Naomi Bindman is an award-winning educator who lives in Vermont. She earned her BA from Dartmouth College, and her Master’s from Harvard University. Naomi is a past president of SolarFest, a nationally known music and renewable energy education festival. Naomi has published articles, essays and poetry in the Bennington Banner, Healing Options, VTDigger, Mothering magazine, So to Speak: Feminist Journal of Language and Art, and in an International Women’s Day anthology. She is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Council grant, and has just written her first book, You’re the Words I Sing: A Memoir of Song, Sorrow, and Solace.
Naomi is the mother of Ellen Bindman-Hicks, a singer-songwriter who lost her life in a car crash at the age of 17. Ellen wrote 48 songs, of which she recorded 12 on her CD, Write Me a Future. Naomi gradually remembered many of Ellen’s other songs and eventually began performing them. Naomi’s voice has been described as “delicate,” “pure,” and “a river-smoothed stone.”
Naomi performs mostly in the NY Capital region and Vermont at coffee houses and folk clubs, including notably Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs NY, Desolation Road Studios in Altamont NY, Wiawaka Center in Lake George NY, and the Ripton Community Coffee House in Ripton, VT. She has traveled throughout the United States playing Ellen’s music, and has appeared on radio shows in Binghamton NY, Troy NY, Saratoga Springs NY, Bennington VT, and Atlanta GA. In 2015, Naomi recorded a CD of nine of Ellen’s previously unrecorded songs, Into Infinity: Songs of Ellen Bindman-Hicks.
