Naomi Adiv plays acoustic music in the folk tradition combined with clever lyricism. Her breathy sound and honest words make for a very warm live performance, drawing her audience in with the stories that inspired her songs.
Naomi has played at San Francisco venues including Edinburgh Castle, the Bazaar Café, Canvas Gallery, Red Poppy Art House, Cuppa’ Tea in Berkeley and the Mission Arts and Performance Project, performing to a crowd of fifty in a gallery venue.
Naomi Adiv’s first album ‘All I Have’ has found its way into the hands of people all over Europe and North America, and her next album ‘monotype’ is due out in April 2005. This past fall, her music was reviewed at Stanford’s KZSU and broadcast by many of their DJs:
“Folk sing/songwriter with a backpack. Only acoustic guitar and vocals, SF-based Naomi delivers a lovely album... Her voice is nice, right for the genre, clear but can be scratchy – just like the guitar. Lyrics about love and travel…”
- DJ Mor, KZSU
you'll appreciate this: I'm on a semesterly streak. 2nd day of class and I smack a professor (who only just removed his neck brace from a previous injury last week)with the swinging door of the men's room. Vincent Crapanzano. I'm taking his Contemporary Anthropological Theory course on fridays, as of 4 days ago. Accompanying my new Prof, are not one but two other faculty from my department: my HISTORICAL anthropological theory professor from last term, and the other, the only Brazilianist on the regular faculty at the Graduate Center, who is familiar with me and my work (by which I don't mean my proclivity to physically abuse my current instructors). Now no one is gonna let me in their "faculty permission only" classes.... All three were on their way out of the old boys room whilst I was on my way in. I'm gonna start peeing in the English department just to minimize my risk opportunities.
hey my frien3d Em7ily saw your profCile and thinks youre hoJt, she waPnts you to coSntact her on msjn mes1senger at emily87bath@hotmail.com thankqs she said shes watiting
we're both procrastinating on myspace. this does not bode well. you've got grad school applications and I have grad school term papers to write. only, I may be a tad worse off for the unfortunate three-hour deficit in timezone-ification. blast! why does everything ALWAYS have to be more posi on the west coast...?
Now, whatever would Monseigneur DeBord think of you sending me text messages (in triplicate) with quoted passages of his Spectacled Society? What in turn would he make of me pondering this irony vis-a-vis myspace?
Naomi: Stevie are you drunk dialing me? Stevie: No... I'm drunk returning your call (besides I wasn't drunk, I was just gleeful and tipsy, only more than tipsy)
I was reminded on an evening walk in Austria just yesterday, of a time when Naomi said the following: "there are three types of christians. good christians, bad christians, and jewish christians." Thank you Ms.Adiv, for the ever present clarity you bring to complicated distinctions of religion and faith
i hear rumors of a sleepover partyfest. suffice it to say: HELL YES! and might i supplement such conjecture with a firm range of dates between February 16th-27th. oh, how the possibilities abound!
hi Naomi! so great to see you up here! Noel and I are coming to SF this week to visit...we will be hanging out with your brother so hopefully we will see you!!
xo A
We just married Tracy off. I danced with Ari till I thought we would puke. Missing you. Wishing you were somewhere on this side of the continent. Do you ever read this thing?
