Tune in on Saturday, January 25th at 7:30pm to hear Excuse My French speak with Alameda-based songwriter and writer, Deborah Crooks, ahead of the performance of her Folk Opera, Flight Lessons at Rhythmix Cultural Works on February 8th.
Based on a true story about the Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the convergence of wild and urban habitats on Oakland’s Fruitvale Bridge, Flight Lessons explores themes of home, migration, adaptation and the limits of the man-made environment.
Crooks records under her own name and with the band, Bay Station. Her latest full-length solo release The Department of The West (2019) was described by the Rocking Magpie as “…what Americana music is all about for me; imaginative, cinematic, informative and last but not least … entertaining.” Place-based and rooted in practice, her work is informed by studies of natural history, voice and yoga.
