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Yesterday, we launched the Lady Brain Presents website, and today my homie Cathryn Beeks from Listen Local Radio launched the Lady Brain Presents Podcast. The inaugural episode featured your girl and the incredible Marlo Smith.
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I've been sharing a little bit about a local creative women's collective I started this year called the Lady Brain Collective. I'm happy to announce that our website, Lady Brain Presents, was just launched today! Take a look around, and don't forget to sign up for updates about our private community gatherings!  Thanks to Brendan McCourt and BPM Live Sessions for featuring me on their series. Here's a look at "Run" - a song I wrote about how anxiety wreaks havoc in my life sometimes. Enjoy, and try not to have a panic attack. Lyrics: 1. one drop of water and the lake still shakes stomping my boots but the mud's still caked i gotta find a way to let this go a pile of bricks sticking to my chest weighing me down, they will not decongest i tried to kill this ache but still it grows chorus how do i breathe now? there's no air in my lungs how do i climb down? this ladder's out of rungs how do i slow down? when all i ever did was all i ever did was run? 2. should i be drinking?now, well probably not order a whiskey cause it's worth a shot maybe i'll drown this fear before it drowns me trouble with worry is it won't get gone cause you can never put your finger on something you feel but you can not see repeat chorus  Ok, so this probably doesn't count as real press but I had to share. My dad is compiling a list of the Top Ten Albums of his life, and included my album Lights Out on the list. I'll just be over here crying that my dad took the time to thoughtfully review my album. Check it out!  I am extremely grateful to the Women's March San Diego team (particularly Alisandra and Poppy) for giving me an opportunity to perform at this year's march. Special thanks to Karen Lindenberg and Becca Jay for lending their time and talent to join me. Also to my dear friend Lizzie Wann for always showing up. What a great day to be a woman! See below links for some news coverage of the event! UPDATE! I am planning recording this song professionally with a full women's choir. If you're interested in participating or contributing to recording expenses, please contact me and/or Venmo your donation, big or small, to @lindsayannwhite I'm excited to share that I'll be presenting at this month's San Diego Songwriter Meetup on the topic of DIY Publicity. I will be sharing few stories of how I've developed publicity over the last decade as an independent artist. Learn a little about working with publicists and a lot about becoming your own publicist. Discover different types of media outlets, how to reach them, and what they're looking for in a pitch. I will also talk about creating your own news, maximizing each piece of press, and building genuine relationships.  This is the fist sing along song I've ever written in my whole life! I was honored to be invited to perform at the 2019 Women's March in San Diego, and while I have a host of politically inspired songs, they all leaned toward rage. And while there's definitely a place for rage in protest marches and in protest music, I wanted to write something specific for the occasion that was also unifying, family-friendly, and very easy to sing along. Still, I didn't want it to be all rainbows and sunshine, so I made sure that the lyrics touched on the strength of women who work together to achieve results, the fact that women have the right to govern their own bodies, the fact that we are becoming more and more fearless in our unity, the fact that we need to be intersectional and fight for the rights of all marginalized people, and the strength of women as a voting body. I managed to get all that in without saying the F-word one time! I'm pretty proud of myself. I do have plans to record this song professionally with a full women's choir. If you'd like to participate or contribute, please reach out or consider making any size donation to Venmo at @lindsayannwhite Lyrics 1. we are the women we have the power to come together to save the day mothers before us sisters beside us daughters to guide us let love lead the way let love lead the way (let love lead the way) 2. we are the women we make our own choices we lift up our voices we are not afraid mothers before us sisters beside us daughters to guide us let love lead the way let love lead the way (let love lead the way) 3. we are the women all colors of skin and we will be voting on election day mothers before us sisters beside us daughters to guide us let love lead the way let love lead the way (let love lead the way)  Great news! I just received word that I was selected to be on the lineup for this year's Tucson Folk Festival. It's been one of my goals to book more folk festivals around the country, so I am very excited! More details to come, but I'm scheduled to perform on April 7th! Read more about the festival here.  Thanks to Jay Allen Sanford at San Diego Reader for including the release of my new single The Hound in his latest record roundup! Read the article here!  I’ve always been a goal-setting go-getter, but my mother’s death has added new perspective to the relentless ambition that kept me from seeing myself as whole/enough and that kept me from living in the moment. My mom worked like a dog her whole life while raising two kids and then made a courageous decision to go back to school. She worked her ass off and earned two degrees in speech therapy, then eventually began her dream job working with kiddos she loved so much. She was the most ambitious person I’ve ever known. Right after all that hard work finally started to pay off, she got diagnosed with brain cancer, had to stop working, and died shortly after. This has taught me an important lesson. It’s lovely and admirable to have dreams, set goals, and work toward more knowledge, more growth, more money, more ability to make a difference. But all that hard work didn’t amount to much in terms of outcome. It amounted to a lot in terms of memorable moments and meaningful relationships though. The process was the powerful part, not the result. As this new year begins, I refuse to spend ALL my energy focusing on what I don’t have, what I want, where I hope to end up, what I’d like to look like or have or do or achieve to finally give myself permission to be happy. Instead, I’m choosing to wake up every day and take grateful inventory of what I already have. To know I am worthy of love no matter what I do or don’t accomplish in my life. To do my best and forget the rest. Grief dug a hole and planted some wisdom seeds that are juuuuuust now starting to take root in my heart and sprout in my actions. It’s weird and scary and unsettling to notice your identity morphing into something else. Sometimes my new thoughts feel like they don’t belong in my old brain, like a new me is taking over, and I’m afraid to leave the old me behind because I’m more familiar with her. But I’m trying to let the change happen as slowly and peacefully as possible, and I’m grateful to my mom for continuing to teach me. Here’s to a happy NOW year. I hope you got a chance to smile or make someone smile today.  |
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