So, here I am, itching to try making the recipe I saw posted for the drooltacular (made that up, like it?) Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Yet, I just tried to make an experiment, which I promptly tossed into the kitchen trash. I guess it’s just my personality —I don’t like to follow formulas or recipes [...]

…the bills, that is. Sorry I need to vent and I don’t want to do it on Facebook. I started a thread and I’m moving it here, somewhere slightly more private. I am also having second thoughts about posting but you know, darn it, maybe you are reading this and we are feeling the same [...]

Ha. Got you to read!! Okay, so an excellent post by my friend, Janet http://scout66com.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/no-really-why-is-your-music-important/ and it really says a lot to me. I would imagine it does to other musicians, too. If the music we make is not special to us on a personal level, why do it? I know, I can hear it now– [...]

"Annette's Song" is my tribute to my Mother who left this world behind 4-27-2008. It is very dear to me, and thank you so much to Cam Perridge for bringing his guitar mastery and sensitivity to it.

All You Need Is Ava (wink) So you and your honey have been busy, money is tight, the kids are buggin’ for new this or that and you feel like that fire between you has sputtered down to ash. Talk about some serious kindling! Make sure you get the kids to gramma’s or something, you’re [...]

Not really sure what else to write about here. Well, on second thought… Soul Train on the Weekends in the Sirkegian Household… Yep, tried to do the Moonwalk during Soul Train. Let’s see, now that I made this video with fantastically funky clips from Soul Train, the memories are flooding back to me. When I [...]

They come in many forms: Mothers, Fathers, sons sisters, teachers, nuns… some have white hair others have none. Skin like coffee, cream, or honey some can walk tall others are tall in a chair with wheels, or bearing a cane or an IV as a staff… A hero can be anyone! It has nothing to [...]

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Ava Lemert's Upcoming Release 12welve 4-3-2012. Filed under: 12welve Updates, Music News

When you hear Ava sing, her soulful voice might remind you of the late Teena Marie —Ivory Queen of Soul. What really sets Ms. Lemert apart from the crowded field of female soul singers is that she plays a mean saxophone —as well as being a prolific songwriter, and thoughtful lyricist. “I just tell people [...]