Renowned singer, songwriter and entertainer Christine Lavin returns to Brockport for celebratory concert
Internationally renowned contemporary folksinger, satirist and raconteur Christine Lavin, a College at Brockport alumna, will celebrate the longevity of her career with a performance entitled “My 25th Anniversary Concert: What Was I (EVER!) Thinking?” on Friday, February 3 at 7:30 p.m. at The College at Brockport’s Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage.When internationally acclaimed contemporary folksinger/satirist/entertainer Christine Lavin plants her feet on the Tower Fine Arts Center stage on Friday, February 3, she should feel right at home. The Brockport alumna’s performance, “My 25th Anniversary Concert: What Was I (EVER!) Thinking?” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Tower’s Mainstage, 180 Holley Street, Brockport. Ticket prices are $15/General, $10/Seniors, College at Brockport Alumni, Faculty and Staff and $8/Students and are available by phone at (585) 395-2787 or at the Tower Fine Arts Center Box Office. As folksy as she is charming, attendees are invited to join Lavin for her traditional pre-concert knitting circle at 6:30 p.m in the Tower Lobby.
The concert will be vintage Lavin, celebrating the last quarter century by reprising some of her hits, introducing her latest compositions, and interweaving her stories about the people, events, near disasters and minor miracles that have defined her life and music. Never one to shy away from controversial subjects, her humorous songs can lob barbs at today’s politicians as well as her hairstylist (both skewered in her popular song “What Was I Thinking?”).
Lavin confides that she is “really looking forward” to her visit. “I had a terrific four years at Brockport, although I changed my major six times, I think … I remember ushering every night when the Acting Company, featuring Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline and David Ogden Stiers, performed. There is so much that is brought to your door-step when you are in a school like Brockport – and if you are smart, you open the door and let it in.”
Lavin has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and NPR. She was the creator and host of xm satellite radio’s Slipped Discs, which featured the albums of fellow artists and aspiring musicians “slipped” to her backstage at her concerts.
An author and freelance writer, her articles and book contributions have appeared in Memories of John Lennon, edited and compiled by Yoko Ono. The anthology “Knit Lit, Too” contains her account of knitting on the road and sometimes on stage. “In Remember Me When I am Gone,” Lavin and other notables such as Larry King write their own obituaries. She is the author of “The Amoeba Hop,” an award-winning children’s book that was cited as the Outstanding Book of the Year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Along with the book’s illustrator, Betsy Franco Feeney, Lavin completed a book for young readers, The Runaway Christmas Tree, as well as the soon-to-be released children’s environmental songbook, Hole in the Bottom of the Sea.
