Blue Lilah

When you literally stop and smell the roses, your heart lifts, and your brain and body give you feel-good signals that help shift the rest of your day. Where are the roses for you? Here’s a photo of my neighbors’…Read more

              Top Ten Three Months Running! My original song “In The Hole” from my most recent album Liars, Cutthroats and Dames is in Ourstage’s Top Ten for the past three months! Check it out … Continue reading →

KATHLEEN’S SHOW! THIS COMING SATURDAY: April 6 at Heart Tribe in Fairfax! DATE:  Saturday, April 6 TIME:  Doors open 6:45pm and Show at 7pm WHERE:  Heart Tribe 7 Bolinas Road Fairfax, CA 94930 COST:  $20 Advance, $25 at the Door…Read more

  If You Fall Rest all the way down through the bottom of the pond and its gravel nibbled by the fishes. Go past to where the moist soil rests like leavened bread upon the crockery of the bedrock earth. ……Read more

Dyslexics you are amazing! 1 in 10 people are dyslexic, and the numbers may be as high as 1 in 5! Here are highlights and links from the First Global Summit about Dyslexia, Oct 2018. Your brains are wonderfully different…Read more

Hello Everybody! FREE DOWNLOAD of “Circus” For a limited time get a FREE DOWNLOAD of my song Circus from my just released album Liars, Cutthroats and Dames. Here’s the link: https://kathleendunbarmusic.com/get-a-free-download-here THE BACK STORY BEHIND MY SONG “Circus” Where do…Read more

  Somebody’s Child When the earth formed molten iron sank to its center to make the core and drew with it most of the precious metals. Gold abides with iron. There are some veins and pockets of metals, also lens-shaped ……Read more

Using the Words Shaman and Shamanism By Kathleen Dunbar What do we name ourselves as practitioners of archetypal and energetic healing? I use the words shaman and shamanism to refer to myself and my healing practice. These are ancient words…Read more

My ambient, trance, journey music project—my CD entitled Medicine Songs by my shaman-singer pseudonym Blue Lilah has been nominated in TWO categories for the upcoming Just Plain Folks Music Awards!    Brian Whitney, CEO and Founder of Just Plain Folks, writes…Read more

Hello Everybody! This is Kathleen Dunbar with BIG NEWS! As some of you may know or have heard—my latest americana-bluesy-rootsy CD Liars, Cutthroats and Dames has been in it’s final stages of completion: Well, I’m happy to announce to you…Read more

The Battle Here is a free verse style poem I wrote when I was sixteen years old. Here also is a photo of me, teenage Kathleen in my favorite forest green fedora hat. At the bottom of this article you…Read more

when Mrs. Graham came out to California bearing the maiden name I never knew she looked out of the train window into the flat stretches of Nebraska and saw a man on a horse with a hat “There‘s The Cowboy”…Read more