This Sunday we are thrilled to welcome singer/songwriter Bernice Lewis for our Domingo Brunch. Bernice will be accompanied by Amy Attias, playing violin and other instruments.
BERNICE LEWIS, a Berkshire County resident, has been a nationally recognized touring artist foralmost four decades. She has performed at innumerable festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, colleges, and house concerts. She is about to release her eighth recording of original music and is currently signed to Houston’s Berkalin Records.
Bernice writes beautifully and deeply. Dar Williams
Bernice is really one of the keepers of the flame of Real Songwriting. Rosanne Cash
Lewis is The Artist Associate in Songwriting at Williams College (Williamstown, MA) and founding faculty at Schreiner University’s Songkeeper Program (Kerrville, TX). She has also been an Artist in Residence and workshop presenter at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, MA, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Yosemite Songwriting Retreat, as well as many other schools and retreat centers. In 2008, she was awarded an Artist in Residence position by the National Park Service, where she was posted in Grand Canyon’s North Rim, and in 2015 she was Artist in Residence at Marble House Project in Dorset, VT. In March 2024, she completed another Artist in Residence at Mostly Dance in Atenas, Costa Rica.
Lewis has toured extensively in the US, Canada, Mexico, and was honored to play in Israel in 2022. She has led eight fan based white water raft trips on The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and several fan-based trips to Ireland.
Lewis — who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar technique with Alex DeGrassi and Guy van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Cash and Cris Williamson — has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage program, as well as at the Kennedy CenterIn 1987, she was a finalist in the prestigious New Folk Songwriting Contest at the Kerrville (Texas) Folk Festival, where she continues to be a main stage favorite. Her ballad, “Bridges That Hold,” was included in Peter, Paul and Mary’s Lifelines video (PBS). She was featured in Yoga Journal for her work with sound and yoga, and has shared the stage with many renowned artists, including Dar Williams, Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, Pete Seeger, Ellis Paul, Rory Block, Livingston Taylor, Odetta, Christine Lavin, Marty Sexton, Patty Larkin, Catie Curtis, Mary Gauthier… it’s a long list. She has a fifty year old daily yoga practice, loves good coffee, and her religion is the Grand Canyon
Bernice is also becoming widely known for her History Alive presentation, a multi-media discussion of her family’s emigration from Nazi Germany, specifically designed for Junior and Senior High School classrooms. Her song, “Ways to Survive,” won an award from the American Zionist Movement in 1996.
Check out Invisible on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ofd55UzK8
Artist Associate in Songwriting, Williams College Williamstown, MA
Songkeepers Faculty, Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX
2015 Marble House Project Artist in Residence Dorset, VT
2009 National Park Service Artist in Residence Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim, AZ
Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra, Founding Member
Checks & Love Letters on Houston’s Berkalin Records! Available at Spotify, Pandora, iTunes.
413-458-0944 or 413-281-4727 (cell)
website: http://www.bernicelewis.com/
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