seeing what we're all seeing now. <br>Nonetheless, there's no time like the present to do what can be done. I'm fortunate to have all my tools on hand to keep writing and playing and taking action where I can. Earlier this month, we wrapped up our most recent SIP the Bay Virtual Fest fundraiser/ This week, I resumed volunteering for an organization near and dear to my heart, and fledged another SIP project. I'm writing letters to potential voters in my down time. And I'm happy to say new music continues to percolate between it all. Plus I'm playing music live (safely distanced!) twice this weekend. Read on for details. <br>Wishing you well! Deborah</p>
<h4>Upcoming Events </h4>
<p>Friday Alameda Porch Concerts <br>6pm-7:30(ish) PST <br>Crossing fingers AQ stays in the Good range, we'll resume playing on the porch again Friday, Sept, 18 6pm PDT as part of the Alameda-wide series! </p>
<p>Sanchez Art Center 50|50 Show <br>10 Linda Mar Blvd <br>Main, West and East Galleries <br>Pacfica, CA 94044 <br>I'll be playing a short acoustic set 5:45-6:15pm outside between the galleries.<a contents=" TICKETS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sanchez-art-center-2020-5050-show-opening-weekend-fundraiser-tickets-118386893385"> TICKETS</a></p>
<h4>Introducing The Bay Station Eagle </h4>
<p>While I’ve actually gotten off the island twice in the past week, my hyper-local SIP orbit inspired another hyper-local, writing-related (and somewhat old school) SIP project, The Bay Station Eagle (Bay St. & Eagle Ave. are two intersecting streets in Alameda’s Bay Station neighborhood where I live). Equal parts field guide and literary zine, the pocket guide-size print quarterly is reflective of my corner of Alameda island and features images and writing by myself and local residents. I was happy to pick up the first run from the printers today and start getting copies to contributors. Buy a copy for $5<a contents=" via Paypal " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/DeborahCrooks"> via Paypal </a>and I'll mail one your way. <br>In this issue: <br>Bay Eagle Community Garden <br>Waterfront Stories <br>Sourdough on the Island <br>Chasing Neowise <br>New Frontiers at Bay Station <br>& more</p>
<h4>SIP the Bay 2 Wrap Up </h4>
<p>Working on the SIP the Bay video project over Labor Day weekend gave us something to think about that wasn't the news, how hot and smoky it was, how many places in the West that I've known, loved, called home were under threat. Thanks to all the artists who contributed their songs and voices and to those who tuned in live. We raised several hundred dollars to donate to NAACP and California Fire Relief and were heartened again knowing so many folks are continuing to create amid everything. <br>Every night after we broadcast, we got out to the beach to catch the sunset, which, with all the added smoke in the skies, was dependably technicolor. On the last night, a large flock of pelicans flew low over our heads in silent, steady, V formation as we headed home. May we humans learn to work together so gracefully as we weather these times. <br>You can catch up on or binge watch our four-night SIP the Bay Mini Fest <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3mqcQf0wx1agaxIyIKQJQ43" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<h4>For the birds </h4>
<p>One of trips afield this week was heading up to Marin to count hawks. This is my eighth year parlaying my once-upon collegiate raptor conservation work/studies into volunteering for <a contents="Golden Gate Raptor Observatory " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/golden-gate-raptor-observatory">Golden Gate Raptor Observatory </a>during the fall migration. As you can imagine, an organization like this — a program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy in cooperation with the National Park Service — could use all the support it can muster to sustain itself amid the pandemic and subsequent closures. If you’re like me and love birds, I invite you to visit the <a contents="GGRO site " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/golden-gate-raptor-observatory" target="_blank">GGRO site </a>and see what they're up to and then hit donate. Let me know you did and I'll send you your choice of one of my recent records.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6432073
2020-09-11T09:55:00-12:00
2020-09-12T05:55:40-12:00
Duck and Cover
<p>Oddly, one of my main memories of 9/11 is blue sky. I was standing on Lafayette St. looking uptown with a new friend, another yoga student, sometime in the afternoon, debating whether to get in a long line for a pay phone that stretched across the street. Our cell phones weren't working (I had a small flip phone at the time that didn't take pictures), and anyone who wanted to get through to a loved one to tell them they were alive needed to get in line. <br>The sky was blue and empty save for a giant plume of smoke bleeding out of the site of the World Trade Center. A few hours earlier we'd stood in a park and watched the second tower fall. We were filled with adrenaline, but we didn't really know where to run. Instead, we wandered around the city for hours, telling our life stories, eventually ending up at the lower downtown apartment where I was staying with another friend. There, several of us cooked, ate, and watched the news together n shock. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/66a70265c2cab1e73f136209c4cc2da43b3c5c46/original/9-112020.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /><br>The sound of distant sirens was a constant. I remember first catching the scent of the toxic dusty metallic smell that would become omnipresent that night, talking on the phone with my brother in California, looking out the window into the dark, wondering what our dad, who had died six weeks earlier, would have thought of what was happening. A little less than a week later, I flew home on a near empty plane. I caught a glimpse of the still-smoking ruins from above as the plane rose and headed west. <br>Some of the main lessons I've learned from the disasters I've experienced in the past— the '89 earthquake, 9/11 among them — are don't wait, love who you love and do whatever it is you're called to do. But first you have to duck, cover, and survive. <br>After I opened the door to retrieve the CSA box this morning, the air filter started running double time. As I unpacked the plums and pears, kale and tomatoes, I wondered how these crops would keep growing. The Airnow site tells me a 'smoke plume has been detected in your area.' Looking at the satellite maps of the Western US reminds me of what I saw from the plane leaving New York 19 years ago. Only this time, I'm home, and I'm looking at a huge swath of the country.</p>
<p>Many of the places I've spent a lot of time, or thought of moving to if I move again, are similarly obscured or worse. I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that 500,000 people in Oregon alone have evacuated, to where I don’t know.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I’m in duck and cover mode. I'm just not sure how or what is next.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6428267
2020-09-08T09:18:06-12:00
2020-09-08T09:20:45-12:00
And that's a wrap! Bay Station's SIP 2 Docks
<p> Working on the SIP the Bay video project all weekend gave us something to think about that wasn't the news, how hot and smoky it was, how many places in the West that I’ve known, loved, called home are under threat. Thanks to all the artists who contributed their songs and voices and to those who tuned in live. We raised several hundred dollars to donate to NAACP and California Relief and were heartened again knowing so many folks are continuing to create amid everything. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="-NCVTFr8zUA" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/-NCVTFr8zUA/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-NCVTFr8zUA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Every night after we broadcast, we hied off to the beach to catch the sunset, which, with all the added smoke in the skies, was dependably technicolor. Last night's moment of wonder occurred when a large flock of pelicans flew low over our heads in silent, steady, V formation. May we humans learn to work together so gracefully as we weather these times. <br>You can catch up on or binge watch our four-night SIP the Bay Mini Fest <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://bit.ly/SIP2FestPlaylist" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6426152
2020-09-05T19:05:00-12:00
2020-09-05T19:20:02-12:00
Watch SIP the Bay 2- Day 2 with Marin Co. artists
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HPS4tPdgi7I" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6426150
2020-09-04T20:15:00-12:00
2021-09-12T03:24:18-12:00
SIP the Bay 2 is Underway!
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UiUuFDf2zOM" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6422107
2020-09-01T05:16:17-12:00
2020-09-01T05:16:17-12:00
Practicing Hope: SIP the Bay 2
<p>When we first started 'sheltering in place' here in California in response to the pandemic, I immediately doubled down on my usual practices for mind, body and spirit. Since then some of the actions I took have morphed from stop-gap measures enacted to get through those initial 'two weeks' — porch concerts, live streams, daily writing, Zoom yoga — to simply what I do. I've long been one for practices, but if these six months have taught me anything it's that practice is an act of hope, keeping me going when the news of the world is overwhelming. <br>Towards keeping hope going, we've rounded up another great crew of Bay Area songwriters and musicians for Bay Station's second <a contents="SIP the Bay Mini Music &amp; Sailing Fes" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.sfstation.com/sip-the-bay-virtual-mini-music-and-sailing-fest-sept-4-7-e2413292">SIP the Bay Mini Music & Sailing Fes</a>t of the year. We'll be streaming a show<a contents=" on Youtube for four evenings, Friday, Sept 4, through Monday, Sept. 7," data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRcPy2O--P9DphKS-C4pZSQ" target="_blank"> on Youtube for four evenings, Friday, Sept 4, through Monday, Sept. 7,</a> showcasing a bunch of great voices and raising funds for both NAACP and California fire relief. Mark your calendars and tune in! Wishing you well, Deborah</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iCYDFuFjpeM" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6421077
2020-08-31T03:41:30-12:00
2020-08-31T03:42:50-12:00
SIP the Bay 2 Starts Friday, Tune in Sept. 4-7!
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/629881554606123/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/8b128a6b644414a58f4c12d893bb1824e91dcc41/original/sip-the-bay-2.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>We had such a good time doing our first SIP the Bay Mini Music Fest in July, we’re doing a second virtual version of Bay Station's annual Love the Bay Music & Sailing tour Sept 4-7! <br>Please join us series of live streams on the<strong> Bay Station <a contents="Youtube" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/BayStationYT" style="" target="_blank">Youtube</a> channel</strong> featuring prerecorded performances by another great crew of Bay Area songwriters representing some of our usual ports of call. <br>Virtual tip jar proceeds will be split between <a contents="NAACP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.naacp.org/" target="_blank">NAACP</a> and California Fire Relief (organization tbd). <br><a contents="SIP the Bay 2 " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/629881554606123/" target="_blank"><strong>SIP the Bay 2 </strong></a>schedule & artist line-up: <br><strong>Pt. San Pablo-Friday, September 4, 8pm PDT </strong><br>Adrian West <br>Bay Station <br>Claudia & Bruce Russell <br>Laura Benitez <br>Laura Zucker <br>Mario Desio /Secret Identities <br>Maryam Qudus </p>
<p><strong>San Rafael-Saturday, September 5, 7pm PDT </strong><br>Amie Penwell <br>Bay Station <br>Darren Nelson and the 421's <br>Drew Pearce <br>Kwame Copeland <br>Megan McLaughlin/The Musers </p>
<p><strong>San Francisco-Sunday, September 6, 7pm PDT </strong><br>Bay Station <br>Emily Bonn & Ray Wilcox <br>Gayle Lynn Schmidt & Tom Drohan <br>Goodtime Magic <br>Jacqui Naylor & Art Khu <br>Jim Bruno <br>Nancy Cassidy </p>
<p><strong>Oakland/Alameda-Monday, September 7, 7pm </strong><br>Austin Willacy <br>Bay Station <br>Ben Bernstein <br>Bill Chapin <br>Billy & Pat Duffey <br>Deborah Crooks <br>Glenn MacPherson <br>Val Esway</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6414023
2020-08-20T15:18:48-12:00
2021-07-18T19:45:08-12:00
East Bay Times Covers the Porch Concert Series
<p>We were pleased to be featured prominently in<a contents=" this East Bay Times story about the Porch Concerts!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/08/20/pandemic-porch-concerts-bring-joyful-music-to-the-silent-streets-of-alameda/" style=""> this <em>East Bay Times</em> story about the Porch Concerts!</a></p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rhsZgGSbo9c" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6411375
2020-08-17T06:46:34-12:00
2020-08-17T06:46:34-12:00
This Friday, August 21: Amados & Riptide Virtual Concert Fundraiser
<p>I'm pleased to be performing as part of a virtual concert fundraiser for two favorite venues, Amado's and The Riptide. I had a great time doing my <em>Department of the West </em>record release at Amado's and sure hope to return when its safe to play out again. Amado's and The Riptide are two of the very best live music venues in San Francisco and they need our help during these challenging times. Tune in this <strong>FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 at 5:30pm</strong> and watch performances by Danny Allen, John Anaya, Marty Atkinson, Joshua Raoul Brody, Jim Bruno, myself, Crying Time, Paul Griffiths, Bob Hillman, Dennis Juarez, Maurice Tani and more. Set a reminder now by heading over to this handy dandy <a contents="Youtube LINK." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/d50Jdouim4U" target="_blank">Youtube LINK.</a></p>
<p>Then go to<a contents=" Amado's " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.AmadosSF.com"> Amado's </a>and <a contents="The Riptide" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.RiptideSF.com" style="">The Riptide</a> to donate! Thank you!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/e2149cdb4bf38b9301c57cfe1029c0bd3785773a/original/mcic-d3df3e907b1a5c496ca143334b32f453.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6399709
2020-08-01T12:12:55-12:00
2020-08-01T12:14:02-12:00
August: Amado's Benefit, Porch Concerts and More SIP the Bay
<p><span class="font_regular">SIP 2020 continues to be surreal and at times scary and I'm grateful to be in a good place with opportunity to continue creating. This month sees another All Around Music Showcase appearance (8/15), a benefit live stream for Amados' & the Riptide (Aug 21) and more SIPing the Bay (early September). And the porch concerts continue albeit our porch experience has been upgraded considerably due to our generous neighbors who have opened up their space for the weekly performance. More information on all as I have it. </span></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/BayStationBand/live"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/b5418d0e83d1fdc3e4fdb5d433ff58a496b607c3/original/bay-station-friday-20.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></a></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6390960
2020-07-23T05:25:01-12:00
2020-07-23T05:25:01-12:00
Porch Concerts Continue: Friday July 24 6-7pm
<p>Porch concerts continue! I’ll be swapping songs with my pal Y<a contents="ours Truly, Michele " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://yourstrulymichele.com/">ours Truly, Michele </a>on Friday, July 24, 6-7pm PDT, as part of the Alameda Porch Concerts with safe physical distancing. We’ll be playing a mix of folk, Americana, torch & twang originals and covers. Mask-wearing locals can ride or stroll by to listen. Live-streaming at Facebook.com/DeborahCrooksMusic <br>Tip jar: Venmo @Deborah-Crooks-1 <br> <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/2dcb11833bd8ca7d2c1333f82d8d49ed533b2837/original/porch-july-24.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6387461
2020-07-19T06:09:08-12:00
2020-07-19T06:09:08-12:00
Watch NEW Video "The Other Side"
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9LqmJnMppwQ" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>The time I've been spending on the water led me to complete the video for "The Other Side," a song from The Department of the West, in which the San Francisco Bay Area takes a starring role. Take a look and listen at the link in bio: <br>About “The Other Side”: <br>A few years ago, I learned that a dear friend, someone I'd been close to when I first returned to California, had passed. I was stunned, sent back to that lonely year when I didn't feel decisive or clear about most anything and a distant loved one had been a lifeline. I both felt the loss deeply and marveled anew about how connections to both people and place expand and contract and fold back over themselves over time. <br>“Maple trees going from green to red <br>Time passing before our eyes <br>To get from then to now I don’t know how <br>We did it”</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6377742
2020-07-06T08:52:06-12:00
2020-07-06T08:53:00-12:00
And that's a wrap! Bay Station's SIP the Bay finale in Alameda
<p>Four nights, four shows, more than two dozen artists, music, sailing. We are immensely grateful to all the great artists who came aboard from their respective shelters during this crazy time. Night four of SIP the Bay took us to our home port in Alameda. Check out this great party of island musicians: Steve Waters, Andrew Griffin, Dawn Ellerbek, Joan Wilson Rueter, Tania Johnson, Larrie Noble, Bay Station and honorary Alamedan, Michael McNevin:</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9CjPFZEbKIk" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>If you didn't watch the shows live, you can still see them via this handy-dandy<a contents=" Youtube playlist HERE E" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3mDYDzUy90yfkJFo5q4kWjM"> Youtube playlist HERE E</a>njoy! And let us know what you think! Better yet, add some love to the<a contents=" virtual tip jar" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.paypal.me/BayStation"> virtual tip jar</a>. Thank you!</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6376679
2020-07-05T06:37:58-12:00
2020-07-05T06:37:58-12:00
SIP the BAY SF and onto Alameda
<p>It's been a fun full weekend of Bay Station's SIP the Bay Virtual Mini Music Fest. I took a solo turn at the SF spot. If you missed night #3's live stream, it’s not too late to catch the show HERE:</p>
<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Chxx9GHBrTk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><br>Today we head home, docking in Alameda, for a final show of this run. Another great lineup with Steve Waters, Tania Johnson, Dawn Ellerbeck-Roorda, Joan Wilson Rueter (Penny Opry) Michael McNevin, Larrie Noble Sr. Music, and Andrew Griffin (Felsen): We'll be streaming Sunday July 5 at 7pm PDT. Watch that show <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="here:%20https://youtu.be/9CjPFZEbKIk">HERE:</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6375886
2020-07-04T05:14:07-12:00
2020-07-04T05:16:53-12:00
SIP the Bay is Underway! Berkeley, Richmond and on to SF
<p>SIP the Bay Mini Music Fest continues through Sunday. Tune into the <a contents="SF broadcast tonight " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3mDYDzUy90yfkJFo5q4kWjM" target="_blank">SF broadcast tonight </a>and/or catch up on our first two shows.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BAgwdiw0ALw" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/BAgwdiw0ALw/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BAgwdiw0ALw?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgb1jVcWxi3mDYDzUy90yfkJFo5q4kWjM" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/5a667bffeef64e43a342834a54d87e6358c48231/original/sip-the-bay.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6371357
2020-06-30T05:48:06-12:00
2021-06-28T12:47:24-12:00
Join us for SIP the Bay Virtual Mini Music Fest July 2-5
<p><span class="font_regular"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1453120064892777/" style=""><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/5a667bffeef64e43a342834a54d87e6358c48231/original/sip-the-bay.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_right border_" /></a>Welcome to SIP the Bay Mini Music Fest, a virtual version of Bay Station's annual Love the Bay Music & Sailing tour around the San Francisco Bay! <a contents="A series of live streams on Youtube" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://bit.ly/BayStationYT">A series of live streams on Youtube</a> and Facebook) featuring pre-recorded performances by Bay Area songwriters representing some of our usual ports of call. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">A tip jar will be available throughout with half of any proceeds we receive to be donated to the <a contents="NAACP " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.naacp.org/" style="">NAACP </a>and <a contents="The Color of Change" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://colorofchange.org/">The Color of Change</a>.You are also welcome to tip artists individually. <br>Stream schedule & artist line-up:<br><strong>Thursday, July 2, 7pm PDT <br>Port of Call: Berkeley </strong><br>Aireene Espiritu & The Itch <br>Bay Station Band <br>Danny Allen <br>Maurice Tani <br>Monica Pasqual Music <br>Yours Truly, Michele </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular"><strong>Friday, July 3, 7pm PDT <br>Port of Call: Richmond </strong><br>Bay Station <br>Cecilia Long <br>The Keller Sisters <br>Kwame Copeland <br>Pete Devine of HowellDevine <br>Wendy Beckerman with Karen Almquist </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular"><strong>Saturday, July 4, 6pm PDT <br>Port of Call: San Francisco </strong><br>Alex Walsh <br>Bay Station <br>Bob Hillman Music <br>Deborah Crooks <br>The Welcome Matt <br>Paul Griffiths with Meredith Edgar <br>Peter Whitehead </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular"><strong>Sunday, July 5, 7pm PDT <br>Port of Call: Alameda </strong><br>Andrew Griffin of Felsen <br>Bay Station Band <br>Dawn Ellerbeck <br>Joan Wilson Rueter of Penny Opry <br>Larrie Ray Noble Sr. <br>Steve Waters <br>Michael McNevin & The Spokes <br>Tania Johnson</span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6367396
2020-06-25T10:50:00-12:00
2020-06-26T05:48:06-12:00
About Love the Bay
<p>In advance of our first SIP the Bay Virtual Music Fest we share a little more about our project</p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d8hZ6eh1T6c" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6356712
2020-06-17T07:18:57-12:00
2020-06-17T07:18:57-12:00
Join me at QuaranPalooza #2 Saturday June 27
<p>The <a contents="QuaranPalooza livestream" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-109493999500">QuaranPalooza livestream</a> in May turned into a sweet online gathering of musicians and listeners from near and far, and the organizers have decided to keep it going. I'll be playing another short set of my songs at the second iteration of this music showcase/mini-festival featuring myself, Cello Joe, Nate Lopez, Dawn Ellerbeck-Roorda, Lisa Graciano, John Rybak, Az Samad, Genie Love and Szygy on June 27. Grab tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-109493999500">HERE</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/3f1f437f19b5bc770659e87a48ed26ba6c2a0d4e/original/img-9266.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6355030
2020-06-16T01:14:56-12:00
2020-06-16T01:14:56-12:00
Watch NEW Love the Bay Quarantine Edition
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="iMZeaK50M7I" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/iMZeaK50M7I/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iMZeaK50M7I?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>We set sail amid the shelter in place to talk about life during quarantine, our respective approaches to songwriting and safe-physical distance porch concerts. Featuring Bay Station's "Enough," "Look But Don't Touch," "Covid-19 Self-Quarantine Blues," Kwame's "Circle" and my "List of Birds." Bay Station hosts songwriter interviews and sessions aboard their folk boat, Espresso. Become a patron of the project <a contents="HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.patreon.com/BayStationLovetheBay">HERE.</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6350211
2020-06-11T08:40:15-12:00
2020-06-11T08:40:15-12:00
Watch NEW Video "A Garden"
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="H_uM-FpPdWk" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/H_uM-FpPdWk/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H_uM-FpPdWk?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>I started to write this song, which gets at how fear and shame and learned oppressions can keep us down, forgetful of our true selves and separate from the people we love, nearly a decade ago, as I was about to take off to India for several months. Last year, when I was in the studio finishing up recording basics for The Department of the West, bassist Kevin White wondered if I had an 11th song. I went home and found an older version of what would be "A Garden," revised it, and took it to the studio the next day. The band had spent a couple months working up the other 10 songs, but with a little studio time left, we ran through this tune and went ahead and recorded this track pretty quickly. <br>The video itself features footage of fireworks, constellations, a riot of poppies blooming in a neighbor's garden, the last full band show I did before shelter in place, and the Chalk Hill skyline at dusk. </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6346375
2020-06-06T11:05:00-12:00
2020-06-08T06:05:14-12:00
Black Live Matter
<p style="text-align: center;">As painful as this moment is in time, as afraid I am for our democracy and health, I feel hopeful seeing how the truth is OUT and on its way to setting us all free.</p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEpPNjBn2z/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px; text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px; text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px; text-align: center;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0px; text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0px auto 12px; width: 50px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEpPNjBn2z/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style="color: rgb(56, 151, 240); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEpPNjBn2z/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0px; text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px); text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px; text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px); text-align: center;"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px; text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="width: 0px; height: 0px; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid rgb(244, 244, 244); border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg); text-align: center;"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid rgb(244, 244, 244); border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px); text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px); text-align: center;"> </div>
<div style="width: 0px; height: 0px; border-top: 8px solid rgb(244, 244, 244); border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px); text-align: center;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<p style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEpPNjBn2z/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">#nopeacenojustice #saytheirnames #sayhername #breonnataylor #alameda</a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(201, 200, 205); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center;">A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;" target="_blank"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on <time datetime="2020-06-05T23:54:36+00:00" style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;">Jun 5, 2020 at 4:54pm PDT</time></p>
</div></blockquote><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6333878
2020-05-28T10:05:00-12:00
2020-05-28T12:02:33-12:00
Livestreams: Join me at QuaranPalooza is Saturday!
<p>Seven musicians, guitars, cellos, loops, original songs and livestreamable from<em> anywhere </em> - join me at QuaranPalooza this Saturday 5/30 4-7pm PDT!</p>
<p>Get a ticket here: https://quaranpalooza.eventbrite.com/</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PsqaOgpEmfY" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6326452
2020-05-22T05:16:07-12:00
2020-05-22T05:16:07-12:00
Watch NEW Video "Long Roads"
<p>I took a long winding road to feeling comfortable in my own skin and knowing what I have to say. This song owns both the time it takes for some of us, and the fact that it's never too late to find, and use, your voice. We started shooting this video before I released the record (I owe my nice hair to Jasmine at @manifestasalon ) and planned to release it after the new year, then life as we all know it changed. Watch it! Share it! Let me know what you think!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MdxiPDTf4g4" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6321745
2020-05-18T14:22:18-12:00
2020-05-18T14:22:18-12:00
Livestreams: All Around Music Showcase & QuaranPalooza
<p>I've a couple more live stream performances on the calendar. First up May 24 at 2pm PST, I'll play a short set on Facebook Live via the All Around Music Showcase /WOS Weekend. On May 30, I'm part of QuaranPalooza, which is happening 4-7pm. Get more info and grab <a contents="a ticket HERE." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quaranpalooza-livestream-music-fest-tickets-105496882014">a ticket HERE.</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/790abd36a2c2eeb6360adf1fcd6d03d7949e6ded/original/5-4-livestream.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/825e69605eb7266ecbc48bfa9f518e719fbe18aa/original/5-30-live-stream.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6314897
2020-05-13T04:34:12-12:00
2020-05-13T04:34:12-12:00
More ink for the Porch Concert in SFCV
<p>The Alameda Porch Concerts conitnue to be well received here and in the press. Paul Kotapish did a nice write up for<a contents=" San Francisco Classical Voice" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.sfcv.org/article/serenading-from-a-safe-distance-in-alameda"><em> San Francisco Classical Voice</em></a>. Check it out!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.sfcv.org/article/serenading-from-a-safe-distance-in-alameda" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/d5d82f4b8dd767eeffe16016ac53434155f44486/original/sfcv-porch-concert-jpg.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6309129
2020-05-08T04:37:16-12:00
2020-05-08T04:40:14-12:00
Streamy weekend ahead: Porchstream and All Around Music Showcase
<p>Two opportunities to catch me livestreaming some tunes from my home base this evening and Saturday afternoon.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7f37654de50b224cc1d767e129d364061b768a87/original/alameda-porhc.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_right border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/4a60bbdae07dc5f11040208e78fda10be2801268/original/img-8700.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tonight is #8 in Bay Station's Porchstream series as part of the Alameda-wide Porch Concerts with Safe Physical Distancing . </p>
<p>Catch the stream starting at 6pm PST at <a contents="my Facebook Music Page " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/DeborahCrooksMusic/live" target="_blank">my Facebook Music Page </a></p>
<p>Saturday at 4pm PST I'm up as part of the <a contents="All Around Music Showcase," data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://m.facebook.com/groups/672425700244663/?ref=group_header&view=group" target="_blank">All Around Music Showcase,</a> also streaming live via Facebook. Tune in!</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6308354
2020-05-06T14:10:00-12:00
2020-05-07T11:11:14-12:00
"All Signs" on WOS Radio Podcast #1091
<p>#1091 Music by Ruth Bloomquist, Joy Zimmerman, Ed & Carol Nicodemi, Gail Gallagher, Dr.E, Katherine Dines, Alison Reynolds, Carol Martini, Natalie Duque, Susan Kane, Kerry Barnes, Windfall, Rose Augustine feat. Melanie Sheppard, Deborah Crooks</p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/14209604/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f80592/" style="border: none" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6305861
2020-05-05T09:29:09-12:00
2020-05-05T09:30:27-12:00
"Honey"
<p>Playing "Honey" in the before times. It's been six months since I celebrated the release of The Department of the West on a fun night @amados998 Amado's. Playing with a band seems like a lifetime ago.</p>
<p>“Honey"</p>
<p>https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/track/honey</p>
<p>Dreaming of bees, honey on the comb the way they swarmed and flew on their way to a new home</p>
<p>One big whir, queen and drone, making honey</p>
<p>Fill up the Folgers cans, under skies bright and sunny</p>
<p>Trading fruit no exchange of money</p>
<p>Grapes on the vine, meant for white wine</p>
<p>Apples, pear tree, so much honey</p>
<p>Then the neighbors came apart and filed for divorce</p>
<p>Built a big road and buried their horse</p>
<p>Put up that long fence across from the pond and field of clover</p>
<p>One day you come home, find its all over</p>
<p>Stolen honey, no longer true</p>
<p>Stolen honey, can happen to you</p>
<p>Some things are sweet, but you don't really know it</p>
<p>Until what was once plenty is no more</p>
<p>The world turns and turns, the planets they line up</p>
<p>We rise at dawn, pour coffee into a favorite cup</p>
<p>Hoping for honey, hoping for honey, hoping for something sweet</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-t1zbDaM65E" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6303298
2020-05-01T10:40:00-12:00
2020-05-03T01:37:37-12:00
May: in the stream
<p>One of my favorite moments of last week’s porch concert was watching as a family of girls (and quite gifted movers) danced all over the chalk earth I’d drawn on the sidewalk as we played. This morning, after a week of mulling patterns internal and external, I decided to turn the earth into a flower for tomorrow’s (May Day!) porch concert #7. <br>As I was drawing I was thinking of a favorite class during my long-ago freshman year at UC Santa Cruz “Art and the Inner Life”. Pretty much any kind of expression was worth exploring in that class, which I found amazing and liberating even as I was a bit disbelieving. <br>One day’s lecture featured Jasper Rose and Mary Holmes in a wide-ranging discussion that seemed both pedestrian — I recall Rose talking a lot about chickens — and extraordinary. “People can do this!” I thought, after spending half of another class crawling and emoting across the floor. For the final, I drew and painted and batiked a series of Iris (since lost). The more things change the more things stay the same, at least around here, and making a series - of concerts, of chalk drawings, writing, et. all. have helped me live into this time. We'll continue the porch concert and live-streams at least through May and I have a couple more livestreams that may pop up. Stay tuned, keep in touch and take good care.<br>Wishing everyone well!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/34d28011afcaa49f22357954b05eca30dfe78ce0/original/sidewalk-art-7.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6295159
2020-04-26T06:34:33-12:00
2020-04-26T06:34:33-12:00
Process
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7a1797dffa78b7e25fb90ebda9ebc82d2389e96b/original/1cde8cd1-f6cc-4f05-871f-3d9874d1cf9e.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Photo: Chalk Hill bouquet <br>I love process, which is why I love projects: they help me chart my evolution of understanding. The process of this pandemic is a whole other order, and I’ve mainly been keeping my usual personal notes /journal through it all, reserving any summary for a much later time. And I take some comfort in looking back at my past experiences of personal and public upset: big earthquakes (‘89 Loma Prieta) and breakups, terrorist events (9/11) and deaths, and see what pivots I took in response/reaction to said event. When I look back I see those events having shaping my life’s choices considerably, mostly for the better. The challenge has always been to stay open and notice, really notice, what’s being presented and making an as considered-as-possible choice for action. This week, after a good month of adjusting to shelter-in-place life, and making a routine and new songs and art and recipes of it all, plus facing some old stuff rearing up, I notice myself relaxing a little more and getting interested/curious again about new and different avenues. The general fact of spring might have something to do with this, too, itself a great reminder. Which brought me back to these tulips, which opened and closed, expanded and turned as they bloomed more each day. <br>Wishing everyone well!</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6289397
2020-04-21T07:26:35-12:00
2020-04-21T07:26:35-12:00
The Department of the West and Earth Day
<p>I wrote most of the songs on The Department of the West in consideration of land and place, my own relationship to it as well as its historical uses. Wide open spaces have always been refuge and escape. Getting outside in natural landscapes is how I dealt with my family growing up, how I’ve found solace as an adult, and how more recently, I’ve made cohabitation in a small house work. <br>While this record is still ‘new’ it feels like it’s from another era, as of course, like everyone, life is different now. I haven’t been venturing too far beyond a two-mile radius. Trip plans have been shelved and I haven’t left Alameda Island in more than a month. It’s been more than a week since I’ve been in a car. It’s a time of acute interiority. <br>I’m happy to know that wildlife is recovering and expanding into the wild lands that much more without me, without us, in it. Instead of big land, my anchors have been walks, the music, routines and house projects (like a lot of people I’ve made bread and am now contemplating which vegetables to grow) and my yoga and Buddhist practices. I’m excited about the personal shifts happening, and, as I read the news and posts about deaths and frontline experiences, I’m very aware of the privilege I have right now to even contemplate them. Life will never be the same for all sorts of reasons. I’m very interested in who we’ll all be on the other side of this. <br>Back to The Department of the West. While I think every day is earth day, tomorrow is designated Earth Day. And in honor of that collective bow to the planet I’m donating half of the proceeds of The Department of the West @bandcamp to The Sierra Club. If you haven’t got a copy of these 11 songs already, I hope you’ll purchase them this week! <br>Thank you and take care out there. <br>https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-department-of-the-west <br>The Department of the West <br>1. Lit by the Mystery <br>2. Let the River do the Running <br>3. Honey <br>4. All Signs <br>5. A Garden <br>6. Department of the West <br>7. My New Sweet <br>8. Long Roads <br>9. The Other Side <br>10. River Stones <br>11. What the Land Will Tell You</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p><!-- more -->
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QGLLuBRcS/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QGLLuBRcS/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><svg width="50px" height="50px" viewbox="0 0 60 60" version="1.1" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)" fill="#000000"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"> View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div>
</div></a><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QGLLuBRcS/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-04-21T17:39:39+00:00">Apr 21, 2020 at 10:39am PDT</time></p>
</div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6279837
2020-04-10T17:05:00-12:00
2020-04-11T10:07:31-12:00
SFGate feature Alameda Porch Concerts
<p><a contents=" SFGate featured us in their story about the Alameda Safe Physical Distance Porch Concerts " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Alameda-weekly-porch-concerts-singing-community-15187577.php"> SFGate featured us in their story about the Alameda Safe Physical Distance Porch Concerts </a></p>
<p>Fridays April 10-May 1 6:15pm to ~7:15pm <br>tune in 6:15pm PST Facebook live. <br>The now weekly Alameda porch concerts have been a real mood lifter. We've had safe-physical-distancing folks listening on the sidewalk in front of the house, from the street meridian and the sidewalk across the street and met neighbors we didn't know we had. The porch concerts have also become our regular live-stream (on Facebook Live and IG for now). Free though <a contents="donations/tips are welcome" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks">donations/tips are welcome</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7f37654de50b224cc1d767e129d364061b768a87/original/alameda-porhc.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6279835
2020-04-10T14:55:00-12:00
2020-04-11T09:59:59-12:00
"Let the River do the Running" on WOS Radio Podcast #1079
<p>#1079 Music by Deborah Crooks, Mae Krell, Catherine M Thompson, Emma Jedow, Adapt, Shawn Thies, Kiani Alexandra, Paula Jeanine Bennett & Richard X Bennett, Liza King, Doreen Pinkerton</p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/13833536/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f80592/" style="border: none" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6279836
2020-04-09T15:05:00-12:00
2020-04-11T10:02:13-12:00
New Love the Bay Episode #14 with Joe Rut
Kwame and I had a great day sailing and talking with Oakland songwriter Joe Rut in February. Find out more about Joe's approach to songwriting and hear a selection of his great body of work.
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_5efg2gfhZg" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6272759
2020-04-05T10:07:08-12:00
2020-04-05T10:07:08-12:00
Big Blend Radio Interview
Thanks Lisa and Nancy for having me on Big Blend Radio!
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180px" src="//percolate.blogtalkradio.com/offsiteplayer?hostId=64265&episodeId=11705040" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6272758
2020-04-04T15:10:00-12:00
2020-12-31T02:46:57-12:00
"River Stones" Porch Concert Edition
<p>The weekly porch concerts have been a balm of we shelter-in-place musicians and our neighborhood. Here's "River Stones" from the porch:</p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ur_8QNi4YSw" width="560"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6270939
2020-04-03T08:31:55-12:00
2020-04-03T08:32:38-12:00
"Life Goes On" (Demo)
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vrqh4i9zlCM" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Nature, the great pacifier: The first week of California's shelter in place coincided with the tail end of my Chalk Hill Songwriting Residency at beautiful Warnecke Vineyard. For most of my stay, I was working on a larger musical project (that I expect to be working on for a couple of years), writing for different voices and utilizing a lot of found sounds. At Chalk Hill that turned out to be A LOT of bird songs, which I then had drummer/producer Mike Stevens turn into loops and beats. <br>As the news of the pandemic started to get that much more real, I got that much more present and took that much more solace in all the living creatures around me. <br>I'm enjoying using part of my SIP time working on what I started (and continuing my explorations in multi-tracking). This ditty may or may end up in the larger project. </p>
<p><br>"Life Goes On" (demo) <br>Deborah Crooks, words & vocals <br>Kwame Copeland, acoustic guitar <br>Mike Stevens, found sound/bird song loop</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6270897
2020-04-01T15:10:00-12:00
2020-04-05T10:09:12-12:00
April fools, eccentrics, “All Signs”: Quarantine Routines
<!-- more --><p>Pre-internet, living in the country with four kids, a three channel-TV and a party line phone, my mom was the queen of the daily routine. She kept to a weekly schedule, featuring rotating menus (cold cereal on Tues/Thur, pancakes on Saturday) and chores (laundry on Tues-Thur, vacuuming on Friday). Mid-morning, she did her exercises along with Jack LaLanne, afternoons were for ironing clothes while watching the soaps (One Life to Live and General Hospital), and she took a coffee break at 3pm before making dinner. I always wished she was happier, but her discipline and structure got her through. She even dressed and put her make-up on to take us to the bus-stop, often wearing her 50s-era leopard print coat. <br>I’ve thought of her so much this week, especially this morning after living room yoga, when I threw on this poncho to go check on the Red-shouldered hawk who nests in a tree a few blocks away (I bought the poncho on a whim while in San Luis Obispo a couple months ago but just made the connection today.) Daily routines have been helping me out these weeks, as I both appreciate all I have in my sheltering place and worry about the world. Take care everyone! “All Signs” <br>https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/track/all-signs <br>In the night I hear the rain <br>Think of how she said my name <br>Something about the sound of falling water <br>How I never felt quite her daughter <br>All signs lead back to mother <br>To remind and recover <br>More to a book than its cover <br>If I only turn the page <br>Don’t go in past your knees <br>Tide might take you away <br>Ota sin svetog duha <br>The words we learned to pray <br>Caution was her superpower <br>After all she couldn’t swim <br>Fear a shield of protection <br>Hope’s dark twin <br>All signs lead back to mother <br>I couldn’t help but reflect her <br>But a mirror could not protect her <br>And a frame can be a cage <br>Tejee graja mala <br>All us bad little girls <br>Just might grow into women <br>Who can heal the whole wide world <br>All signs lead back to mother <br>To remind and recover <br>Choose to resent or forgive her <br>Go ahead now, turn the page</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ck5fqBS37/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ck5fqBS37/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ck5fqBS37/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div>
</div>
<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ck5fqBS37/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on <time datetime="2020-04-01T17:23:50+00:00" style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;">Apr 1, 2020 at 10:23am PDT</time></p>
</div></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6265693
2020-03-29T08:27:03-12:00
2020-03-29T08:28:09-12:00
Shelter-in-place Coping by Creating
<p>This week our house has been a music venue, a yoga studio, an office for two people and a home. I've been walking most places and avoiding the store as much as possible (last night's Farm Fresh to You delivery felt like the arrival of Santa Claus!). I've cooked all but one meal, made bread for the first time in more than a decade, tried out a couple other new recipes, written a new song, resumed some electric guitar practice and used Zoom for more activities than I thought possible. The now weekly Alameda porch concerts have been a real mood lifter. Last night, locals rode their bikes from 'venue' to venue, and at one point we had folks listening on the sidewalk in front of the house, the meridian and the sidewalk across the street. I recommend every musician play on their porch or balcony or in their driveway as the weather allows! This morning's activity mash-up du jour will be a live-from-the-living-room yoga class with live music. Message me if you want more info on how to practice with me.<br>Take care everyone!</p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R_6XoBN87/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R_6XoBN87/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R_6XoBN87/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div>
</div>
<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R_6XoBN87/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on <time datetime="2020-03-28T14:48:15+00:00" style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;">Mar 28, 2020 at 7:48am PDT</time></p>
</div></blockquote><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6256730
2020-03-20T10:45:18-12:00
2020-03-20T10:45:18-12:00
Notes from a hilltop: Chalk Hill Residency
<p>I had a plan to work on a project related to birds and people when I applied for Chalk Hill Artist Residency, so I was more than delighted to be greeted by an avian chorus upon my arrival. Over the subsequent two and half weeks in Sonoma County, I came to think of the Spotted Towhee, Brown Towhee, Scrub Jay, Stellar’s Jay, Dark-eyed Junco, Tufted Titmouse, Bushtit, Mourning Dove, Northern Flicker and Acorn Woodpecker combo as one of two of my 'house bands.’ Within a few days, a Red-winged Blackbird could often be heard singing lead. The late afternoon/early evening house band was slightly different: Lesser Goldfinch, Western Bluebird, House Finch and Robin. Often, the California Quail, Song Sparrow and Savanah Sparrow sat in with both combos. Nature’s jazz!** <br>I always keep a casual list of birds* I see when I stay somewhere. At Chalk Hill, this of course quickly turned into a song, which is part of the larger musical project idea I came here to focus on. Very soon, I also started recording the bird songs and calls I was hearing. Which dovetailed (no pun intended) with my other intention for work here: to write for different voices and use found rhythm as much as my guitar to write for those. (I’m going to say more about this in the coming weeks as I want to vet some of what I came up with before I share it so publicly!) Suffice to say, I’ll be leaving here with nearly a dozen songs underway for my musical project. <br>As I’ve started to turn my attention toward returning home, I wrote up my Chalk Hill bird list more neatly for the residency guest book. Then I went for a walk up the hill here to big rock that looks over the bend in the river. I was feeling a bit unsettled as I began my walk back to the house— worried about the state of the world, the health of my loved ones, my community, how I was going to earn money, what’s going to happen next — and decided to sit on a bench on the side of the hill to quiet my mind (I don’t have a formal mediation practice. I tend to just …sit). Within 30 seconds I started to see a Golden Eagle sitting in a tree about 20 yards in front of me! It gave me the side-eye for a couple seconds then very calmly lifted its wings and soared silently upriver. </p>
<p>I felt better, walked home, called a friend, and then saw a great big rainbow! </p>
<p>Beauty! Truth! <br>The unknown still remains, but if I’m going to hold onto anything in the coming days, I’m going to strive to hold onto those. <br>And speaking of choruses. When I got back from the hill, I found I’d been tagged in an Alameda group post about having local musicians, playing on their quarantined porches, at the same hour, 6pm, on Friday. I love the thought of all us sitting on our various perches, warbling away, for the sheer joy and offering of it. And I hope more of this kind of community music-making — like Italians singing from their balconies — continues. (See my earlier post about this quarantine porch fest idea). <br>*I expect to add to this list as I expect to use some of my upcoming quarantine time to try to key out the birdsongs I recorded but didn’t always recognize or see who was singing. </p>
<p><br> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B97364whlZl/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B97364whlZl/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><svg width="50px" height="50px" viewbox="0 0 60 60" version="1.1" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)" fill="#000000"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"> View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div>
</div></a><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B97364whlZl/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-03-20T00:35:07+00:00">Mar 19, 2020 at 5:35pm PDT</time></p>
</div></blockquote>
<script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6220894
2020-02-19T14:18:09-12:00
2021-07-14T06:56:58-12:00
Muddy Sunday! Danny Allen, Deborah Crooks and Michael McNevin in Niles
<p>It’s on its way to being a tradition to do a birthday show Michael McNevin in February. This year's bday-related show takes place on Feb 23, a week after my actual birthday BUT the day (or weekend?) of Mr. McNevin's birthday. So we're gathering for musical mud pies and mayhem at the Mudpuddle Music Shop in Niles this SUNDAY at 4pm.<em> Department of the West</em> co-producer and songwriter/guitarist Danny Allen joins the mix. Get muddy! RSVP info@michaelmcnevin.com</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/59f1d394084caed6cd1553750654f1e969375c24/original/muddy-sunday-2-23.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6220893
2020-02-18T18:15:00-12:00
2021-07-22T14:18:04-12:00
"Be Your Own Bird" is 2
<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8t5SHSBbJR/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;">
<div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8t5SHSBbJR/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"><svg height="50px" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 60 60" width="50px" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="none" stroke-width="1"><g fill="#000000" transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></a></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style=" color:#3897f0; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8t5SHSBbJR/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank">View this post on Instagram</a></div></div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div>
<div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"> </div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div>
<div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div>
<div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8t5SHSBbJR/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">I was out at “the birds” (aka Esie Roemer Bird Sanctuary) this morning and remembered “Be Your Own Bird” turned two a couple of days ago! Be Your Own Bird ©Deborah Crooks (ASCAP) released February 16, 2018 Recorded by Ben Bernstein at Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland, CA and Kwame Copeland at Studio Valencia, San Francisco, CA Mixed and mastered by @benbernsteinmusic at Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland, CA @deborahrcrooks : vocals, whistles, wood frog, woodpecker rattle @kwamecopeland Copeland: acoustic guitars, whistles Ben Bernstein: upright bass, whistles, peeps Peter Whitehead @peterwhitehead9 Asian fiddle, corruga horn, catbird whistle, bells Lyrics: Song sparrow sings its own song No other place it belongs Like the towhee peeps in the leaves In your own life you must believe And be your own bird Hummingbird nest in the tree Spun thread a tiny blue egg Wings a blur in the air We all have our own truth to declare Be your own bird Nature can beautiful nature can be cruel Some days you win, some days you play the fool Mockingbird attacking its own reflectio Across the meadow I see some geese Dabbling in the green green grass No one’s first and no one's last Everyone has their own path Be your own bird Nature can beautiful nature can be cruel Some days you lose some days you completely rule Eagle perched atop the highest mountain #BeYourOwnBird #song #songwriter</a></p>
<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;" target="_blank"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on <time datetime="2020-02-18T17:55:42+00:00" style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;">Feb 18, 2020 at 9:55am PST</time></p>
</div></blockquote><script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6209470
2020-02-07T11:15:00-12:00
2020-02-09T07:15:50-12:00
February Music: Monkeys & Mud
<p>Perhaps it was the added chicory in the coffee, or all those great artists we heard and connected with at Folk Alliance, but I came home from New Orleans doubly fired up for live music and general music-making. I'm happy to report the next couple months are full of creative possibility, including several collaborative shows and a residency. First up is a special show this Sunday at The Monkey House, where I’ll be co-hosting/playing the Bay Station Love the Bay Retrospective screening and performance In 2019, Kwame Copeland and I released a dozen music and sailing episodes as part of our Love the Bay video series. We're already in production for a 2020 round of videos (and also completed 30+ 'pop-up' LTB vidios as part of our January FAI showcase), but first, we'll take a look back at our 2019 efforts. Join us and many of our great featured artists! </p>
<p>LOVE the BAY 2019 Retrospective <br>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2020 <br>THE MONKEY HOUSE <br>1638 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703 <br>Doors 6:30pm; Show at 7pm. $10-20 at door. BYOB. <br>With performances by Aireene Espiritu, Bay Station, Bob Hillman, The Keller Sisters, Maurice Tani, Peter Whitehead, Yours Truly, Michele and Ira Marlowe! Reserve a seat:monkeyhouse.seats@gmail.com.</p>
<p>I'm happy to say The Department of the West has been getting support from community radio. Thank you WERU, KDRT, WCNI, She Wolf Radio, KUBU, Blues & Roots Radio and KGLP for playing the songs of late. <br>What The Rocking Magpie wrote about The Department of the West: </p>
<p><em>"There’s an effortless finesse to the way these songs are constructed ... what Americana music is all about for me; imaginative, cinematic, informative and last but not least … entertaining. </em></p>
<p> </p>
<p> "My New Sweet" live at The Make-Out Room</p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8bAkkrnflHA" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Upcoming Events </p>
<p>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2020 <br>LOVE the BAY 2019 Retrospective <br>THE MONKEY HOUSE <br>1638 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703 <br>Doors 6:30pm; Show at 7pm. $10-20 at door. BYOB. <br>With performances by Aireene Espiritu, Bay Station, Bob Hillman, The Keller Sisters, Maurice Tani, Peter Whitehead, Yours Truly, Michele and Ira Marlowe. <br>Reserve a seat:monkeyhouse.seats@gmail.com. </p>
<p>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2020 <br>Deborah Crooks/Danny Allen <br>MUDPUDDLE MUSIC SHOP <br>37433 Niles Blvd Fremont CA <br>4pm-7pm; Walk up $20. <br>Join me and Department of the West co-producer Danny Allen and Mudpuddle maestro Michael McNevin at the at Mudpuddle Shop . ‘Get muddy!’ As Mike would say. We'll rotate short sets; jam follows. RSVP info@michaelmcnevin.com </p>
<p>THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 200 <br><a contents="Alison Harris/Deborah Crooks " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/instances/a0F3s000006EIKJEA4" target="_blank">Alison Harris/Deborah Crooks </a><br>THE LOST CHURCH - SANTA ROSA <br>427 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa 95401 <br>$15 adv/$20 day of show <br>I'm excited to play at the new Lost Church with the excellent Alison Harrison. Advance tickets <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/patronticket__publicticketapp#/instances/a0F3s000006EIKJEA4" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p>Subscribe to the <a contents="Mailing List" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://deborahcrooks.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2&id=4c3c035ffe">Mailing List</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6132982
2020-01-19T02:59:38-12:00
2020-01-19T02:59:38-12:00
First time at Folk Alliance!
<p>In addition to co-hosting nearly 30 other artists/acts in <a contents="Bay Station'" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://baystationband.com/" target="_blank">Bay Station'</a>s Love the Bay Private Showcase Room #1008 at <a contents="Folk Alliance" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://folkconference.org/">Folk Alliance</a> this coming week, I'll be playing a couple of Bay Station(duo) sets and taking a few solo turns. Find me presenting <a contents="Bay Station material on Wednesday 1/22 at 12:30am and Friday 1/24" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7dxbjMhVbp/" target="_blank">Bay Station material on Wednesday 1/22 at 12:30am and Friday 1/24</a> at 11:30pm and presenting music from <em>The Department of the West </em>on Wed, Thurs and Sat:</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/76d54628dd40864ca29157840db4df62de89d176/original/deborah-crooks-at-fai.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6122474
2020-01-17T03:19:56-12:00
2020-01-17T03:19:56-12:00
Making out in 2020
<p>"Make out" is an interesting term, isn't it? As is "how'd you make out?" or "could you make it out?" and "let's make out!" (which is actually pretty low on the definition list according to Merriam). I'm riffing on the phrase both as it's an <ahem> interesting time on the planet right now and I've a show at the Make-Out Room at the end of month, which I very much wish you'll make it out for. </ahem></p>
<p>Miss my record release? This will be a near reprise, as I'll be sharing the show with Gayle Lynn & The Hired Hands as well as Paul Griffiths. And playing with most of the musicians who played at the release. Likewise, both Paul and Gayle are continuing their celebrations of their recent records. Come on out! I'm honored to share a stage with these fine people, and The Make-Out room is great space. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/550407759022837/" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/6504fb82c2c4669ccd9155d140cf8a4cc9770d12/original/make-out-room.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042223
2019-12-22T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-23T00:03:32-12:00
Bay Area Recording Roundup by SF Classical Voice
<p><span><span id="ember100" class="ember-view"><span>Appreciate that Department of the West is included in this roundup of Bay Area Recordings!</span></span></span></p>
<p><em>"Welcome to SFCV’s 2019 year-end roundup of recordings released this year by local artists. Our list isn’t limited to classical music: We’ve embraced everything from Baroque music to jazz to Celtic, folk, blues, and bluegrass. We can’t claim that our roster is comprehensive, but we tried to provide a solid sample of the area’s musical wealth. There is so much great music here that we aren’t able to hear or review over the year, and this is one way for us to catch up." </em>Read<a href="https://www.sfcv.org/article/shameless-promotion-of-local-artists-bay-area-recordings-in-2019?fbclid" data-imported="1"> full article HERE</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.sfcv.org/article/shameless-promotion-of-local-artists-bay-area-recordings-in-2019?fbclid" data-imported="1"><img src="https://www.sfcv.org/sites/default/files/styles/reduced_size/public/u45884/2019_CD_Roundup_header.png?itok=-LdZFPNA" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" style="height: 354px; width: 630px;" /></a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042222
2019-12-18T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-19T01:57:59-12:00
Americana Highways Poll: Vote for The Department of the West
<p>This is a nice list just to be on. That said, if you'd like to show your love for The Department of the West, I'm that much more grateful if you vote for it in Americana Highways' favorite THREE releases of November/December 2019 poll:</p>
<p>"Americana Highways needs you to v<span style="caret-color: #3d3d3d; color: #3d3d3d;">ote for your favorite THREE releases these past two months, November and December 2019. T</span><span style="caret-color: #3d3d3d; color: #3d3d3d;">he vote stays </span>open<span style="caret-color: #3d3d3d; color: #3d3d3d;"> until January 20th at 11:59pm EDT; results will be posted January 21st. Write in, if we overlooked one! <strong>The top three winners get placed on our monthly playlist, and just for being on the list you also have a chance to be in the playlist at the curator’s discretion!</strong> "<a href="https://americanahighways.org/2019/12/19/vote-for-your-favorite-release-from-november-december-2019-vote-for-three-write-one-in/?fbclid=IwAR0zEhGckZxa_s4Nj5QCaqM0HFy4ZgJsJtMzvHxMG0XnQPYs3wBLkrei2qY" data-imported="1"> VOTE HERE</a></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe height="240" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1658118236/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" width="320"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042221
2019-12-13T12:00:00-12:00
2021-12-07T02:57:54-12:00
"Adding Water to the Ashes Remix"
<p>A year ago I released this reimagined version of "Adding Water to the Ashes" - take a listen: </p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe height="240" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3567091373/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" width="320"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042220
2019-12-09T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-09T20:26:47-12:00
The Rocking Magpie reviews The Department of the West
<p> It’s doubly gratifying when a reviewer listens to your record...then listens again. Rocking Magpie on The Department of the West:</p>
<p>"There’s an effortless finesse to the way these songs are constructed; and I’m sure there will be minimal lighting when they play the two pertinently observed song about Native American History are sung in concert; What The Land Will Tell You and the title track Department Of The West as both have a delicate melody but a very powerful message that will and should be listened to in silence.<br>I’ve struggled a couple of times here with my descriptions as I don’t want these gorgeous songs to sound ‘preachy’ or ‘worthy’ as that couldn’t be any further from the truth …….. they; and the jaunty River Stones are all what Americana music is all about for me; imaginative, cinematic, informative and last but not least …… entertaining.<br>Let The River Do The Running sits comfortably in both Americana and Alt. Country camps, with its rustic imagery being a metaphor for a struggling relationship; and the band sound as if they’ve been unearthed in a boarded up roadside diner somewhere West of Vegas and dusted off and plugged in; such is their authenticity here and on just about every other other track.<br>There are a couple of songs I’ve already mentioned that could easily be my Favourite Song; as well as the stunning The Other Side, but I’m going for Long Roads as it piqued my attention last night and still sounded stunning this morning; and now I’ve discovered what it’s about ……. phew……….. Deborah Crooks is one subtle songwriter!!<br>I’m not going to spoil the surprise ……. find it yourself and listen as it unravels over several plays ……. then you can thank me.<br>Yet again I was feeling a bit jaded and considering taking a sabbatical over the holidays; but discovering this gem has restored my faith in the Power of Music …… and I’ve now got three more of her albums to discover as well as her other band Bay Station!<br><em>It’s only Rock n Roll ……. but I love it.</em>" — full review at <a href="https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/deborah-crooks-the-department-of-the-west/?fbclid=IwAR2Q5KEyRe5jqDi4AJi0qE888kMlkR-olsQIHywuVnefMnOLRNCPM4i96K0" data-imported="1">The Rocking Magpie</a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042219
2019-12-07T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-08T18:00:57-12:00
Thanks for the show!
<p>Thanks friends and generally awesome people for coming to the show; my band and Gayle Lynn Schmitt for sharing the stage and Amado’s for providing a great space for such a sweet night of music! Some snaps and a video from Thursday’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4eNAkk0nELmakOezozccaP" data-imported="1"><em>Department of the West</em></a> record release show follow below. Such fun to play with and share a bill with this group of musicians! I’m so grateful to everyone who came out and helped make it happen. About that dress I’m wearing: In March, when I had a gig shortly after I started recording The Department of the West, I played out the familiar scenario of fretting about what to wear and if I had the right shoes, etc. Then I remembered the quirky, vintage dress Kwame's mom Pat had given me on a visit more than a year earlier. I'd taken it home without trying it on and had yet to wear it. Miraculously, it fit perfectly. (And, more miracles, I actually already owned shoes that went with it!) What's even cooler is that the dress isn't a brand. It's handmade, one-of-a-kind, sewn by Kwame's grandmother. I'm told she was an actress and the wife of a Naval Captain, and that she sewed much of her own clothing out of fabric bought on her travels. I'm not sure where the design or fabric for this dress came from (its cotton twill, with a nice heft), but it fits, and sure is fun to wear.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/9d3de88f9b66e5fd9c32bcaa7e49e47071e54c8c/original/79220657-10220652882022665-6048920137392717824-o.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6OTAweDY3NSJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="675" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="900" /></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mQYtMYpjNco" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/354e884a52a63470a3e89d3588e89cba4da5100a/original/live-at-amados-photo-by-kerry-c.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NzAweDUyNSJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="525" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042218
2019-12-05T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-05T21:24:52-12:00
The Department of the West- 11 new songs available everywhere today!
<p><iframe height="240" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1658118236/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" width="320"></iframe></p>
<div dir="ltr"></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<em>The Department of the Wes</em><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">t by Deborah Crooks available everywhere now! </span><br><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">California songwriter Deborah Crooks announces the release of her</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">fourth full-length album </span><em>The Department of the West </em><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">(Dec. 6, 2019). A </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">follow-up to her 2016 EP </span><em>Beauty Everywhere</em><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> and her work with the band</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Bay Station, which released </span><em>Other Desert Cities</em><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> in 2018, Crooks</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">continues to explores themes of natural history (“River Stones”),</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">family (“All Signs”), and the #metoo movement (“Long Roads”), while</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">also addressing the nature of land ownership and Native American</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">history (“Department of the West” “What the Land Will Tell You”) and</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">relationship (“Let the River do the Running”).</span><br><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Crooks co-produced</span><em> The Department of the West</em><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> with Danny Allen (Baby</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Buck Studio, High Diving Horses) and recorded at </span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">John Vanderslice</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">’s</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Tiny Telephone Studio in San Francisco. Allen also played guitars,</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">ukulele and banjo on the album, and was joined by Mike Stevens (The</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Uptones, </span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Sun Kil Moon</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">) on drums and percussion, Kevin T. White (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Chuck</a><br><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Prophet</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">, </span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Shelby Lynne</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">) on bass. Longtime collaborator Kwame Copeland</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">(Bay Station, Straw Coyotes) as well as Heather Davison (Loretta</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Lynch), Maurice Tani and Maryam Qudus also contributed backing vocals.</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The recording was mixed and engineered by Qudus (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Tune-Yards</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">, </span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Kronos</a> <a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">Quartet</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">) and mastered by Piper Payne (Infrasonic Sound).</span>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Song Titles:</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">1. Lit by the Mystery (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">2:28</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">2. Let the River do the Running (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">4:21</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">3. Honey (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:30</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">4. All Signs (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:57</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">5. A Garden (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:48</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">6. Department of the West (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:11</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">7. My New Sweet (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:53</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">8. Long Roads (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">4:27</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">9. The Other Side (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">4:38</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">10. River Stones (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:43</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">11. What the Land Will Tell You (</span><a style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127,127,127,0.380392);" dir="ltr">3:10</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">)</span><br><br>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042217
2019-12-02T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-03T04:52:03-12:00
Record Release Countdown: The band and venue
<p><span>The Department of the West RECORD RELEASE SHOW <br>is this Thursday, December 5 at Amado's in San Francisco! Amado's is a sweet, downstairs venue in the heart of the Mission District and I've an excellent co-bill in Gayle Lynn & the Hired Hands who will start out the evening.<br>My band for the night features a bunch of musical geniuses: Danny Allen (guitars, backing vocals), Kwame Copeland (guitars, harmonica, backing vocals), Kevin T. White (bass) and Andrew Griffin (drums) as well as some special guests. This is my big show of the year — help make it happen!<br>THURSDAY, December 5, 2019 at Amado's <br>998 Valencia St<br>San Francisco, CA<br>7:30 doors/8pm show $15 adv/$20 door <a href="http://www.amadossf.com/shows/2019/12/5/deborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn-and-the-hired-hands" data-imported="1">TICKETS HERE</a><br></span></p>
<p><span><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7f6bf8a9b856c299bd705636b86db595d4295673/original/54730837-10156762827981677-4256188706299314176-n.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6OTYweDc1MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="750" width="960" /></span></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042216
2019-12-02T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-03T04:49:40-12:00
New Love the Bay Episode featuring Peter Whitehead
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eo_BFQ5Z_oQ" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042215
2019-12-01T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-01T21:22:21-12:00
Track #11: "What the Land Will Tell You"
<p>About Track #11 "What the Land Will Tell You"<br>This was another song written on a retreat at the intersection of the Salmon River Scenic Byway and Sawtooth Scenic Byway where it wasn't uncommon to walk outside and see a Bald Eagle fly over and a herd of pronghorn grazing along the ridge. Lewis & Clark famously traveled the region... a bit of information of the sort we’re often first taught about a place...but the history of the west, of any place, is of course much older than colonial exploration, and firstly, natural.<br>I recently read this quote by indigenous botanist and author Robin Kimmerer that speaks to some of what I was feeling while writing this song, what became the final track of the record:<br>“I can’t help but cling to the notion that it’s not the land that’s broken, it is our relationship to land that’s broken....Grief is a measure of how much we love. And so I honor that grief, but then you roll up your sleeves. Out of the love that you have for the world — that’s expressed in that grief — then you get to work, the work of restoration.” Between now and it’s official release day—which is coming up quick! —I’ve been sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West and a preview of the recording. <br>Buy a ticket to the San Francisco record release show this Thursday. Dec 5 at Amado’s in<a href="http://www.amadossf.com/shows/2019/12/5/deborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn-and-the-hired-hands" data-imported="1"> San Francisco HERE</a><br>and I’ll send you ”What the Land Will Tell You”<br><br>*drawing from an old notebook predating the actual writing of this song by many years!<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/a99bae2d543c2c3e6f0baddbe3a3a6fa91da9f6e/original/79519892-10157346246506677-2506935113179201536-n.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NzIweDk2MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="960" width="720" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042214
2019-11-30T12:00:00-12:00
2021-08-02T04:51:27-12:00
Record Release Countdown: The Musicians
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span title="Edited"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ab854b31-7fff-2ad7-1714-025134d8d641" style="border: none; display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; width: 300px; height: 297px;"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/VPoveMqxkkUdyQ8J5tcem3eil4V7zLZhGlV6S75N2Eabf-K8oVwq-I_js8TDTuLIm7MOhH29dCjub9C71iqzjsEnA2J61CHqtUCCqq9slGNdajoZHg_-U-LkDF9nVXy0xgdGFENN" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="297" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; " width="300" /></span></span>I rounded up a great crew of musicians to record <em>The Department of the West:</em> songwriter/guitarist Danny Allen whose playing I’d admired since I caught one of his sets at an Oakland show then saw him accompanying several other esteemed Bay Area songwriters (Mick Schaffer, Val Esway, Joe Rut). Likewise, Kevin White has long been a go-to on bass for many when he’s not playing with Chuck Prophet in The Mission Express. And I’ve called on drummer Mike Stevens (The Uptones, Sun Kil Moon) for more than a decade since Ben Bernstein and Kwame Copeland recommended him for a show shortly after I released my first full-length record. Their work was rounded out by Kwame who added backing vocals and harmonica; Maurice Tani and Heather Davison also added backing vocals, and the formidable engineer/musician/singer Maryam Qudus, who stepped away from the board long enough to sing and add keys to a couple songs. Yes, a GREAT bunch! <br></span></p>
<div dir="auto">
<div dir="ltr">
<div><span style="font-size: small;">Between now and it’s official release day, I’ve been sharing the backstory for to the songs The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. Pre-order<a href="ttp://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/" data-imported="1"> the record </a><a href="http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/&source=gmail&ust=1575317509773000&usg=AFQjCNHgOOCKMgoAZzKB3sGiEbW1yHxIpw" data-imported="1"> </a>and/or buy a ticket to the San Francisco record release show on Thursday, Dec 5 <a href="http://www.amadossf.com/shows/2019/12/5/deborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn-and-the-hired-hands" data-imported="1">at Amado’s </a>and I’ll send you the featured song of the week!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</div>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042213
2019-11-30T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-30T19:01:38-12:00
Record Release Countdown: About The Department of the West (Dec 6, 2019)
<p><span><span>About The Department of the West (Dec 6, 2019)<br>Most of these songs were written over the past three years but they’re really about my reckoning with personal and family history to date in the Western US. I’m a California native, born to two San Francisco natives with very disparate backgrounds: my mom a first-generation Croatian; my dad, a World War II veteran in a long line of war veterans.<br>I grew up on a rural part of Santa Cruz County on a piece of land my dad inherited from an aunt. A tintype portrait of our Great Great Grandfather Gen. George Washington Crooks hung on the wall along with a Civil War issue rifle. We were taught to be proud of him. It wasn’t until a few years ago, still processing the family fallout in the wake of my father's death, and subsequent sale of the land I’d first called home, that I realized my great grandfather’s lifetime career of military service included the Indian Wars. This led to a revision of how I viewed my family’s pride and my beliefs about land ownership, even if you were born to it and loved it. <br>Still I naturally gravitate toward open spaces. My phone is full of pictures from visits to much of the west that Gen George Washington fought to occupy and assert claim... and where I ended up writing many of the songs on this record. <br>SONG ORDER <br>1. Lit by the Mystery <br>2. Let the River do the Running <br>3. Honey <br>4. All Signs <br>5. A Garden <br>6. Department of the West <br>7. My New Sweet <br>8. Long Roads <br>9. The Other Side <br>10. River Stones <br>11. What the Land Will Tell You <br>Between now and its official release I’ve been sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West. Pre-order the record -http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/<br>and/or buy a ticket to the San Francisco record release show Dec 5 at Amado’s & I’ll send you the</span> song of the week.<br></span></p>
<p><span><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/ded60d2b1e9c344e7b3a8ff38ce564bed20af9d8/original/dow-cover-jpg.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDk4eDQ5OCJd.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="498" width="498" /></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042212
2019-11-28T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-29T06:04:31-12:00
Track #10: "River Stones" - Audio Preview
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xj-pl__WdCo" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
<p>Audio preview of the penultimate track on The Department of the West, “River Stones” re: mountains and rivers, rock cycles and life cycles. Recorded and mixed by Maryam Qudus at Tiny Telephone, San Francisco Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound Acoustic guitar, vocals: Deborah Crooks Electric guitars: Danny Allen Bass: Kevin T. White Drums, percussion: Mike Stevens Backing vocals & harmonica: Kwame Copeland Between now and it’s official release day (next week!), I’ve been sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. Pre-order the record -<a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deborahcrooks.com%2Fthe_department_of_the_west%2F&v=Xj-pl__WdCo&redir_token=ERRLfKsxvI-FWoSKirJvbFsj5fl8MTU3NTE2NTc4M0AxNTc1MDc5Mzgz&event=video_description" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_depa...</a> and/or buy a ticket to the San Francisco record release show Dec 5 at Amado’s <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amadossf.com%2Fshows%2F2019%2F12%2F5%2Fdeborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn-and-the-hired-hands&v=Xj-pl__WdCo&redir_token=ERRLfKsxvI-FWoSKirJvbFsj5fl8MTU3NTE2NTc4M0AxNTc1MDc5Mzgz&event=video_description" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.amadossf.com/shows/2019/12...</a> and I’ll send you the featured song of the week!</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042211
2019-11-25T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-25T20:44:34-12:00
About Track #10: "River Stones"
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/b6a62e471fc70eb697027265527a20917d645cc7/original/78773717-10157330422176677-4625097375931695104-n.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjAweDQ0OSJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="449" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="600" /></p>
<p><span id="react-root"><span><span>Track 10 "River Stones" <br>I grew up near a creek and spent many afternoons searching for the smoothest rocks to try to skip across the water. I had no idea how long it had taken those stones to become so polished and skippable. Flash forward to last year, spending a week songwriting beside the Salmon River, hearing the intermittent clatter of rocks being carried downstream. At the same time, I could see the mountains whence those rocks came. As I sat working on what would be the last song written that week, I couldn’t not see parallels between rock and human life cycles:<br>“Mountain holds us/steady and strong/earth rumble moves us along/first a boulder then a rock/ falling tumbling, knock knock/we’re just river stones/finding our way home/together and alone/we’re just river stones”<br><br>Between now and it’s official release day—which is coming up quick! —I’ve been sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West and a preview of the recording. Pre-order the record <a href="http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/%20" data-imported="1">HERE</a><br>and/or buy a ticket to the <a href="http://www.amadossf.com/shows/2019/12/5/deborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn-and-the-hired-hands%20" data-imported="1">San Francisco record release show Dec 5 at Amado’s </a>and I’ll send you the featured song of the week.<br></span></span></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042210
2019-11-21T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-21T20:36:04-12:00
About Track #9: "The Other Side" audio-video preview
<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/laej_nedPbI" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042209
2019-11-20T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-21T00:22:05-12:00
Two weeks til show time
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now's the time to grab your tickets via Brown Paper Tickets https://bpt.me/4426048 and join Gayle and I for a night of original Americana songwriting. We're both playing with excellent bands and I'm celebrating the release of The Department of the West!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/455936e5a4d8f1a903447b0fb3e619319510c661/original/show-poster-dec-5.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6ODAweDExMzEiXQ%3D%3D.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1131" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="800" /></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042208
2019-11-18T12:00:00-12:00
2021-08-10T04:24:43-12:00
About Track #9: "The Other Side"
<p><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{" tn><span class="hasCaption">Track #9: "The Other Side"</span></span></p>
<p><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{" tn><span class="hasCaption"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/339f38848566e7572c0aa64db2bf9b75b5775fbc/original/sailing-other-side.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6OTYweDcyMCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="720" width="960" /><br> When I returned to California more than 20 years ago I wasn't sure it would be permanent. I hopscotched around the Bay for more than a decade between bouts of travel, trying to decide, moving first to Marin, then back to Santa Cruz, then San Francisco, again to Marin and back to SF. After a stretch of time in the city, I moved to Berkeley, and a year after that Alameda,<span class="text_exposed_show"> the little island next to Oakland, flying to India a couple more times in between just to be sure. After landing in Alameda and marrying a sailor, I started going out on the water more often, and began to get to know the Bay itself after circumnavigating it for all those years.<br> A couple years ago, I learned that a dear friend, someone I'd been close to when I first returned to the state, had passed. I was stunned, sent back to that lonely year when I didn't feel decisive or clear about most anything, and a distant loved one had been a lifeline. I both felt the loss deeply, and marveled anew about how connections to both people and place expand and contract and fold back over themselves over time.<br> “Maple trees turning from green to red before our eyes/to get from then to now/I don’t know how/we did we do it?”<br> Audio preview later this week!<br> Between now and it’s official release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. Pre-order the record -<a href="http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/?fbclid=IwAR3RfiFoyvLOwjQJGcbFme0zz5FAm1ZPsFGZEkmmHi0bRGGe-RHCqhhf_9E" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deborahcrooks.com%2Fthe_department_of_the_west%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3RfiFoyvLOwjQJGcbFme0zz5FAm1ZPsFGZEkmmHi0bRGGe-RHCqhhf_9E&h=AT1lS0dT2EhL3hrTfrEpZL4wlSNLgtn1r4ov52woG-P3y1bVJxUp_73ZdoBuP7OR2S8sKhFbKEqF2MvEqLq4pd40FINrFQS6edNdiDSNMsDLDJ4Rrx3dMRsiuPJIYGr_8JfwWr7o630nkuFsi8aoT_E0pDFA" data-imported="1"><span>http://</span><span>www.deborahcrooks.com/</span>the_department_of_the_west/</a> and/or buy a ticket to the record release show at Amado’s SF on December 5 - <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amadossf.com%2Fshows%2F2019%2F12%2F5%2Fdeborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn-and-the-hired-hands%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2m_yI5IeUUUynOD5-WWd6JwhChgBV-cw_y-Pc7A7umm9UQf83MmKwCrZM&h=AT3U_yaXKj-u1fBYQPPRFfJtKtmwfkKnaM8t1TO8BV6sqC2Hsj30QDYq75S9osrVuKRFGPSLcofbdORO_1YPQo0ls4XB3sb1MfHQ1g0NYaD4fSN5FuwnXWzYFn_xpX2xhXoo28tGq_afm6PAJwe8dUgVgm-k" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-imported="1"><span>http://www.amadossf.com/</span><span>shows/2019/12/5/</span><span>deborah-crooks-w-gayle-lynn</span>-and-the-hired-hands</a> - and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order!<br> <span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="height: 16px; width: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url(https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t7c/1/16/1f64f_1f3fc.png);">??</span></span></span></span></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042207
2019-11-14T12:00:00-12:00
2021-06-26T10:39:43-12:00
About Track 8: "Long Roads" audio/video trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6PxZKPPE-_o" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042206
2019-11-11T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-11T21:35:28-12:00
About Track 8: "Long Roads"
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/5dfa4f133246d2898eb6f55d6c79f0fab8605cae/original/long-roads-photo.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDUweDQ1MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="450" width="450" /></p>
<p id="m_8584533842031152468gmail-docs-internal-guid-d5bb43fa-7fff-12d5-3603-62a4c3cdb6ce" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Track 8 on Department of the West: “Long Roads”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the wake of the #Metoo movement I’ve felt both more empowered ...and outraged. This song reflects on my own long road to piping up and using my voice as a woman living in these times. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Side note: Last week, I binge-read Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” a recounting of the many systems and networks that held Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged sexual abuse in place and Farrow’s efforts to finally bring the story to light. Read it. And support journalists, and anyone who is committed to bringing the truth to light.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audio preview later this week!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between now and it's official release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.8; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pre-order the record<a href="-http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/%20-" data-imported="1"> HERE</a> (direct through me) and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order.</span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042205
2019-11-07T12:00:00-12:00
2021-06-28T11:46:07-12:00
About Track 7: "My New Sweet" trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BkR1TsfYwSc" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042204
2019-11-06T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-06T23:57:18-12:00
#TB First songs
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="565" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDeborahCrooksMusic%2Fvideos%2F454992465126259%2F&show_text=1&width=560" style="overflow: hidden; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="560" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042203
2019-11-05T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-06T23:54:19-12:00
"All Signs" on No Pigeonholes Radio
<p>Thanks Don Campau for including “All Signs” from The Department of the West on the last episode of No Pigeonholes <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/radio?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDR8s3om_EhI1cS6fRGFVhLlIJqUCG5s_6YB-EHC0VfANZ2vvcQUcqriy5WxRRMXpbw51-tI17laTFYoB0YG5bLGbDf8faMuQZp2lxagiFYUSFiDYEkB1Xyfa8dwCLTpUiCHcW51D_dO_dtKwbRhtp-8pRZ1yEwUBU5uyHHizU9ZK9SHjma5qpIOwemPIvkviGsmNp_QrW3_g8QRgVWxhmHlzabLeWZRvTu-94wrYCYEzsntfydTqjrkx2h6UncmJt9m02kH6RHGCyCGne9841zPfs9BRMiIhOdFJZrGFN1ivyHtLLTvzA8lExd8nOS2mnIpeLoIeR7Ij78Ug&__tn__=%2ANK-R" data-ft="{" data-imported="1"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">radio</span></span> </a> - European Edition - November 2019 program 1. Don has been producing the all genres, independent, underground and home recording radio show called “No Pigeonholes” since 1985!!!! </p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="208" scrolling="no" src="https://podomatic.com/embed/html5/podcast/14624?autoplay=false" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="504" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042202
2019-11-04T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-05T04:19:59-12:00
About Track 7: "My New Sweet"
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/36a21481168a7e204e25be475e1b5753557adb41/original/bitter-muffin.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDUweDQ1MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="450" style="vertical-align: text-bottom; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="450" /></p>
<p><span title="Edited">Track 7 “My New Sweet” was written after inadvertently bitter muffins were served at a gathering of wise women ...and enjoyed. Perhaps more so than if they'd been sweetened. Talk ensued about how preferences change over time... I went home and wrote this:<br>"I’m done with the sweet, the sugar on my teeth, the ache of too much too soon/syrupy come-ons, oh come on, I’m ready for something new in my spoon/complexity not simplicity, a whole new depth a different degree<br>/yeah bitter, yes bitter is my new sweet".... While I still think there’s a band name in "bitter muffins", "my new sweet", as song title had more legs and spoke to the savory, contradictory and multilayered aspects of life that can please and satisfy, and how preferences for such change, evolve and surprise over time, be they for pastries or people!<br><br>Between now and its official release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. Pre-order the record -http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/ - and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order.</span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042201
2019-11-02T12:00:00-12:00
2019-11-03T18:48:27-12:00
New Love the Bay Episode featuring Maurice Tani
<p>We're happy to release the latest Love the Bay episode (#10!) featuring Maurice Tani! Maurice is a musician's musician, a truly excellent singer and songwriter. Take a look and listen:</p>
<p> </p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B2BfQx7wXWs" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042200
2019-10-31T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-31T23:11:08-12:00
About Track 6: "Department of the West" trailer
<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RxtNCVG0k3w" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042198
2019-10-28T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-29T03:32:20-12:00
About Track 6: "Department of the West"
<div dir="ltr"><span>Track 6: The Department of the West<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/d7a08df0a748ce8f2a37efc85c689c28fa54dec5/original/74176402-10157254861451677-2818320001621032960-n.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6OTYweDcxOCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="718" width="960" /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<br><span>Track 6 finds me circling back on the story of a family dispute over a piece of land, how family and American, history played into this generation’s dealings, my understanding reframed, having reconsidered the mythology around several ancestors, including purported, multiple-great grandfather George Washington Crook, whose tintype portrait and Civil War rifle hung in our living room when I was growing up. One of the many war (and Civil War) veterans in my family tree, he may or may not have been the same Gen. George W Crook whose claim to fame was having fought with Custer in the Civil Way and whose career in the military was mostly about Indian Wars....</span><br><span>Chorus: </span>
</div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><em>"Here we stand but this land was never ours /No matter who spoke truth or who lied/Settled scores, this land was never ours/In a war there are always two sides"</em></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"></div>
<div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Audio preview later this week!</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>"Department of the West" by Deborah Crooks </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Recorded and mixed by Maryam Qudus at Tiny Telephone, San Francisco</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Acoustic guitar, vocals: Deborah Crooks</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Electric guitars, backing vocals: Danny Allen</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Bass: Kevin T. White</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span>Drums: Mike Stevens</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: #454545;"><span><a href="Deborah%20%20performs%20throughout%20the%20US,%20and%20had%20her%20music%20featured%20on%20the%20PBS%20%20Series%20Road%20Trip%20Nation%20and%20several%20compilations%20including%20the%20%20Songwriters%20From%20the%20Fog%20Compilation%20V1.%20A" data-imported="1">Preorder the cd through me</a> and receive the featured song of the week!</span></p>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042199
2019-10-24T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-29T03:36:13-12:00
Give Credit: Behind The Department of the West
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4GjyMxBBC1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4GjyMxBBC1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4GjyMxBBC1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on Oct 26, 2019 at 6:02pm PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
<p> </p>
<p><span title="Edited">Join me in recognizing all music creators who work <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/behindtherecord/" data-imported="1">#BehindTheRecord</a>, an initiative to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/givecredit/" data-imported="1">#GiveCredit</a> where credit is due! These are the amazing people behind the album The Department of the West (Dec 6, 2019), thank you all! Let's celebrate creators who work behind the scenes & bring music credits back. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/wearemusic/" data-imported="1">#WeAreMusic</a> <a class="notranslate" href="https://www.instagram.com/recordingacademy/" data-imported="1">@recordingacademy</a> </span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042197
2019-10-24T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-24T22:06:36-12:00
Track 5: "A Garden" - trailer
<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6nCUiCO5LY" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042196
2019-10-21T12:00:00-12:00
2021-08-11T04:43:01-12:00
About Track 5: "A Garden"
<p> Track 5: “A Garden”<br> This tune wasn’t going to be on the record—it wasn’t even in its present form—when I first went into the studio to work on The Department of the West last January. But midway through rehearsals, Kevin asked if I had more songs, commenting that perhaps we’d get through the 10 I had on deck quickly, and we’d have studio time left over for something else. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/6b5660c4f4f3068878a16ec19e9a287b83c80188/original/garden-star.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDUweDQ1MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="450" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="450" /><br> So I went home and looked through my papers, and found a draft of this song from 2010, written while pit-stopping at a friend’s place in Santa Fe, NM, just before I was set to fly to India for a couple months. <br> It was a time of adventure and living lightly: I’d pared my possessions down so I was was ready to make such moves at a moment’s notice. No pets, no full-time job, no long lease, no significant other. <br> In truth, the apparent carefree grooviness of my lifestyle masked a lot of my fear and disappointment.</p>
<p>It was a time of change and adventure ...and of feeling perpetually heartbroken.<br> Flash-forward nearly 10 years, and I found the first draft of the song had a lot of feeling...but it wasn’t quite there. Moreover, I now had a different perspective on the emotions that led to the lyric in the first place...and more compassion for the broken parts of we humans and inevitable messiness of life that often keep us apart from those we love. So I changed up the chorus, revised the bridge, Kwame suggested a chord change, and it became something new.<br> That said, the first lines, inspired by the big star-studded night sky of New Mexico, remain intact:<br> “there are different ways to read the stars/those that are near and those that are far/watch them shoot across the sky/I wonder where you are?”<br> .<br> “A Garden” by Deborah Crooks, track 5 on The Department of the West.</p>
<div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" id="js_58x" data-testid="post_message" data-ft="{">
<p>Look for an audio preview later this week!</p>
<p>Between now and it’s official release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording.</p>
<p>Pre-order the record -<a href="http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/?fbclid=IwAR0ghgbqQiMV5uGPRgx9tgbEVJ8r1a6Od4e5H5lUH6M68-j4jxE_iiP7eNo" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" data-ft="{" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deborahcrooks.com%2Fthe_department_of_the_west%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0ghgbqQiMV5uGPRgx9tgbEVJ8r1a6Od4e5H5lUH6M68-j4jxE_iiP7eNo&h=AT39RU0oo9xwYsH8DUwRcf2BVHv5y7f7k6mUDd2ZSTX1kCAemV2ZKxXAR0TsFIXXNDQA9ruGl-LEXcJdiXDF3oBH2il4_9KTFjHdQJUKdivVXyLxXWJmPnPy980IXkckwFp8LMEH78B-1aCM-OwlnB7SQNew3D15OnzcNSdpCLRVuccE7YwbeSh77wvUyneRYVXV1YKBqLyKgq2Ev603EGi1rdzUpfE-N7Xdl08_yeDF_6tfAjvKrd8s21xlWlCIQQTwk7RVxe9crKLfoNCf1EMhKIkydz2pESRRReRjfSDsOODogJLZuo2BK_ROavUMT-Z2o4RvVt120QLUoxUzP1y-fgKo2JNnl3K1IbEqk1TuB9OZGMoT0bvEPUcAJbfsLulgYYRAQNjCe1beo0jyfCF_9TxCtCeRobqUk46HXOwSlJxE8a4Q0jZhwmx5MyB1P2gspjcm7sQbUfW8oR9t5u8Ot3sZ5vgE1ObW72w4RbfbYDzrFoaY_WyoHVTt7RFaEjR8jHjLp3bBazFbGPEDlLj4Dnig-1Z53DKs8kkvUO9D8iwtr6kaqi-Z5o3kYG7C4fZqAdQTr_Yos8p2Py77M9nDZ__ZkOFkjy_9Iq2FLKBsjw8mKetQrlqAFT0IUdFVV3Eaow3Wyf4" data-imported="1">http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/</a> - and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042195
2019-10-17T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-17T03:15:52-12:00
Track 4: "All Signs" -trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/474ex-6HREg" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042193
2019-10-14T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-15T03:23:26-12:00
Track 4: "All Signs"
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="711" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDeborahCrooksMusic%2Fphotos%2Fa.10152488690661677%2F10157215727681677%2F%3Ftype%3D3&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042194
2019-10-10T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-15T03:27:56-12:00
Track 3 "Honey" trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AJJ7g8L2lSg" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042192
2019-10-07T12:00:00-12:00
2021-08-07T05:04:35-12:00
About Track 3: "Honey"
<p><span id="react-root"><span><span>I grew up across the road from an apple orchard and a quarter mile from an avocado and kiwi farmer. We also had our own ragtag orchard of sorts: an apricot tree, a cherry tree, pear, walnut, persimmon, lemon, several apple trees as well as some scraggly grapes and a tangle of blackberries.<br>Some years you were lucky to get a few pieces from any one tree or bush but something was always producing a good crop. And what we didn’t grow ourselves we’d often get in exchange for our honey. (In college, living away from home for the first time, I was miffed to learn people actually bought fruit!)<br>My dad tended five beehives and we always had more honey than we could possibly eat ourselves. <br>When I was 11 or 12, I can’t quite remember, the grassy, sloping, until-then-undeveloped acreage next door was subdivided. Soon after, my dad went to check on the hives to find they’d been stolen. <br>The theft of the hives marked a big turn in my home life which I’ve tried to write about in a lot of different ways. I had a lyric about that time sitting around for several months when <a class="notranslate" href="https://www.instagram.com/kwamecopeland/" data-imported="1">@kwamecopeland</a> and I went to Joshua Tree to work on music:<br>“dreaming of bees/honey on the comb/the way they swarmed and flew on their way home/one big whir/queen and drone/making honey....”<br>When he brought me some music one day that I thought would be a good fit, voila, “Honey” the song was fully realized! <br>Between now and it’s official release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/DeborahCrooks" data-imported="1">Pre-order the record HERE</a> and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order!</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/ded60d2b1e9c344e7b3a8ff38ce564bed20af9d8/original/dow-cover-jpg.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDk4eDQ5OCJd.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="498" width="498" /></span></span></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042191
2019-10-05T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-17T03:19:05-12:00
Track 2: "Let the River do the Running" Trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1aT-PBOxPzg" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042190
2019-09-30T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-01T02:36:45-12:00
About Track 2: "Let the River do the Running"
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span title="Edited"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/24a9387ad2b605e82528641496ee76e5675f76c4/original/71093749-10157179115766677-2663063380616544256-n.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NTAweDUwMCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="500" width="500" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span title="Edited">Track 2: “Let the Ri</span><span title="Edited">ver do the Running”<br>The second song on The Department of the West started this way: butt in chair, pen in hand, door shut. A window looking out onto an expensive view added to the optimal conditions. Plus time. In this case, I was starting a weeklon</span><span title="Edited">g songwri</span><span title="Edited">ting retreat adjacent to a fast-moving river. <br>Wanderlust, wondering if the grass is greener elsewhere are feelings I’ve contended with throughout my life - considering those impulses and the qualities of the river before me resulted in “Let the River do the Running.” Several month’s later the lyrics received honorable mention in the American Songwriter Magazine -Sept/Oct 2017 Lyric Contest. <br>I’m super pleased with how the recording came together.<br>Between now and it’s o</span><span title="Edited">fficial release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each song on The Department of the West (December 6, 2019), and a preview of the recording. Pre-order the record (link in bio) and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order! </span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042189
2019-09-26T12:00:00-12:00
2019-10-17T03:19:28-12:00
Track 1: "Lit by The Mystery" Trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sDvWtyHjC8c" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042188
2019-09-19T12:00:00-12:00
2019-09-23T22:51:51-12:00
11-week countdown til The Department of the West release
<p>I’m happy to announce I’ll be releasing my latest record—The Department of the West—11 weeks from today on December 6, 2019! Eleven new songs written amid mount<span class="text_exposed_show">ains and rivers, forests and creeks (why I thought I’d share a photo of me looking like a park ranger before playing at West Point Inn a couple weeks back) and recorded with a great band over the past year at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco. Between now and it’s official release day, I’ll be sharing a bit of the inspiration and backstory for each tune, and a preview of the recording. Pre-order the record and I’ll send you the featured song of the week of your order. <a href="http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/?fbclid=IwAR2VQmHQGDoE6NOGK62XOO-9F9pzK8pU2nJqqFqHlAim_0DX2V2wxf4r10Y" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" data-ft="{" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deborahcrooks.com%2Fthe_department_of_the_west%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2VQmHQGDoE6NOGK62XOO-9F9pzK8pU2nJqqFqHlAim_0DX2V2wxf4r10Y&h=AT0zLG9LVVJObDCz84uS0sWMFKfKK_73WtXSIdqykCtTRT7QpfpTagtcOS1b4EteGnFM6Z46dNYgdmj62EPMlA3AmSqGKygxZv9YzbEVSFQ7TRvwa-wvtll3I_sbQGMsPmJsXHPpbpoVMEhTmi6mlZ7kI5S__b7-FTjfaKDOrI0dOLhiYW_FL2AIjQmQ3uf03FeHxqi4IZDYL1xI_0HyhiqJxsVvSxHbyco39mDqewpbyZx-OAP-QUsyZorNlEqjWvxPkzvsQSw_19jPlaKC8BMuehuHQL3KN5iMtjXDuwVcFBAkkJH20voYA3dsFZIWwvtFJpUyK-qDz_4mKCvW4r_GXOsNSZXWVz-kDgonm6E9iz37Z2AiUM3lPTVZHKFnBDBXQFrNcBHw4ZK3YPapSJ7bPCRa8GK0mTvyR0ljzYOHr9sesZhlnccm-w2jDrfDlokYQgvJ9vv-y3ywrf8f4xvHO6aCV-TDqZoCnoCD5dxH2DZFB55bxCTeAYFXKZLGKsAChFqu42a0RhtPzcfrtB6YGS06uT-4T7kafXPcIhjSmW9SNiAZHqh_jW_XA1F0n3H0HANvgXc4K-2WWhrqinGDYX_QM0UTwKSffoJ7r5bYTWyIadqa5d5RuOAvimpikuNNgOwI" data-imported="1">http://www.deborahcrooks.com/the_department_of_the_west/</a></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042187
2019-09-12T12:00:00-12:00
2019-09-12T22:27:47-12:00
"Long Roads" video Live at the Ivy Room
<p>Solo acoustic version of a song that I recorded for the <em>The Department of the West. </em></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XwXm79z4nvw" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042186
2019-09-11T12:00:00-12:00
2019-09-12T22:17:49-12:00
New Press for Bay Station: Monterey County Weekly, Latitude 38 and BoatUS
<p>Bay Station has been getting some press for our Love the Bay series and more. Check out these articles in the <em>Monterey County Weekly, Boat US </em>and<em> 'Lectronic Latitude 38:</em></p>
<h2 class="reader-title"><a href="https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/entertainment/music/bay-station-bring-their-adoration-of-americana-to-monterey-s/article_320db3e6-d4e8-11e9-b8f2-9baef01443a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share" data-imported="1">Bay Station bring their adoration of Americana to Monterey’s East Village</a></h2>
<h2><a href="https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice/expert-advice-archive/2019/august/san-francisco-musicians-sail-a-folkboat" data-imported="1"><strong>Two San Francisco Bay boaters are combining what they love most — sailing, friends, and music</strong></a></h2>
<h2><a href="https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/bay-stations-love-bay/" data-imported="1"><strong>Bay Station's Love the Bay</strong></a></h2>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042185
2019-09-06T12:00:00-12:00
2021-09-09T06:22:40-12:00
Bay Station Love the Bay Video Series with Aireene Espiritu
<p>Earlier this week we released the eighth episode of our Love the Bay Music & Sailing Series. Did you see it? Aireene Espiritu talks about her life in music, recording with Little Village Foundation and her project, The Color Coded Symphony. Take a look:</p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClqcQAq9eec" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042184
2019-08-31T12:00:00-12:00
2019-09-04T09:14:02-12:00
September Songs, Shows & Record Update
<p>Happy new month!</p>
<p>I hope you are thoroughly enjoying these late days of summer. As I'm preparing for another month of shows around the state, I'm listening to the test masters of my new record<em> The Department of the West</em>! I'm so excited to be that much closer to releasing these songs to your ears. My head has been down much of this year, working on this record and the Love the Bay Music & Sailing Series, and its gratifying to realize them both. Read on for details on shows, a track list for the record and how to get an advance copy, plus the next Love the Bay episode.<br> ?Deborah</p>
<p><em>The Department of the West</em><br> Deborah Crooks<br> track list:</p>
<ol>
<li value="NaN">Lit By The Mystery</li>
<li value="NaN">Let the River do the Running</li>
<li value="NaN">Honey</li>
<li value="NaN">All Signs</li>
<li value="NaN">A Garden</li>
<li value="NaN">Department of the West</li>
<li value="NaN">My New Sweet</li>
<li value="NaN">Long Roads</li>
<li value="NaN">The Other Side</li>
<li value="NaN">River Stones</li>
<li value="NaN">What the Land Will Tell You</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Pre-order </a><em>Department of the West</em>, for any amount between $10 and infinity, and receive an advance copy before its official December release date! And also help me take this to the finish line! To pre-order<a href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Click HERE. </a></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042183
2019-08-28T12:00:00-12:00
2019-08-29T01:29:21-12:00
#TB Something Special
<p>release show for Something Special, a 3-song EP of 'stray' songs (a tune about being obsessed with Bigfoot as a child; an 'unfinished' song about getting lost in San Diego I finally decided was finished; and a he-done-me-wrong ditty written in a Travelodge near LAX) recorded when we had some time left at the end of a Bay Station recording session at Lost Monkey. I recall a fun gig at Awaken with some of my favorite locals and one of my favorite gig posters to date by R.Black.</p>
<p>(If you missed Something Special the first time around, you can find it here:<a href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/album/something-special-ep?fbclid=IwAR0bVXvfV9Ey5BHA9Yuoz2Ho_iB6h9MR5cp7-PGOqfLDNK4hLvZx57zF2Mg" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" data-ft="{" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdeborahcrooks.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Fsomething-special-ep%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0bVXvfV9Ey5BHA9Yuoz2Ho_iB6h9MR5cp7-PGOqfLDNK4hLvZx57zF2Mg&h=AT2Ey_TYVYE05Ul1qGW-APXUBK19fEsO28iysc0vU7FpLlP-W7qkZ4oNjhNVThz3ZP8hPJggfDryYksy2HHMJ_6Oc9qv3eYBY9wRPeUJfhq_xvULEoq0OwSszIU5BL2R7GEw2Zzs18JEfsIFZgsyLwsVys80vpRHzOx67rbR-T8oNvp4JA" data-imported="1">https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/alb…/something-special-ep</a> )</p>
<p> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/143cd45a4c2e0c952d4064975a1dbebe229853ec/original/ss-ep-release-tb-post.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NzUweDc1MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="750" width="750" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042182
2019-08-19T12:00:00-12:00
2019-08-19T19:22:35-12:00
Bay Station 1-2
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bay Station plays on terra firma this weekend: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;"><strong>August 23, 2019 </strong>The Fireside, 1453 Webster St., Alameda, CA w/John Rybak & Friends and Voodoo Cabaret. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">Bay Station kicks off the evening at 9pm</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 1em;">August 24, 2019 </strong><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.mlaproductions.com/PaloAlto/index.html" data-imported="1">Palo Alto Festival of the Arts</a>, Webster Stage, </span><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">Palo Alto, CA 1pm (duo)</span></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042181
2019-08-08T12:00:00-12:00
2019-08-09T05:30:03-12:00
Bay Station Love the Bay Video Series with Bob Hlllman
<p> Just before I lit out for the foothills last weekend, Kwame and I released the seventh episode of our Bay Station Love the Bay Music & Video series. This month's featured guest is Bob Hillman, a great artist we met through a songwriting group years ago who recently released yet another excellent record <em>Some of Us are Free, Some of Us Are Lost</em>. Bob shared several songs from the record plus a lot of great insight into his writing process:</p>
<p> </p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G149uoyrF4A" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042180
2019-07-31T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-23T08:18:49-12:00
August Music Doings: Gigs, Love the Bay & New Record update
<p>I spent a good amount of last month vacationing in Washington, Colorado and Wyoming. After all that singing and listening to the new record-in-progress, <em>The Department of the West, </em>it was time to be<em> in it.</em> This month (and much of the next year!), I'll be taking the material that much more to heart, spending yet more time in quintessentially Western regions. I'm again heading for the hills, albeit these in California, to play a few shows outside Yosemite. Will you be near the the national park this weekend or have you friends in Mariposa or Coulterville? Thanks for coming by and/or spreading the word! <br> Yes, mixing of <em>The Department of the West </em>is complete and the tracks are onto the next steps in the production line. I'm excited! (You can pre-order<em>The Department of the West </em>for any amount $10 and up, by clicking<em><a href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> HERE.)</a></em></p>
<div>Finally, while I've spent a lot of time away from the coast this summer, the Bay Station Love the Bay project continues apace! Read on <a href="https://mailchi.mp/83860e8355b0/august-musical-doings?fbclid=IwAR3PXX39VM9UI2NyWeSTTr0AQRH3fIA9E4O2BY7BgAD1QZTwCt4hGK2t5KI" data-imported="1">HERE</a> for all the details. THANK YOU! Deborah</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042179
2019-07-16T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-23T08:18:49-12:00
Next Steps for The Department of the West
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This month has felt like a vortex of sorts, one of those periods of times where many things are ending and beginning at once. Bay Station released a new Love the Bay episode (featuring Michael McNevin) the day we started another bay tour (fun!); we filmed another episode and then I went into the studio to finish mixing the new record(!!!!) Amid all this, there’ve been friends coming and going, from celebrating big events or significant birthdays, to moving or outright leaving this realm - dear friend, voice teacher and amazing human Faith Winthrop. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And then of course there’s all the crises rumbling in the country, on the border and in the air. It’s a lot to hold. Was it all the planets lining up a few days ago? The full moon lunar eclipse? It’s seemed <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>like a good time to pause for a moment and consider next steps...which is a lot of what I’ve been doing this week on a family trip to Washington and now Wyoming. Big sky and water and land are what led to the songs on </span><span class="s2"><a href="https://youtu.be/yseVN-upS5g" data-imported="1">The Department of the </a>West </span><span class="s1">so spending time in these <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>locations as I’ve been listening to the mixes (figuring out an order before I send the files to the mastering engineer) has been kind of perfect. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As will be playing these songs live next week in San Francisco! Thursday July 25 I’m sharing a bill with The Handler Brothers and White Limozeen - come on out!</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/244bca5ce5546a9d00e6e568840c8286c1b21b53/original/dc-utah-full-body.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjQweDk2MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="960" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> </span></p>
<p> </p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042178
2019-06-28T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-23T08:18:48-12:00
More Love the Bay July 3-5
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1224156957755786/" data-imported="1"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/71914f40fcffda7bc47de285fda21efa2abf88a6/original/love-the-bay-2019.jpeg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjAweDYwMCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="600" width="600" /> </a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Bay Station is once again setting sail around the San Francisco Bay, playing music with special guests at our ports of call in San Francisco and Sausalito. Tune in on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1224156957755786" data-imported="1">Facebook </a>or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/baystationband/" data-imported="1">Instagram </a>for daily broadcasts from Espresso's aft deck stage!</span><br></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042177
2019-06-25T12:00:00-12:00
2019-06-29T03:48:17-12:00
Songs About Something Recap
<p>What a delight it was to share a stage with Paige, Josephine and Laura on Sunday for Paige's Songs About Something Series. We each played four songs, one each along the Old, New, Borrowed and Blue theme. My mini-set featured "Grandma Mission Blues" (Old), "River Stones" (new), "Long Roads" (Blue) and "Airstream Song" by Miranda Lambert (Borrowed.) Thanks to the all friendly faces who came to the show.</p>
<p>Here's a snippet of "Long Roads":</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BzItKJ-hPpA/" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BzItKJ-hPpA/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BzItKJ-hPpA/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on Jun 25, 2019 at 7:25am PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042176
2019-06-08T12:00:00-12:00
2019-06-09T03:21:23-12:00
June 23 Songs about Something at The Ivy Room
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/059890da7620a50eee215719c43f8ecaeaea2136/original/61878932-1182688025225355-7523314115834544128-o.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjAweDkyNyJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Ivy Songs 2019" height="927" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="600" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042175
2019-06-02T12:00:00-12:00
2021-08-06T07:34:03-12:00
Love, Love, Love: New "Love Some More" Video
<p><em>Agape, Eros, Philia, Philautia, Storge, Pragma, Ludus, Mania</em> aka Unconditional Love, Romantic Love, Affectionate Love, Self-love, Familiar Love, Enduring Love, Playful Love, Obsessive Love. I can recommend all of these (save for the last which will likely lead to trouble); hence, "Love Some More," a song from several years back that we chose to use for the latest in Bay Station's full moon video series.</p>
<p>We got rained out of an actual sail during the May Flower Moon; nonetheless, we called up the boat model and incorporated footage from the spectacular Schreiner's Iris Gardens in Salem, Oregon, and a visit to Lava Rock. to complete this take on the deep cut from the KCDC Your Own Reaction record. Enjoy!</p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UAu_neQF-x4" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042173
2019-05-30T12:00:00-12:00
2019-05-30T23:58:04-12:00
May 31 Bay Station at Pt San Pablo Harbor Club
<p>I hope you had a great holiday and are ready for more! After a fun run up to Oregon and Washington to play several duo shows and visit friends, my love of the road has been reignited. Fortunately, I've some interesting local shows to look forward to this weekend, including a gig TONIGHT with Bay Station Band at Pt San Pablo Harbor Club. This venue is bit of a local secret getaway: at the end of a drive along the edge of the Bay close to the Richmond Bridge, Pt. San Pablo is worth a visit for the view alone. There's also a restaurant, a bar, a marina <em>and </em>most importantly for our purposes, a music venue! Please join us. Our friend Peter Whitehead (Closer to Carbon, Conspiracy of Beards) opens. </p>
<div><strong>Friday, May 31, 2019 7pm $10 donation</strong></div>
<div>
<div class="m_7973602644661447834confit-phone">
<div><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?z=16&q=point+san+pablo+harbor+1900+stenmark+drive+richmond,+ca+94801" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://maps.google.com/maps?z%3D16%26q%3Dpoint%2Bsan%2Bpablo%2Bharbor%2B1900%2Bstenmark%2Bdrive%2Brichmond,%2Bca%2B94801&source=gmail&ust=1559336006733000&usg=AFQjCNFjggdewRkVepS7N8DEkQ_SdPb7Lw" data-imported="1">Bay Station at Point San Pablo Harbor <br> 1900 Stenmark Drive <br> Richmond, CA 94801</a></div>
<div> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/799aeec9-b5ec-4d49-84a9-1377ac068297.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="450" style="border: 0px; width: 450px; height: 450px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" width="450" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042174
2019-05-28T12:00:00-12:00
2019-05-30T23:59:37-12:00
New Love the Bay Video Featuring The Keller Sisters
<h3>
<a href="https://youtu.be/AoX8X---mWs" target="_blank" data-imported="1"><em>Love the Bay </em> </a>Episode 5with The Keller Sisters</h3>
<p>Check out Bay Station's fifth episode of our <em>Love the Bay </em>series featuring The Keller Sisters! Lots of laughs, great sister harmonies, and an acoustic marina version of my song "River Stones."</p>
<p> </p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AoX8X---mWs" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042172
2019-05-16T12:00:00-12:00
2021-06-30T10:20:51-12:00
Making Art, Hitting the Road
<p>First, a <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/tb?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBL2ZACAvFskyLoFeIpD4mjCn_NyLw3bs4IPpcZWCDQf6LTEIUOUENCWcQT_1Memi0bgb-ClvJ4VFy-yjk2DWev6PwkKGCAgncM0_Hzo6C1K7fvtFD1tVDzsEFtHX9Q6dceUI2G-tiBuRtnN3rLmyQqXqjFzVlXIkWkTku9XiYBGSrdj0cmqY0oi14sVn8AHbGFQdbmCEV7IaJTZXdSvzI0TtG9XqSI8han91IVtsz-n2da1CnbtbGSuD_9xmHsBbZAhwjyd07Dz0tyyRopfbVD0Yjd8TLS7nnlyLKFyGzUCnc-qrLdfdy2fq5QeOK1ADyUxX_z8B_dz5dJ9A&__tn__=%2ANK-R" data-ft="{" data-imported="1"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">tb</span></span> </a>. 2001. I was living part-time on the coast north of Santa Cruz. My dad was sick, in his last year, and I was holding as tight as I could to my dreams to write and sing and generally make art. It was a messy time, but I got up every day and did my practices, including doing some watercolor sketches of the view and the animals who lived on the ranch, among them, the close-to-feral cats who (sort-of) controlled the barn rats. The view of<span class="text_exposed_show"> the ocean was never the same, always beautiful, which is good to remember this week. Making art and working on projects has always been my go-to. Given that the weird, unseasonably wet weather here has wreaked havoc on my weekend <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/lovethebay?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBL2ZACAvFskyLoFeIpD4mjCn_NyLw3bs4IPpcZWCDQf6LTEIUOUENCWcQT_1Memi0bgb-ClvJ4VFy-yjk2DWev6PwkKGCAgncM0_Hzo6C1K7fvtFD1tVDzsEFtHX9Q6dceUI2G-tiBuRtnN3rLmyQqXqjFzVlXIkWkTku9XiYBGSrdj0cmqY0oi14sVn8AHbGFQdbmCEV7IaJTZXdSvzI0TtG9XqSI8han91IVtsz-n2da1CnbtbGSuD_9xmHsBbZAhwjyd07Dz0tyyRopfbVD0Yjd8TLS7nnlyLKFyGzUCnc-qrLdfdy2fq5QeOK1ADyUxX_z8B_dz5dJ9A&__tn__=%2ANK-R" data-ft="{" data-imported="1"><span class="_5afx"><span class="_58cl _5afz">#</span><span class="_58cm">lovethebay</span></span> </a> and gig plans (and the national news blows), its time to make something new!<br> So what's new?<br> Well first, I had a great time last weekend, playing atop Mt. Tam as nearly a thousand folks hiked and biked up for the Mother's Day breakfast at West Point Inn. I would happily play my music for people atop a mountain any day! It was magical singing "What the Land Will Tell You" (a newer tune included on the forthcoming record) surrounded by nature. And on that day, sunny, wildflowers in bloom, hummingbirds buzzing to and fro, the land seemed to be saying 'Yes! Life is beautiful!" <br> I live for moments like that. <br> And later that evening, we played a Bread & Rose’s gig at a rehab center, and at the end, when we had most of the room up and dancing (yes, Bay Station Wiggle-ing), I likewise felt like I was exactly where I should be, and very grateful for my winding path.</span></p>
<div class="text_exposed_show">
<p>This week, pivoting amid the cool bluster of clouds over the bay, I'm now wood-<br> shedding, helping edit a new Love the Bay episode, and getting read for a Bay Station mini- duo tour starting next week. If you live in Salem, Eugene or Olympia, come on out and say hi:<br> May 24, 2019, Vagabond Brewing, 2195 Hyacinth St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 8pm-10pm duo<br> May 25, 2019 Hotel RL Living Stage, 2300 Evergreen Park Dr SW, Olympia, WA 98502 5pm duo<br> May 26, 2019 Sam Bond’s Garage, 407 Blair Blvd, Eugene, OR 97402 8pm</p>
</div>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcvzqIBMy3/" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcvzqIBMy3/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcvzqIBMy3/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on May 14, 2019 at 9:11am PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042171
2019-05-10T12:00:00-12:00
2021-09-26T15:03:59-12:00
"All Signs" Mt Tam Mother's Day
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSvfhgl3uY/" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSvfhgl3uY/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSvfhgl3uY/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">“All Signs” is one of the new tunes on my forthcoming record and it’s about... my mom! My mom has been gone more than 14 years; nonetheless, I feel her influence on my life all the more the older I get. Which led to this song, about her, forgiveness and respecting our debts of gratitude to our parents no matter how fraught those relationships can be. I’ll be celebrating this coming Mother’s Day (& Mother Earth!) like I’ve done the past several years, playing music atop Mt Tam at @innwestpoint . Hike up for breakfast between 9-1pm in Sunday and find me playing this tune and more as @kwamecopeland and I serenade the brunch crowd. . . . . . #mom #mothersday #happymothersday #momsong #motherearth #loveyourmother #mttam #americana #singing #songwriter #newmusic #livemusic #departmentofthewest #allsigns #allsignsleadbacktomother</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on May 10, 2019 at 12:10pm PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042170
2019-05-07T12:00:00-12:00
2019-05-07T22:39:02-12:00
"Beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival…"
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNaFmpheiY/" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNaFmpheiY/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNaFmpheiY/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">“Beauty feeds a different kind of hunger…Beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival…Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us." — Terry Tempest Williams Some video snippets from the last month out and about in California & Hawaii with an #acoustic duo version of “Beauty Everywhere” . . . #california #songwriter #musician #artists #writer #singer #guitars #beautyeverywhere #beauty #video #koi #babyducks #hawaii #hula #beach #video</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on May 8, 2019 at 10:12am PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042168
2019-04-30T12:00:00-12:00
2021-07-17T05:38:30-12:00
Aloha and The Department of the West
<p>Aloha!</p>
<p>I’m writing from Hawaii, where I’m preparing for a very busy month of <a href="http://baystationband.com/shows.html" data-imported="1">Bay Station</a> and duo gigs by swimming in warm water, noodling on a travel guitar and enjoying the beautiful environs. It’s been good to get outside, and hit pause and reset after several months of record and video production. (We’ve of course been taking advantage of the island scenery to glean some footage for a next round of videos.) Speaking of production, I hope you’ll <a href="https://youtu.be/yseVN-upS5g" data-imported="1">enjoy the following footage</a> from my recent work on my new recording at Tiny Telephone. What a joy it’s been working with this crew of musical humans! I feel extremely fortunate. Plus, Bay Station just released the fourth episode of its <a href="https://youtu.be/xQomY5-v8WU" data-imported="1">Love the Bay series </a>featuring another one of my favorite people, poet Karen Hildebrand. </p>
<p>Mahalo! ?Deborah</p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7hgIOhavg/" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7hgIOhavg/" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7hgIOhavg/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">A post shared by Deborah Crooks (@deborahrcrooks)</a> on May 1, 2019 at 11:31am PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042169
2019-04-29T12:00:00-12:00
2019-05-03T20:20:13-12:00
Love the Bay 2019: Episode 4 with Karen Hildebrand is LIVE
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xQomY5-v8WU" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042167
2019-04-25T12:00:00-12:00
2019-04-27T02:08:52-12:00
Recording Trailer
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yseVN-upS5g" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042166
2019-04-16T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-23T08:18:43-12:00
"Springtime Come Early" (Super Moon Special)
<p>Hand-in-hand with our monthly music & sailing ‘Love the Bay’ artist feature, Kwame and I are making a video filmed on & around the full moon each month. We just finished the latest in the series, l featuring a song from a few years back “Springtime Come Early,” as well as baby geese, drawing, night sailing, guitar licks and more! Take a look! Full video:</p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xbjB_Kf1bzA" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042165
2019-04-13T12:00:00-12:00
2019-04-13T18:24:34-12:00
Meanwhile, back in the studio
<p>Mixing has begun! Bit by bit, the 11 new tracks are coming together. I spent another couple days at Tiny Telephone last week, putting the finishing touches on the vocals and listening, listening as engineer Maryam Qudus began the mixing process, loading reels of tapes, moving faders and adjusting levels to get all the parts to sit just right. I'll go back for more of this mid-summer.</p>
<p>Would you like to support my project? You can pre-order <em>The Department of the West</em>, for any amount between $10 and infinity, by clicking <em><a href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks" target="_blank" data-imported="1">HERE. </a></em></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwLNT2xh3oJ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwLNT2xh3oJ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwLNT2xh3oJ/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1">All ears on the couch the past day and a half as mixing has begun on the new record. Excited about the sounds! #recording #newmusic #sf #americana #songwriter #recordingstudio</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on Apr 12, 2019 at 5:11pm PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042164
2019-04-08T12:00:00-12:00
2019-12-23T08:18:43-12:00
Love the Bay 2019: Episode 3 is LIVE
<p>Bay Station's Love the Bay video series is cruising along. Check out Episode 3 with the amazing Felsen: </p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W6rwuSxsMEA" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042163
2019-04-01T12:00:00-12:00
2019-04-02T00:49:58-12:00
Spring Sailing, Recording and the Butterfly Effect
<p dir="ltr"><em>"In <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/13/chaos-theory-the-butterfly-effect-and-the-computer-glitch-that-started-it-all/#69cb711e69f6" target="_blank" data-imported="1">chaos theory</a>, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state."</em><br> <br> Butterflies have been showing up all month. I <em>had</em> butterflies in my stomach, standing in the green room of The Lost Church late last month. It's always a little nerve-wracking playing new songs live so I'm extra grateful to the super-friend audience that came to our show and <em>great </em>band who played with me in late March—thank <em>you</em>. I'm super happy with how the songs are shaping up in the studio and out. It feels good to start airing the new arrangements live, and I will be adding more of such shows to the calendar soon!<br> In the meantime, when I'm not in the studio recording, I'm likely to be on the water as part of Bay Station's Love the Bay video and sailing series. We've a new episode with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvuGxzphAHt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Felsen </a>about to drop later this week, another waiting for editing, plus three more sessions and a Bay tour planned between now and the end of May....</p>
<h4>Recording: The Department of the West</h4>
<div dir="ltr">Recording studios are kind of like cocoons, and I took it as a good omen that actual butterflies are migrating over California as I've been spending time at Tiny Telephone working on 11 new tracks. The new record,<em> The Department of the West</em>, is all about my love of land and place, where I am and where I've been, underwritten by my concern with how history has and is playing out. It's a volatile time, as you all know full well, rife with possibility. Actions, of course, large and small, make all the difference.</div>
<p dir="ltr">For weeks, I've been seeing photos of the wildflower super-bloom all over California, riots of poppy and lupine, owl's clover and mustard. Another friend posted about a swarm of migrating Painted Lady butterflies that were expected to fly over the Bay Are next. Signs of spring have been a bit less showy in Alameda, but no less encouraging. The daffodils are blooming steady, poppies are popping up in medians, and the few freesias and iris are opening despite the intermittent rain. I walked outside one morning, headed to the city to record, and startled a flock of waxwings from the Pyracantha. As if on cue, I pulled through the studio gate to see a butterfly flutter across the driveway and land briefly on the side of the building.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“Did you see butterflies?” I asked Maryam Qudus, the wonderful artist and engineer who is running the board during my sessions. Perhaps she'd seen the rumored swarm.</p>
<p>We'd be inside most of the day, Danny Allen chipping away at more guitar tracks and Kwame Copeland popping by to add harmonica and vocals to a couple songs. I didn't get outside to look for anymore <em>lepidopterans</em>. Downtown, high school kids were marching for the climate as part of a global protest. I don’t know if the butterflies flew over their rally, but I like to imagine they did.<br> I'm back in the studio this month, putting the finishing touches on my vocals and starting to mix! Interested in supporting my project? You can pre-order <em>The Department of the West</em>, for any amount between $10 and infinity, by clicking<em><a href="https://www.paypal.me/DeborahCrooks" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> HERE. </a></em></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<table class="mcnDividerBlock" style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"></table>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042162
2019-03-25T12:00:00-12:00
2021-06-27T18:18:06-12:00
Thanks friends and great musicians...
<p>Thanks friends and great musicians for helping me fledge my latest music on Saturday. So fun to play with a wonderful crew and send the new songs into the air - looking forward to more as the new record shapes up. Back to the studio soon to put the finishing touches on the tracks and begin mixing!</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/7f6bf8a9b856c299bd705636b86db595d4295673/original/54730837-10156762827981677-4256188706299314176-n.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6OTYweDc1MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="750" width="960" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042161
2019-03-21T12:00:00-12:00
2019-03-21T23:15:39-12:00
Last call for advance tickets to Saturday's show!
<h1>
<span style="font-size: medium;"> March 23, </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Live in SF at The Lost Church</span> </em>
</h1>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span><a href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/#details_a0S6A000003rlQlUAI" target="_blank" data-imported="1"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/3d9cccd3-da56-4e36-888f-552596bcc506.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" alt="" height="337" style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; width: 450px; height: 337px; margin: 0px;" width="450" /> </a><br> When you have the opportunity to do a show with the same great band you are recording new tunes with, you do it! Tomorrow, I’ll return to The Lost Church to play the songs from my in-progress record backed by a powerhouse group: Danny Allen, Mike Stevens and Kevin T White. Consider it a ‘record preview.’ Plus Danny will be playing a set of his own great material. Today is the last day to get advance tickets to the show for an easy $10 ($15 day of show online & at door)—<br> Real live music at one of SF’s coolest (& increasingly rare) listening venues. I'd love to see you there. <a href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/#details_a0S6A000003rlQlUAI" data-imported="1">TICKETS LINK HERE</a><br> <a href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S6A000003rlQlUAI" target="_blank" data-imported="1"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/caec93fb-8f47-403a-88a1-db98a646d332.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="233" style="border: 0px; width: 350px; height: 233px; margin: 0px;" width="350" /> </a></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042160
2019-03-18T12:00:00-12:00
2021-01-12T04:58:26-12:00
KALX, Tiny Telephone and The Lost Church THIS Saturday!
<h4 class="null">
<strong>Live on KALX 90.7FM</strong><br> Gearing up our gig on Saturday at The Lost Church, I visited KALX along with co-bill Danny Allen as a guest of DJ Meaty Paws. We both chatted about our music, played a few of our tunes and gave away tickets to the show. Then we went back to Tiny Telephone to continue working on the new record.</h4>
<h4 class="null">I'd love to share these new tunes with you on Saturday! I'll be playing songs from the record I'm working on and Danny will play a set of his great tunes. I hope you'll pick up tickets in advance, grab a pal and help us make it a great night!<br> <strong>Saturday, March 23, 2019, Live at The Lost Church </strong><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/919212008280818/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://womencrushmusic.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dd2ed7df22bb0629edad9bb064%26id%3D7e596907a5%26e%3D4481cee154&source=gmail&ust=1528812186894000&usg=AFQjCNHzqIQEHs4h8c7WhzzHpVMRLljSow" data-imported="1">Deborah Crooks & Danny Allen</a><br> The Lost Church<br> 65 Capp St.<br> San Francisco, CA<br> DOORS 7:30PM; MUSIC 8:00PM<br> <a href="http://bit.ly/Deborah_Danny_March23" target="_blank" data-imported="1">$10 adv| $15 door<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </a>
</h4>
<p> </p>
<div></div>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCGpEShymM/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCGpEShymM/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCGpEShymM/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Studio daze....Congratulations to the folks who called in and won tickets for the @thelostchurchsf show on March 23 during our live spot on @kalxradio last night! Still need tickets to the show? Pick up advance tickets for $10 in advance at : http://bit.ly/Deborah_Danny_March23 #sf #berkeley livemusic #radio #recording #recordingstudio #tracklist #newsongs #gigs #americana #songwriters #songwriting #kalx #lostchurch #tinytelephone</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on Mar 15, 2019 at 7:48am PDT</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042159
2019-03-12T12:00:00-12:00
2019-03-12T20:02:06-12:00
New Video "Sleeping Hard Waking Slow"
<p>The video for Bay Station's “Sleeping Hard Waking Slow” brings the tune full circle: We filmed it down the road from where we wrote and recorded the song during a rare desert snow. Enjoy!</p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VY8T2_eN2f4" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042158
2019-03-10T12:00:00-12:00
2021-07-01T12:30:05-12:00
Get yer tickets to the Lost Church
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/e2068aa796221029d0e2676c094228dc8073cd8a/original/lc-2019.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjAweDQwMCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="400" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="600" />Danny is another one of those stealth musical badasses populating the Bay Area. I first saw him play a few years back on a bill with the excellent Joe Rut. Then the fabulous Val Esway brought him along to one of the Octopus songwriter nights I was hosting. Yet another fine troubadour pal Michael Shaffer then gave me a CD of his that Danny had produced. Hmmm. I liked what I was hearing. When I wanted to mix things up on my next recording project, I asked him if he wanted to help produce it. Midway through THAT project, I’m stoked to share a bill with him! Grab yer ticket in advance here for our show Saturday March 23, 2019! <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FDeborah_Danny_March23&t=ZTQwZDc2YTM0OGE5ZWNiN2RjYzVlNjJiNzQ5MGY2NWY1MzlmNmZmYiwzSWdhYW41TQ%3D%3D&b=t%3ABnZd8KMwh5vRFwXfqbBjvg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fdeborahcrooks.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F183321385708%2Fdanny-is-another-one-of-those-stealth-musical&m=1" data-imported="1">http://bit.ly/Deborah_Danny_March23</a><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/8162800a4c61749697a9f1e10595645ac4b76ccd/original/danny-lc.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NTMyeDQ5NyJd.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="497" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="532" /></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042157
2019-03-07T12:00:00-12:00
2019-03-08T02:33:25-12:00
New Video sneak peek
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwpmMxhkbP/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwpmMxhkbP/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwpmMxhkbP/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Sneak peek of our upcoming video for “Sleeping Hard Waking Slow” filmed in #JoshuaTree in the snow! . . . . #california #songwriters #musicians #fullmoon #supermoon #joshuatree #folkboat #boatmodel #modelboat #lovethebay2019 #musicvideo #video #otherdesertcities #song #sleepinghardwakingslow #desertsnow #baystation #baystationlovesthebay #onpatreon</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/baystationband/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Bay Station</a> (@baystationband) on Mar 8, 2019 at 12:09pm PST</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042156
2019-02-28T12:00:00-12:00
2019-02-28T23:40:55-12:00
March Music News: Between the Raindrops
<p>Last year, we were out on a walk near our house and one of our neighbors offered to give us a bunch of daffodil bulbs. Through some finagling on his part, he'd rescued more than a thousand bulbs from a civic landscape project and they were now piled in his yard. He was on a mission to plant them in as many of the local street tree boxes as he could find. "Would we like some for your own?" he asked, and we were sent home with an armful of bulbs. I planted them in the box outside our doorstep... and forgot about them.<br> This past week, all those daffodils, including the several I planted, are blooming and blazing bright yellow, up and down the block, as if shaking their hands at the dark clouds.</p>
<p>It's certainly been a winter of navigating heavy rain and snow—my heart goes out to you if you're contending with flooding— and news. Making the best of it all, I spent a wonderful if cold week in Joshua Tree last month, which included a couple of fun performances, a lot of R&R, writing <em>and </em>stomping around in the town's first snow in a decade. While I appreciate what the winter has to offer, I was delighted to come home to see these blooming signs of spring. Thank you neighbor for your foresight!<br> I am doubly happy to report I've a fun gig just a couple days after the vernal equinox later this month.</p>
<p>I’m<em> so </em>looking forward to returning to The Lost Church in San Francisco for a show on Saturday, March 23. I'll be sharing the bill with <a href="https://www.dannyallenmusic.com/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Danny Allen, </a>the cool cat songwriter and excellent guitarist who is co-producing my new record. I had such a great time in the studio earlier this year working on basics, I'm excited to play the tunes live with Danny and several of the other musicians on this in-progress collection. Consider it a special preview of what I'll be rolling out in the fall! New tunes, good vibes, a cool listening venue, please join us! Tell and/or bring a friend and help us make it a great night. <a href="https://thelostchurch.secure.force.com/ticket/?fbclid=IwAR2QU75jKY7540pLw7g7GUL9iAD1O-sk6YBV1r7fdVMP7EXBPVJ-2Gvp3s0#details_a0S6A000003rlQlUAI" data-imported="1">You can pick up tickets<em> today</em> $10 in adv. </a>($15 at the door.) Hope to see you there!<br> xo Deborah</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042155
2019-02-21T12:00:00-12:00
2019-02-22T08:48:32-12:00
Saturday at the Fireside; Sunday at the Mudpuddle
<p>A little hard to leave Joshua Tree today ... and I’m looking forward to getting back to the Bay Area for two shows. Saturday, I’m playing with Bay Station Band at The Fireside Lounge in Alameda, kicking off a night of Americana, country and rock music. We’re on at 9pm. Come on down!<br>Sunday, I return to the inimitable Mudpuddle Shop in Niles to help celebrate Michael McNevin’s birthday by circling up in song with an amazing crew including McNevin, Aireene Espiritu AND Nancy Cassidy. 5pm. There maybe cake (and some mayhem).</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042154
2019-02-19T12:00:00-12:00
2021-06-28T01:16:55-12:00
Persisting
<p>Nearly every one of the communities in which I participate has been rocked by a serious allegation of sexual abuse during the past couple years. For more than a year, I’ve been processing how the Ashtanga community has dealt with or gaslighted abuse victims and the implications of those actions and inactions for its practice culture. This week it’s the Americana music world with the NYT expose of Ryan Adams’ shitty behavior. <br>I was a fan for years until I got fed up with having tickets to shows that got cancelled because of his meltdowns or addiction problems, and began to surmise for myself that the fuel for his songs was unsavory. So it didn’t surprise me, this latest news. But I did get that sinking feeling, that sadness for we women, as the floodgates open anew for more stories of sexual harassment and casual misogyny in music and how those have played out on our lives and opportunities.<br>I came to music ‘late’, not anywhere near a dewy 19 or 20, and a lot of the isms I’ve felt as a woman have been about double standards around age. It was already “too late for me to ‘make it.” And without even getting into my personal life’s #metoo moments (which aren’t unrelated to me being late to the music party in the first place), I have my own stories, of multiple musicians who I thought played with me because they liked the music then quit when they realized I wasn’t going to sleep with them; of the poetry teacher who thought “my work was strong” then hit on me during our one-on-one; or the writing professor whose angry critique seemed triggered by my subject so that I never knew how the actual piece held up; or the esteemed songwriter who I was excited to share a show with then started texting me inappropriate questions....(a lot of this samsara is what led me to take so much refuge on a yoga mat over the years!). I know well why people, women, quit long before they’ve even really started. At the same time, as all these ugly stories are brought to the surface, I feel empowered, vindicated and hopeful for women’s voices in general. Finally, old paradigms are shifting, finally, we’re starting to be heard.</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042153
2019-02-14T12:00:00-12:00
2019-02-14T21:15:33-12:00
Heading down the road, being your own bird
<p><span id="react-root"><span><span>Heading down the road today for some desert time/birthday r&r/gigs in and around Joshua Tree. <br>I released <a href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/track/be-your-own-bird" data-imported="1">"Be Your Own Bird" </a>to celebrate my birthday last year. Nearly a year later, I still stand by this sentiment! "Be Your Own Bird"<br>Song sparrow sings its own song<br>No other place it belongs<br>Like the towhee peeps in the leaves<br>In your own life you must believe<br>And be your own bird<br><br>Hummingbird nest in the tree<br>Spun thread, a tiny blue egg<br>Wings a blur in the air<br>We all have our own truth to declare<br>Be your own bird<br><br>Nature can beautiful nature can be cruel<br>Some days you win, some days you play the fool<br>Mockingbird attacking its own reflection<br><br>Across the meadow I see some geese<br>Dabbling in the green green grass<br>No one’s first and no one's last<br>Everyone has their own path<br>Be your own bird<br><br>Nature can beautiful nature can be cruel<br>Some days you lose some days you completely rule<br>Eagle perched atop the highest mountain<br><br>Be your own bird<br>Be your own bird<br>Be your own bird <br><br> </span></span></span></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042152
2019-02-13T12:00:00-12:00
2019-02-14T02:20:16-12:00
New Review of "Adding Water to the Ashes - Remix"
<p><em>"It’s the perfect chillout track for 2019, and is definitely one that will make my mixtape."</em> <a href="https://www.rgm.press/review-deborah-crooks-adding-water-to-the-ashes/.rgm.blog/review" data-imported="1">— RGM Press</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe height="240" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3567091373/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" width="320"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042151
2019-02-13T12:00:00-12:00
2021-07-25T07:07:57-12:00
Love some more!
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3l-Fih1BO/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3l-Fih1BO/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt3l-Fih1BO/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1">“Love Some More” a sentiment for #valentinesday and every day. I wrote this little ditty for the KCDC “Your Own Reaction” project in 2013, and the band helped me rock it out (link in bio). It’s still really fun to play: “This is a new song / we forgot to say What it all comes down to at the end of the day Love and love and love some more / Open your heart / knock on that door This is a new song bright as the spring / What everyone is crowing about Why the other birds sing Love and love and love some more Don’t be afraid of what’s in store / Yeah love and love and love some more A garden a beach a friend’s open hand / A joke a laugh a rock’n roll band / Take it all in / breathe it all out And love and love and love some more / Open your heart / knock on that door Love and love and love some more / Don’t be afraid of what’s in store Yeah love and love and love some more / Love and love and love some more ©2013 Deborah Crooks https://baystationband.bandcamp.com/track/love-some-more . . . #love #lovesong #lovesomemore #kccdc #baystation #music #song #songwriter #happyvalentinesday #americana #rocknroll #record #rockband</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/deborahrcrooks/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Deborah Crooks</a> (@deborahrcrooks) on Feb 14, 2019 at 8:19am PST</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042150
2019-02-12T12:00:00-12:00
2019-02-13T03:01:51-12:00
Desert Bound
<p>I'm getting ready to head to Joshua Tree for some birthday week R&R and fun gigs with/as Bay Station Duo. We come home just in time to play with Bay Station at The Fireside!</p>
<p><strong style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">February 16, 2019 </strong><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Furstworld, 8528 Desert Shadows Rd., Joshua Tree, CA 92252 with Der Trio</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"><strong>February 21, 2019 </strong>Landers Brew, 1388 Golden Slipper Ln., Landers, CA 92285</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">Februay 23, 2019 </strong><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">The Fireside Lounge, 1453 Webster St, Alameda, CA 94501 full band with The Neal Roston Band (Rock) and White Limozeeen (Vintage Country) $5 9pm</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;"></span></p>
<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1Cu1LlBLX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" data-instgrm-version="12">
<div style="padding: 16px;">
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
<div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div>
</div>
<div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;">
<div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 8px;">
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: auto;">
<div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div>
<div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div>
</div>
</div>
<a style="background: #FFFFFF; line-height: 0; padding: 0 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; width: 100%;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1Cu1LlBLX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> </a>
<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1Cu1LlBLX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Join us as we return to the @firesidealameda Saturday March 23, kicking off a full night of #americana #rock and #country #music. We hit the stage at 9pm followed by White Limozeen and The Neal Rosten Band. #livemusic #goodtimes #video #musicvideo #bands #gigs #songwriters #baystation #alameda #california</a></p>
<p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" href="https://www.instagram.com/baystationband/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> Bay Station</a> (@baystationband) on Feb 13, 2019 at 8:35am PST</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042149
2019-02-06T12:00:00-12:00
2019-02-07T02:19:07-12:00
Love the Bay 2019: Episode 1 has launched!
<p>One of my big projects this year is collaborating with Kwame on a monthly, ‘Love the Bay’ music and sailing video series. Our first guest-artist episode features conversation and performance with Penny Opry as we sail around the Oakland Estuary. Check it out! And consider becoming a patron of th<a href="https://www.patreon.com/BayStationLovetheBay" data-imported="1">e project HERE.</a></p>
<p></p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iYSQpcnvjHE" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042148
2019-01-31T12:00:00-12:00
2019-01-31T20:41:08-12:00
February News: The Next Record
<p>I've had my head down this past month, working on my two main projects of the year. This week, I began recording my next record, getting into Tiny Telephone Studio with a great band and engineer to lay down basic tracks on 11 new songs. While I wrote the majority of the material over the past three years, I feel like the work is the culmination of the past<em> 20 years.</em> A concept album if you will, its muchly informed by my family history in the Western US and my own deep connection to place. With a working tit<a style="color: #60557e; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://deborahcrooks.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2&id=57dd859d14&e=2a3b34c9a0" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://deborahcrooks.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2%26id%3D57dd859d14%26e%3D2a3b34c9a0&source=gmail&ust=1549125596809000&usg=AFQjCNFcRJr9NyXXHtGluLpqat0EnNS2Jg" data-imported="1"><img src="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/qtc4mPnHB1-dOX8L0T8bWDhn4bByw1b7aVHvquvk3cOfvvfNtXDhaB7PoKuWFhgeXYlM2FqypiySsQnln-FCjQU-bjpxfdnBEhXCWRe_1sP9H5GUEaPFrieKjbdQoQkoZUK3PdSqpEYWxEc_wtTMwSzBm2ptgCKJUEw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2/images/38eb3c4d-18f6-47fe-b78b-10cda3be4300.png" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="297" style="border: 0px none; width: 300px; height: 297px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" width="300" /></a>le of <em>The Department of the West, </em>these are songs of forgiveness, atonement and love. I'm pretty excited and grateful to be working on this project (which will likely be ready for other ears later this year), and the band I pulled together to bring it to life - Danny Allen, Mike Stevens and Kevin T White - are a joy to work with.<br> When I haven't been working on the new record, I've been co-creating and developing Bay Station's<a style="color: #60557e; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://deborahcrooks.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2&id=ce15c1eb44&e=2a3b34c9a0" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://deborahcrooks.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8e0031edeacad373f2b4bc0b2%26id%3Dce15c1eb44%26e%3D2a3b34c9a0&source=gmail&ust=1549125596809000&usg=AFQjCNEu8pvAfndKSyQ3xQUA1NEKfCHzsQ" data-imported="1"> Love the Bay Music & Sailing</a> video series with Kwame Copeland. This has been a hoot of another order! You can see our first 'full moon' video below; our first full episode, filmed aboard <em>Espresso</em> on the Oakland estuary features our friends Penny Opry, will be released this weekend. Stay tuned! <br> Between all this production there hasn't been a lot leftover for gigs, so I'm glad to have several dates on the calendar this month and in March, close to home and at a home away from homes. Check the calendar and let's make a date at one of these shows. I'd love to see you.<br> xo, Deborah</p>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042147
2019-01-24T12:00:00-12:00
2019-01-24T21:27:25-12:00
"Trickster Moon" under the Super Blood Wolf Moon
<p>Sunday, we got out on the water during the Super Blood Wolf Moon lunar eclipse - it was magic! Kwame and I made a video using the Bay Station tune “Trickster Moon” plus some of our footage from the voyage. Enjoy! </p><div class="video responsive"><div class="video-container"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a8RLFr9IGT4" width="560" allowfullscreen="" class="wrapped"></iframe></div></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042146
2018-12-30T12:00:00-12:00
2018-12-30T23:56:37-12:00
A New Year, Starring Hope
<p><em>Art is the highest form of hope.” — Gerhard Richter<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392193/413a8f487015d575de223eb3129a19897ea268c4/original/2018-9.png/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NjMyeDYzMyJd.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="633" width="632" /></em><br> <br> While I’m rarely satisfied with the amount of time in a day, and many aspects of 2018 were sobering personally and globally, I’m happy to have kept at creative work during the past year.<br> <a href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/track/be-your-own-bird" target="_blank" data-imported="1">“Be Your Own Bird</a>” fledged in February to mark my birthday; April saw the release of <a href="http://baystationband.com/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Bay Station'</a>s third full-length record <em>Other Desert Cities; </em>Kwame and I evolved our <a href="http://patreon.com/BayStationLovetheBay" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Love the Bay</a> music and sailing project into two multi-day, sailing-boat-concert tours around the San Francisco Bay (and are expanding the concept in 2019*); and I released a fresh remix of one of my perennial tunes <a href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/track/adding-water-to-the-ashes-remix-10th-anniversary-edition" target="_blank" data-imported="1">“Adding Water to the Ashes.”</a><br> I also was privileged to play music on mountains, porches, in backyards, rehab centers, yacht clubs, in living rooms, alongside old hangers as well as on traditional stages; finally got to Alaska (and fell in love with its beauty…and moose), wrote a bunch of new songs and chipped away at some long-term writing projects.<br> It took me many years to free up my voice and I’m so grateful to get to keep playing with words and music. And to meet and collaborate with so many kindred spirits along the way!<br> Thank YOU for reading, listening, and coming to shows. I'm excited for what's next.<br> Wishing you and yours peace, love and freedom of expression in the new year! Deborah</p>
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5c2a73d42a7df3200897647"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="https://deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR3rbZwHPoMxb4Jxqnfnk_JhE_5o8f6pqgGqCYy57UeBI4rnIQVVLUR5_ko" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdeborahcrooks.bandcamp.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3rbZwHPoMxb4Jxqnfnk_JhE_5o8f6pqgGqCYy57UeBI4rnIQVVLUR5_ko&h=AT08dkSzWZb5QZZEZPnTSWf31nTp5SjWnyFylmJbgfcuD81wIzdqTwjKkykZ79hOXVF2PjePLyV4Q4rMkSfnEvJyFKu2GQ7zL9BivdXDHgUYObpuDKWD19A6hM3wLsehV781iOhmohqFkwiMvqZN_P1IemTO" data-imported="1"><span>https://</span>deborahcrooks.bandcamp.com/</a><br> <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbaystationband.bandcamp.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1-sccdMjisP7Lsa816QQmx8ozg3LkNIox2yIdJHFOOiLqGx15Mwwz28hE&h=AT1E9QkXeHc3DpqgvzSBwPzwDGCaEUXcU52z7GSgCyU-zlzaYEcHNLhiLqx9yt5ZkDxeaIkJdT1Rhs-uSTMAUITxGBdQHWqn6BFxbbkdmqvWhjvT4OHs5ahbI57J0cqeSQQHPwqQ5LiqJyY58Li6Pq3d68qa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-imported="1"><span>https://</span><span>baystationband.bandcamp.com</span>/</a><br> <a href="http://patreon.com/BayStationLovetheBay?fbclid=IwAR0vepCheN2Uu9Q3CUrLfirNmcg4QysyXgcXZafyVtWQVVTr2krAkc9st1k" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpatreon.com%2FBayStationLovetheBay%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0vepCheN2Uu9Q3CUrLfirNmcg4QysyXgcXZafyVtWQVVTr2krAkc9st1k&h=AT0cI9CE3IwOIHF7_OOrLmgzLzvsYhoga8e6wE08_vx9p9C_vP6RrB_KazMdFoCW75aXkvazCL7EiN5mpw6WrkeISUlLJZQl46SXAfLlWco_RaLpNZD6eFEPNMhSiN1YWUIiWXyKkHmCYkWK3H-kiVuvQ4ye" data-imported="1"><span>http://patreon.com/</span>BayStationLovetheBay</a></span></div>
Deborah Crooks
tag:deborahcrooks.com,2005:Post/6042144
2018-12-22T12:00:00-12:00
2021-08-06T05:00:51-12:00
"Adding Water to the Ashes Remix" in the MTM Top folk/roots/blues/country picks
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://play.soundsgood.co/embed/593ae3f52dfa24f1597cf578?" width="640"></iframe></p>
Deborah Crooks