Blue Lilah

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…

  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 ……

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…

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…

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…

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…

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”…

I am excited and delighted to announce that I am nominated in THREE categories for the Just Plain Folks Music Awards, (exact date to be announced soon! I will be attending and can’t wait!)  It’s a big deal: 17K albums…

Here’s the link TO LISTEN TO an instrumental version MY ORIGINAL SONG “Half of You Good” (from my forthcoming album Liars, Cutthroats and Dames) opening Adriana Marchione’s film-in-progress The Creative High and watch Adriana Marchione’s coolio film in progress: LINK…

DATE: Thursday 03/24/16   TIME: 1:00pm-2:00pm   WHERE: 89.5 KPOO-FM You can also Tune in ANYWHERE on phone/desktop w/ the KPOO app at this LINK.  I am excited to support the making of Adriana Marchione’s latest documentary film entitled The Creative High…

Here I am, working on my Western novel, and we find The Rifleman as he rides into a town as a young man I arrived in Dillardtown on a fine evening having crossed a stony river lined by cottonwoods and…

Japanese Tea Garden I spent many years going to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, writing poetry and observing people. Over the years I wrote down some of the interesting things I heard people saying—the quotes in the…