A Stellar Video of My Song – by Christine Lavin
Jun 16Published in the Times of Israel, June 2020: Local folk singer pens ode to female astronomer Sandy Cash combines her scientific and songwriting skills, earning recognition from fans around the globe by Jessica Steinberg See the original article here. See the video of “More Than Meets the Eye” here: As a folk singer, songwriter, science writer and sometime actor, veteran American...
From “The Other Woman”
Mar 21I recently played out my musical conflicts on stage, in a new cabaret that mixes folk music performance with my other great love: the musical theater. Accompanied by Haim Tukachinsky on piano (when I wasn’t playing my guitar), “The Other Woman” was a vocal and dramatic stretch for me… and, it seems, a delight for the audience. Here are a couple of videos from that first...
The Power of Two
Feb 22For years, I’ve been living a double life. Mild-mannered, coffeehouse-frequenting folksinger on the one hand, stark-raving Drama Queen of the musical stage on the other. In isolation, both genres pack a powerful entertainment punch. But what would happen if I put folk music and musical theater together? That’s what I’ve set out to discover in my all-new solo show: The Other...
Next to Normal – Aren’t We All?
Sep 10As a musical-theater-loving American who moved to Israel in her mid-20s, my mind is a cultural time-capsule – full of the song-and-dance extravaganzas that made headlines back when I was a student. This nostalgic mindset isn’t mine alone – it also characterizes Israel’s many English-language theater groups, who regularly choose to mount productions of shows that rose to popularity 30, 40,...
Israel Hayom Interview – The Politics of Folk Music
Jun 14Thanks, Steve Ganot, for hosting me in the Israel Hayom studio! What is the place of American-style folk music in Israel? • Does the music carry a political message? • Singer-songwriter Sandy Cash speaks with editor Steve Ganot about the folk music scene in Israel and abroad. WATCH: Folk music takes on the Middle East...