Senior Connections
Monday, August 17, 2020 • 27 Av 5780
1:30 PM - 3:30 PMSongs of Gratitude and Connection~ In Concert with Alisa Fineman & Kimball Hurd
Alisa will share stories and songs from her journey as environmental studies student at UCSC to fire-lookout for the US Forest Service in an Idaho wilderness to Cantor at Temple Beth El. She will be joined by her music and life partner Kimball Hurd, both award-winning singers and songwriters who share in their love for the natural world, connection and reverence for life. In addition to singing Hebrew songs and blessings, Alisa and Kimball will sing mostly from their original repertoire including songs from their past recordings:
Cup of Kindness, Better with Time, In Another's Eyes (City Folk)
Closing the Distance and
Faith In Our Love. Expect to hear vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola, perhaps harmonium and hand drum.
As a humanitarian folk musician, Alisa Fineman has used her singing/ songwriting as a means to delve inside and explore her own Jewish background. Fineman sings in Hebrew, Ladino and English. In addition to being a respected folk singer in the Monterey Bay region and beyond, Fineman served first as cantorial soloist, then cantor at Congregation Beth Israel in Carmel for 23 years and presently serves Temple Beth El in Aptos.
Alisa studied Environmental Studies and Natural History at UC Santa and lived on the South Coast of Big Sur from 1982-1987 at Big Creek Reserve while writing her senior thesis entitled, "Where Extremes Meet: Local Perspectives on Preservation Legislation for Big Sur." She worked for the Big Sur Land Trust and went on to become a recording artist and touring performer, while hosting a radio show on KAZU in Pacific Grove called Rosewood Gates that featured songwriters from all over the country. Alisa was named Best Folk Singer in the Monterey County Weekly Best Of reader's poll four straight years in the early 1990s and in 1991, she won top honors at the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Showcase for her songs "One Lone Bird" and "I Could Not Ask For More." While pursuing her music, Alisa met award-winning songwriter and musician Kimball Hurd, a member of the well-loved acoustic trio City Folk. They have performed at major folk venues and festivals across the country and abroad at Jacob Ladder's Folk Festival in Israel. Their shared interest in living a meaningful life through making music, songwriting and their love for the natural world has sustained them and the songs they continue to offer appreciative audiences everywhere.
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Since 2006, Senior Connections has been providing an eclectic mix of lectures, discussions, films, musical and dramatic performances, arts and health panels, rabbinic roundtables and annual luncheons. Visit with friends, make new friends and learn something new.
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