Elisa Peimer: News

Just got word that the gig at Parkside Lounge has been rescheduled to February 9 at 9pm.

Sorry, kids! Parkside Lounge had to cancel my gig for January 13 due to another event at the club, so I'm working to try to set up a new date for the new year. Stay tuned. And in the meantime, enjoy this little holiday ditty from my favorite alt-country crooner, Jon Sobel:

http://www.jonsobel.com/FourFingerJohn/DontYouKnowThatItsChristmas.mp3

Amazingly talented photographer Dan Mayers stopped by my Chick Singer Night at the Bitter End last month and took some wonderful pictures of me onstage with the Chick Singer Night house band. Check them out here!

I'm playing my last show of the year at Kenny's Castaways on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 8pm. The band and I hope to see you there to say goodbye to 2009!

Very cool video site, singingfool.com, just posted my video for Turning Circles.  Check it out here.

One of the top podcasts on iTunes, Coverville, played my version of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" on their latest broadcast. Thanks to Brian for the play!

You can listen to the song here by clicking this link:

http://elisapeimer.com/audio/ELISA_PEIMER-Ring_of_Fire_hifi.m3u

And I'm a chick singer.

I just got invited to play this month's Chick Singer Night at the Bitter End. The format is 4 female singers - myself, Deb Ferrara, Lisa Copolla, and Sibvon Rose - performing with the crack Chick Singer Night house band. I did this show a few years ago and it was a blast. This evening's show is a benefit for the Libby Ross Breast Cancer Foundation. This is a cause near and dear to me right now, since my friend and fellow singer-songwriter Victoria Lavington was just diagnosed with this disease. 

The show is Tuesday, October 27 at 8pm.  Details are on the Calendar page.

 

 

I'm going to be doing an instore performance at Best Buy in Manhattan at the end of this month. It's at 6th Avenue and 23rd Street in Chelsea, so I'll get to walk there. Which is how I like to book all my gigs. I'll be playing guitar and Irwin will be playing bass. I haven't done a guitar gig in a while (I've been playing more keyboard recently), so I really have to practice.

In the meantime, I'll be watching Glee on TV tonight. Yes, I was in Show Choir in high school. The ribbing may begin.

Here's a nice shot of the Union Square gig show last month, before the rain shut us down.

I'll be playing with the band again this Wednesday, August 19 at 7:30 at Googies above the Living Room.  Meg Braun plays after me at 8:30.

German podcast, Omega Tau, has featured my song, "Set to Fly." Their website says they cover "all kinds of interesting things in science and technology." So, I guess "Set to Fly" is kind of a physics problem...

Nice little plug on the very cool music blog, Indie Sounds , for my birthday show at Kenny's Castaways this Saturday night.

We'll be closing the show at 3:15pm, moved from 2pm. But there's music all day:

11:00-12:00 Mike and Miriam Risko
12:15-1:00 KJ Denhert
1:00-1:45 Marc von Em
2:00-2:45 Ceiling Unlimited
3:15-4:00 Elisa Peimer

All the details are here!

I'm a big Chris Trapper fan, he of the Push Stars and numerous solo albums. He's having this fun contest where you can upload a video of yourself performing one of his songs. I'm not much of a contest person, but it was a fun challenge to learn one of his songs on piano, especially since he's an acoustic guitar player. Here's my entry - it's called "In The Galaxy."

I'll be heading back to the good ol' hometown of Ossining, NY next month to play at a celebration commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's sail up that river that bears his name. It's a whole day of music right by the riverside, tucked neatly between the Metro-North train station and world famous penitentiary, Sing Sing. And sing sing is exactly what we're going to do.

11:00-12:00 Mike and Miriam Risko
12:15-1:00 KJ Denhert
1:00-1:45 Marc von Em
2:00-2:45 Elisa Peimer
3:15-4:00 Ceiling Unlimited

Check out the Calendar Page for more details!

Thanks to Ron Frary for taping last week's Songwriter's Beat show at Cornelia Street Cafe! Here's video of my performances of "Marine Layer" and a new song, "Poetry."


You can watch more live performances at YouTube here.

This kind of thing makes me CRAZY. (sorry - embedding not allowed for this video.)

A woman walks out on stage, and just because she's 47 years old and not particularly attractive, the assumption of both the judges and the audience is that she can't sing. They have absolutely nothing to bring them to that conclusion except for her age and how she looks.

Since when did talent become the exclusive property of young pretty people? Since when did that particular shape of the vocal chords and the control of the diaphram only belong to hot 22 year olds? Why don't the judges and the audience look at this contestant and see the same potential as anyone else?

I'm deeply offended as an artist and a person who's no longer in their 20's. When Simon asks why she hasn't become a professional singer, she says she hasn't been given the chance. Of course she hasn't - when a society puts physical attractiveness and youth on a pedestal, and ignores the potential of people who don't fit that narrow image, it misses out of a tremendous amount of talent and skill. The American equivalent of this show, American Idol, doesn't even allow contestants to enter unless they're under 29 years old.

I know it's all about selling records. So, they're saying that no one will purchase a recording that someone with a voice like Susan Boyle puts out - just because she's middle-aged? Sorry - I just don't buy it.

You think they would have learned something from this guy.


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I'm very proud to announce that I was appointed to my community board in New York City. I'll be serving on Community Board 5, which encompasses Union Square, Midtown, and the Theater District, including Central Park, the Empire State Building, and Grand Central Terminal. My first meeting is next week, and I'll be listening to neighborhood issues and helping advise on land use and zoning matters, the City budget, municipal service delivery and many other issues relating to the welfare of the community. This should be an amazing experience and I'm pretty stoked.

Check out the announcement in Chelsea Now.

I'm thrilled to announce that I've just signed a new publishing deal with Beach Street Music, a production/publishing house that supplies music to a vast amount of TV shows. A formal press release will be coming soon!

I've gone and joined the Twitter revolution. Actually, it was a revolution about 8 months ago, so I'm a little late to the party. That's so me. Anyway, for minute to minute (or more likely day to day) details about my music, my life, and other fascinating tidbits, check out my Twitter page. I'm feeding Facebook from my Twitter updates too, so you can share my world at Facebook.

Ah, the Internet. There truly is no escape.

This is even more self-serving than Googling yourself, but what the heck. If you like the dulcet tones of Elisa Peimer, you can listen to artists who do the kind of stuff I do on last.fm and Pandora. I've even created my own "Elisa Peimer" radio station on Pandora, and I'm woman enough to admit it. If you like the pop singer/songwriter kind of stuff, there's a lot of good music out there. So, if you're sitting at your computer right now - and I bet you are - and you're thinking, "gosh, I sure would love to hear a song by Elisa Peimer, or something just like her" check out one of those streaming music sites. It's really a lot of fun.

The band and I will be appearing at Googie's over the Living Room this Tuesday night at 9:30. It's a no-drums room, so Scott will be playing percussion, a first for us. There's also this great grand piano there, so Jay will be taking over acoustic guitar duties and I'll be playing the keys.

Japanese online radio station "Gone Fishing for Blue Skies" will be playing my song "Find My Way Home" on their show next week.

You can listen here!

I'll be doing an acoustic or semi-acoustic show (depending on who I can get to show up with me) this Wednesday at Kenny's Castaways at 7pm. It's part of Whisperado's Mud Room, a monthly series featuring country and folk-influenced acts. I won't tell anyone there about my love for Kelly Clarkson.

Check out the Calendar page for the details.

Many thanks to talented cameraman Ron Frary, who shot video of my appearance at Mexicali Live on Saturday night. Check out "Find My Way Home" right here, and go to the Music page to check out "Set to Fly."

More videos are available on YouTube here!

Jon and I were lucky enough to be invited to New York's City Hall for Barack Obama's inauguration this morning. I'd actually never been to City Hall before, and I love old historic buildings, so that was part of the thrill.


Around 2000 people sat in the rotunda and the committee, watching the proceedings on television. The room was freezing, we were seated towards the rear, and the TV wasn't really that big. Would we have been more comfortable watching MSNBC at home on the couch, with a warm cup of coffee? You bet. But there was something wonderful about being in a room with 2000 other New Yorkers, cheering and clapping when Obama stood up and officially became our 44th President.


It was a personal joy that could be shared with everybody else - not a common thing. I know the guy's no miracle worker, but I can't remember the last time I felt such optimism that our country might actually be on the right track.