From "The Godmother of Rock" to Hospice Activist, Nadine Condon tells her story in a new memoir "Confessions: Stories to Rock Your Soul"

Nadine Condon’s 

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Nadine Condon was born in​ Louisville, Kentucky. On a trip to California, she had an amazing experience in Big Sur that eventually drew her to Northern California. That trajectory led to her involvement with the San Francisco music scene and her first career working with the Jefferson Starship/Starship ’79-’89, the decade of MTV, and hits like “We Built This City” and “Sarah.”

Condon then formed her own consulting business, promoting artists like Melissa Etheridge, Steve Miller, John Mayall for Island, MCA, Rocket and RCA record companies. She began a series of regional showcase series for rock bands in SF/Portland/Seattle/LA. Counting Crows, Third Eye Blind, Storm Large and hundreds of other bands and artists who got a leg up from her music-industry-oriented concerts.

Condon produced Nadine’s Wild Weekend music festival in SF 1998-2002, featuring “135 bands, 30 shows, 20 clubs, and four nights,” and celebrating San Francisco music. 

From 1999-2004 she also gave educational seminars on the music business. In 2004 her book for musicians and creative types, HOT HITS CHEAP DEMOS (the Real-World Guide to Music Business Success) was released on Backbeat Books. 

Condon has 15 gold and platinum albums from appreciative clients like Jefferson Starship, Starship, Melissa Etheridge, Smashmouth, Travis Tritt and more.

Condon became a hospice volunteer and found a new calling in the mid-2000s. She became Director of Volunteers at Mission Hospice and Home Care in San Mateo, Ca. in 2004 and started a volunteer-based palliative program called Transitions in 2006. Relocating to Phoenix, Az. to be with family for a few years, she worked at Hospice of the Valley until June 2016, serving as an educator about hospice services, to hospital staff and community groups. She was also a member of their groundbreaking palliative dementia care team. 

After retiring from hospice work in 2016, she moved back to Northern California. She lives in the Sonoma Valley with her husband, and two rescue cats, Bret and Bart. She volunteers with the homeless in Sonoma County.