SPOTLIGHT... SONGSTRESS ADRIENNE NIGHTINGALE's Community Empowerment and Education Through the Arts Project . You can experience her work as the founder of this non-profit agency through her pictures and journals of HIV education in Kenya and other projects at... MYSPACE and WEBSITE Adrienne is a bright light in the world... she is worth knowing, listening to, and definitely worth parting with a few dollars (or more) to help her give herself to this important work.
Sprinkle Roots-Rock seeds with Traditional County soil Nourish with Folk compost Set in the hot sun of the Delta Blues Water generously with 70's Singer-Songwriters Spritz leaves with 90's Girl Grunge Transplant to INDIE container scratched with the words FEMINIST and CHILD OF THE EARTH Ignore in corner of patio and see if it survives
The journey began with being hauled around Fairbanks, Alaska with a saving grace of summers at her Grandparents in the mountains where everyone played guitar and banjo. Anna spent lots of time alone in the woods, the snow, cabins, apartments, the ladies restroom lounge at her Mom's work, and under tables at Laundromats, singing songs mostly in her head but sometimes out loud to the trees and animals. She was moved at 7 to an organic-farming chicken-raising no-electricity alfalfa farm on the Snake River in Huntington, Oregon where open space, juniper trees, a hillside junk pile, abandoned animal corals and lilac bushes created fond memories but homemade ketchup, squash, and headless chickens running around the front yard did not. She secretly memorized all the songs in her Mom's record collection. A year later she was moved to oh-so-dairy farms Wisconsin, living in small towns up and down the Mississippi River. She would fall asleep every night imagining singing the songs on the radio. At 14 she hitched a trucker route to California, returning in four months to move to upstate New York, then Montreal, where she turned 16, had her first broken heart and wrote lots of bad poetry. She was packed up, moved to Chicago, and forced to finish a terribly boring high school in the suburbs before escaping to the City. She started playing guitar but only some Bob Dylan songs, and liked to lay down on the wood floor of her apartment with all the lights off to sing along to Billie Holiday. She was going to college for no good reason, working at an ungodly hour of the morning for an even worse reason so at 21 snow-shoveled her car in and out of a parking spot for the last time, packed up a '77 Pontiac Grand Prix & headed out to California to stay, except for a 3-year Reno, Nevada sojourn a while back. Fast forward to today where she lives in various abodes in SoCal and has adopted Bucksworth's lyric "get poor slowly, not far from the coast", is totally into organic farming, and never kills chickens. The rest is in the songs.
WUT IT DO? IF IM NOT IN YOUR TOP LIST I SHOULD BE! MAKE SURE YOU REQUEST THIS SINGLE ON YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL RADIO STATION AND HOLLA BACK. COME HEAR THE NEW STREETBANGER "WORK". I KEEP THE TRAP BUNKIN. HOLLA AT ME
The DOCKSIDE grill offers the best seafood, steak, and house specialties along with great music from some of the best blues, reggae, classic rock, and cover bands in the San Gabriel valley. Come see what everyone's talking about!!!
Thank you for the friendship and the good music, as well as the beautiful compositions and the good rythmic, the terrific piano and guitar,and big emotion and the magnificent voices.Sound and very well-kept arrangement. Beautiful and long musical journey.
hope i'm still in your good graces...we miss you here in Ghosttown...come out 9/28 to the Talking Stick unless you're gigging or elsewhere and celebrate me 56 candles on the cake....would love to hear you sing a tune or two....sending good energy your way...lots of ch-ch-ch-changes!
Come join us for the 2nd annual Rock Around The Park™ Rockabilly / Psychobilly day at Disneyland on Saturday, November 14, 2009!
We also have The Rock Around The Park Jamboree™ bands and burlesque at The Juke Joint in Anaheim, CA on Friday, November 13, 2009 with The Rocketz, Rip Carson, No Dice, Dizzy Von Damn! burlesque, KimberLee Rose burlesque and DJ Remy Voodoo!
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