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Kristin's song "The Living Wage" is Song of the Month!

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Enjoy hearing Kristin's humorous song about making ends meet through going in debt....at Labor Notes' ezine. Here is the link to the song and graphics: http://www.labornotes.org/2009/12/living-wage

Norlins

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New songs inspired by volunteer visit to New Orleans! I'll try to record them and get them up here somehow....

Short Article in Pioneer Press

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

hi People - looking forward to the free Mother's Day family concert at Niles Public Library this Sunday. Here is a brief article about it in the Pioneer Press:
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/parkridge/entertainment/934184,dc-famfriendly-050808-s1.article

I got a myspace page!

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Here's the address: http://www.myspace.com/kristinlems

OK everybody, slouching toward the millennium here...I was just gently nudged into starting a myspace page! It is quite bare bones right now, but you are welcome to go and leave your footprint there. There are two things myspace does that this site can't do: play songs when you arrive at the site, and make artists able to be found by the entire universe! - I love that. This is still my home base however - I love hostbaby!!

Ladies Night Out - oh What a Night!

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

We really had fun last night in the Wilmette Theatre, in the grand evening called Ladies' Night Out. After hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar, we moved into the classy 150 seat theatre, where Producer "Sam" Samuelson served as the genial MC. I opened the show as a soloist, with guitar and piano, singing my original tunes, with the biggest Powerpoint ever known behind me on the Big Screen. It culminated in the audience singing along on the chorus of "Mammary Glands," which was displayed on the screen (the words, not the glands!) behind me. Most amazingly, the winner of the raffle before my set was MY MOM!! When they asked her her name, she was very reluctant to say it because she was sure it would look like an "inside job," but finally did, and everybody cheered. Poetic justice indeed!

After my set the hilarious, witty and hyperkinetic Boomer Babes did a set to the brilliant keyboarding of George Howe. They did a "time lapse" medley of how two women changed over a 30 year period, all with song bits, funny dialog and a whole lot of props. My favorite was when they sang the theme song from the Patty Duke Show!

Finally Stephanie Rogers and her band brought us to the end of the show, with rockin classics and some originals, and we all came up on stage for "I Will Survive," which was also on the Big Screen. When I say "We all came up on stage," I mean "we ALL came up on stage" - not just the performers, the organizers, and their families and friends, but everyone with even a smidgen of stardom in them - it was delightful!

The whole evening was professional, varied, and high-spirited - just exactly what all of us needed as to combat the winter doldrums. This is a real attempt to revive live performance in a theatre that has been "movies only" for many years, and I hope it makes it. Downtown Wilmette is definitely showing signs of life despite all its competition from mall-ville. It was great to be part of the revival!

Evanston Review Oct. 11, 2007

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Here's an article in the latest Evanston Review about the upcoming CD release reception!

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/entertainment/595170,dn-lems-101107-s1.article

ready for your download!

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Yes, all of my original songs are now ready and waiting for your legal downloads - they even pay me a few pennies of royalty for each download. Your favorites are now available "piecemeal" (or is it peace-meal?), without buying the whole album. A couple of the CDs already had this capability, notably, Oh Mama- plus! which has registered dozens of paid downloads of "Mammary Glands" - whenever it gets national airplay - but now ALL of the albums have this capability. You can stream them first to see if you like them, and then download. You can sculpt your own album of Kristin Lems songs! Now that I have entered the water in this brave new digital world, I can only rejoice that so many new listeners will have a chance to sample my collection of songs. You can find my songs at all the standard places people download songs - including ITunes and many other sites, and can also download them through CD Baby, my main distributor, just by clicking on the album the song is on at the "Time to Buy" link. TOO COOL!!!

Interview on Podcast

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700

The weekly Freethought Today radio podcast is including a feature on Kristin Lems and her new double CD, Equality Road, 11-12 AM CST today, June 30. It can be accessed through the following website: ffrf.org/radio. It is possible to hear the show in the archive for the week following the broadcast.

Equality Road has Arrived!

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Yes, the double CD has arrived and is now available here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/kristinlems6!!

Get ready for an infusion of inspiration when you reacquaint yourself with these songs, or perhaps hear them for the first time. They are quite outspoken and spirited, and represent both a decade of women's rights at its zenith and also point the way to future actions.

Equality Road coming your way!

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Yes my friends, old and new, the much talked about "ERA album" and the long out-of-print second album you've all been asking about will be released this spring as a double CD called Equality Road. Just in time for the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment! I'll be putting up the ordering information very soon. It's at the pressing plant right now....it's very exciting. I hope you'll come along on Equality Road...it's a long hard road but it will bear your load, we'll all get together on Equality Road.