Current news and events of New York-based Karen Kohler – German-American singer, writer, poet, podcaster, mentor and community-builder.
SURABAYA SANTA from yours truly, Mrs. Claus at the North Pole. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, one and All! Surabaya Santa Karen Kohler, voice Doug Oberhamer, piano Gregory Chudzik, bass Recorded live at Feinstein's, NYC music/lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Having chosen this path, we get kicked in the stomach on a regular basis. It's just the way it is when you take the chance of asking for something where you may be turned down or coldly rejected. If we didn't know what those things felt like, then your singing and my writing wouldn't be worth very much. ~ [...]
Welcome to my newest guided meditation, Pray It Open. We've come again to the still point of a turning world. Another year, season, chapter, era ending. This has been a year of bewilderment and awe owing to a mysterious visitor and the new reality it has brought with it. Knowing that we share this experience globally is freeing. There [...]
The simpler things get, the deeper you can dive into them. ~ Luba Mason This time on The RudeWoke Sessions, I welcome American singer, actress, musician and songwriter, Luba Mason, as my guest. We recorded our inspiring chat on October 29, 2020 in Manhattan just a week before the release of her third solo album, Triangle. I hope [...]
Welcome to my newest guided meditation, Centering in Uncertainty. Everything is uncertainty. Therein lies the great propeller, the desire and drive for meaning and meaningfulness. We are alive in uncertainty and afloat in the unknown, the unforeseen, the mystery. If there's one thing we can really be sure of, it's that we really can't be sure. And for the [...]
I proudly announce the launch of my podcast, The Rudewoke Sessions! Find me in conversation with creatives of all kinds, getting inside the un-curated story of their lives to reveal the defining moment that changed everything and set them on their paths as passionate artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, activists, explorers and more. We have to wake up before we can [...]
On Monday, DECEMBER 16, 2019, Kim David Smith and pianist Tracy Stark returned to Club Cumming in the East Village with a holiday treat, "A Wery Weimar Christmas." Yours Truly made a guest appearance! "His Weimar mother, muse & chanteuse Karen Kohler brought the house down with laughter singing Surabaya Santa - a paean to the trials of being [...]
Dear Creatives and Artists of Life! Announcing new coaching for a new decade! To usher out this decade and welcome a new one, I'm offering a complementary 30-minute consultation and new pricing to private students of my methodology in Stagecraft and Lifecraft. Join me in my Brooklyn studio or via Skype, and together we'll tailor a curriculum that meets [...]
Karen's debut poetry collection, Petrichor: Selected Poems, is released. Published by her own Sumya Press, the volume is available for purchase on-line at Blurb.com.
On January 25, 2019 Everything's Coming Up Karens debuts at the Beach Cafe, bringing together four distinctly different Karens of cabaret for an eclectic night of song, story and comedy at the Beach Cafe. Alongside Karen Kohler are Karen Oberlin, Karen Mack and Karen Gross with Tedd Firth on piano to tie it all together Click here for the [...]
