Get Your Premium Tickets for Christine Lavin Live in Concert Christine Lavin works hard to guarantee people at her concerts have the most fun. That's why premium tickets to her events sell out fast. Although a "singer/songwriter," she avoids the pretentious and earnest self-righteousness that phrase evokes. When she wears her heart on her sleeve she jokes about the blood stain. She plays in churches, university auditoriums, theaters and coffee houses to standing room-only audiences who love her hip style and her mix of sharp humor, modern folk songs and personal stories. She makes you laugh, she makes you cry. She makes you laugh even while you're crying because she's sliced through your self-delusions with laser-focused accuracy. But it's all right, because she too has been "In Love With a Difficult Man," has also written about "Sensitive New Age Guys," "Bald Headed Men" and begged them, "Please Don't Make Me Too Happy." To keep you entertained, Ms. Lavin may twirl glow-in-the-dark batons (she was a cheerleader) or wear a miner's helmet with flashlight. If her biographical stories and topical jokes aren't enough, she may knit with you or even give you a manicure. No Ain't-I-Wonderful-I'm-a-Big-Star egotism. Just a hard-working professional who cares enough to make sure her performances provide all the entertainment her audiences can handle. Perhaps she'll give you her latest recipe for blueberry muffins. Or open up her "lending library" and give out a favorite book or CD (by some other musician she admires), once you promise to pass it on to someone else when you're done. Her sense of humor is wicked and dead-on, and she derives her material from her own life. She too has eaten "Cold Pizza for Breakfast." She gotten in touch with her own "inner bitch." Legendary folksinger Tom Paxton says about her latest album, "Christine Lavin is unstoppable." In 2001 Backstage Magazine named Christine, "Outstanding New York Singer/Songwriter Of The Year." She'll most likely play songs from her latest album, "FolkZinger," which is more overtly political than her other works. So you may hear about the religious right's desire for Armageddon or a live performance of "(I'm a) Card-Carrying Bleeding Heart Liberal." Christine Lavin's career began at age 12 with a typical lack of fanfare. She learned to play guitar during the mid-1960s by watching Laura Weber give lessons on PBS TV. At 14 she gave her first performance -- at a hootenanny in an all-boys military school. Hardly an auspicious start for a woman who's now put out 17 solo albums on her own, 3 with the "Bitchin Babes," 10 compilation albums, most recently "One Meatball" (with cookbook included), and gives concerts throughout the U.S., Australia, Germany and Canada. Get your premium tickets now while they are still available.