“Lavin’s hilarious, insightful story-songs always have a twist, they’re perfectly complemented by tuneful folk melodies, and they’ll make you forget just about any problems you have.”
– CD Review
“She’s a folkZinger!”
– The Orlando Sentinel
Christine Lavin is a witty songwriter-storyteller – as well as guitarist, author, and videographer – with a flair for the creative, the dramatic, and the humorous. She has more than 25 albums to her credit, along with her memoir (or mem-WHA?), Cold Pizza for Breakfast.
Based in New York City since 1984, Lavin is especially known for her sense of humor, which is expressed in both her music – songs like “Sensitive New Age Guys” and “Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind” – and her engaging performances, which might incorporate baton twirling and wind chimes.
When asked where she gets the wide array of subjects for her songs, she said, “I get a lot of my ideas just from reading the newspaper.” Those ideas are conveyed in a highly picturesque manner in Lavin’s songs. Her work touches on many spheres of life, from politics and gastronomy to the mores of a multicultural society and even science and astrophysics. The NJ Morristown Patch noted, “She has an eye for the ironic and the absurd in the news and everyday life, and puts it into song.”
In April 2019, she was inducted into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame along with Al Jardine of The Beach Boys. In May 2021, Lavin received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from her alma mater, the State University of New York at Brockport.
Lavin released the holiday album Runaway Christmas Tree in 2003, which included tales of Christmas miracles gone wrong, celebrations of food, and a Christmas/ Kwanzaa/ Solstice/ Chanukah/ Ramadan/ Boxing Day song. She will include some seasonal selections at this concert. There will be a pre-concert knitting circle.