Eleanor Dubinsky

APPEARING JUNE 1ST: THE LIVING ROOM, NYC – 7 PM

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:35:50 +0000

Photo by Samantha Hyatt

Appearing at The Living Room – 7 pm

with guitarist Vita Tanga

Opening for Mark Lesseraux and the Citizens

154 Ludlow Street

Lower East Side, NYC

No cover, $5 suggested donation

Facebook invitation y mas information

www.livingroomny.com

MAY 6 – 10: ELEANOR IS INDIE SPOTLIGHT ARTIST ON EUPHONIOUS RADIO, CANADA!

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:34:14 +0000

I’m honored to be the Indie Spotlight Artist for the week of May 6 – 10, 2013 on Euphonious Radio, Ontario, Canada!

Tune in May 6 – 10 from 8 – 9 PM EST, to hear my interview with DJ Steve Wey, plus featured songs from my CDs “Touch The Sky” and “Listen To The Music.”

Click here to stream Euphonious Radio

MAY 5 – ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL, STAGE 2 – 5:30 PM

admin — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:45:21 +0000

SUNDAY, MAY 5TH

ELEANOR AND HER BAND

ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL, STAGE 2

5:30 PM DOORS, 6 PM SHOW

W/ Vita Tanga (guitar), Pete Donovan (bass) & Scott Morehouse (drums)

Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

“NYC’s premiere listening room”

196 Allen Street (Between Houston & Stanton)

Show at 6 pm, doors at 5:30 pm.

$10 Entry

Tix & more information

CLICK to WATCH the Official Video of Listen To The Music

Letting Go – Making Art

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:01:40 +0000

I think art making has to do with accepting that life is not how you want it to be, or fair, or a fairy tale. With accepting reality, accepting things as they are, rather than continuously being furious that they are not as you wish they were, you start to see and to value your story of how you wish they were as material, and free up a tremendous amount of energy for self expression.

Art doesn’t have to be true, but it has to be true to you, come from an authentic place. It’s not about facts, but it is about authenticity,

Continuously trying to change what is into what you wish it would be is like burning fuel into the atmosphere without powering anything– wasted gasoline that is polluting the world, when instead it could be fueling your life and creative practice. Telling the story of what you wish would be is powerful. Owning that wish, expressing, elaborating, detailing, decorating, hyperbolizing that story, telling it authentically and the best you can, being proud and courageous enough to say “I’m human and I imagine this,” that can be powerful.

It’s very liberating to let go. It makes me move and dance around. It feels free/ing. It doesn’t change the facts, it just releases the angst of trying to control what I can’t control and gives me a different relationship to it so I can express it freely, and joyfully. I can make a poem about how I wish things were, write a song, do a dance, make a painting. Tell my story, be in relationship to it, imagine it to the nth degree. Without expecting anyone to do anything about my story, I can do whatever I want, and I’m much happier and freer. I have creative license, it’s wholly mine, and it’s actually fun rather than torture. Controlling arguments are losing battles full of misery, at least in my life they are.

So How do I, how do we get to a place of being able to let go? It’s is a good question, and I don’t have any definitive answer. I feel like every so often I am visited by insight, and I can let go of my attachment and of controlling, and I can write a blog entry like this, dance around, maybe write a song.

I wish I could let go more often. Differentiating between what is real and what is fantasy land is so confusing sometimes!

Meditation helps, and being around people who have worked through this, who resonate as wise and experienced also helps. It rubs off, is contagious.

Recognizing when the control bugs are loose is also a useful skill to cultivate. One sign that things are spinning off into fantasy land and I’m holding on too tight is when I am continuously disappointed by something and still keep going after it, again and again. A repetition compulsion. That could mean that I’m trying to change reality into something it’s not but refuse to accept it as is, and that and I have to look deeper and let go.

Letting go makes it easier to have awareness. Awareness of the difference between my story and what’s really going on, between my story and someone else’s story, which, go figure, he or she believes is just as valid and real as I believe mine to be. It makes it easier to be in relationships, and it just might make space for new and surprising realities to emerge that wouldn’t have the space to do so if I was controlling everything all the time.

Letting go, and making art, is humbling. It’s getting out of your own way (I know, a cliche) so you can see yourself and your story more clearly, and gift it to the world, so that we all can be inspired by what it is to be human and working it out in this world. Just telling your story because you can see it clearly enough, without judgment, to tell it, now that’s something.

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WEDS. 4/24: ROOM 5 LOUNGE, LOS ANGELES, CA – 7 PM

admin — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:00:17 +0000

Photo by Colin Kennedy

ELEANOR DUBINSKY – 8 PM
KALEN – 7 PM
at
ROOM 5 LOUNGE:
143 N. La Brea (2nd Floor)
Hollywood, Los Angeles
$10
Full dinner menu and drinks available.

www.eleanordubinsky.com
www.kalenmusic.com

Tickets:
7pm Kalen
8pm Eleanor
Directions & Map

See you there!
♥

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 – THE BARNES FOUNDATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA

admin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:02:59 +0000

FRIDAY, MARCH 29: 6 – 8 PM

ELEANOR DUBINSKY

THE BARNES FOUNDATION

With Jason DiMatteo (bass), Vita Tanga (guitar) and Scott Morehouse (drums)

2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Free with museum admission

Advance tickets highly recommended

Tickets: 215.278.7200

www.BarnesFoundation.org

Photo by Alison Bert

SATURDAY, 3/16: WALTZ ASTORIA CAFE – 8 PM

admin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:23:59 +0000

Saturday, March 16

8 pm

Eleanor en trio w/ Vita Tanga (guitar) and Scott Morehouse (drums)

Followed by Miranda Inzuza – 9 pm

Waltz-Astoria Cafe

23-14 Ditmars Blvd

Astoria, NY 11105

(718) 956-8742

No cover, $10 food/drink minimum

N/Q to Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. and walk a few blocks towards Astoria Park.

Waltz-Astoria will be on your left.

www.waltz-astoria.com

STREAMING LIVE FROM MONTREAL – MARCH 13 – 8:30 PM EST!

admin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:49:38 +0000

March 13, 2013

8:30 pm EST

Eleanor Dubinsky, Moise Matey & Assane Seck

Streaming Live at Upstairs Jazz, Montreal

3 Sets

CLICK HERE TO STREAM

A Song/Poem On Rejection and Self Empowerment

admin — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:45:11 +0000

This creation is a riff on a long conversation I had with my boyfriend that involved me getting down on myself, and him reminding me that I’ve got a lot to offer. I also went to a benefit event for my high school last night and today am reminded of how fear of judgment and wanting approval can really stop me in my tracks. Gotta check myself before I wreck myself:

I may or may not like it
I may or may not care
I may or may not respond to you
No matter how much integrity you air

I may or may not want you
I may or may not look
But what does that have to do with you sitting down to write your book?

It’s up to you my friend
To be true to yourself
Feel it out, my friend, be true to yourself
Put it out there, say your piece
For no one, oh no one, has you on a leash

I may or may not reach out
When an opportunity occurs
I may or may not think you’re best
Could be my judgment blurs
I may or may not be on your page
Or care about what makes you rage
But what does that have to do with anything, Dingaling?

It’s up to you my friend
To be true to your self
Feel it out, my friend, be true to yourself
Put it out there, say your piece
For no one, oh no one, has you on a leash

Send the email make the call
Wear your heels or nothing at all
Relax out max out get that fax out
Open your heart and see
Your road to freedom is you, not me

Dare to do what you can do
As Seth Godin says, “the world needs you”
Because life is in the living
And gifts gain life through giving*
So jump in the pool
Might be kind of old school
But guess what?
It’s time for swimming.

*Inspired by Bruce Cockburn‘s song “When You Give It Away”

Watch My New Video: “Listen To The Music – Escucha La Música”!

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:34:59 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtgtEOAfU0E

WATCH AND SHARE ON YOUTUBE HERE.

BUY OR GIFT ‘LISTEN TO THE MUSIC’ ON ITUNES HERE.