Brenda Sutton, Teresa Powell and Dr. Mary Crowell make up the current performing incarnation of the band Three Weird Sisters. Founding member, Gwen Knighton, has wed the love of her life and is now living across the pond in London, England. While Gwen is still an official member of the band, distance prevents her attendance at most current shows.
All of the women write music and sing, specializing in their own distinctive brand of harmony. Brenda Sutton, an acclaimed bodhran player, also brings guitar and congas to the mix. Teresa Powell plays electric upright bass, guitar, and the notorious vibroslap. Dr. Mary Crowell, pianist extraordinaire, has also been known to play harmonica and clarinet when the mood strikes her. Gwen Knighton is an award-winning Scottish wire harper. Sometimes, when the moon is full, and Mercury is not in retrograde, and when all of the sisters are on the same continent, Gwen is able to join them, and even more beauty ensues.
Three Weird Sisters play the folk clubs, music fests, gatherings, and conventions near their home base of Atlanta, Georgia. They've branched out with appearances as far away as Los Angeles, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Columbus, Ohio as the Guests of Honor for OVFF 2001 (the Ohio Valley Filk Fest.), where they were recipients of a Pegasus Award for Best Performer. In 2005, they were honored to perform to an enthusiastic audience at the 63rd Annual World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland.
In 2001, the Sisters released their debut CD, Rite the First Time, which has gone through its second pressing, and has received excellent reviews and radio play in the US, Canada, UK, Virgin Islands, Norway, and even Romania! Their second CD, Hair of the Frog, was released in 2004. The Three Weird Sisters are now in production on their upcoming album, Third Thyme’s the Charm, which will be the first album to include the musical talents of Dr. Mary Crowell.
Together these women make a unique blend of instruments and voices described as "what the Carter family would have sounded like if they'd done filk / folk / Celtic / blues / insert music type." They love singing together, and that's evident in the delivery of their material. Come listen to them and you too may become a "Weirdo" for Three Weird Sisters.
Filkers are strange. When you're a filker, your penchant for puns is a thing to be feared. Your songbooks are stacked six feet high in the corner; Your hero's named Fish and your sisters are Weird. When you filk, whether subtle or bawdy or "cute" When you filk, there's no genre you will not loot for a filk, for a filk, for a Filk....
I was at Archon last year and didn't know my favorite new Sisters were playing! Hope to see you all again, and soon. Your friend from Oklahoma, David Lee.
Hey Ho! Thanks for the add and it was really lovely to work with you, meet you and more importantly, get to hear you~ Love your harmonies! your buds Merlyn & Harry :)
