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Sarah Blacker

just ask the faeries

About Me

Hi guys, here's a little bit about me. If you want more, just ask.
I'm hopelessly clumsy. I'm learning how not to be too much of a perfectionist. I'm very sarcastic, and I cannot tell a lie. I call my dog Yeffren, but his real name is Beasley. I believe in faeries and gnomes, and angels. I'm a very open person, and find myself perplexed when people are selfish and cold. My parents call me, 'Perpetual Motion,' and 'Sarah the Loud.' I love to get into philosophical conversations, but I also love being alone. I get anxious when I don't get to be in the woods. I'm moved by things that smell pleasant. I've been singing since I was 8, and danced ballet, tap and jazz for 10 years. I taught myself guitar when I was 17, so that I could write songs with it, but stopped playing when my hands gave out on me in college. I wrote all new songs once I started playing guitar again. When I improvise on the piano I feel like I'm swimming. When I perform I feel like I'm flying. When I sing, I feel like an open vessel. I love metaphors, and I love to use lots of words. I'm going to stop before I do so.
'Kiss My Breath'

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live @ Benji and Jake's in White Lake, NY; January 19th, 2008 at the Tribute Concert for Walter Ramsay
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/8/2004
Band Website: sarahblacker.com
Band Members: sb~ acoustic guitar/voice/mandolin/foot-percussion/snapping/strange noises/bad jokes/songwriting

**Guests and Ghostnotes**

"Drake's Cakes"
(M. Drake Sherman) - oboe/vocals

"Hassan El-Tayya-bout-it"
(Hassan El-Tayyab) - elec. guitar/vocals

"Adam Freid-the-man"
(Adam Freidman) - flute/djembe/tambourine/vocals

"George Aghia-Sophia"
(George Aghia) - muted trumpet

"Read-em-n'weep"
(Beasley the dog) - barking/howling/doggie-tag jangles
Influences: notes that swoop, things that are jazzy and raw, different laughs, the beats that make me dance or drive 95 mph, warm and round vibrato, the blues!!! honesty, raspy subtlety, birds singing, rain falling, echoes...

and umm...pretty much everything else too.
Sounds Like:

"...a unique combination of Ella Fitzgerald and Ani DiFranco"
~Face Magazine

"The perfect blend of Joni Mitchell and Ella Fitzgerad." ~ Ron Bowen, program director, WXRV 92.5 the River

"If only we had another Woodstock, we'd have the next Joni Mitchell."..."This generation's Tracy Bonham."..."The kamikaze karate kid."..."A breath of fresh air, in a furnace of pop hell."..."The female version of Maynard James Keenan."..."A rabid bad-ass!"
~ Various listeners, locally & internationally.

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***THINGS I am
REALLY into LATELY***
(in no particular order)

1. polkdadots
2. Pecans
3. twelve part harmonies
4. rearranging
5. 'Lemonade Girl,' by Drake Sherman
6. Horse Hands
7. trying to sleep
9. small lamps
10. the mandolin
11. new shoes
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the SMELL of CARAMEL

so... upon driving back from NECTAR's in Burlington, VT on Saturday, as a team- my oboist, and Adam & Paul from 'the Grownup Noise' consumed an entire bag of the cube caramels. Drake passed out, I fel...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:18:00 PST

NEW AL-BOOM!!!!

here I sit, drinking black coffee from Seattle. Our family friend Stephen didn't know what he'd be getting me into by providing coffee with such robust strength, gusto, and panache...haha. To say the ...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:28:00 PST

STAND IN

If I had a stand-inI'd ask her to stand in and take all the chances for me.'Cause life's too short to pass things up...but I'd remind her to be careful'cause cause and effect can sure be brutalIf I ha...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:22:00 PST

DOWNLOAD DELIRIUM

Firstly-I'm going into the studio this weekend, and will be starting to record new songs. Old ones too. Expect an album. Expect the unexpected.and Secondclick here to download 'DELIRIUM'...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:20:00 PST

Late Night Avocadi

were that there were twosoft green fruiti ate ofavocado would beavocadiwere that icould quiet mindof minethat i would be asleepwould that iwished notfor perfectionperhaps i wouldmyself allowto believe...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:58:00 PST

Thank you, Wilmington, NC

It's been 9 years since I've been here. It's been far too long. Tonight, Mother's day is almost over, but my aunt, uncle, mom and I made pan flutes out of snake grass, while sitting on the windy back ...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:25:00 PST

Boston.com, baby

Boston.com Picturesthat’s kind of cool :)thanks again to 92.5 the River, and the Down2 Earth Fest in Boston for raising consciousness, and getting wheels turning ... everyone can conserve more, ...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:40:00 PST

My New Home, Cambridge

As the moisture inside of my nostrils frozethe sun peeked up over a Masonic temple-looking building splitting the horizona heart shape cloud hung proud back over my left shoulderwarm and welcomingand ...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:10:00 PST

WHAT u NEED to KNOW before a SHOW

*PICTURE THIS*You walk in. She's got a black guitar, that's cool. Her name's Sarah Blacker, and so you chuckle to yourself.She's tuning the guitar, screwing around a bit, and things sound funky, percu...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:50:00 PST

QUOTES to LIVE by

"Where words fail, music speaks.""You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go!"~ Nikos Kazantzakis"One must finally take one's life into one's own arms, and kiss it."...
Posted by Sarah Blacker on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:47:00 PST