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		Upcoming Performances APPEARANCES Thu Jun 26 Partners in the Arts Teaching Residency Richmond, VA Sat Jun 28 Folk N Great House Concert Series Rockville, MD http://www.folkngreatmusic.org/ Split bill with Cary Cooper info@folkngreatmusic.org Sun Jun 29 House Concert Alexandria, VA 703-780-7205 donaldkraus@verizon.net Sat July 5 The Big Concert Monterey Church Rte 23 & Tyringham Rd Monterey, MA 413-528-4437 Featuring Liz Queler, Bobby Sweet, Eric Martin, Joel Schick, etc. Sat Jul 12 Sandisfield Arts Center Double bill with Bobby Sweet 5 Hammertown Rd Sandisfield, MA 01255 413-258-4100 www.sandisfieldartscenter.org Sun Jul 13 Fourth Annual Sugar Hill Folk Festival 2 – 4:30 PM Sugar Hill Senior Living Community 45 Main Street Dalton, MA Guest artists are Brooks Williams and The Flown Home Band! Free and open to the public! 2 – 4:30 PM Tues Jul 15 Summer Series 6 PM Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 225 South Street Williamstown, MA 01267 413.458.2303 http://www.clarkart.edu/ July 21 – 25 Teaching Residency Rock On! Camp Pittsfield, MA July 31 – Aug 3 Universe of Song St Francis University Loretto, PA http://www.universeofsongs.com/ Aug 3 – 24 Artist in Residence National Park Service North Rim, Grand Canyon, AZ Thu Aug 14 Telluride Summer Singer-Songwriter Series Sheridan Opera House 110 N. Oak St Telluride CO 970.728.6363 www.sheridanoperahouse.com Thu Aug 28 Pittsfield State Forest 7 PM With band! Free and open to the public! Cascade Street Pittsfield, MA 413-442-8992 Fri Aug 29 Williams College (private) Williamstown, MA 01267 Sat Sep 6 Monterey General Store Monterey, MA Sat Sep 13 Alzheimer’s Memory Walk Cheshire, MA You can put me on your I-Pod by going to the following sites: She Undoes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=186440749 Religion & Release http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=157650047 Isle of Spirit http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=152192682 Open Lines & Signals http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=183291448 This month’s poem: After dinner we walk up the hill past the farm and onto the unpaved road. we turn around at the edge of darkness, just as the fireflies begin their bizarre ritual blinking a veritable field of useless flashlights a plea for fruition The beauty of a New England winter is that it lasts long enough to convince you that this silence these white and grey expanses are permanent. then you can be both surprised and grateful for every small change as if you have not experienced forty or fifty of them in a row First, the magic of water turning lace into live music then, the frigid poking of crocus and daffodils and tulips giving way to the saftig abundance of lilacs, poppies, and peonies finally, the tiniest strawberries show up to foreshadow a summer of deserts and the awareness that no matter how hard you hike and bike, swim and play, you will not lose a single pound Just when you are ready to cry uncle, to unlock yourself from winter’s embrace to unearth your short pants and T-shirts, the miracle of fireflies takes place proof that the grateful always find more, and that this particular heaven is a place that the masses cannot bear to inhabit because it requires a deep love and appreciation for delayed gratification Bernice Lewis 1998 For Recordings: CDBaby.com 1-800-BUY-MY-CD CDStreet.com 1-877-692-7999 Bernice Lewis uses Elixir Strings exclusively. http://www.elixirstrings.com Bernice performs on Taylor Guitars. They rock! SANCTUARY RECORDS POB 268 WILLIAMSTOWN, MA 01267 413-458-0944 blewis@williams.edu