HALF MY LIFE

It's almost my birthday and folks, and this year I will have spent half of my little life in New York City.  I moved there when I was 18 and have done some real growing up in that town. I know right now everyone's looking back and marking years and decades beginning and ending, and I too am using this as an opportunity to view this moment as the beginning of a new 18 year cycle.  In what ways am I still young and fresh and ignorant and how will I grow for another 18 years? I'll let you know when I'm 54. Oy.

This year is sure to be a doozy, and everyone is already kicking into high gear.  Here are some gears of mine you can cling to if you're so inclined...


Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals Cabaret
Goodspeed
Friday, January 17 @10pm
I'm up in beautiful cold not much going on East Haddam, CT keeping warm by keeping writing and I'll be sharing some new material next Friday up here as part of their festival of new musicals.  Maybe I'll share some of the Anna Karenina fan fiction I just wrote? Max Vernon and Erin Courtney will present a reading of their musical The Tattooed Lady earlier that day so it looks like you're gonna make a whole trip of it.
6 Main St.
East Haddam, CT
TICKETS

SingStrong A Cappella Festival
Adelphi University
February 7-9
I'll be performing, judging, and teaching at this weekend long a cappella festival along with harmonizers, beatboxers, and overtone singers from around the world.  If you love hearing what a voice box can do then this is the festival for you - I participated in this event in 2014 in DC and Chicago and am thrilled to be a part of it once again in NY.  Profits from the festival support music programs and the fight against Alzheimer's.
Adelphi Performing Arts Center
1 South Ave.
Garden City, NY
TICKETS

Grace McLean & Them Apples
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3
Monday, February 17 @8pm
Rockwood is turning 15 next month and I can't wait to celebrate that precocious teen of a rocking spot. Old songs, new songs, gold songs, glue songs.  Yes.
185 Orchard
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It's nice to hear you say hello,
Grace