Lucy has won Best Pop album of 2001 from the Association for Independent Music (AFMI). This makes two albums in a row for her!! (TYN won in 1999). Congratulations Lucy!!!!
Lucy will be featured on the Early Show, tomorrow (Monday, March 11) to commemorate the 6 month anniversary of the attacks. She will be performing her new song, Land of the Living. It will be on from 7-9 and she is expected to perform around 8:30.
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fast Folk Musical Magazine there is a brand new 2-cd compilation cd. Lucy contributes a cover of You Just Need a Home.
Lucy has made it to the top 5 on Folkwax Ezine's Artist of the Year and Album of the Year!! You can vote until January 10th. Go here to sign up for this fantastic e'zine and help Lucy win too!
"Recordings from Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, Christine
Lavin, John Gorka, and Lucy Kaplansky will be featured on the
two-disc, 34-track Smithsonian Folkways release "Fast Folk: A
Community of Singers & Songwriters," due Feb. 26. The set is compiled
from more than 100 songs donated to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
in 1999 by the principals of New York's Fast Folk Magazine"
Lucy premiered a new song in Scotland on Dec 8, she had previously played a portion of it last month in Denver. According to an audience member, it is Lucy's response to the September 11th events and the chorus contains the lyrics, "The Land of the Living." If anyone has the lyrics, or a recording, please email me!
Lucy is found on Richard Shindell's new live album "Courier" She sings background vocals on many of the songs. The cd won't be available in stores until February 12 but you can order it now from Signature Sounds and for a limited time, if you order 2 copies, you also will recieve a bonus, limited EP will 5 extra songs on it.
Last night at the Bottom Line in NYC, Lucy took part in a "healing show" along with about 20 other artists. She sang 2 songs, Don't Mind Me and Ten Year Night along with group sing-a-longs. Other artists that took part incuded-Cliff Eberhardt, Tom Chapin, Jill Sobule, Christine Lavin, Pheobe Snow, The Kennedy's and many more! This was a free concert to help bring back some happiness to the New York City area after the September 11th tradgedy.
Lucy can be found on the cover of this months Acoustic Live. It's a fantastic story that traces back the history of our *star* and is appropriately titled "The Inevitable Rise of Lucy Kaplansky". If you live in New York, you can pick up copies around the city. If you live elsewhere you can read the story here at thier website. Thank you so much to Mike Evans for sending me a couple copies!!
For those of you who participated in the Lucy Book, it was presented to her last night at the Bottom Line show in NY. I'll post reactions and photos as soon as I get them. Thank you everyone for helping to make this a success!!
Today is the day!! Every Single Day is released. I received my copy last night at a midnight sale and am completely blown away. Let me know what you think!
I just discovered a song that Lucy did with Darryl Purpose called Ring on My Hand. You can download it through Yahoo here. It is a beautiful wedding song that makes me want to get married just so I can dance at it!!
Want to leave a message for Lucy congratulating her on her new album or to tell her how much her music means to you? You can do it here and it will be compiled in a book along with pictures, ticket stubs, etc to give to Lucy
Fish Records in the UK has clips from the new cd Every Single Day. You can listen to clips of Written on the Back of His Hand, Crazy Dreams, Broken Things, You're Still Standing There and Every Single Day here
They also have a review of Every Single Day that you can read here
If you missed Falcon Ridge Folk Festival you can watch the rebroadcast at acousticboxoffice.com. Lucy was fabulous. You can read about her set on the reviews page. She took part in the Bob Dylan worshop and two workshops on Sunday as well.
Lucy's new album Every Single Day will be released on September 11th! Track listing is..
1. Written On The Back Of His Hand
2. Crazy Dreams
3. Every Single Day
4. Don't Mind Me
5. Broken Things
6. Guilty As Sin
7. Nowhere
8. No More Excuses
9. Song For Molly
10. You're Still Standing There
11. Angels Rejoiced Last Night, The
You can find Lucy on Red House Records new release "A Nod to Bob" A tribute to Bob Dylan on his 60th birthday. Lucy sings "It Ain't Me Babe". The cd also includes tracks by John Gorka, Tom Landa & The Paperboys, Greg Brown and many others.
