May 13th :: Celebrating One World Children's Fund :: Crissy Field Center, SF :: Nkechi Live!

Friends!

I am grateful for so many opportunities to perform in support of a few great causes.  Lately, I have been enjoying singing in a rock opera while learning to play the piano of all things!  Imagine that!  Just sending a quick note about tomorrow's show for One World Children's Fund and a heads up about a few others coming down the pike :-)

Thursday, May 13th ::  One World Children's Fund :: Crissy Field Center, SF

One World Children's Fund networks resources directly to grassroots organizations that serve disadvantaged children around the world. We recognize that local people know best how to resolve problems in their communities when they have access to resources to build a sustainable future for children and their families.  For INFO or to RSVP:: Email info @ owcf.org

I am especially grateful to be able to be a part of an organization helping to change the world.  I'll be singing one of my songs "One World" which was written before I met anyone at One World Children's Fund :-)  It of course is a timely blessing for this event.  I am honored for the opportunity to share this song in celebration of this worthy cause!

One World Children's Fundwww.oneworldchildrensfund.org invites you to a fun and festive celebration to honor our extraordinary volunteers. Be inspired and energized and meet our Angel Award winners for 2010! Please spread the word and invite your friends who may enjoy learning about our mission-in-action to serve children and caregivers around the world. You'll hear stories from our Champions on how our grassroots partners are creating lasting solutions to empower their communities.  And yes, we all will feast on delicious pizzas, salad, wine and dessert.

Date:    Thursday, May 13, 2010
Time:     6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Venue:  The new Crissy Field Center in the Presidio
             1199 East Beach, Presidio San Francisco, CA 94129
             Click here for directions


 UPCOMING SHOWS & EVENTS::
Thursday May 20th :: Dolores Park Cafe :: for SFWAR.org
Wednesday June 2nd :: The Blue McCaw :: Poetry & Music Jam
Thursday June 3rd & June 10th :: Temple :: Abigail, The Rock Opera (I play the role of Tituba!)
and Wednesday June 16th :: I'll be attending the WomenROCK! show at The Independent!

See My Website http://www.nkechi.com for Details
Blessings In Your Day :-)
NKECHI LIVE!

Astral Soul Songstress/Visionary
Alternative Singer/Songwriter
http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://nkechilivemusic.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.blogspot.com
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http://www.reverbnation.com/nkechi
http://www.MySpace.com/nkechilive

Monday April 26th, 2010 :: Poetry & Music Festival - Nkechi Live! :: Caffe Greco 423 Columbus, SF, CA

This coming Monday April 26th at Caffe Greco, 423 Columbus Ave, SF, CA around 8 pm, I'll be playing alongside some of the Bay Area's most briliant word smiths. They read their poetry and I sing as in vocalize words and rhymes to rhythms and melodies while I strum my guitar .. or perhaps tap a drum  .. and most likely play a little keyboard .. if I'm up to it. Since 10/26 I have been immersed in one of the most intense writing periods of my life. Life happens so I get to make music, or is it the other way around? So I'll make a point to play new songs. Newly inspired songs.  Mostly I get to be with other like inspired fun folks, so I hope you are able to join us.  http://www.nkechi.com The whole event goes from 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Hope you can join us.  More details http://www.nkechi.com

Hope 2 See U Sooner than Soon in Person or in Spirit!

Blessings in Your Day :-)

NKECHI LIVE!

Astral Soul Songstress/Visionary
Alternative Singer/Songwriter
http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.nkechi.com/newsongs 
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://nkechilivemusic.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.wordpress.com
http://www.reverbnation.com/nkechi
http://www.MySpace.com/nkechilive

Nkechi Live! :: Sunday 4/25 10am-12pm :: Nat'l MS Society - Walk Event - Crissy Field SF

Nkechi Live! Music :: Sunday, April 25 10am-12pm :: Nat'l MS Society Walk Event



Friends::

We are so excited to have been asked to play for the National MS Society - Walk Event on April 25th at Crissy Field.  Please see the National MS Society - Walk Event website for information to participate.



The whole band will play from 10am to Noon with a view of Golden Gate Bridge!

National MS Society - Walk Event
Crissy Field - Vallejo St & Banks St, SF, CA 94129
Sports Basement - Presidio

Notice about Parking - There are 3 events happening near Crissy Field on April 25th and there is construction happening on Doyle Drive. Please be advised that Walk MS will start and finish at the Sports Basement. Parking for Walk MS is reserved in the Presidio Main Post lot at the corner of Lincoln Blv. and Anza Ave. Only vehicles with a handicap plaque will be able to park in the Sports Basement lot.

Sponsors::  KFOG 104.5/97.7, Sports Basement, Mobility Plus, SF Amateur Radio Club, Dolce Delle Grazie, Nkechi Live! Music




Hope you can join us.  More details http://www.nkechi.com

Hope 2 See U Sooner than Soon in Person or in Spirit!

Blessings in Your Day :-)

NKECHI LIVE!

Astral Soul Songstress/Visionary
Alternative Singer/Songwriter
http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.nkechi.com/newsongs 
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://nkechilivemusic.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.wordpress.com
http://www.reverbnation.com/nkechi
http://www.MySpace.com/nkechilive

2 Shows :: 3/22 Make-Out Room & 3/27 Beale Street Bar & Grill

Hello Beautiful Friends!


It is a blessing to have been offered a few more opportunities to sing & strum on my guitar.  The two dates coming up are March 22nd and March 27th.

On Monday, March 22nd a "Light" form of Nkechi Live! will be headlining at 11pm San Francisco's the Make-Out Room following an amazing line-up of poet's for the monthly cabaret show called The Cat's Pajamas.  Then on Saturday, March 27th at Beale Street Bar & Grill Nkechi Live! plays at 9pm for a music showcase hosted by RipStar Productions where a few friends and I will be celebrating a few anniversaries and birthdays.

Here some details:

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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Nkechi Live! @ 11pm
The Cat's Pajamas "The Revolutionary Poet's Brigade"
Make-Out Room, 8pm-12am, Cover $5
3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110-3006
(415) 647-2888

The Cat's Pajamas is a monthly cabaret featuring spoken word, music, dance, and performance art acts that are an ode to the cultural aesthetics of the past. This Month join us for "The Revolutionary Poets Brigade" A celebration of the evolution of the revolution. Marxists and thinkers, border fighters and beatboxers, funk wailers and hip hop healers. dada tunes and videoscapes. It will be a night of expansion and if you don't have any idea what all of that meant you are just going to have come and see what it's all about. We are ready to honor all of the ways of the new.

Performers:

The Revolutionary Poets Brigade: They are a group of powerhouse poets who have battled the decades in search of meaning and truth. They walk their talk and are still invested in breaking this world wide open so that we can begin to live with a genuine justice. They prove that beautiful and vibrant words can actually make a difference. From this group two amazing women will be reading;

Dottie Payne: An intensely knowledgeable, supremely vibrant poet nurtured in literature and trained in the word fight for expressive rights who can also rock a pair of heels.

Jessica Loos: Is uniquely placed in the history of North Beach Poetry, having survived close relationships with many a Beat Icon, she brings both spirit and energy to the contempory table with her swagger and penetrating voice placing many of her peers decidely under that well notched table (and sadly in the case of some of her Beat predecessors, under the ground).

Other Performers: Xandra, Andy Warthol, Robyn,The Bombshells, Nate Pagel, We Are the Unreal, Sam Sax, and Paintings By Couca.

The Band:
Nkechi Live: With a voice that travels far past this known world into new and uncharted territory only to bring it all back and down with weight and earth and the gravity of soul, Nkechi has been known to cure your ills and heal your wounds through music but you didn't even know it because you were dancing so hard and having such a marvelous time. We get her and the full band so be prepared to move about wildly with a wide grin on your face. http://www.nkechi.com

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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Nkechi Live! @ 9pm (with the JeeJahs)
Beale Street Bar & Grill
133 Beale St
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 543-1961



Music Showcase hosted by Rob Jackson of RipStar Productions
7:00-7:15 Hamin
7:20-7:50 Paige
10:35- 11:15 Graham Patzner
8:10-8:40 Whitney Nicole
9:45-10:15 Califia
9:00-9:30 Nkechi Live!

It is my pleasure to keep you on my personal e-mail list of upcoming events.  Look forward to keeping in touch around anything else our creator brings our way.  BTW, I play solo on guitar or with my band as the occasions specify and sometimes plan, develop, and host fundraising events to help further the hope for World Peace in our Lifetime.  YES!

I appreciate any and all support for my music :-) Buy a song or CD from Amazon or via my website http://www.nkechi.com  At your leisure, please find me through the various web links (below) Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress .. and please add this e-mail and all e-mails from nkechi.com to your safe list.

Hope 2 See U Sooner than Soon in Person or in Spirit!

Blessings in Your Day :-)


And More Blessings :-)
NKECHI LIVE!
Astral Soul Songstress/Visionary
Alternative Singer/Songwriter
http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://nkechilivemusic.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.blogspot.com
http://astralsoulsongstress.wordpress.com
http://www.reverbnation.com/nkechi
http://www.sonicbids.com/nkechi
http://www.MySpace.com/nkechilive

March 12 & March 13 :: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, & A Prayer :: Fort Mason, SF, CA

Fri, March 12 8pm and Sat, March 13 2pm & 8pm , Fort Mason, Southside Theater ::

Friends ::

I am so excited for the opportunity to participate tonight 3/12 and tomorrow 3/13 in the following staged readings of   

A Memory, A Monologue A Rant, & A Prayer edited by Eve Ensler ::
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls, is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle and commissioned by V-Day for the first V-Day: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festival, which took place June 2006 in New York City. The writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of how violence against women affects every one of us. A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, And A Prayer are a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women. 

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT BENEFIT::
San Francisco Women Against Rape, the only community based rape crisis center in San Francisco (http://www.sfwar.org)
The Riley Center, a local domestic violence shelter (http://www.rileycenter.org)
and the National V-Day Spotlight: Women in the Congo (www.vday.org)

TICKETS: You can purchase tickets at http://www.fortmason.org/boxoffice
TICKET PRICES: $13 in advance, $15 at the door. VIP $50 seats available!

Friday, March 12th at 8PM (doors open at 7PM)
Saturday, March 13th at 2PM (doors open at 1PM)
Saturday, March 13th at 8PM (doors open at 7PM)

PRODUCED BY: Erica Johnson, Nayla Raad and Rose Tutera
DIRECTED BY: Caressa Mathews and Jennifer Fullerton

***MMRP is part of the In Performance Series at the Fort Mason Center, which is supported by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. ***

Please Join Us if U Can!

Blessings :-)
NKECHI
http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.nkechi.com/calendar
http://www.nkechi.com/newsongs
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://astralsoulsongstress.wordpress.com

I Stand :: words & music by Nkechi

I Stand  :: words & music by Nkechi

I Stand in Awe of U
I Stand Humbled by Ur Grace.
I Stand Receiving the Miracles
The Essence of Ur Name

When my eyes are closed and
No one’s looking in
U and I smile quietly inside
Remembering

U Came When I Least Expected U 2
U Came When I Least wanted U 2
U Came and Stayed and Stayed and Stayed
And Gave and Gave and Gave
‘Till I Couldn’t Stay Away.

I Stand in Awe of U
I Stand Humbled by Ur Grace.
I Stand Receiving the Miracles
The Essence of Ur Name

Even When Hopes Didn’t Seem 2 be Fulfilled
You Quietly Whispered Ur Purpose in my Ear
And Now I Exclaim I Hear U, I Hear U, I Hear U

I Stand in Awe of U
I Stand Humbled by Ur Grace.
I Stand Receiving the Miracles
The Essence of Ur Name

May 2010 Be Ur Most Blessed Year!

Blessings :-)
NKECHI
http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.nkechi.com/newsongs
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://astralsoulsongstress.wordpress.com

Nkechi Live! :: Monday, Jan 25th, 2010 :: Caffe Greco, 423 Columbus, SF

Blessed Friends :-)


My heart hurts for Haiti.  I am overwhelmed by the catastrophic loss, meanwhile I am so grateful to all the volunteers who have dropped all to GIVE of their time and energy to helping find, restore, and help the people of Haiti.  My prayers are with everyone whose lives and families have been affected by this natural disaster.

I write music through life's experiences.  Please download a copy of my new song GIVE.  Here's the chorus which came to me in late 2008e/early 2009 and which has been a life mantra since before I can remember:

Give
Even More than U Can Stand
Give
Everything U've Got 2
Forgive
So We Can Live
So We Can Live
So We Can Live          To download go to my new songs page http://www.nkechi.com/newsongs

Next Show :: Monday, Jan 25th, 2010 :: Nkechi Live! @ Caffe Greco, 423 Columbus, SF

This coming Monday January 25th at Caffe Greco, 423 Columbus Ave, SF, CA around 8 pm, I am the featured performer alongside some of the Bay Area's most briliant word smiths. They read their poetry and I sing as in vocalize words and rhymes to rhythms and melodies while I strum my guitar .. or perhaps tap a drum if I'm up to it.  Since 10/26 I have been immersed in one of the most intense writing periods of my life.  Life happens so I get to make music, or is it the other way around?  So I'm making a point to mostly play new songs.  Newly inspired songs, including songs birthed from the soul ache of our planet's recent tragedies.  And mostly I get to be with other like inspired fun folks, so I hope you are able to join us. http://www.nkechi.com

Thank U for Ur Ongoing Support Over the Years.  My Spirit is finally finding her way through my muse and I'm ready to birth a full length album.  I am wiriting songs like my heart depends on it and I am finally realizing that it actually does :-)

Let's continue to keep the people of Haiti in Our Prayers.  Look forward 2 Seeing Or Connecting with U Sooner than Soon :-)

May 2010 Be Ur Most Blessed Year!

Blessings :-)
NKECHI

http://www.nkechi.com
http://www.nkechi.com/newsongs
http://www.twitter.com/nkechi
http://astralsoulsongstress.wordpress.com

P.S. In addition to cd's I will have Fair Trade "Holiday" Handi Crafts at every show for your craft shopping pleasure. Most items are under $5 and 100% support the Zimbabwe women of http://www.batsiranai.co.zw