Bernice has toured extensively in the US, as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Israel for four decades. Lewis is the Artist Associate in Songwriting at Williams College (Williamstown, MA) and founding faculty at Schreiner University’s Songkeeper Program (Kerrville, TX). In 1987, Lewis was a finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival’s prestigious New Folk contest. According to Rosanne Cash & “Bernice one of the keepers of the flame of Real Songwriting”.
Lewis — who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar technique with Alex DeGrassi and Guy van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Cash and Cris Williamson — has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage, as well as at the Kennedy Center. Her ballad, “Bridges That Hold,” was included in Peter, Paul and Mary’s Lifelines video (PBS). She has shared the stage with Dar Williams, Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, Pete Seeger, Ellis Paul, Rory Block, Livingston Taylor, Odetta, Utah Phillips, Christine Lavin, Marty Sexton, Patty Larkin, Catie Curtis, Mary Gauthier… it’s a long list. She has a fifty-one-year long daily yoga practice, loves good coffee, and her religion is the Grand Canyon.