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The Levins

We can only make it together

About Me

Deciding to join forces for the upliftment of the human spirit and to bring dignity to all, The Levins began recording their first CD: 36 (based on the legend of the thirty-six Lamed Vavniks: the silent saints who keep the world in balance with their selfless benevolence). The alchemy of these musicians has created a unique form of music somewhere between "Middle Eastern Americana and Mystic Folk". cdbaby.com/cd/levins
www.oySongs.com/irascottlevin.
Booking
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JULY NEWS
THE LEVINS NEW CD: MY FRIEND HAFIZ - NEWS
THE ALBUM HAS FINALLY BEEN MIXED!
NOW- IT IS BEING MASTERED AT
CAPITOL RECORDS IN LA.
We are getting close!
There will be ten songs inspired by the poetry of HAFIZ as translated by DANIEL LADINSKY
Check out a preview of one of the old mixes here: Listen to SUN NEVER SAYS above.
JUNE NEWS:
Julia and Ira won best performance at the West Coast Songwriters competition at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley!
A Special THANK YOU!
WORLD OF PEACE has been in the top ten fairly consistantly and is now 23 this week on
Neil Young's Living with War Today website!
Feel Free to cut and paste the link below and click on our song while sending a prayer for peace up and out into the universe.
http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html
Thanks to our friends who have been supportively clicking and listening. Here's to not needing Living with War Today- tomorrow.
Background painting by Rabbi Janeen Kobrinsky.
Group Photo by Geri Engberg
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
To purchase cd, see links below.
36
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/08/2008
Band Website: http://thelevinsmusic.com
Band Members: Aharon Bolsta - Percussion
T. Hallenbeck - Cello, mandocello, mandola
Ira Levin - Vocals & guitar
Julia Bordenaro Levin - Vocals & keyboard
Ian K. Shields - Percussion
Liz Stuart- Percussion

For Booking and Electronic Press Kit:

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Influences: Daniel Ladinsky, Hafiz, The Kabbalah, Patty Griffin, David Gray, Peter Gabriel, Fairport Convention, Iron & Wine, Kermit the Frog, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Coleman Barks, Cat Stevens, CSNY, Sufjan Stevens, Michael Franti, Amnesty International
Sounds Like: The Swell Season, Nickel Creek, Eastmountainsouth, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac
Record Label: Summersongs Unlimited
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Today's Quote

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.- Tom Robbins
Posted by on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:38:00 GMT

July Quotes 2009

July 1Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:18:00 GMT

June 2009 quotes

June 1 Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp besid...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:11:00 GMT

Iron and Wine May 6, 2009

Samuel Beam is a poet in the tradition of Whitman, Wordsworth and Shelly.Under his alias of Iron and Wine he appeared tonight at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco with his acoustic guitar whi...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 23:23:00 GMT

May 2009 quotes

May 1st!Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.-Judy GarlandMay 2I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 12:49:00 GMT

April 2009 Quotes

April 1-2In my life there is an infinate supply of love, it is in exhaustable, I can never use it all in this lifetime so i don't have to be sparing with it!- Louise Hay April 3-4I don't think of th...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:08:00 GMT

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey If Humanity comes up for trial the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater should perform in our defense.  Centuries of struggle and suffering are transformed into integrity and fluidic grace in these d...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:49:00 GMT

March quotes 2009

March 1stPlace me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death...Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.- Song of Solomon 8:6-7March 2Althou...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:48:00 GMT

February 2009 Past Quotes

                                                        Feb. 1 "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."-- Albert Camus                                    ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:12:00 GMT

Never Loose Hope

It is amazing to reawaken to the fullness and richness of life with all of its depth and poignant unfurling.  To step back and really look at the promise behind the illusory struggles of the world is ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:48:00 GMT