Spiritually-Inspired Original Acoustic Music

Eve Decker is a nationally known performing artist. She co-founded, played, recorded and toured with the feminist folk trio Rebecca Riots from 1993 until 2009 (with some years off while a band member had a baby). Rebecca Riots was dubbed “Best Band with a Conscience” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 1998, toured the country multiple times, released five CDs, and played stages ranging from the Vancouver Folk Festival, the Bumbershoot Festival in Washington, the Knitting Factory in NYC, colleges across the nation, and dozens of sold out shows at Berkeley’s Freight

and Salvage Coffee House.

Eve is also a long term student of the dharma.  She began practicing Vipassana and Metta meditation in the early 1990's.  She trained in mindfulness based social action through the two year Path of Engagement program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is currently in training there to become a Community Dharma Leader.

In 2006 Eve released a solo CD, “Commentary on Perfections of the Heart”, ten original songs based on a Buddhist list of qualities that promote a contented heart. A review of the CD in Tricycle magazine said:  “Decker’s melodies, and her luscious, inventive phrasing, give her songs the power

of a transmission.”

Eve has performed her solo material to sold-out audiences at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, California.  She has also performed multiple times at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California; for both of the Berkeley Vipassana Buddhist Sanghas; the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; the Gay Men’s Sangha in San Francisco; the Women’s Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley; the Occidental-Laguna Sangha in Sebastopol, California; the Sae Taw Winn II Dhamma Center in Graton, California, the Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists in Berkeley, Oakland and Palo Alto; Sacramento Buddhist Sangha, and numerous churches, synagogues, house concerts, and folk music venues.

Eve Decker has a great big heart, writes a wise and witty lyric, and has a voice that carries with it our deepest longings and fulfillment. She is one of the true artists of our new Western dharma (spiritual movement).   – Wes Nisker, Buddhist meditation teacher, author, radio commentator and performer. His bestselling books include Essential Crazy Wisdom; The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom; and Buddha’s Nature.

He is also the founder and co-editor of the Buddhist journal “Inquiring Mind."

Eve Decker wonderfully weaves together her deep and alive dharma practice and her beautifully crafted and energizing music, all for the joy, inspiration, and benefit of many, many beings.   – Donald Rothberg, teacher for Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.  He also taught socially engaged spirituality, Buddhism, and transpersonal psychology at Saybrook Graduate School and is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World.

Listening to Eve’s songs are often just what I need to remind myself of the truth inside. They’ve been a big part of my daily life practice to inspire and open my heart. I love Eve Decker’s music!   – James Baraz, founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and meditation teacher since 1978. James conceived, and has taught, the Awakening Joy course since 2003. At Spirit Rock, in addition to leading retreats, he coordinates the Community Dharma Leader program, and is the teacher-advisor to the Spirit Rock Family and Teen program and the Kalyana Mitta (Spiritual Friends) Network. James serves on the International Advisory Board of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

The Buddhist list of paramis (aspects of a contented heart) are ten beautiful qualities born in any human heart when wisdom and compassion join together. And when they join in the heart of a musician as gifted as Eve Decker, this beauty comes out through beautiful music. It is wonderful to listen to these songs and to be reminded of the best of human qualities.

  – Gil Fronsdal, guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) of Redwood City, California

Songs of Inspiration and Solace

Photo by william mercer mcleod

Eve Decker’s music has been a source of living dharma for me. I am inspired, calmed and reminded of what truly matters when I listen to her wonderful songs. She makes the teachings accessible and relevant in our times, through her unique approach to songwriting and her contemporary musical style. As a teacher and performer she embodies a refreshing wisdom and transmits a sense of joy, open heartedness and equanimity, even when addressing the sorrows and injustices of life. She is an accomplished musician and powerful singer, and I have been honored to share the stage with her over the years. – Jennifer Berezan, singer/songwriter www.edgeofwonder.com