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  On our trip to The Holy Land we sailed on a boat in The Sea of Galilee where Jesus called some of his disciples to become “fishers of men,” and was reported by Mathew to have walked on the water. We saw a preserved fishing boat of that time and had a special fish dining experience for lunch at a wonderful restaurant called David’s.

  We saw Kibutses as we drove in the bus where young men (serve 3 years) and women (serve 2 years) raise bananas, mangos, and other crops as they serve in the…

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   Journeying on our trip to The Holy Land, we checked into our Tiberius Hotel for dinner and overnight. The next day we explored the ruins of the synagogue in Capernium the center of Jesus’s ministry in Galilee. We visited Magdella (where Mary Magdalene came from). This is a place of a remarkable recent excavation. A hotel was being built around 2006 and artifacts were uncovered of a well preserved first century synagogue. This was, in the first century, an economic center for preserving fish…

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  On our trip to the Holy Land we then went to Nazareth where Jesus grew up. A small beautiful town where he would have walked the streets with his brothers, and played with friends. Unfortunately, also, ‘a prophet is not recognized in his own town,’ and he was, in adulthood, threatened to be thrown off the Mount of Precipice by the local populous for claiming to be The Messiah! It was considered blasphemous!

Thank you so much for reading my blog. 
Shalom - (peace be with you), LeeLee

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   Many have asked about Ricks and my recent trip to Israel. I will share in “chunks” with pictures. Hope you enjoy.  
    “After landing in Tel Aviv, Israel we were “express walked” through customs because of our tour, received a card in place of a stamp in our passports, and boarded a tour bus as we took a short ride through the city to a nearby town called Netanya.      

   Our first nights room was lovely and overlooked the shores of The Meditaranian Sea. We had an elaborate dinner with what…

". . .and the winner is. . ." Imagine this special moment in your life: you've been nominated for an important award and it's "envelope opening" time. There you sit, holding your breath, managing a purposeful smile that you've practised to stay put if someone else's name is called! . . . for "Best Western Swing Album of the Year, Swing Set: LeeLee Robert!" The sound that came out of my husband, Rick's, mouth was indescribable! I think he was more excited than anyone! I ran to the stage around tables and up…

...Answer the call.

      My Producer on the other end of the line said, “There's a possibility that we can get three top Nashville session musicians to do the solo work on your upcoming album." I saw large dollar signs looming. "How much?" I said.  He responded, "That’s just it. We'd save enough in editing and speed in getting good tracks down, that financially it would not be that much more than if we recorded with local musicians!" I didn’t hear any downside. “Lets do it!”

     The session people were…

Dear Everyone,

     Many of you will be taking roadtrips this summer.  Even if you have a roadmap - detours are fun to take sometimes, right?.  For variety! I love variety, and I'll bet you do, too: I love variety in food, landscapes, fashion, and of course music! 
    When I was maturing, artistically, I felt some frustration over the fact that I could not seem to fit into any one genre of music. The market wanted to put me in a niche; but I loved it all: folk, jazz, blues, rock, classical, pop…

 Dear  Everyone,

     "I'm just going to throw a bunch of mud on the wall and see what sticks!" That's what I said in November when we migrated back to Arizona from Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  The theme for my year is, "Break On Through to the Other Side," with apologies to Jim Morrison! I felt a need to elevate what I was doing in music and in life to another level.  As Nina Simone says, "I want more and more, and then some!"

      One of the benefits of moving every six months is the "clean slate"…

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     ". . . I hope to inspire you to move forward with your dreams, and I thank you for sharing mine."

     That is what I wrote in March and since then, we've had a whole Spring and Summer to move toward those dreams.  I hope you are pleased with what you see in your "garden." I have been very pleased. Just to recap, last March The Academy of Western Artists awarded my CD, "Jewel of the West," with Best Western Album of the Year, I had my April Fools Day Concert at the Kerr,  and…

Hi Everyboby; 

     On February 16 of this year I wrote: 

"Maybe by walking this "Award" road together, hand in hand, it can (in addition to a little blood, sweat, and tears) shake a little "Stardust" on both of us. Are you in?"

       On Saturday, March 28, I WON for Best Western Album of the Year from The Academy of Western Artists! Let's share a little Stardust.

       All I remember, is sitting there at our table as the nominee's names were read and hearing, "...and the winner for Best Western…