NPR Alt.Latino 6/13/22

NPR Alt.Latino Feature - Ritmos Unidos

Eleanor Dubinsky & iconic Garifuna songwriter Aurelio Martinez lead the virtual 4 month program 'Ritmos Unidos' in Honduras, with the U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa and the U.S. Department of Educational and Cultural Affairs Arts Envoy Office (6/13/21).

"Young Garifuna musicians were given songwriting instruction from Martinez and Dubinsky on the ins and outs of the music business so they might also become musical guardians of Garifuna culture."

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Felix Contreras 4/3/18

NPR Music Album Review - Soft Spot Of My Heart

"Vocalist Eleanor Dubinsky is ... building a body of work that consists of elegant and thoughtful songwriting that slides easily between genres and geography through top-notch musicianship, all in service to a voice that stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it."

Dubinsky's journey is similar to that of so many songwriters — the story of finding a voice to match the music she hears in her head. In her case, that means the songs arrive in either English, Spanish or Portuguese. She lets them determine which language is best suited to express the emotion within. 

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4/11/22

The Times-Reporter Live Preview, OH

“Few artists have as diverse a skillset as Eleanor Dubinsky. We’re thrilled to make partnerships with Empower Tusc Coalition as well as three local school districts to take advantage of her ability to speak to so many segments of our population through her music and workshops."

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Felix Contreras 4/1/18

NPR Weekend Edition Sunday: Alt.Latino's Picks For New Spring Music

"Coleman picked vocalist/songwriter Eleanor Dubinsky because of the poignancy of the lyric. Dubinsky is a multilingual musician who can capture the emotions and soul of a community in a song like the one that selected, Cuando Voy A Mi Trabajo."

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Saskia Maxwell Keller 7/16/20

The Provincetown Independent, MA

"Eleanor Dubinsky is a polyglot in every sense of the word. She sings in four languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. She plays the cello and the guitar. She’s lived in Argentina, France, the Czech Republic, Portugal, and Cape Verde. And her music draws from several different musical traditions inspired by her life and travels."

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Ann Treacy 9/4/19

Mostly Minnesota: Eleanor Dubinsky Singing International Elegance at the Parkway Theater, MN

"Sometimes you get lucky and you find yourself seeing an international musician in a suddenly intimate setting because it’s her first time playing in Minneapolis. And that was the case seeing Eleanor Dubinsky at the Parkway Theater on Tuesday night....Dubinsky is elegant and worldly with songs in French, Spanish and Portuguese... There were some nods to the world with an apropos version of 'Wind Won’t Knock it Down' in honor of the people standing strong in the face of Hurricane Dorian. 'You Are Special, You Are Beautiful' brought the room together in recognition of the people who feel disenfranchised or really unseen and unheard since the last election. The song is an anthem. Jazzy but with a pliant blues edge..."

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Lori Walsh 7/25/19

South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) Radio interview, SD

"Touring on her third release, Eleanor Dubinsky's music is reflective of time she has spent in South America, Western and Central Europe, Portugal and Cape Verde. She composes in four different languages while exploring self and contemporary issues while building bridges between diverse listeners. Dubinsky performs Thursday at Levitt at the Falls in Sioux Falls. Her concert is part of the Levitt's World Music Series."

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Lauren Soulek 7/25/19

Kelolandland TV News at Five: Levitt At The Falls Performer Celebrates Diversity with Children in Sioux Falls, SD

"Before Eleanor Dubinsky and her band take the stage at the Levitt tonight, they wanted to share their multi-cultural and multi-lingual music with children in Sioux Falls...Today they shared their music and cultures with children at the Multi-Cultural CARE camp. On top of performing some of their own songs for the kids, the band also worked with the kids to write their own song..."

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Episode 37 (3/1/21)

Grieving Out Loud (Podcast) 

An interview with Eleanor and her "Remember Me" cowriters Sally and Frank Ponzio in conversation with Angela Kennecke of the Emily's Hope Foundation about the song's themes of addiction, loss and resilience.

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Live Review

by Tom Pryor (Music Journalist; Nat Geo Music, Songlines, Afropop Worldwide) 

"Eleanor Dubinsky is prodigiously talented: a gifted multi-instrumentalist with a strong, clear voice and a knack for catchy, open-hearted, multilingual pop that invokes the likes of Maria Bethânia and Carole King. While Dubinsky’s recordings are well worth your time, you need to see her live to appreciate the full package. Her recent performance at NYC’s Joe Pub celebrated the release of her latest album, Soft Spot of My Heart, and it was a knockout. Dubinsky’s multilayered songs — inspired by jazz, soul, Latin, and afro-Atlantic influences — opened up and revealed themselves in performance. Songs like the gospel-inflected “Turn It Around” and “You Are Special, You Are Beautiful” are relentlessly positive, but leavened with enough emotional grit and musical muscle to stop cynics dead in their tracks. The result was a joyous, uplifting and deeply generous performance — to her musicians and the audience alike — that was just the tonic for the frayed nerves of many New Yorkers after another long winter in these parlous times. Go. See her. This is music as medicine for your soul."