KAMIKAZE GROUND CREW FALL REUNION SEPT. 7TH

another year…

The “annual” reunion this year will be at Lethe Lounge, at 618 W 113th St on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Thursday Sept 7th at 8pm. It’ll be a tight fit, but great acoustics and a great hang. Some old music, some new music, some deep listening… Looking forward to seeing y’all…

GL, alto & bari sax, accordion, piano and vocals; Doug Wieselman, clarinets, saxes, guitar; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor sax; Steven Bernstein, trumpet, slide trumpet; Art Baron, trombone; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Kenny Wollesen, drums, percussion & Wollesonics.


KAMIKAZE GROUND CREW FALL REUNION OCT. 1ST

The “annual” reunion at Westbeth, this year on Sat. Oct. 1st at 8pm. Who knew the Community Room had such good acoustics, and was such a fun hang? Some old music, some new music, some deep listening…

GL, alto & bari sax, accordion, piano and vocals; Doug Wieselman, clarinets, saxes, guitar; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor sax; Steven Bernstein, trumpet, slide trumpet; Art Baron, trombone; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Kenny Wollesen, drums, percussion & Wollesonics.

Westbeth Community Room, 155 Bank Street, in the far West Village of Manhattan.



BIRD OF THE INNER EYE live stream Aug. 29th 2021

Belatedly and after the fact, I’m pleased to say we managed to do an intense 3 and 1/2 week workshop of this new chamber opera up in northern CA (whilst dealing with rampant Delta variant and wild fires) which culminated in 3 concert performances at the Arcata Playhouse at the end of August, the last of which was live streamed.  The original stream was available for a week only, but was re-posted  for a second week due to the demand for tickets.  I am enormously grateful to everyone involved for making this happen, particularly my librettist and long-time colleague Joan Schirle, the instigator of the project…

for more info on the piece go to https://ginaleishman.com/projects/bird-of-the-inner-eye/ or http://birdinnereye.com


BIRD OF THE INNER EYE workshop in August

We are very much hoping to finally pick up the postponed work on BIRD in August, with 3 weeks of rehearsals and three concert performances at the Arcata Playhouse Aug 27, 28 and 29 – depending, of course, on the state of the pandemic, vaccinations etc… Stay tuned…


In absentia

And so here we are, in a brave new world….

I am in exile, in self isolation, wishing the world, and all those I love, good health and safety ahead…