Chris Rael CHURCH OF BETTY

For COB's 30th anniversary, a virtual museum of old posters & flyers...

A response to a chaos & farewell to Leon...

A tribute to The Purple One...

Now and then a fine artist has drawn us playing live...

What I would have said at the Acker Awards...

Chris videos of street and cafe musicians in Havana, January 2016...

The 12 low-frequency gals I adore the most...

What a beautiful & exciting year! Pix inside...

Complete lyrics to the new Church of Betty CD Swirled World...

Chris's take on the NYC debut of the great Irish band Pugwash...

Thoughts on the anniversary of the King assassination...

A very short story based on an assignment from my fiction writing mentor Bruce Benderson... 

A re-mastered track from a special person and a special time....

Ladino lyrics & translations for Sephardic recordings by Church of Betty Globestra The Lazarus Rose

Today, on my son Sasha's third birthday, I share this account of his adventurous birth...

...not as a musician, but as an American.

New work bringing together many recent interests: world music, Sephardic heritage, travel, video, orchestration and soul...

In memory of an event that changed the world, my front-line report from 10 days after the attack...

Tequila Mockingbird and I are at it again...

I was asked to write about my dear late friend Jan Kotik, Church of Betty's original drummer, for the catalog of his upcoming art retrospective in Prague at DOX gallery. Here's what I came up with...

We are a paella!

A great one is gone.

With a little help from my friends...