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A Woman's Song: Women on Fire with Music & Poetry at
TAP
Sat., Oct. 5, 2002 at 7:30 PM
STURGEON BAY, WI - Third
Avenue Playhouse is pleased to present A Woman's Song: Women on Fire with Music & Poetry, an evening of music
and lyrics. The show features local and nationally known female musicians Dorothy Scott, Karen Mal, Jeanne Yingst
and Cathy Braaten, joined by poets Mary Durlin, Peg Nemeth and Sue DeKelver. These seven uniquely talented women
will explore and share the joy and pains, triumphs and tragedies, highs and lows of their own lives, and of all
people.
Musicians:
New York singer/songwriter Dorothy
Scott Returns to the TAP stage. She recently appeared at TAP
along with Ralph Bronner as past of the "Dr. Bronner's Soap, Suds, Songs and Stories" performance this
past July.
| Dorothy Scott, appearing at Third Avenue Playhouse on Sat., Oct. 5, wanted
to perform an intimate solo concert on the next night at Mr. Helsinki's in Fish Creek. See her there on Sun., Oct
6 at 8:30 PM. |
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Dorothy Scott's first independent record "Into The Natural" (Wolf
Scott Records) echoes the Van Morrison classic "Astral Weeks". Released in the U.S. and Sweden (through
Border Records) she has sold more then 10,000 copies. Her live performances have generated a loyal and growing
following in New York City, Ireland, Sweden and parts of Canada.
Most recently, two of her compositions were featured in the HBO movie "Reno Finds Her Mom" (starring
Reno, Lili Tomlin and Mary Tyler Moore). Dorothy is also one of the featured artists in the documentary film about
the infamous Sin-e Cafe, NYC (release date TBA). Dorothy lives in New York City where she is currently working
on her second recording.
Her universal songwriting themes of love and nature are written with
the vision of a mystic and delivered with childlike innocence. Possessed of a striking, emotive vocal style and
renowned for her daring and uncompromising performances, Scott will be presenting songs from her recent album Restless
Machinery (Pumpkin Records) and her 1995 debut EP In The Natural. In the past, Dorothy has shared the stage with
such artists as Sinead O'Connor, Carole King, Jeff Buckley, Joan Armatrading and Joan Osborne.
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Karen Mal from Austin,
TX, is currently one of the most sought-after performers on the busy Austin music scene, both as a solo artist
and as a sideman for others on mandolin, guitar and harmony vocals. |
Originally from New England, Karen worked in regional theatre for several
years before settling in Austin in 1999 to play music full time. Karen is touring in support of her new CD, Mercury's
Wings.
Jeanne Yingst
- singer, songwriter, and artist - has restarted her singing career after raising three children. The last two
years she has sung at least weekly in Door County, Green Bay or Minneapolis. In addition to her own solo performances,
she frequently appears with her brother Roger Kuhns, singing original folk music, and with Pete and Theresa Evens,
performing Celtic and Appalachian music. She is currently working on a CD of original folk/rock songs with Roger
Kuhns.
Cathy Braaten,
from Minneapolis, returns to Door County after a performance at the Door Community Auditorium fireside coffeehouse
series in April 2000. She is a composer with three albums and seven songwriting awards to her credit. Signed to
Channel 83 records, she has been compared to Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Etheridge and Alanis Morissette.
"Her sultry, seductive tones match her crisp guitar work and tender
melodic touch. Her lyrics cover the familiar territory of emotionalism and introspective angst, delivered with
uncompromising grace." - Illinois Entertainer
Poets:
Peg Nemeth is
originally from Sheboygan and has spent her summers in Door County since 1979. She moved to Sturgeon Bay from Milwaukee
in 1996. Peg graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received an MFA in creative writing from
Vermont College in Montpelier. Her poetry has appeared in The Cream City Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Nebraska
Review, Wisconsin Review, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Anthology among others. She is a frequent
contributor to the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar and Free Verse.
Peg is an active member in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her first book of poetry, Chasing Light (poems from
Door County), was published in 2000. She is currently working on another book. Only 19 years old, Mary Durlin passionately
translates life through words in her poetry, prose and short stories. After majoring in literature for a year at
St. Norbert's College in DePere, she is taking a year off to write and explore life.
Sue DeKelver
is a freelance writer who lives on 20 acres of land in Southern Door County, where she cultivates herbs, vegetables,
flowers and poetry. Her work has appeared in Reader¹s Digest, Organic Gardening, Door County Magazine, The
Wisconsin Academy Review, Fox Cry and Comstock Review. She is a regular contributor to The Door Peninsula Voice,
Free Verse, The Valley Scene and the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar. Sue has received the Wisconsin Writers' Jade Ring
and the Byline Literary Award for poetry. She won Wisconsin Public Radio¹s first poetry slam and took second
place at the Door Community Auditorium Poetry Slam. Marsh River Editions published "Walnut from Waterloo",
her first chapbook, in April 2002. Her poems appear in several collections including waiting for poems and Between
the Sheets.
Proceeds from this special event will directly benefit Third Avenue Playhouse. Tickets for the performance are
only $12 each and are available at Mumbo Yo Yo, 139 North Third Avenue in downtown Sturgeon Bay or to make reservations
call the Third Avenue Playhouse box office at 920-743-1760. A Woman's Song: Women on Fire with Music & Poetry
is sponsored by The Print Shop of Sturgeon Bay, Café 242 and LfpDesign.
Third Avenue Playhouse, a not-for-profit organization, seeks to provide a high-quality, year-round, community arts
center in Door County that is a permanent home for educational ad community theater, music and dance groups, and
is available to schools, businesses and organizations. Events also include occasional professional entertainment
and films. TAP's primary focus is to inspire cultural awareness through workshops, classes and performance opportunities
before a live audience. For more information about Third Avenue Playhouse, call 920 743 1760 or visit www.ThirdAvenuePlayhouse.com.
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