Catherine Kidd: writer, performer; DJ Jack Beets: he makuh de beets; David Cronkite: music for Dream of Friends; and others have passed through to help also: Georges Kandalaft, Geoff Agombar, Taien Chan...
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Catherine Kidd’s performance style makes me think of Dr. Seuss meets Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom meets David Suzuki meets Vaudeville meets Patti Smith. Yeah, it is that good. It’s a musical theatre crash course in punk rock zoology.
-- T.L. Cowan for the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival 2006
"Tom Waits dissolved in a lime margarita," Alan Hindle, Only
Catherine Kidd is a touring writer/performer based in Montreal, Quebec and Port George, Nova Scotia, and author of the novel "Missing the Ark". Her cd/book of performed stories Sea Peach was launched as a solo show in 2002, and won the MECCA for Best New Text 2003. Described as “an adult blend of Dr. Seuss and Aesop’s Fables,” Sea Peach traveled to music, theatre, and literary festivals in Cape Town, Singapore, Bavaria, Oslo, Edinburgh, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, Whitehorse, and many points between.
Kidd's short-story Green-Eyed Bean, excerpted from her first novel, was nominated for the prestigious Journey prize, while her voice can be heard narrating video game villains, museum displays, documentaries, commercials and air safety messages.
the portable conundrum. Anthology of conundrum press creators. Edited & Published by Andy Brown. Story: Niagara Falls. Montreal: conundrum press, 2006
The Journey Prize Stories. Selected by James Grainger & Nancy Lee. Story:
Green-Eyed Beans. Originally published in Matrix magazine. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005.
Bipolar Bear. Book/DVD. Prose and performance-poetry. Music by Jack Beets and David Cronkite. Montreal: conundrum press, 2005
Inspired Lives. Article The Origami of Found Objects, p. 263. Originally published in Ascent magazine. Toronto: Timeless publications, 2005.
Sea Peach. Seven performance-stories with cd. Music by Jack Beets. Montreal: conundrum press, 2002.
Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. Todd Swift & Philip Norton, edit. Intro. by Hal Niedzviecki. Poem: Tale of the Horse Leech, p. 207. New York: Rattapallax Press, 2002.
side/lines: A New Canadian Poetics. Rob McLennan, edit. Story Happy the Ghost Boy.
Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002.
Ribsauce: a cd/anthology of words by women. Taien Ng-Chan edit. Alex Boutros & Kaarla Sundström, sound edit. Performance-poem Tale of the Horse Leech. Montreal: Véhicule Press & Wired on Words, 2001
Impure: Reinventing the Word. Victoria Stanton & Vincent Tinguely, edit. The theory, practice, and oral history of ‘spoken word’ artists in Montreal: conundrum press, 2001.
This Magazine. Short-story Aeroplane Bones. Mar-Apr Issue, Volume 33 No. 5. Toronto: Red Maple Foundation, 2000.
Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre. Edna Alford, Don McKay, Rhea Tregebov, and Rachel Wyatt edit. Short-story Tympanic Membrance. Banff Centre Press: 1998.
Moosehead Anthology &035;6. R.E.N. Allen and Grant Loewen, edit. Poems Eros & Pathos and Scales of an Orange. Montreal: DC Books, 1997.
everything I know about love I learned from taxidermy. Chapbook of performance/stories with cassette. Montreal: conundrum press, 1996.
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<br />Burning burning I drift and tread
<br />Love’s painted my body blood red
<br />I’m not in my senses nor mad
<br />Come see what love has done to me
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<br />Now and then like the winds I blow
<br />Now and then like the roads I go
<br />Now and then like the floods I flow
<br />Come see what love has done to me
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<br />Hold my hand lead me from this place
<br />Or take me into your embrace
<br />You make me weep, make me rejoice
<br />Come see what love has done to me
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<br />Yearning I roam from land to land
<br />In each tongue I ask for the Friend
<br />Ever a stranger, no one understands
<br />Come see what love has done to me
Cat, Thanks for visiting our MySpace site and being our new friend. We hope that all is well in your life. Black Angel will be releasing our third album in two years on Earth Day April 22, 2009. It is called "O' San Francisco". We asked Tiffany Lowe, granddaughter of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash (and daughter of country singer, Carlene Carter, and British rocker, Nick Lowe) to sing on the album. The top picture below is of Tiffany in the studio recording with us. The album is dedicated to a close associate of Black Angel who recently died who was a big Johnny Cash fan. We also have former Johnny Cash drummer, Danny Darling, playing on the album. We hope to be touring soon and we may be playing shows with former Black Angel singer, Audrey (Mrs. Ike) Turner. The bottom picture is of Black Angel playing at The Roxy in Los Angeles a few years ago with (left to right): Tomeka Haywood; me; Audrey Turner; and Ronnie Turner (son of Ike and Tina Turner on bass). Please check us out when we come to your town.
J. C. Martin Black Angel Santa Barbara, California
A new collection of Comic/Nonsense Verse, For Children, called, ‘Please Do Not Encourage This Nonsense by Purchasing this Book: Poems By Paul H. Tubb’, is available for purchasing.
23 Poems Not about Football, 11 that are about Football and 5 limericks. Paul H. Tubb has put these together, with some illustrations, into a handy book form so that they can be read at anyone’s leisure. Funny Rhyming poems that will delight Children of all ages. Poems about subjects such as Strange Christmas’s, Tone Deaf Dentists and the worlds worst stuntman among others. To learn more, please click on the link below.
Thank you for adding me into your circle of friends. Blessings my friend.<br /><br />As I Wait<br /><br />By listening to the sounds<br />carried on the breeze,<br />feeling the warm eddies<br />of air dancing nearby,<br />I know what season is in the air.<br />I shall not wait, my love,<br />to sow seeds<br />at the Harvest moon,<br />for I wish to be early<br />at your door.<br />I will stand there patiently <br />just to see your beauty<br />emerge into view.<br />If I missed our date<br />or was a moment too late<br />to see the love in your eyes,<br />I would weep forever more.<br />I must appear a forlorn sight,<br />as I wait, unflinching,<br />day and night, hunger<br />fighting for my attention. <br />The scent of your heavenly perfume<br />reaches my eager senses<br />long before I see<br />the door knob turn.<br /><br />- Eric Rhodes 2009
Bonjour Cat<br /><br />La Galaxie d'Alexis est un rassemblement musical mensuel à L'ALIZÉ.<br /><br /><br />À chaque mois, on retrouve Alexis Arbour aux côtés de différents invités.<br /><br />Ce mois ci Anic Proulx, Guajira, Fatal , Stephane mercier de Normétal (star académie #1) et le ALEXIS ARBOUR BAND <br /><br /><br />C'est aussi l'occasion de rencontrer d'autres fans de musique ainsi que des gens du milieu musical. Venez faire le party, venez faire de vous, une étoile de plus dans la Galaxie.<br /><br />
Hello Catherine! Thank you for getting in touch and it's my pleasure to be friends with you again!! You are a very talented lady and I wish you all the success in the world. Please do stay in touch. Love Bertie.
Hi Cat - and Happy New to you too! Sometime I hope we get to meet but it's not likely to be in the UK this year because I now live in South Africa - but anytime you're here please give me a shout! All the best for 2009: it's off to a decent start with Obama, I think. Harry
Happy New year to you! I have been greatly enjoying Downward Facing Dog and your video. I will return to listen and view more. Please let me know when you're in the UK.
Hi Cat. Happy New Year to you too, belated though it is. Not me doing a gig in London - that'll be my father, Michael, who started out gigging in the late 50s as one of the British beats and jazz poets. Let me know when you're in the UK - would be good to say hi and hear you read. Best, Adam
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