http://vimeo.com/4593870

Check it out! Tell your peoples save a starving artist. change the world :-)

Hey guys, I'll be playing alongside Syd (a great singer-songwriter) in Ventura County TODAYSyd Music

Wednesday April 29th! 8pm

Zoey's Cafe

451 E Main St

San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA 93001

http://www.zoeyscafe.com/directions.aspx

So come out to support. Sure to be a great time :-)

yeay

thanks,

 Adjoa

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Alliance Hollywood hosts launch for Freedom Children Gallery in West Hollywood :: 944 Magazine Adjoa Skinner was the entertainment for the evening, with Justin DiCenzo on bass and Kevin Sanchez on sound.

Adjoa Skinner's ALL AGES EP RELEASE PARTY

Saturday April 25th, 2009
7:30pm
$10 door includes autographed EP

Oneonta Congregational Church
1515 Garfield Ave
South Pasadena, CA

For directions go to: http://www.oneonta.org

Ashley Hunt will be opening the evening.
http://www.myspace.com/ashleymichellehunt

9 piece band of amazing musicians:

Adjoa Skinner on vocals, piano, guitar and djembe
Satoshi Mark Noguchi (EP co-producer) will be joining on flute
Young Professor will be on drums
Justin DiCenzo on bass (upright and electric)
Lance Beckford on percussion
Ellen Baumann on violin
Blaine Stark on electric guitar
Lauren Richards on the how low can you go backing vocals
Ashley Hunt on kick Snow White's soprano bootay backing vocals

Label reps will be there, so please come out and show your support!
Thanks and can't wait to see you :-)
 - Adjoa

www.adjoaskinner.com
www.myspace.com/adjoaskinner

Check out more of my thoughts and poems at
http://adjoaskinner.wordpress.com/

Hey All! So this is a snippet of what I am up to this month!
See you all soon I hope!

4-2-09 - Photoshoot with photographer Michael Lee
4-5-09 - Playing for photographer Keon Kim's wedding (private event).
Check out his work: http://keonphotography.com
4-6-09 - Performing @ Christ Church of the Valley, San Dimas for the
Global Outreach Dinner
4-7-09 - Presenting the award for "Best Female" in the SoCal Music
Finals @ the MBAR (I held the title last year, and judged this year's
competition a few weekends ago in Santa Ana @ the Gypsy Den...stellar
acts!)
4-7-09 - Performing @ Fox & Hounds on Ventura Blvd, Studio City 10pm
for Kelly McGrath's birthday event.
4-8-09 - Writing session with singer-songwriter Zach Hexum
4-11-09 - Photoshoot with Photographer Keon Kim
4-12-09 - HAPPY EASTER, performing @ Easter Services 11am @ Oneonta
Church....www.oneonta.org
4-13-09 - Performing @ the Oneonta Mens Club, Oneonta Church, South
Pasadena (private event)
4-18-09 - Performing @ Bray Wedding (private event)
4-19-09 - Performing @ Oneonta Congregational Church's ONE Worship
Event with my bandmates, 6pm www.oneonta.org
4-25-09 - ALL AGES EP RELEASE - Tell your friends, bring your
kids...family show!
4-26-09 - Performing @ Alliance Hollywood Benefit for Freedom
Children, coco de ville, 755 La Cienega Blvd, W. Hollywood, CA.
RSVP: office@alliancehollywood.org, $100 sugg. donation
5-1-09 - Performing @ Foothill Presbyterian Hospital, Glendora, CA



Adjoa
"Not your average Diva"

To celebrate my birthday I'M GIVING AWAY MY EP!
YES I'm giving my EP to every person who comes to my EP Release/bday show
*GASP*
Its true!

Friday MARCH 13th, 2009 @ Molly Malones
EP RELEASE and BIRTHDAY PARTY

LIVE TAPING! So dress up grab your friends and come out for a great night!
We've got quite a show in store.
I will have my full band..... Lance, David, Chris, Satoshi, Justin
along with special guests (TBA)

DOORS open @ 7:45pm

$12 Cover includes a copy of my new 5 song EP "Nothin More To Say"

REMEMBER!!! Friday MARCH 13th, 2009 @ Molly Malones
575 S. Fairfax Ave, LA 90036 (Corner of 6th & Fairfax, near the Grove)

Other Solo Acoustic concerts coming up:

Wed March 5th @ The Renaissance Hotel
7:30pm
Cost: Free
1755 N. Highland Avenue
Hollywood, California 90028

Friday March 20th @ Romancing the Bean
8pm
150 S San Fernando Blvd 40
Burbank, California 91502
Cost:$1
Description:andrea hamilton, johnny strat, bobby schmeider, adjoa skinner, and tavis bolinger each artist plays 30 minutes (and not in that order, come for the whole night)

Wed March 25th @ Zoey's Cafe in Ventura
8:00pm
$5 Cover
451 E Main St
San Buenaventura (Ventura), California 93001
Ones To Watch Wednesdays Special Songwriters Showcase :-) www.zoeyscafe.com This is a great venue where a lot of up and coming artists play. I’m very excited to be playing here for the first time. If you know anybody who lives in Ventura - tell them to come out. I’d love to make a great first impression :-) Thanks guys!


So thats it for now....more word on the music video as time progresses.
Can't wait to see you soon...its been a long time and I've missed you.
God bless and God speed,
- Adjoa

Adjoa Skinner
"Not your average Diva"

www.adjoaskinner.com

Music.Adjoa@Gmail.com

www.myspace.com/adjoaskinner
www.youtube.com/adjoamusic

http://adjoaskinner.wordpress.com

As a single person I'm always reading about love and marriage. Kind of odd, right? One would think I'd read more about my own current situation. But it seems that no matter where I look the "happily ever after" is drawing me in...

This is a two part blog - the first part focuses on interdependence as a single person...and the 2nd part focuses on the true love relationship.

I acknowledge that I'm in a world looking for love, especially for romance.... with eharmony, and match.com and every single romantic comedy that tells the same story over and over again. So, how should I view my current situation? As a mid 20s single career woman who is self-employed, I should look at my life & see the world as my oyster. How do I fight this continual longing? How do I change my thought base this late in life? When my entire childhood was brought up in the Disney world of princesses whose full-time job was waiting for their prince...

1 Corinthians 7:7
But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. But God gives to some the gift of marriage, and to others the gift of singleness.

So its a gift?

Singleness is a gift?

How?

Well first off, I can wake up in the morning and don't have to smell anyone's bad breath, I get to use my own shower and toilet whenever I wish, I can choose to be in my pajamas all day and its fine....with me :-)

Secondly, I can go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do, see whatever movie I want.....

I want, I want, I want.....that seems to be the common theme right? Thats where singleness seems to eat away......at the "I want", because we were never made to be self-sufficient. How did the "American dream" become all about the "I want" and the curse of independance rather than its freedom? The reason I'm not fulfilled in my singleness is because I'm wanting my fulfillment to come from a single person rather than allow the people around me to work with me in fulfilling my needs as I fulfill theirs.

When I lived in Ghana I saw how a tribe would operate and truly learned what community was. Interdependance was one person having the cloth, the other having the thread, and the other having the needle....and together the sharing of resources for a common goal.....to tend to a need while feeding the soul with conversation and communication with people from all walks of life, single, married, widowed, divorced.

1 Corinthians 7:29
But let me say this, dear brothers and sisters: The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives should not focus only on their marriage.

There are many people who take on the effort of building and mending the carriage and many who take on the role of training & tending to the horse. So if I'm the vessel of the carriage....what am I carrying with me when I meet my horse? Am I carrying un-forgiveness? Am I carrying bitterness? Am I carrying baggage that holds me down so well that even a well-trained horse may give up on the fight to move me along?

Now that I've acknowledged the need for inter-dependence with others. I'm going to focus on the horse and its need for dependence on its Master.

Am I the horse that chooses to not follow my master, and so never finds the right carriage?

Am I the horse that refuses to be diligent in disciplines that will strengthen me for the time when I meet with the carriage, so its burden will be too much for me to carry?

Or am I thinking too much of myself and trying to take on a burden that was never mine to carry?

Am I running from carriage to carriage and wearing myself out trying to look like everyone else? When I may be a specific type of horse that was never meant to carry a carriage...Like a show horse?

If thats the case, then my training would be different. Show horses require a specialized training. So that when the show is to be presented the horse's master will sit in the audience and with slight movements will guide the horse to dance, move, and rest at the right moments.

Am I looking at my Master? Am I the kind of horse that will bring the audience to their feet because my eyes are completely focused on the one who is giving me the steps? Knowing that the dance that I dance is only created by the relationship and the faithfulness that comes from obedience and trust with my Master?

Its easy to get distracted as a show horse. I could look away from my master and focus on the audience, I could stop to take a bow and even turn my back on the Master to soak in the glory around me.....but for what? I'd gain nothing but distraction from the better instruction of a Divine teacher who made me for what He wanted me to do.

Ezekiel 16:8
And when I passed by again, I saw that you were old enough for love. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

This gift is what I've been given. This gift is mine to take....It is a gift...

And until I see it that way, I will never dance the dance I was made to dance, because my eyes will be focused elsewhere...

And even if one day I take on the carriage....I will still be looking at my Master for the guidance along the way...because its not about what I'm carrying, or what I'm doing, its about where my eyes are fixed.

Psalm 32:9
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,which must be curbed with bit and bridle,or it will not stay near you.