Lavin, Christine
Lavin Christine
Over the past 25 years, between concert tours in the US, Canada, and Australia, Christine Lavin has recorded 20 solo albums and produced nine compilation CDs showcasing the work of songwriters whose work she loves. Although she can’t read music (she started learning guitar at the age of 12 by watching lessons broadcast on PBS), her songs have been performed by Broadway stars Betty Buckley and Sutton Foster, cabaret diva Andrea Marcovicci, the acappella darlings The Accidentals, and many others. The lyrics to “Planet X” are included in The Pluto Files, a novel written by Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium . . . and Christine got a “D” in Astronomy.
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As one of the top folk musicians in the country, Christine Lavin has seen it all—and she still loves the music and the life she feels privileged to lead. Published in honor of her twenty-fifth anniversary as a full-time, independent touring musician, Cold Pizza for Breakfast: A Mem-wha? is a memoir of road stories and adventures across the United States, Canada, and Australia. “I’ve changed a few names to spare hurt feelings,” Christine notes, “but all these stories are true. Hey, I have eight brothers and sisters—you think they’d let me make things up?”
As one of the top folk musicians in the country, Christine Lavin has seen it all—and she still loves the music and the life she feels privileged to lead. Published in honor of her twenty-fifth anniversary as a full-time, independent touring musician, Cold Pizza for Breakfast: A Mem-wha? is a memoir of road stories and adventures across the United States, Canada, and Australia. “I’ve changed a few names to spare hurt feelings,” Christine notes, “but all these stories are true. Hey, I have eight brothers and sisters—you think they’d let me make things up?”
Cold Pizza is rich with details from two-plus decades of songwriting and performing. The memoir begins with the hysterical tale of Christine’s being booed in West Palm Beach when she opened for Joan Rivers—with a coda that demonstrates Christine's nimble mind and sense of the absurd—and recounts her circuitous route to becoming one of folk music's most respected and beloved songwriters and performers. Christine explains: “Instead of a business plan, I’ve followed hunches, my intuition, and my heart, and I have had the good fortune of meeting astounding people along the way who helped point me in the right direction. OK, a few pointed me in the wrong direction, too. But I always somehow managed to recover.”
As one of the top folk musicians in the country, Christine Lavin has seen it all—and she still loves the music and the life she feels privileged to lead. Published in honor of her twenty-fifth anniversary as a full-time, independent touring musician, Cold Pizza for Breakfast: A Mem-wha? is a memoir of road stories and adventures across the United States, Canada, and Australia. “I’ve changed a few names to spare hurt feelings,” Christine notes, “but all these stories are true. Hey, I have eight brothers and sisters—you think they’d let me make things up?”
Cold Pizza is rich with details from two-plus decades of songwriting and performing. The memoir begins with the hysterical tale of Christine’s being booed in West Palm Beach when she opened for Joan Rivers—with a coda that demonstrates Christine's nimble mind and sense of the absurd—and recounts her circuitous route to becoming one of folk music's most respected and beloved songwriters and performers. Christine explains: “Instead of a business plan, I’ve followed hunches, my intuition, and my heart, and I have had the good fortune of meeting astounding people along the way who helped point me in the right direction. OK, a few pointed me in the wrong direction, too. But I always somehow managed to recover.”