Elisa Peimer: News

I'm enjoying the rest of August and will be playing again in September!  Join me on Tuesday, September 28 at 9pm at the Parkside Lounge, 317 E. Houston, between Avenues B & C in NYC.

It's been almost 4 months - got a new job, went on a long vacation.  In that order, actually.  But I've gotten my act together and booked a new gig.  Wednesday, July 7 at Kenny's Castaways at 9pm.  The whole band will be there and it will be great to play again.

Thanks to the lovely and talented Laura McKenna, you can check out a video of "Driving in the Rain" from our gig last week at the Parkside Lounge.

Join me and the band this Tuesday, April 13 at the Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston Street, between Avenues B & C. Showtime is at 9pm. You can take the F train to Second Avenue and walk a few blocks east. And it's free!

Brilliant photographer Dan Mayers took some great shots of me at last October's Bitter End Chick Singer Night show. I've posted a couple of them in my photo gallery. Here's one:

Here's a new little addition to my website - the share buttons at the bottom of the pages. In case you see something you like, say music, or photos, or my gig calendar - you can share it on a whole bunch of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Because it's nice to share.

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.