September 2015

"Incredible voice!!  Augusta Lee Collins" -Maria Barella

"Perfection" -Macey Brown

 AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS
will be performing
   

SEPTEMBER 2nd
WEDNESDAY

Farmers' Market San Leandro

4Pm~8Pm

San Leandro, CA

SEPTEMBER 9th
WEDNESDAY

Farmers' Market San Francisco

Kaiser Hospital

10Am~2Pm

San Francisco, CA

SEPTEMBER 13th
SUNDAY

Blues, Brew and BBQ Festival

US Bank Parking lot, Webster Street

Noon~ 6Pm
I will be taking the main stage at 3Pm

Alameda, CA

SEPTEMBER 18th
FRIDAY

Bay Health Nursing Home

2:30Pm~3:30Pm

Oakland, CA

SEPTEMBER 19th
SATURDAY

Dublin Wine Festival

Noon~6Pm

I will be taking the main stage at 4:30Pm

Dublin, CA

SEPTEMBER 24th
THURSDAY

Dublin's Farmers' Market

4Pm~8Pm

Dublin, CA

Contact Augusta @ 510.695.9339

Photo by Steve Roby

MY LATEST VIDEO TOOK 1 YEAR TO COMPLETE

 "Its been almost a year since I was lucky enough to share the stage in California with this wonderful singer and Hall of Fame artist Augusta Lee Collins.  I LOVE this track!" -Sian Vinna Bevan

"Hey Augusta!  That's one exquisite portrait, and your video is so powerful and so beautifully executed" -Lenn Keller

NOW ON SALE

"Awesome video!  Great work Augusta!" -Susan McPhetridge

 "Nice piece of work." -Gig Hitao


You can view and enjoy my latest video, right here.  I do need your support.  Thank You!!!!
"GAME"
https://vimeo.com/106083498

More videos for viewing

Augusta Lee Collins

with

Toney Thibodeaux, Shawn Gonzales, Benjamin Harris and Kevin North

"...no wonder why the people love your music...It's simple and sweet and gets close deeply to our hearts...I really admire your music...Thanks!" -Daya N.

"....great tracks, and emphasize the range and versatility of Collins as both a vocalist and guitarist.  Collins' voice is distinctive and uplifting." -Dalta News

To view videos just CLICK ON LINKS below:

   
1.  http://vimeo.com/17557649

2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqffcuRrHRg

3.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcbYf5cN1s

4.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihWROhNnO6U

5.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOXtdVFD99w 

6.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIhejDjT6rQ

7.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrbKaCDE0Os 

8.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRZDUS0ug7M

9.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMXfYGNwd0

Performing Artist Painted By Visual Artist

(Left) Performing Artist Augusta Lee Collins with Painter, Artist Anthony Holdsworth in his studio in West Oakland. Collins with Rev. Kevin Barnes at Abyssinian Baptist Church. (Right) Collins poses beneath Holdsworth‘s painting of him that hangs in the Alameda Public Library. Photos by Adam L. Turner.

Creating New Music As I Go

Interview and music from

Augusta Lee Collins

Listen Now!

From Groningen, Netherlands, this interview has been archived.  You can listen to the show, right now.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/69945310

Love Will Find A Way

September 21, 2011

West Coast Blues Hall of Famer Augusta Lee Collins says he’ll never forget where he came from as he sang a song he wrote called
"A Thousand Miles From NoWhere".
Recalling...times while on the streets playing for survival money, he sang

“I’m out here in the rain, with my guitar in my hand, I'm writing you this letter, in hopes that you might understand me, now.  Aaah
Understand Me Now.  I'm a thousand miles from no where.  With my guitar in my hand"

Augusta Lee Collins' Mix at Pizza Pazza

By Paul Cobb
 
Part 1—“Baby, Please Don’t Go”

Some musicians say that a performer can’t sing or play the Blues with feeling unless they have lived a blue-black experience.

 Augusta Lee Collins, can sing the Blues.

From homelessness
to
West Coast Blues Hall of Fame

Blues Man

 Augusta Lee Collins

New Release

"GAME"

Directed by Jehnovah Carlisle
Music by Augusta Lee Collins

Phone Augusta @ 510.695.93393

Augusta Lee Collins

Augusta Lee Collins, a singer and songwriter who has also been enshrined in the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame, did not contact our paper. Some of the Pizza Pazza customers who heard him said his music making was awesome and everyone ought to hear him on Friday nights from 7pm to 10pm at 3905 Piedmont Avenue in Oakland.
The Post invites the readers to go see Collins perform, watch his videos, listen to his CDs and post your comments with the Post. You can contact him at 510.695.9339

SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS!

Augusta Lee Collins
 @
"The All Star Haiti Emergency Relief Fund Fundraiser"
 December 3, 2011
Everett and Jones BQ Oakland, CA in Jack London Square
with
Danny Glover
as special guest.

"GAME" The VIDEO!

An original composition 

"Augusta brings such passion, rhythm and style to every note he plays..." -M. Beardsley

"Outstanding...and I mean it...you can feel the textures of the music..." -A. Laird

ORDER YOUR DVD HERE:

CALL 510.695-9339

"A Thousand Miles From NoWhere Unplugged"

"A Thousand Miles from NoWhere Unplugged" 

written and produced by  Augusta Lee Collins on Vimeo.

Email:  augustaleecollins@yahoo.com

Contact Augusta @ 510.695.9339

MOMENTS WITH AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS

Dec 2010 - STATUS HAT MUSIC MAGAZINE FEATURE!

This month, Augusta Lee Collins blues gem "1000 Miles from Nowhere" is  featured in the music page issue 
of Status Hat's online magazine.

CLICK HERE

READ AUGUSTA's Feature and HEAR "1000 Miles From Nowhere" 

*Scroll to the middle of their website*

"The legendary Bay Area drummer Augusta Collins sharing his blues with us as guitarist and singer. After soaking up all the beats he is letting us feel what else he has to say with "1000 Miles From Nowhere".  His hypnotic song shares in the age old sense of longing and desperation that makes this an real blues gem." - By Status Hat Online Music Page Magazine

"Your music makes my heart sing" -Sheri Kight Dodson

1975 - Rediscovered Photos of Augusta Lee Collins

Augusta Lee Collins is best known as a very talented drummer that was most prolific throughout
the late 1960’s and into the middle 1980’s.

Performing with legends like Lightnin’ Hopkins, Herbie Hancock, Abbey Lincoln, George Duke, Hampton Hawes, Sun Ra, Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw, Juilian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nate Adderley, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Charles Wright (of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band) and the Pointer Sisters to name a few.  Augusta showed an interest in all forms of music very early.  Augusta has performed at the U.C. Berkeley Jazz Festival three times and the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Alameda County and California State Fairs and the African American Museum and Library at Oakland three times and the Oakland Museum as well as performing with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, Harold Fiberman conductor 

              and musical director and many other venues including much television (ABC, NBC PBS, CBS, KTVU, community and college run television...etc.) and radio (NPR, KALX, KPOO, BERKELEY LIBERATION RADIO, KPFA, KBLX, community and college run radio...etc.)
Augusta Lee Collins has toured both the United States and Europe.

  Augusta Lee Collins  in collaborations with 'rie Shontel performed in the one woman show "Mama Juggs" and on December 17, 2010, West Coast Blues Hall of Famer/Singer-Songwriter Augusta Lee Collins with Emmy Award-winning Producer Anita S. Woodley released, the long awaited CD "In The Studio with Augusta Lee Collins" Produced by Anita S. Woodley.

The 40-minute musical journey combines both song and the stories that inspired his original compositions.

and now

"GAME"

CONTACT INFORMATION...

AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS
PO BX 203
OAKLAND, CA  94604-0203


PHONE:  510.695.9339


Email:  augustaleecollins@yahoo.com

More images from my good friends

 

 

"I really admire your music...Thanks!" -Daya N.

Truly A Drummer

 Augusta returns to his 

Blues, Folk and Country roots.

Augusta Lee Collins Hears And Feels The Blues

"A 1,000 Miles From NoWhere"

2010 BAY AREA BLUES HALL OF FAME - INDUCTEE AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS

The West Coast Blues Hall of Fame Awards Show honors blues, jazz and gospel artists for their contributions to the art form called Blues and to celebrate Black History Month.  This year’s inductees will cover a very broad array of greats who helped to keep Blues alive.

EXPLORE AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS

"The one good thing about creating music is that I get to Create.  Music!"

"I Love What I Do!"

Augusta Lee Collins: Blending Life With Music (talented jazz drummer)

 ** 

Augusta Lee Collins is forever pushing his ideas musically and visually and creating new music.  Augusta, hears, feels and visualizes his creative journey bringing a very unique blends of music all original music, written and performed by Augusta Lee Collins.  Augusta is an artist consistently widening and extending his horizons.

Augusta Lee Collins on Film, Albums, Videos, DVDs and CDs

“A 1,000 Miles from Nowhere” (Albany, California: Agape Records 2004) Music/Producer A.L. Collins

“Life Force Jazz and Blues Compilation” (Oakland, California:  Life Force Jazz Records 2003) recorded at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 1974 Woody Shaw on trumpet with Augusta Lee Collins on  drums.  Jimmy Witherspoon and various artists can also be heard on this CD.

“The Love Nest” (San Francisco Film Institute, Judy Van Plank 2001) Music & Acting by A.L. Collins

“Cold Ground” (Oakland, California:  Agape Videos 1995) Produced/Director by A.L. Collins “With his creative  approach and concept to documenting the plight of the homeless in his semi-documentary video, an original music view,  “Cold Ground”, Augusta Lee Collins takes us inside their surreal world with his original camera work and music.  We  see the further evolution of these new instruments to his orchestra”. William Garrett published Poet November 1995

“Polarization”, (Stuttgart, Germany ECM/Polydor 1977) with Julian Priester, A.L. Collins on drums

 “Pyramids”, (San Francisco, California: Pyramid Records 1975) w/“The Pyramids”A.L. Collins/drums

“Seeking Other Beauty”, (Berkeley, California:  Fantasy Records 1972) w/Todd Cochran, A.L.Collins/drums

 “...creating new music as we go. Many times creating sounds that are new to us...works for us.  And, we enjoy it fully”, Augusta told a reporter for the Oakland Post News Group in a featured article about him and his music.