Latest News: Dana wins 2010 Baha'i Unity of Humanity Award at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Awards Program Jan. 16 in San Antonio TX, home of largest MLK, Jr. march on the planet! Click here for more info.
Dana Clark and Kevin Lewis are a husband and wife duo who share performing, teaching, songwriting, and recording. Dana sings and plays keyboard, mandolin, guitar, sax and a variety of flutes. Kevin plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and bass. They play a wide variety of styles and manage to make it all sound like it comes straight from the heart: blues to Beethoven, ragtime to rock, folk to jazz.
"Lewis and Clark are the perfect match of heart and soul, entertainment and inspiration, professionalism and playfulness. Their love for music and for each other radiates on and off stage." Richard Mekdeci, President/Co-Founder Itoi Ministries.
Bookings: Dana Clark
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www.lewisandclarkmusic.com
8103 Broadway, Suite 210
San Antonio TX 78209
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Look for: Lewis and Clark Musical Expedition.
Bookings:
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and
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THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER
July 10, 2010
Dear Friends (Especially Women...and people who appreciate women):
The right song can save your life. The right song can make you want to celebrate
your life. Whenever I have been at a major crossroads, the right song
has always come along to point me toward the future. Having lived a
good long time now and been cursed with an "interesting" life,
I've accumulated a bunch songs that speak passionately about the
woman's journey. Whenever I sing them, I see expressions on your
faces that tell me that you know what I'm talking about!
I
am also blessed to have some friends who are powerful women musicians
and who share this journey with me. We have begun growing a new
musical project we call "From the Heart of a Woman." Last month we
played a concert at a women's weekend retreat at UbarU Conference and
Retreat Center in the hill country near Kerrville. The large turn-out
made us realize there is a great need for this work. We can visualize
expanding the concept to include more women musicians and more venues
in order to support us all with the magic and medicine that music is!
Now here's the important thing: This coming Tuesday, July 13, we're bringing "Heart of a Woman" to Olmos Bharmacy from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. If
you didn't have the chance to get to the retreat, or if you did and you
just gotta have MORE music from a woman's viewpoint, THIS IS THE TIME!
We'll be doing some of the songs from the retreat as well as others
that reflect the life experience of women everywhere. The music of
evening will reflect the heart's path, inspiring us with the courage to
go forward into a future of our own creation. You can help us grow this project by turning out to demonstrate your support. Come help us float our boat! Bring your best girlfriends to share the experience. Bring your best man-friends! This is not for women only. In our music you will find much appreciation for the other half of the species!
The Heart of a Woman Band is Kit Holmes, Kelly O'Brien, Wave Harless and me. This Tuesday we're calling it HEART OF A WOMAN BAND PLUS! What's
the plus? The plus is the Lewis half of Lewis and Clark--Kevin Lewis,
who will be joining us on guitar and bass. We all love playing with
Kevin, and he likes us! He really likes us!
Details: Tuesday, July 13, 7:00 to 9:00, Olmos Bharmacy, 3902 McCullough, 78212, McCullough and Hildebrand, 822-1188, www.olmosbharmacy.com.
Kit Holmes will be driving in from Austin for the night, and Wave Harless will be driving in from Pipe Creek. Please be generous
with your tips that night, as we are otherwise donating our time and
music for this evening. Sure--we love this music so much we'd do it for free. In
fact--we ARE doing it for free! Please encourage us to do it again by
voting with your wallet! We'll have CDs on sale, too.
HEART OF A WOMAN CONCERT IN AUSTIN, Friday, July 16, 7:30 to 9:30 pm. We're taking the women's viewpoint to Austin. Here's what Kit has to say about it:
Heart of a Woman Concert - Austin, TX
1900 Scofield Lane
Austin, TX 78727
Price: $15/ per person donation to the artists. RSVP via PayPal!
This
is the first Austin showing of this "girls-night-out" concert. San
Antonio, Texas-based performing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dana Clark,
jazz vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kelly O'Brien, and
percussionist Wave Harless join Kit in celebrating the joys and
heartaches of life from the unique perspective of women's music.
Original tunes, familiar classics and a few surprises! Guys, you're
welcome, too!!!
Bring a lawn chair, picnic, favorite beverage (alcohol permitted) and lots of friends.
RSVP/Tickets available via PayPal!
EVERY SUNDAY, 9:00 AND 11:00 KEVIN AND I PLAY AT THE UNITY CHURCH WITH THE BAND SYNERGY, 1723 LAWNDALE, SAN ANTONIO 78209. We love working with Rev. Linda. She's writing a book entitled "Stop Talking to God: Prayer and Meditation for the Evolving Soul.
" She's already made it to round THREE in the selection process,
thanks to those of us who voted for her book proposal. Linda is one
of the 25 finalists, out of a field of 2800!
Would you like to remain on our mailing list?
I have taken the liberty of including some of you who attended the
Heart of a Woman Retreat in this mailing. If you'd rather not receive
our regular e-News, just reply with "remove" in the subject line.
Thanks!
See you soon. Stay cool, and let me hear from you! Really! Let me know if you're coming Tuesday night so I can look forward to seeing you.
Oh,
and by the way--Kevin and I played last night with our five piece band
at Tycoon Flats, with Gerald Ram on bass, Chris Thomas on drums, and
David Villanueva on Tenor Sax. It was the first time we had played
with those particular musicians all together, and it was a dream come
true! I had so much fun it should be illegal!
Stay tuned to find out when we make the dream band come true again.
Dana
From San Antonio Express-News article
February 11, 2009
CREATIVE COUPLES
Musicians Dana Clark and Kevin Lewis like nothing better than performing together.
If the question, "Hi, honey, how'd it go at work?" is asked in the Dana Clark/Kevin Lewis household, it's likely to be strictly rhetorical.
The singers/songwriters/music educators/multi-instrumentalists have known each other for a decade, been together as a couple for more than eight years and been married about 18 months. Though they occasionally work with other artists, their main gig is the Lewis and Clark Musical Expedition. As a duo, they fuse jazz, blues, folk, rock, classical and more. As a couple, their lives revolve around music.
"Ideally, doing something you love with someone you love is the very best of life," Clark said. "Music has so often been the glue that keeps our relationship together. We can go to a gig and feel out of sorts and by about the third song that's all gone."
"Onstage, Dana is one of my favorite musicians, and I get to enjoy her music a lot," Lewis said. "Offstage, I know she has massive tons of good. A lot of times it's from her lips to God's ear. Because I love Dana so much, I would say what makes her happy makes everybody happy."
When they're not working together on a stage somewhere, Lewis and Clark, who are in their 50s, are often teaching music in their Highland Park home. But there is downtime.
"We have what I call a snuggle recliner, a recliner built for two," Clark said. "When we watch movies together in that recliner late at night, that's the ultimate escape."
-- Photo and article by Jim Beal Jr.
