Alana

Author's details

Name: Alana Levandoski
Date registered: June 7, 2012

Latest posts

  1. Watch Recording Roots, the documentary about Alana’s music pilgrimage!!! — March 22, 2013
  2. I am a Sparrow Book and CD for Sale! — February 28, 2013
  3. New book and album I am a Sparrow available online in February! — January 11, 2013
  4. (No title) — November 30, 2012
  5. UK/Europe Tour Announced!!! — November 12, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. A Novel about Winnipeg I discovered in my computer — 1 comment
  2. Love of Music Rekindled – Love of Food Approved — 1 comment
  3. Writing new Memoir/Album in our Tiny House — 1 comment
  4. A new excerpt from my book! Maine and the Mary Day Schooner — 1 comment
  5. An Excerpt from my Chapter on Tennessee — 1 comment

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Watch Recording Roots, the documentary about Alana’s music pilgrimage!!!

 

Recording Roots from FRANK DIGITAL on Vimeo.

 

Feb 28

I am a Sparrow Book and CD for Sale!

  “Better than Eat, Pray, Love” – Estelle Dube-Parent, Cabine Soleil Retreat Centre I am a Sparrow is finally here and for sale only at www.alanalevandoski.com/store!!! There is no other place you can purchase this book and CD unless you host Alana at a house concert, bring her into one of your retreats or see …

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Jan 11

New book and album I am a Sparrow available online in February!

I am a Sparrow

Alana has been hard at work this fall writing a book and making a record!  The book and album are a complete work of art, as each chapter is paired with a song.  The new project will accompany Alana on her upcoming European tour and will be available online by February 15th!  To see the …

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Nov 12

UK/Europe Tour Announced!!!

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Hi there!!! Its been two years since I’ve made it across the pond but I’m proud to announce I am doing a small but exceptional bunch of dates in January and February 2013.  I will be bringing my new book of journals about my trip last year called I am a Sparrow: a Woman’s Music …

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Oct 05

A Novel about Winnipeg I discovered in my computer

  Hello!  I was digging around my mac today and found the beginnings of a novel about twenty-something roommates set in Winnipeg. This is from around 2007.  I was a twenty-something and you can tell.  I think my favourite part is when I say “ Like most women in their twenties who think that some men …

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Oct 02

An Excerpt from my Chapter on Tennessee

Sometime in 1981.  After playing in the mud.  Me in my mom's pink VW Bug.  It was my favourite car.  Still is.

Tennessee   I was a closet country fan as a kid.  In the early 1990’s it wasn’t cool to be into Johnny Cash or Dolly Parton.  They were coming out of the dark ages of the ‘80’s and if it hadn’t been for Dolly’s business savvy to act in films, she might not have kept …

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Oct 01

A new excerpt from my book! Maine and the Mary Day Schooner

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The Windjammer Association was celebrating its 75th Anniversary the week I was resident minstrel aboard the Mary Day.   The husband and wife duo, Captain’s Barry King and Jen Martin have two beautiful children and as a family, they lead a very unorthodox existence.  The kids have grown up barefoot aboard this schooner and have gotten …

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Sep 25

Writing new Memoir/Album in our Tiny House

Its official. I now live with my partner Ian, in a tiny house, in the woods, by a lake.   We still have some work to do, but it is an inspiring place to be!   Back in April, we bought four concrete slabs and that was the beginning of a wonderful, challenging adventure full …

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Jul 14

Love of Music Rekindled – Love of Food Approved

Me in April 2010, weighing in at 108 pounds.  I was not a happy girl here.

  As you may already know, I’ve been a touring musician for most of my adult life and a performer for my whole life.  I was courted by Warner and Sony (before it merged with BMG) back in the early 2000′s and then eventually signed to Rounder Records. This was all during a time when …

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