Savoring Life
Dreaming Big
Thinking Outside the Box
Touching Hearts
Meeting Legends
Finding True Love
Making History
Leaving A Legacy
Here's some fun photos I've taken downtown...
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Music
Love all music! Love those who are true MASTERS, love those who are new to the stage! I say let ALL music feed your soul! It's GOOD FOR YOU! As long as it's LOUD!
Movies
Make me laugh! I prefer music or comedy over anything else! Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous is my favorite movie ever! I love any movie with a former SNL cast member in it! I REALLY love Rock Operas and Concert Movies like The Wall, Tommy, Quadrophenia, Rattle & Hum, Bring On The Night, The Grateful Dead Movie and The Last Waltz. I love old musicals like Singin' In The Rain and Funny Girl and silly music movies like Dirty Dancing, Xanadu and Swing Kids.
Television
I'm a music television fanatic as you might guess. Love Inside The Actor's Studio, documentaries about the music business or entertainers' lives. Love live music on tv anytime I can get it like on The Daily Show, Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien, Ellen and Oprah.
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: In Progress
Major: Jazz Performance/Communications
Minor: Studio Recording and Engineering
Clubs: President and Co-Founder of Walford Collective, a student organization in charge of the school recording studio.
General Manager and News Director for 91.5 FM KSUN - the college radio station
Organizer and sound engineer of the 1st Annual "Day In The Sun" concert on the green. (10 bands, total chaos, awesome day!)
1994 to 1997
Napa Valley College
Napa,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Early Childhood Education
Minor: Theater Costuming and Set Design
Clubs: Performed in two on-stage productions:
"A Play Called Noah's Flood" and ""Dark of the Moon" .
1992 to 1994
Oregon City Senior Hs
Oregon City,Oregon
Graduated: 1983
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: "The Scarlet Brigade" Marching Band
"Free Spirit" Swing Choir
Sophomore Class Representative - Student Council
Relief Pitcher for girl's softball team (10th Grade only)
Stat girl for Boys Wrestling and Baseball
1980 to 1983
Carol's Companies
CBS Radio - 98-7 KUPL/106-7 K-HiTs Portland, OR US Full-time Disc Jockey Morning News Anchor
In the late 80's I sang and played guitar in local Portland band Deténte Touch. Back then, I went by the name Ursela D and had real big hair (we're talkin' Aqua Net baby!) and a whole lot of spandex, lace and leather. I absolutely LOVE to reminisce about local rock history!
One of my favorite things in life is running into the old rockers who played those wonderful nightclubs that no longer exist...(Remember The Long Goodbye, The Last Hurrah, Eli's and Key Largo? Those were the days!)
I can sum up the rest of my life pretty quickly. Rock band fizzles. The 80s come to an end. Girl meets boy, they have child. Move to California. Marriage fizzles, mom raises child. Goes to college, gets a clue and finds a renewed passion in this amazing box that started it all back in the 70s. RADIO. Yes, I too grew up a devoted fan of Super 62 and Keep on KISN and couldn't turn KGON up loud ENOUGH when I was driving my '66 Chevy Malibu!
Meanwhile, I've held every minimum wage job known to man I think. Every fast food place, every convenience store, child care, secretary, receptionist, supervisor, whatever you can think of I did it to pay the rent. That was legal of course! The most interesting job I've held was at world music record label Tinder Records as publicist for several international artists. (Have you ever heard of Cheb Mami, Fatal Mambo, Daúde, Sally Nyölo, Son 14, Orquésta La Moderna Tradición, Karnak, Papi Oviedo, Montefiori Cocktail or Henri Dikongé?) The cushiest job I've ever had was as film critic for syndicated web portal UncleWebster.com. Yes I was actually paid for a whole year to sit on my keester and eat popcorn while taking notes in a movie theater! Trust me, it showed!
The end of the 90s and my big break came as a fill-in news anchor during morning drive on the #1 station in Santa Rosa, KZST. That eventually evolved into jock work and a weekend show. From there I found a lot more hours and a second family at Santa Rosa news/talk station KSRO. For four years I wore a number of hats and had very few days off... morning news producer, producer of the extremely popular 3-hour afternoon show, DJ on the sister classic rock station... while I also ran the promotions department AND was sole operator/producer on location for all live weekend talk shows and station appearances. Exhausting, but an incredible way to learn the ropes!
Now I'm 43 years old, my son is raised and on his own and I've since relocated back home to the City of Roses where I've never felt more alive and happy. I came aboard CBS country station 98-7 KUPL in 2005 and was eventually brought on board to also cover morning news for K-Hits 106-7 with some of the most memorable radio legends from my childhood!
Sadly, corporate cutbacks sent me into the unemployment line this past August. I miss my job and my coworkers like crazy but I recently kept myself busy with LOUD ROCK-n-ROLL as rhythm guitarist for AMERICAN THIGHS, Portland's All Girl AC/DC Tribute Band. I'm planning to put my own band together soon so I can work on my original material for gigging next year.
If you wanna see some of the other stuff I'm doing online, there's a few fun places to check out:
Hey there, if you haven't already rated the first 5 songs from my new album, please do. The next 5 will go up later this week and the first 5 will come down until the album is released in September.
You are awesome!!! Thanks for being a friend!!! Wrapped Up In Me is #42 on the New Music Weekly Country Main Chart!!!! I am also #21 on the top 30 Indie Chart this week!!! It is on radio stations across the nation, you can request it now!!!!! Love ~Susan www.susanhickman.com
Come check out our Arts & Music Festival this weekend! June 26 - 28, 2009 in downtown Molalla at 123 E. Ross St. Free admission to browse over 20 artist booth spaces, concessions and kids hands-on art projects. Only $5.00 charge to beer / wine garden and main stage entertainment area. Featuring the music of Piedmont Boys, Second Hand Buzz, Nobody's Bizness, Aspen Meadow, Rodeo Rose, Trent Beaver & Joe Gibson and Fall to Faith. For more information call (503) 759-5372.
Please tell your friends! Help us spread the word!
Coming Summer 2009… New Music! Character Blogs & Videos! & The Jazz Hands Across America Campaign A National Campaign to Bring Show Choirs Together in Harmony
Wrapped Up In Me is now #42 on the New Music Weekly Country Main Chart and #21 on the Indie top 30 Chart!!! On radio stations across the nation, you can request it NOW!!!!! Love ~Susan www.susanhickman.com
JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST TIME IN VANCOUVER, WA! WE'LL BE AT THE ICEHOUSE THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH AND 20TH. IT WILL BE ONE OF ONLY TWO PORTLAND AREA DATES THIS SUMMER!
Hey, I've got a new acoustic demo up of my song "Snapshot Chronicles" up now. Feel free to listen, comment, and if you like it tell your friends. If not, that's cool too.
Hey how's it going? I hope all is well in your world; I'm sending all the good energy I can your way. :)
I'm planning to come up there end of July to do some house party shows, semi-acoustic, just looking for someone to host it.
-Sharelle
Wrapped Up In Me is on radio stations across the Nation this month. Request it NOW at your local radio station! Hope you have a great week!!! Love, ~Susan www.susanhickman.com
Come out and just enjoy the show, or jump in and participate (liquid courage available at the bar!). Do you or your friends have something to share with us?
Just got confirmation today that the new music from my next album will definitely be available to preview before anyone can buy it, through the "New Music Sneak Peak" tool on my site tomorrow. www.TravisRush.com/NewMusic.
Friday May 1 Granada Theatre 223 E. 2nd Street The Dalles, OR 97058 GORGEGRANADA.COM This is going to be a show you wont want to miss!! The Granada is great old theatre in the Dalles, OR, once the last stop on the Oregon Trail for early pioneers. The Granada is known far and wide as having the best acoustics west of the Mississippi. Seats still available but going fast!! Select all ages tickets available as well! full bar w id! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!!
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