Christine Lavin
- Folk
- Singer/Songwriter
Christine Lavin started her professional life as a waitress/bread baker at the Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1975 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/recording artist/author/videographer based in New York City. Her latest solo album, her 25th, ON MY WAY TO HOOTERVILLE, includes 10 new songs and one re-worked song, “Ramblin’ Waltz,” a re-telling of her time in 1975 when she was an entourage driver for the first week of Bob Dylan’s iconic “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour.
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. Christine assembled this compilation 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 2024 she is completing her 26th solo album, DRUM SCHOOL DROPOUT, hoping to have it completed in 2025.
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. There will be one more workshop production before the show is released world-wide. The most recent production starred two thrilling Broadway veterans, Kate Rockwell and Taylor Crousore.
WHAT SHE IS WORKING ON RIGHT NOW
There is a 90 minute off-Broadway show in development called “InunDATEd,” written by playwright Alice Scovell that the York Theatre produced that showcased 11 performances in October and has 10 songs of Christine’s in it. It was performed by Broadway veterans Kate Rockwell, one of the stars of MEAN GIRLS, and Taylor Crousore, from FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, and very well received.There will be one more workshop production by The York Theatre, and then it will open off-Broadway and be available to theaters across the country.
She has a side project, APRIL FOOLS, with David Buskin, Robin Batteau, and John Forster, where we make fools of ourselves onstage every April.
There is so much interest in my songs that I am now also putting together a theatrical version of my own show, and will debut parts of it at Passim on January 31st.
