Time to get real with you. The Chateau de Blandy Les Tour was wonderful. The Opera “Don’t Worry, Be HaRpy” was gorgeous and a great collaboration. I don’t want to sound like a whiner but my last trip to France was tough! Heat, exhaustion, knee pain and obesity made it a real test of endurance [...]

Tags: Chateau de Blandy les Tours, Don"t Worry Be HaRpy, Don't Worry, fitness, fitness for the obese, France, knee pain, lifestyle, Lynne Jordan, lynne jordan & the shivers, singing, The StrongPath, weight, weight loss blogging
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I met Tabatha when she was a 20 year old college student. She was a beautiful aspiring dancer. She spent the Summer after her junior year as an intern at a prominent dance company in Chicago and she lived with me during that time in my studio apartment. Folks wondered how we managed: two women [...]

Tags: Bryn Mawr Community Church, celebration of life, Faith Pillow Blackbird, funerals, Gerry Koylass, loss, Lynne Jordan, personal loss, singing, singing at funerals, tabatha Koylass, Tahir Koylass, Talia Koylass, The Beatles Blackbird
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Happy New Year! I know it’s been ages since I last wrote and to be quite honest there hasn’t been too much new to tell except I did present a staged reading of one piece from my one woman show and it was well received. The response was almost overwhelming. I performed it during a [...]

Tags: cabaret, Dee Alexander, Don"t Worry Be HaRpy, France, harp, Isabelle Olivier, jazz, Jazz opera, Jazz singers, Lynne Jordan, paris, personal growth, singing
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I am still buzzing from my great night performing (with Raymond on solo piano) for the Women’s Health Foundation at my all time home away from home: City Winery Chicago. It was a great party for a great cause: Women’s Pelvic Health – (the party is cleverly called “Below The Belt”) which offers education and [...]

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Last night I sang at Petterino’s Monday Night Live which is a pro open mic night hosted by two dynamic women who happen to be my friends. Some of the other guest singers were from the touring casts of Broadway musicals playing here in Chicago (“Book of Mormon”) and from the musical “Jungle Book” which [...]

Tags: Book of Mormon, Broadway singers, cabaret singing, city winery ny, Goodman Theatre, Jungle Book at Goodman Theatre Chicago, Lynne Jordan, lynne jordan & the shivers, lynne jordan and the shivers, Monday Night Live at Petterino's, musical tribute Nina Simone, new york city, performing, singing
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I did it! I have booked myself in New York City as a headliner. I will be performing my musical tribute to Nina Simone on Tuesday, July 2nd at City Winery NYC. I am fairly confidant about my show and I know I will make a good impression on the New York audiences. But y’all [...]

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Note from me: I wrote this post in early April but never published it. It seems that now is the time to let it all hang out before I start the “New York Chronicles.” April 2, 2013 I go through this a lot. This self examination, this self incrimination. It was a normal morning. I [...]

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My eating, the Mirror, the scale, video of me performing (Egads!) There is no denying it. I have become a fat bitch again. Don’t despair folks. We obese people can say these things about ourselves. And no matter how many of my dear ones smack my hand or pound the table as they offer their [...]

Tags: blogging, diet & exercise, fat, knee pain, Lynne Jordan, lynne jordan & the shivers, lynne jordan and the shivers, performing, singing, weight, weight control, weight issues, weight loss, women's body image
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Tonight I perform an encore performance of my Nina Simone Show and of course I am all nervous and panicked about: wardrobe, tickets sales and everything else! It’s funny because I really do consider this show as one of the best things I’ve done in concert to date. So why all the nerves and insecurity?

Tags: chicago, city winery chicago, live performance, Lynne Jordan, lynne jordan & the shivers, lynne jordan and the shivers, musical tribute Nina Simone, Nina Simone, performing, Rick Kogan, singing, WBEZ, women's body image
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Big day for me! If you know me, then you know how much I hate making a fuss. But today is a fussy day: video shoot, photo shoot, filmed interviews of me talking about me. It’s all me, me, me… Yikes! But I reckon that’s what it will take to get this showboat up and [...]

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