There’s a fabulous round-up of artists at the Telegraph Ave Holiday Street Fair in Berkeley California from December 14-24, 2012. Come get your Berkeley art and music on!
“Located between Dwight Way and Bancroft Way near the U.C. Campus in Berkeley CA.Holiday shoppers to the Telegraph business district will be treated to an abundance of good cheer, great music, fine food, and unique and unusual handcrafts by some of Northern California’s finest artists.
This fair offers the rare opportunity to buy fine art originals and inexpensive gift items in the same place. Shoppers can choose from a tremendous diversity of arts and crafts, including jewelry, bead work, wire work, hats, candles, leather work, silk-screened and tie-dyed clothing, pottery, wood crafts, metal crafts, paintings, henna-art, gift boxes, photography and sculptures”.
The Telegraph Street Fair Performers line-up includes:
Friday Dec. 14, 2012: 12pm-4pm Lisa Graciano
Saturday Dec. 15, 2012: 11am-12pm Lisa Graciano, 12pm-1pm Fly Right Sisters, 1pm-3pm Lisa Graciano, 3pm-5pm Jeff Rolka
Sunday Dec. 16, 2012: 11am-1pm Deborah Crooks, 1pm-3pm Lisa Graciano, 3pm-5pm Paul Anderson
Saturday Dec. 22, 2012: 11am-12pm Lisa Graciano, 12pm-1pm Paul Anderson, 1pm-3pm Lisa Graciano, 3pm-5pm Paul Anderson
Sunday Dec. 23, 2012: 11am-1pm Hali Hammer & Randy Berge, 1pm-5pm Lisa Graciano
Monday Dec. 24, 2012: 11am-12pm Lisa Graciano, 12pm-1pm Paul Anderson, 1pm-3pm Lisa Graciano, 3pm-5pm Paul Anderson
Deborah Crooks (www.DeborahCrooks.com) is a writer, performing songwriter and recording artist based in San Francisco whose lyric driven and soul-wise music has drawn comparison to Lucinda Williams, Chrissie Hynde and Natalie Merchant.
Singing about faith, love and loss, her lyrics are honed by a lifetime of writing and world travel while her music draws on folk, rock, Americana and the blues. She released her first EP “5 Acres” in 2003 produced by Roberta Donnay, which caught the attention of Rocker Girl Magazine, selecting it for the RockerGirl Discoveries Cd. In 2007, she teamed up with local producer Ben Bernstein to complete “Turn It All Red” Ep, followed by 2008’s “Adding Water to the Ashes” CD, and a second full-length CD “2010. She’s currently working on a third CD to be released in 2013.
Deborah’s many performance credits include an appearance at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the RockerGirl Magazine Music Convention, IndieGrrl, at several of the Annual Invasion of the GoGirls at SXSW in Austin, TX, the Harmony Festival and 2009’s California Music Fest, MacWorld 2010, Far West Fest and many other venues and events. She toured the Northwest as part “Indie Abundance Music, Money & Mindfulness” (2009) with two other Bay Area artists, and followed up with “The Great Idea Tour of the Southwest in March 2010 with Jean Mazzei.
