"French Flowers smell like gasoline--if you listen a little longer I'll explain what I mean..." K. Weaver

Krista Weaver was born at the Naval Hospital in St. Alban's, Queens in June of 1969. She had a fairly normal suburban New York upbringing, with slow-moving grandparents who lived nearby, a mother who stayed at home, and a father who worked. Her parents divorced when she was nine, and she moved to the city with her mother and brother. She grew up, went to a public high school in Brooklyn, graduated, then left town. She travelled extensively in Europe and across the United States, working as a bar-girl, a donut-slinger, and a ranch-hand. She got married, had children, got divorced. She attended six different colleges before getting her degree in Women's Studies and Writing from Vermont College at Norwich University. When she took up the guitar in 2004, she baked pies, and did sub work at the local high school to make money. She never listened to the radio, and never watched TV. She drove a silver-gray Buick Regal with lavender pinstriping that had belonged to her grandmother. She learned how to play--and recorded her first album (So Long Arlington, 2005, Two Stones Music)--on a hundred-dollar classical guitar she borrowed indefinitely from her brother. Her life hasn't been the same since--she writes songs and plays music full time. Consummate political songwriter and uppity hellraiser Anne Feeney calls her a "dazzling performer" and calls "French Flowers" (Krista's personal/political tune about her family's unwitting connection to the illegal invasion of Cambodia by American military forces during the Vietnam War), "a beautiful and important song." Guitarist Bob Cage of Epiphone lineage says she's "the real thing." Her latest album (That Creature Feel, 2006, Two Stones Music) recorded in a Florida studio by Bud Snyder of Allman Brothers fame, received an extremely complimentary review from The Daily Freeman, and her next album is in the works. In addition to writing and performing her own material, Krista also ceaselessly promotes the work of other songwriters and musicians. She has made her local coffee joint (Taste Budd's Cafe) a hub of live music. You can find her there every Wednesday evening, hosting her "Wednesday Night Hardscrabble Jam" from 6-8pm, and every second Saturday of the month at her "Songwriters' Second Saturdays at Taste Budd's Cafe". This summer, she frequently appears as the musical guest of "Speakeasy Stories" in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Great Barrington and Stockbridge, and plays regularly at Keegan Ales in Kingston, and at The Coast in Tivoli. Her favorite people are her children, her mother, and her children's friends. Her favorite color is black, her pet peeve is anything "express," and her hobby is lying around. She is proud to say she is a member of the Hudson Valley Medical Reserve Corps.