Fl!p’s 70th Birthday Concert

Thursday August 27, 2020 7:00 – 8:30 PM PST

I will be playing an online concert tonight in celebration of having survived 70 years on this sweet and astonishing planet. Here’s the link. Click on it and then scroll down till you see me, at 7 PM. The link won’t be live till then.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/298533994557015/

Fairhaven College Music Festival Streaming Series –

On the date and time of the the show please come to the page below to watch the Artists performance. Thank You Don Schluter, Fairhaven College Alumni/Music Festival Coordinator.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/298533994557015/

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I was invited by Fairhaven College to play an online concert in lieu of the alumni homecoming celebration that usually happens this time of year. And it wound up to be easy to have it on my birthday!

I earned my self-designed bachelor’s degree in Listening As A Tool For Social Change, between 1971 and 1990. It took a while! But I’ve actually used what I learned in my life, daily.

I have received such amazing support for this event that my heart is broken wide open. First the invitation to play, and then our local community radio station asked if they could both run it on air and on their website. And then the Firehouse Arts and Events Center offered their professional videography as a birthday gift! They have shifted to offering excellent quality recording services to musicians, storytellers, poets, dancers and theatre folks. Zeke and I will pack up and actually go into a building besides our own home for the second time since March 11. The Firehouse team will both record and edit.

I invited friends on Facebook to request songs (can’t promise to play them all, sorry!) and am interviewing a few of those friends on Zoom so they can introduce their choice. (It’s not too late to contact me with a request.) We’re going to try to splice the little introductions into the concert. Fingers crossed!

So far, we have a mix of songs and instrumentals planned. There will be some songs I’ve written, some instrumentals, plus songs & tunes by Peter & Lou Berryman, Libba Cotten, Catherine Madson, Dorothy Attneave, and of course Zeke Hoskin. Zeke wrote a really beautiful new song about rainbows, with a physicist’s eye and a romantic’s heart.

If you’re planning to attend, I would love to hear from you, especially if you can let me know by Monday, when we are actually taping. That way I can hold your face in my mind and sing to you as I record.

Love/Fl!p

Testimonials

Singing is about community, and it's rare that a couple has humor, humbleness, and a real sense of what's important in this world to teach and lead others in song. As they often tell their audiences, "if you know the song, sing along. If you don't, sing anyway."
They embody what they call "living room music." It's not the "show-off" tunes, but the songs that are quiet, sometimes, that make us think about what's important --family, home, getting along, kindness, and giving back. And sometimes the songs are so delightfully wacky that we learn to laugh in a time when life is not always so funny.
Flip and Zeke are jewels in a town that's full of talented musicians. But they make us smile, they make us weep, they make us shout for joy. We see ourselves more clearly though the songs they sing.

- Margaret Bikman,
Arts & Entertainment Editor Emeritus, Bellingham Herald

Fl!p & Zeke

2019-04-10T20:58:32-07:00

- Margaret Bikman,
Arts & Entertainment Editor Emeritus, Bellingham Herald

Singing is about community, and it's rare that a couple has humor, humbleness, and a real sense of what's important in this world to teach and lead others in song. As they often tell their audiences, "if you know the song, sing along. If you don't, sing anyway." They embody what they call "living room music." It's not the "show-off" tunes, but the songs that are quiet, sometimes, that make us think about what's important --family, home, getting along, kindness, and giving back. And sometimes the songs are so delightfully wacky that we learn to laugh in a time when life is not always so funny. Flip and Zeke are jewels in a town that's full of talented musicians. But they make us smile, they make us weep, they make us shout for joy. We see ourselves more clearly though the songs they sing.

https://flipandzeke.com/testimonials/singing-is-about-community/

Flip, nobody knows better than you: gentleness without precision is ineffective. Precision without gentleness can harm. But if they are properly mixed, healing can happen. I've watched you do this for a long time. And in this way you are my beloved teacher. - Kim Scanlon

Fl!p & Zeke

2019-06-10T14:01:00-07:00

Flip, nobody knows better than you: gentleness without precision is ineffective. Precision without gentleness can harm. But if they are properly mixed, healing can happen. I've watched you do this for a long time. And in this way you are my beloved teacher. - Kim Scanlon

https://flipandzeke.com/testimonials/kim-scanlon/

"[Fl!p] cares more about telling the truth than most people you're likely to hear, and she does it well; at the same time she's a lot of fun to listen to." - Bob Franke

Fl!p & Zeke

2019-03-03T01:25:57-08:00

"[Fl!p] cares more about telling the truth than most people you're likely to hear, and she does it well; at the same time she's a lot of fun to listen to." - Bob Franke

https://flipandzeke.com/testimonials/bob-franke-quote/

"Listening to one of Zeke’s songs for the first time is like opening a present from a dear friend — it’s beautifully wrapped, and inside is a delightful surprise, always gentle, clever, wry, and just exactly perfect." - Mark McPherson

Fl!p & Zeke

2019-03-03T01:27:28-08:00

https://flipandzeke.com/testimonials/mark-mcpherson-quote/

"Zeke Hoskin is a very annoying person. His funny songs make you think while you laugh, which is unfashionable. Also, the tunes will stick in your head. Worse, they are better than mine."
- Rob Lopresti

Fl!p & Zeke

2019-03-03T01:26:47-08:00

https://flipandzeke.com/testimonials/rob-lopresti-quote/

Fl!p & Zeke