Christine Lavin started her professional life in 1975 as a waitress/bread baker at the Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NYS, where she met Dave Van Ronk who encouraged her to study guitar with him in NYC. She took his advice and is now a singer-songwriter-guitarist and recording artist, author and videographer based in New York City. Her latest solo album is Drum School Dropout. In 2023, Christine released The Seasons Project, an 80-song seasonal compilation that features the work of 63 American, Canadian, British and Irish singer-songwriters designed to help guide future historians and folklorists to authentic music being written in the last two decades of the 20th Century and the first two of the 21st Century. In October 2024, there were 11 performances of InunDATEd, a 90-minute theatrical production that showcased nine of Christine’s songs by the York Theatre in NYC. The most recent production starred two thrilling Broadway veterans, Kate Rockwell and Taylor Crousore.
In May 2021 Christine received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from her alma mater, the State University of New York at Brockport. In April 2019, she was inducted into the Rochester, New York Music Hall of Fame along with Al Jardine of The Beach Boys. She has also received a 2012 Nightlife Award, given annually to the best concert and cabaret performers in New York City. Her book Cold Pizza For Breakfast: A Mem-Wha?? (Tell Me Press, New Haven) won the 43rd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. Christine has also won five ASCAP Composer Awards and The Kate Wolf Memorial Award, while her album, Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind, won Album of the Year from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors.
On September 1, 2021, her song, “The Best Summer,” inspired New York Times columnist Jennifer Finney Boylan to write an entire column sparked by that song.
October 4 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Greenwich Village Folk Festival: Live 40th Anniversary Concert