tag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:/blogs/news-a9501f77-90b6-4b8a-858d-7423f8c17bdcNews2024-02-14T14:12:07-08:00Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artistfalsetag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/73513552024-02-14T14:12:07-08:002024-02-14T14:12:08-08:00New Release—She's Easy<p><span style="color:#B22222;"><span><strong>"She's Easy" is a scored spoken word piece</strong></span></span><span> about my vantage point on relationships. There came a moment where I realized I simply couldn't do romance anymore. It had left me empty and achy and neglecting the things in life that were critical to my survival, or essential to my joy. It is about losing my life because others need attention. It is about time slipping away from me. It is a re-evaluation of everything. It is finding myself again.</span></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/72918112023-10-22T11:26:57-07:002023-10-22T11:27:30-07:00IFCC Artist Residency<p>I am so pleased to announce that I have been selected as an Artist Facilitator in Residence for April-May 2024 at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in Portland Oregon, to workshop and develop my spoken-sung opera. This is a tremendous opportunity and perfect timing for me to work with the composers, actors, and musicians to see how the work lives in three dimensions. And I am among a cohort of 16 artists who are stunning talents. It's both a wonderful artistic and community opportunity. </p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/72343802023-06-28T21:13:14-07:002023-10-16T07:51:17-07:00Moving In My Sleep<p>This song is FUN.</p><p>My newest pop/rock single “Moving In My Sleep” is now out and ready for your listen-on-repeat plesasure. It's a fun romp to ward off a recurring dream that I've had for years. As one person put it, “anyone who can sing about anxiety is definitely in with me!” Listen and feel some relief! </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XVnUEVbHN24" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVnUEVbHN24?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/72343792023-06-28T21:13:13-07:002023-06-28T21:13:13-07:00Moving In My Sleep<p>This song is FUN.</p><p>My newest pop/rock single “Moving In My Sleep” is now out and ready for your listen-on-repeat plesasure. It's a fun romp to ward off a recurring dream that I've had for years. As one person put it, “anyone who can sing about anxiety is definitely in with me!” Listen and feel some relief! </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XVnUEVbHN24" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVnUEVbHN24?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/71594682023-02-23T12:19:54-08:002023-02-23T12:19:54-08:00NEW Single<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;">
<span>I cannot express how important this feels.</span><br><br><span>In two weeks my new single, </span><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34);"><span><strong>LEFT TO LEARN</strong></span></span><span> will be released. It is a raw and revealing self-confessional song filled with vulnerability and strength. It is the <strong>first of three full-band original singles</strong> coming out this year, culminating in a 3-song 1-spoken word collection titled "touch this."</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34);"><span>The songs I am releasing this year are deeper levels of all I am.</span></span><br><span>When you hear them, you and I will be entering a new relationship.</span><br><span>And I am so excited.</span><br> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;caret-color:rgb(51, 51, 51);color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;">
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<span style="color:rgb(178,34,34);"><span><strong>If you are on my email list I will send you the link to listen on Tuesday February 28.</strong></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34);"><span><strong>Don't miss it. </strong></span></span><br> <br><span>Big Hug,</span>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Here’s why: </span></strong>Authenticity, Loyalty, Art, Sanity, Democracy, and Humanity.</p>
<p>1— <strong>I LOVE MY EMAIL LIST</strong> so much. I share my true self there and the exchange I get from the community is so <span style="color:#990000;"><strong>satisfying</strong></span> to all of us. My email list and Love Circle members deserve my full attention. </p>
<p>2— <strong>I give my best content to my LOVE CIRCLE</strong> of monthly donors and to my Email List community. I share videos, personal stories, scoops and all the good stuff. That content is gold to me. <span style="color:#990000;"><strong>I share it with the people who financially and materially support my work.</strong></span> Giving it away for free on social media isn’t fair to them, and doesn’t feel good to me. </p>
<p>4—<strong>Social Media likes and follows is all about what everyone else thinks of you. </strong>This, along with televised music competitions has contributed to the degradation of originality and the rise of Copy Culture, which I am wholly disgusted by. <span style="color:#990000;"><strong>It is killing art.</strong></span> I refuse to be complicit. As an artist (not a “creator” which is a label for those making product to maximize modern social commerce and has nothing to do with art), my originality is core to all I am and do. Originality is essential to humanity and the planet. Art cannot be created for approval. Life can not be lived for Likes. <br> <br>3—“Just post authentically.” I’ve been told. This is an oxymoron for me. <strong>“Posting” is an <span style="color:#990000;">inauthentic</span> act for me.</strong> It’s not something I would normally be at all inclined to do. I’ve tried for years and it’s just not my style. I failed at MySpace, Ning, Linked In, Facebook, Twitter and now Instagram. I don’t have the personality suited to this environment. It’s not who I am. I need deeper connections. I need to live as me. </p>
<p>4— I don’t believe, nor have I seen evidence that “posting” and “sharing” (broadcasting) aspects of our lives or thoughts to 50-500 (or thousands) of people at once has created a healthy psychological impact on people. It has though, in my opinion, created<strong> incredible amounts of <span style="color:#990000;">psychological harm,</span> </strong>most of which have not been measured, and are barely noticed. I notice. I have always been one to notice the cost and impact of cultural trends. And when something is wrong, it takes courageous individuals to step up and say “I won’t be a part of this any longer,” and leave. I have deiced to be one of those individuals. </p>
<p>5—Nearly every time I have mentioned to someone that I am considering leaving social media, they try over and over to convince me to stay. They counter every feeling I have with a desperate argument as to why I should not leave. It’s downright creepy. This in itself is <strong>evidence that something is <span style="color:#990000;">wildly amiss. </span></strong></p>
<p>6— <strong>Social Media has been shown to erode the development of our species.</strong> Social Media companies have displayed a blatant disregard for their participation in the degradation of honesty, truth, safety, democracy, and mental stability. The currency of clicks and likes has done immeasurable damage. We have become puppets in a deadly theater. I refuse to participate in this. <span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Humanity is suffering and I protest. </strong></span></p>
<p>So, I exit.</p>
<p><strong>I feel joyful about this. </strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Please join my email list. </strong></span><br>My heart is there. My newsletters are truly my authentic self. I love writing my newsletters. That is the place that makes me happy, brings me joy, and where I share all that matters to me. It is where I tell you the real details about the work I am doing. If you join my Love Circle, you will get a monthly video where I share from my studio, garden, and life about my favorite music, latest projects, and everything else that is going on. I very much want to stay connected with you. Please know that. </p>
<p>I hope to see you there. <br>I will miss the pictures of your kids, gardens, hikes, and art. Feel free to email them to me any time.</p>
<p>Licity</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/70344152022-08-09T18:31:46-07:002022-08-09T18:33:19-07:00THE FLOWER IN THE MIRROR WAS DEAD<p><a contents="LISTEN NOW" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://licitycollins.com/epk-flower-mirror" style="">LISTEN NOW</a><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/21f26a9fc508b3665d36c511856fa9494515fd58/original/sixtime-cover-alt-lc-name.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" />New Release August 10— A strange and beautiful dialogue of spoken word and sound. THE FLOWER IN THE MIRROR IS DEAD explores vividly the emotions we don't want to talk about. Licity created 6 spoken word pieces which were scored by 6 talented musicians to create this unique and profound collection of feeling.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/70199452022-07-21T21:45:59-07:002022-07-21T21:45:59-07:00August 10<p>New Release: THE FLOWER IN THE MIRROR WAS DEAD. Coming August 10. This unique collection of spoken word and sound is full of depth, emotion, reality, and reflection. Listen here and on all streaming platforms August 10.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/70044162022-06-29T11:38:44-07:002022-06-29T11:38:44-07:00NEW RELEASE <p>A NEW RELEASE coming this summer. "The Flower In the Mirror was Dead" is a collaboration of spoken word and music with six stories and six musicians. It is beautiful, strange, and unique. Keep close to this site for announcements!</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/69230272022-03-21T13:00:00-07:002022-03-21T13:00:02-07:00Whole and Free<p>I am officially announcing to my community today the fullness and freedom of my 22 years as a professional artist. It's time for all that I do to exist in the present moment, together, whole—me. Please enjoy exploring my website and discovering a lot of new content. Come with me on this journey of expansion.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/69012582022-02-18T10:10:31-08:002022-02-18T10:10:31-08:00New "Current"<p>There is a new "Current" in the <a contents='"Currents: Mindfulness Music" Collection' data-link-label="CURRENTS—MINDFULNESS MUSIC" data-link-type="page" href="/currents-mindfulness-music">"Currents: Mindfulness Music" Collection</a>. Current 2 is a solo piano reflection that brings you into the present moment by embracing that the past, present and future are all happening simultaneously. It is a place of sanctuary during chaos.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/68722162022-01-17T21:15:39-08:002022-01-17T21:15:39-08:00Thank You!<p>Thank youI to everyone who donated during my year-end fundraising drive. It was a lot of fun. I am always in awe when you share your resources with me and I am really excited to turn your donations into creations. I am reflecting a lot these days on my 22-year artistic practice. Next month I will be sharing more with my email list about that anniversary (February) and my vision for my unique collective of artistic expressions as the year moves forward. It is a time of celebration, wholeness, expansion and exploration.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/68568112022-01-01T15:24:29-08:002022-01-01T15:24:29-08:00A New Year<p>Happy New Year everyone!</p>
<p>This year you can expect to see an expanded range of creations from me, and a sense of broad vision for what it means to be an artist. A wholeness. More on all of this soon.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/64959002020-12-09T23:37:18-08:002020-12-09T23:37:18-08:00A Unique Collaboration<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/dbaf49690a97f25d8e6a01d34b230377cbc06dca/original/jane-sanders-portrait-sqcr-1.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>In the midst of the pandemic separation I was paired with Jane Sanders, a textile portrait artist in the UK who sews (yes, sews) portraits of musicians. We were matched up for a unique collaboration. <a contents='It is a part of the "Long Distance Art" project of the Social Distancing Festival, ' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/long-distance-art-round-2/the-leaving" target="_blank">It is a part of the "Long Distance Art" project of the Social Distancing Festival, </a>curated by Nick Green in Canada. It was a wonderful way to discover connection as we all grappled with separation.</p>
<p>I wrote "The Leaving" specifically during COVID times to reflect on the losses and on my own powerful experience of my dearest friend contracting the virus in late March (she is recovered and doing well now). My friend is also a textile artist which added an extra layer of meaning to the project. On a hot day in early June, I sat in my garden and scrawled the story out for Jane, longhand on plain white paper—which is how I write out so many things as they are in process—songs, ideas, discoveries, lists, life. I put two versions in an envelope and sent it across the country, across the ocean to Jane. It took weeks to arrive in her hands, but when it did, she did something magical with it.</p>
<p><br><a contents="Click here to see the collaboration." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/long-distance-art-round-2/the-leaving" style="" target="_blank">Click here to see the collaboration.</a> It's very cool if you do as the curator suggests, and play the video so you can to hear the words as you read them on my body, face, and hair throughout the portrait, it brings it close to you, multi-dimensional, as this collaboration truly was. You can also see the source photo of me that was used to create the portrait, And—you'll also find links to Jane's amazing other work which will BLOW YOUR MIND. You can also see the other powerful collaborations that are a part of this wonderful coming together of artists from around the world—to remind us, as I am always saying, that we are all connected—all of us, always. </p>
<p>May our art touch your heart. <br>Big Hug,</p>
<p>Licity</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/64323262020-09-12T19:24:18-07:002022-01-06T21:54:23-08:00Using Meditation to Heal<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/0d4803c0001186eb9db653ce95f1ac0761e06c08/original/my-life-screenshot.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>I was recently interviewed by the "My Life" meditation app community about how I used mindfulness practices to heal from chronic illness and sexual assault. It was a deep personal conversation, where I really got an opportunity to show the resilience that has followed healing. <a contents="You can watch the interview on Instagram here. " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CE7K0tpJb-U/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" style="" target="_blank">You can watch the interview below (click on post title to see full post) or click here to watch it on Instagram. </a></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">My Official Statement on Everything Happening Right Now</h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">"How do we love those who hate us?" An audience member asked me. <br>I replied—"You just do. Do it because they are a part of you." <br>Here is a still from my "Love Leads" live broadcast last Friday. </p>
<p>Hello World, </p>
<p>The last two months have been intense. The last week has intensified the intensity. </p>
<p>I have to send you some courageous love right now. </p>
<p>I am going to keep this short and clear—something you can easily re-post, pass along to others, and remember as you make choices about how you can do your part to implement the changes we clearly need. </p>
<p><strong>Love has to lead. </strong><br>I talked about this at my live broadcast last Friday. If you were there, you felt the power of the love even over the stream. If you were not there, we all missed your presence. </p>
<p><strong>Fear or Love? </strong><br>We are seeing (again) the difference between what happens when we are led by fear and when we are led by love. When fear leads, our needs compete and people die. We believe it's us or them, you or me. When love leads, all of our voices, all of our lives are valuable and included. People strive to keep one another alive. We believe in "and," "all," and "we." </p>
<p>We have taught our police to be afraid. <br>Every time a police officer is called to do their job, they are walking into a bad situation. That cannot be easy. (Yes, I have compassion for everyone. That's how love works.) We all know, when we are scared, we make bad decisions. If the police are coming from a basis of fear, they will make the situation worse, much worse. And when the police make bad situations worse, people can die. It is the charge of our police to make bad situations better. This can only be done if they operate from a basis of love. This can only happen, if they see their job as an act of love. </p>
<p>Sensitivity training will never be enough to change things. Our police (yes, our) need re-training of the fundamentals of how to police. They need to be shown how to police from a place of caring for each member of their community, from a place of love. They need to have their natural fears addressed and their unnatural fears extricated, not inflamed. They need to be shown how to make situations better—by acting from a place of love. </p>
<p>When we call our stay-home orders "lockdown" we are evoking images of prison that most of us are very lucky not to be in. We are inciting unnecessary fear in people. We see the results. People are naturally afraid of "lockdown" and act out against it. Why have we not referred to this as "caring for our community"— as an act of love? </p>
<p>During this pandemic, if we are forced to choose between economy or public health—we will hurt each other. And we are. Fear says our needs compete, that only one segment of us can have our needs met. And fighting (and more fear) is the result. Love shows us the ways to include both, in fact, all, of the needs of our community into our solution to any crisis. The result is....that's up to us, right now. </p>
<p><strong>It takes Courage. </strong><br>We have to do better—every one of us, in every one of our actions—all the time. <br>We have to ask ourselves, when are we coming from love and when are we coming from fear? In everything. We have to ask ourselves when and why are others coming from fear? We have to ask ourselves how can we help them come from a place of love? We are all connected. Fear lives in each one of us. So does love. </p>
<p>It's not naive. <br>It's not political. <br>It's not preaching. <br>It's not bullshit. <br><strong>It works. </strong></p>
<p>Martin Luther King Jr. taught that there are two forces operating in the world. Fear and Love. Nothing has made that truth more clear than this time. </p>
<p>You know this. <br>Deep in all of us—we know this. <br><strong>Love has to lead. <br>Now.</strong> </p>
<p>Big Hug,</p>
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<h3><a contents="Make a tax-deductible donation." data-link-label="DONATE" data-link-type="page" href="/donate"><strong>Make a tax-deductible donation.</strong></a></h3>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/62283102020-02-26T05:13:18-08:002020-02-26T05:15:00-08:00"Perfectly Delicious"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/8305435809645b353b90fcda63f15239376e353e/original/love-fest-review-quote-vc-reporter.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>The arts and culture editor of the VC Reporter wrote a wonderful post-show review of "Licity's' Love Fest" and audience members also posted that the show was a unique and memorable treat to their hearts.</p>
<p>by Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer </p>
<p>Ojai-based singer/songwriter Licity Collins brought her guitar, her notebook and some friends to Namba Performing Arts Space on Feb. 15. It was the day after Valentine’s Day, but the good vibes continued to flow, as the artist hosted her very own “Love Fest” featuring herself along with troubadour Rags Rosenberg, Ventura musician Henry Stewart and trombonist Stan “Skabone” Middleton. </p>
<p>Collins — as talented a storyteller as she is a singer and guitarist — shared true tales of love, loss and heartache, many punctuated with moving musical numbers. Rosenberg, a traveling folk bard who sometimes calls Joshua Tree home, gave insight into the people and events behind the songs he played. Collins and Stewart teamed up to perform a duet of Stewart’s hauntingly beautiful ballad “Sleeping in the Graveyard.” She was also joined by Middleton for a spell, with the Barrelhouse Wailers horn player bringing a jazzy touch of trombone to Collins’ folk rock numbers. </p>
<p>While the chocolates handed out to the audience were a treat indeed, the sweetest gift was joining the musicians for genuinely heartfelt moments where poetry and pathos informed the playing. A perfectly delicious Valentine for local music lovers.</p>
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<p>Also, this pretty fantastic instagram post by an audience member really summed up the night in a powerful way.</p>
<p>Some pics from a fantastic night of music last weekend, the Love Fest. It was put together by and featuring the inimitable @LicityCollins who brought together a cadre of musicians perfect for this post-Valentine’s evening of stories, music, chocolate, love and laughs.?? </p>
<p>? Licity played, sang, read some of her remarkably written stories (I’d buy the collection!) and wrapped us in her authentic embrace, relating to the audience through vulnerability and joy. The delight she feels in sharing herself so honestly is palpable and irresistible. Icing on the cake was the addition of all the “old white guys”—as she laughingly/lovingly put it—whose musical talents and writing shone, as well. If you’re local, check out Licity at her next big show on 4/3 at the @ojaiundergroundexchange She’ll make you feel like you belong and you’ll leave with a spring in your step and a smile on your face!</p>
<p> </p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/61422982020-01-21T22:13:00-08:002021-04-03T06:14:43-07:00"More than a show"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/261555871a65c36a5a17f334919ab508dc3a313b/original/pasadena-weekly-jan2020.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />A great write-up on Licity's approach to her intimate and engaging shows. "Licity Collins seems intent on sidestepping conventional constructs."</p>
<p>by Bliss Bowen</p>
<p>Listening to pop music (i.e., pop, rap, blues, country, rock, soul, etc.) throughout our lives, we’ve been trained to expect verse-chorus-verse-chorus compositional structures, with occasional bridges and/or changed-up keys to intensify emotions. Rare is the song that stops the music with a spoken phrase delivered for dramatic effect, and interrupting a concert’s musical flow with spoken word often propels audience members toward the exit. Jazz and classical music move more freely beyond those strictures, but in the pop universe musical momentum lags when those compositional expectations are upended. </p>
<p>Ojai artist Licity Collins seems intent on sidestepping conventional constructs. Her 2019 album “Love Courage Yes: Live at the Underground Exchange” blends spoken word with folk and rock numbers performed with a band. She performs at the Blue Guitar Wednesday night. </p>
<p>Collins is more of a journalistic poet than a singer; her pitchy vocal phrasing is shaped mostly by the emotion rather than the rhythm of her words. As she explained to NPR during an interview last year, as an artist she doesn’t differentiate much between music and poetry. Growing up in metropolitan Washington, DC, Collins played cello in a youth orchestra while absorbing influences and arrangement ideas from rock music. That attention to milieu still informs her creative sensibility. </p>
<p>“Love Courage Yes” offers live renditions of songs such as “Staring at the Dark” and the fingerpicked “Turn” from her first album, 2018’s “One Girl Town,” with diaristic interludes that alternate between amusing (“Applause is Weird”) and self-analyzing (“Regrets,” “The Hotel Room,” about the shady, dispiriting place she occupied when her mother died that made her “feel like a mole”). Those shifts can be off-putting if spoken word isn’t your thing, but Collins projects confidence in tandem with shared vulnerability, and her delivery and themes — choices made, connections missed, losses sustained — lend themselves to audience interaction. More than giving a show, she seems most interested in reaching headline-battered listeners searching for uplift: “When you come face to face with love, the most courageous thing you can do is say, ‘Yes.’”</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/58831832019-09-06T10:37:32-07:002019-09-06T10:37:32-07:00The Love Circle<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/57ca5d1073b4d2b4d6cb5ea2191782d64e668d1d/original/lcm-header1-sq.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Licity has launched a new membership program called The Love Circle. Sustaining members get access to the Love Circle Café which is a space filled with Licity Love. Every month Licity picks a theme and writes a new prose-story, complies a playlist, and gives a behind-the-scenes scoop. Here's what members are saying:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“I love this. It captured me enough to slow down and read every single word, and realize I haven't read anything I truly enjoyed in too long…Thank you for reminding me to reach for what truly speaks to me.” - CR Love Circle Member</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"The Love Circle Cafe is like sitting down with Licity, sharing a refreshing pot of tea while listening to her inimitable take on the absurd and wonderful parts of life. I feel nourished by this place." </em>- AK Love Circle Member</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="Learn more and join the Love Circle here. " data-link-label="Love Circle Cafe" data-link-type="page" href="/love-circle-cafe">Learn more and join the Love Circle here. </a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/57936402019-06-16T13:29:25-07:002019-06-16T13:29:25-07:00On NPR's Here & Now<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/65feacaf3b93f74bf7238a3f906d79e6ce2af880/original/here-and-now-npr-06142019.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><a contents="Listen Here" data-link-label="PRESS" data-link-type="page" href="/press">Listen Here</a></p>
<p>On the day of the release of the new live album LOVE COURAGE YES, NPR's Here & Now aired a really fun interview with Licity, conducted by one of her favorite on-air personalities, Lisa Mullins. They talked about Licity's songs and prose, cognitive dissonance, growing pains, lumps, funerals, rocking out, and growing up in the cello section.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/57123472019-06-14T00:10:00-07:002019-06-17T12:32:43-07:00New Live Album<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/928d44c53f4c9c179b2f050759ca32c2e224ece0/original/lcy-front-final.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Licity's live album LOVE COURAGE YES live at the Underground Exchange is Out Now! Check out the videos from the show, hear the whole album, buy and stream <a contents="on the music page" data-link-label="MUSIC" data-link-type="page" href="/music">on the music page</a>.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/57905272019-06-13T10:54:50-07:002019-06-16T13:30:17-07:00KCLU Story<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kclu.org/post/ventura-county-singersongwriter-drawing-national-attention-unique-blend-folk-rock-sounds"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/517288e8e6d157f7b4221683a5d48c1e4196dc01/original/kclu-story-06132019.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
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<p>Licity had a chat with KCLU's Lance Orozco about moving to Ojai and the tension in her music on the eve of the release of LOVE COURAGE YES.</p>
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<p> </p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/57939502019-06-01T09:30:00-07:002021-04-21T10:07:22-07:00New LOVE COURAGE YES Videos<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/1ce767f9c8b4b632a2450b8ef7850915774198bd/original/lcy-turn-playbutton.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Even more videos from the Love Courage Yes live album are up now! Find music and more <a contents="on the music page" data-link-label="MUSIC" data-link-type="page" href="/music">on the music page</a>.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/57455382019-05-07T00:36:56-07:002019-05-07T21:17:52-07:00Spoken Word with Lydia Lunch<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/99b7e964ff2dcba25746bddcd863fb38b4172dfa/original/basic-premise-lydia-lunch-2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Licity was honored to share the stage at an intimate spoken word reading featuring Jane Handel and the renowned Lydia Lunch. She read "The Falling" a new work conceived especially for the event. <a contents="Read it now on the prose page. " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://licitycollins.com/prose">Read it now on the prose page. </a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/57210552019-04-15T21:22:12-07:002022-03-03T10:43:12-08:00NEW Videos: Love Courage Yes<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/84516725e5dc907640163de9ff8858beae712a5e/original/lcy-band-play-button.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>The first three videos from the recording of the LOVE COURAGE YES album are up for view. <a contents="Check them out on the music page!" data-link-label="MUSIC" data-link-type="page" href="/music">Check them out on the music page!</a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/52414262018-06-13T05:00:00-07:002019-06-17T12:34:50-07:00A Very Special Podcast<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/d3544574a77c6b0778600e54b7122d8040593f78/original/grief-out-loud.png/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" />The Grief Out Loud podcast had Licity on as a guest just after her mother died following 8 years with Alzheimer's—the day Licity's album One Girl Town was being finalized. Please listen to this special conversation, a gift to anyone struggling with challenging family relationships. <a contents="Listen here." data-link-label="GriefOutLoud" data-link-type="page" href="/griefoutloud" style="" target="_self">Listen here.</a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/52413212018-05-17T20:52:34-07:002021-11-05T10:03:14-07:00Front Range Radio<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/a5e5bab8410d35a54ece3ceb6ce4b9e376ea81a2/original/front-range-radio.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" />Interview with Licity on Front Range Radio, discussing how songs are like roommates, working with incredible musicians, and emerging from isolation while writing ONE GIRL TOWN. <a contents="Listen to the interview here. " data-link-label="PRESS" data-link-type="page" href="/press">Listen to the interview here. </a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/52091142018-04-29T21:59:04-07:002019-06-17T12:35:24-07:00FOX NEWS PROFILE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/a02a20d3337063206a56b4e0ccb579db1a8922c0/original/fox-news-1-ed-bw.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>"It’s lyrical, intense, intimate and relatable, a diary into Collins' mind that some listeners may see as a mirror into their own lives."</p>
<p><a contents="This lovely profile of LC by Bryan Robinson was published on FoxNews" data-link-label="PRESS" data-link-type="page" href="/press" style="" target="_blank">This profile of LC by Bryan Robinson was published on FoxNews.com</a>, touching upon a lifelong passion for music, the Thomas Fire, her Mom's death, and even meeting Robert Plant, and of course the essential threatening cello teacher. If this is just the start....</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/51985782018-04-25T00:05:00-07:002021-04-17T17:17:51-07:00ONE GIRL TOWN is here!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/9e1883f3ccfe165d62d3bc41357d9f4377a628cf/original/0057-ogt-header-text-nowa.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><a contents="Listen right now " data-link-label="MUSIC" data-link-type="page" href="/music" style="" target="_self">Listen right now </a></p>
<p>Licity's debut album has arrived. Listen to it wherever you like to hear music—or <a contents="here, on the music page." data-link-label="MUSIC" data-link-type="page" href="/music" target="_self">here, on the music page.</a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/52413222018-04-18T20:55:00-07:002018-05-17T20:58:41-07:00VC Reporter Review of One Girl Town<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/9315fe3a36929bd4ae089dab5a3f463094c86d9a/original/vc-reporter-ogt-review-bw.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />“A unique and engaging voice…emotionally sincere and honest…When you’re an artist as passionate as Collins clearly is, you probably have no choice but to let the world hear everything you have to say.” –VC Reporter</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/51792312018-04-12T21:22:44-07:002018-05-07T22:09:36-07:00New: One Girl Town, LC, and Clear Blue Skies T-shirts<p><a contents="now on the STORE page." data-link-label="STORE" data-link-type="page" href="/store" style="" target="_self"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/9cfb3cf49dab1e254ff2d665a84b06fb36d60abe/original/3-horz-shirts.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_" /></a>Get your One Girl Town, LC, and "Risk it all for Clear Blue Skies" T-shirts now <a contents="on the STORE page" data-link-label="STORE" data-link-type="page" href="/store" target="_self">on the STORE page</a>.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/51692762018-04-04T22:45:00-07:002018-04-12T20:26:23-07:00Newsletter: Meet the Musicians<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/b41d307de73dd070c6bd8742f2de050b57dac177/original/lc-ogt-crew-fuzzy.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Email subscribers get a beautiful story of the musicians for One Girl Town. "Some people change everything...."</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/49703372017-12-09T15:51:34-08:002018-05-11T20:03:09-07:00Newsletter: Thomas Fire—A Letter<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/963c0a55cf0dc68a13f36aa23fc6e6f5b1c6ff29/original/thomas-fire-ojai-bw.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Email subscribers heard Licity's tale of evacuating from the Thomas Fire. Join the list above to read it and more.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/48977492017-10-18T20:40:03-07:002018-05-11T20:00:32-07:00EXCLUSIVE PRE-RELEASE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/fc6a65b3dd229c439ade35d4ffad69aa3bf9bd0a/original/licity-collins-one-girl-town-cover-gr.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Members of the Licity Collins email list will be given exclusive pre-release access to the debut album ONE GIRL TOWN. <a contents="Join here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://licitycollins.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2ef7022ed1759de1a232e3b94&id=683d5aabe2">Join here</a> to be the first to hear it.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/46863242017-02-10T19:50:00-08:002018-05-17T21:20:58-07:00Ventura County Reporter Profile<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/5e534edae143db31bfb90e0f6d8c6071119432c6/original/vcreporter-screenshot2-bw.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />“I hope it offers people landmarks, beacons of hope, in their own process of internal growth and external freedom,” Collins said. “I want to make the kind of music that becomes personally important to people. I want to reach into our isolated places and help people feel witnessed. I want their stories to become the stories they hear behind the songs.” - <a contents="Read More" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.vcreporter.com/2017/02/08/homespun-licity-collins/" target="_blank">Read More</a></p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artisttag:www.licitycollins.com,2005:Post/46970392016-02-16T14:55:00-08:002022-06-29T11:37:07-07:00Tell Me About Your Song Podcast<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/175112/b941de04f2a0d477453778c8e058fd9157d11b4e/original/tellmeaboutyoursong-bw.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" />A great conversation with Jacob Haller about the first version of "Love Me Like That." Stay tuned for the follow-up interview when the album One Girl Town is released.</p>Licity Collins — Multidimensional Genre-Busting Artist