Beth Cahill is a songwriter/wanderer who has found her own voice. It is at times intimate, at other times explosive. It can be joyful, soothing and even forlorn - but it is always unique and it is always true.
In performance, she is a storyteller weaving her love of travel, food, music and irony into an engaging narrative. The audience is taken on a journey - from the desert of west Texas, to an Andean mountain village, to a gas station in northern Ontario.
Along the road, Beth has been invited to appear at, among other places, : The Kerrville Folk Festival, Festival Memoire et Racines, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the PBS syndicated television show The Texas Music Café and WFMT's Folkstage. She has been a Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Finalist and has also been fortunate to share the stage with some great artists including: Eliza Gilkyson, Jack Hardy, Jeff Lang and Maura O'Connell.
She now calls Wakefield, Quebec home, but tours extensively across North America; both as a solo artist and as part of the way-cool folk trio - The Malvinas. She is presently working on a new solo project which is scheduled to be released in 2008 on the Soona Songs label!
September is thyroid cancer awareness month (a subject near and dear to my vocal cords...papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, 1993)
The thyroid is this amazing little (butterfly-shaped) gland that wraps around your vocal cords and regulates your metabolism (among other things...)
SOME FACTS
* Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer. Thyroid cancer is a cancerous tumor or growth located within the thyroid gland. * Thyroid cancer is one of the few cancers that has increased in incidence rates over the past several years. There are expected to be 11% more new cases in 2008 than in 2007 in the United States. * The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be about 37,340 new cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. in 2008. Of these new cases, about 28,410 will occur in women and about 8,930 will occur in men. About 1,590 people (910 women and 680 men) will die of thyroid cancer in 2008. * Many patients, especially in the early stages of thyroid cancer, do not experience symptoms. However, as the cancer develops, symptoms can include a lump or nodule in the front of the neck, hoarseness or difficulty speaking, swollen lymph nodes, difficulty swallowing or breathing, and pain in the throat or neck. * There are several types of thyroid cancer: papillary, follicular, medullary, anaplastic, and variants.
Congrats on the regional finalist award in Canada Writes. No suprise to those of us who get to sing your stuff. See you in a few weeks. Have you got water yet?
What a treat it was to have you here in April. Things are calmer without a festival breaking out every 5 minutes. Come back soon! I want the Car Car song.
Howdy from Texass-
Made it home safe & sound in spite of the tiny-ass commuter plane they stuck me on for the first leg of the trip. That's the only time I ever needed a glass of wine (and two dramamine) to get me through a flight without a claustrophia attack. Next time I drive. And how are the doggies doin? I trust the giantess is taller than when you left?
I hope your drive was uneventful my dear, and that this note finds you with your feet up, gazing out the window on your magnificent river.
Hi, Beth. I am so looking forward to your April foray through Louisiana. I just finished translating the Malvinas bio into French. I love my job! Bonjour à la famille!
Hey, thanks for the add. I missed you and the Malvinas in 2005 at Kerrville, but I did get your CD. Great music... looking forward to the next one too.
