Creature of habit that I am, my summer is per usual, marked much by biking around, going to shows, and shopping at the Farmer’s markets in our Bay Area foodie & original music paradise.
Read: Not a new book, but “The New Village Green” sheds light on sustainable living via words of wisdom from green authorities including Michael Pollan, Bill McKibben and Lynn Margulis.
Eat: Latest goodies found at local market are the raw cacao super food chocolates from Emeryville’s own Coracao Confections. Yum
Listen: KALX Live! Kalx is one of Berkeley’s free form public radios and I’ll be guesting along with Alex Walsh tonight on the Saturday Live! show 9pm PST. You can tune into 90.7 FM or listen to the archives a later date. There, you’ll find archives of previous shows too. Check it out!
Deborah Crooks (www.DeborahCrooks.com) is a writer, performing songwriter and recording artist based in San Francisco whose lyric driven and soul-wise music has drawn comparison to Lucinda Williams, Chrissie Hynde and Natalie Merchant.
Singing about faith, love and loss, her lyrics are honed by a lifetime of writing and world travel while her music draws on folk, rock, Americana and the blues. She released her first EP “5 Acres” in 2003 produced by Roberta Donnay, which caught the attention of Rocker Girl Magazine, selecting it for the RockerGirl Discoveries Cd. In 2007, she teamed up with local producer Ben Bernstein to complete “Turn It All Red” Ep, followed by 2008’s “Adding Water to the Ashes” CD, and a second full-length CD “2010. She’s currently working on a third CD to be released in 2013.
Deborah’s many performance credits include an appearance at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the RockerGirl Magazine Music Convention, IndieGrrl, at several of the Annual Invasion of the GoGirls at SXSW in Austin, TX, the Harmony Festival and 2009’s California Music Fest, MacWorld 2010, Far West Fest and many other venues and events. She toured the Northwest as part “Indie Abundance Music, Money & Mindfulness” (2009) with two other Bay Area artists, and followed up with “The Great Idea Tour of the Southwest in March 2010 with Jean Mazzei.
