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Feminist folk singer, Ani DeFran
co, (above) will be among many
women performing at the
Willamette Valley Folk Festival
nett weekend. Laura Kemp
(right) has joined up with three
musclans to create a new "folk
rock" quartet
Women will highlight festival music
Acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussion instru
ments and well-polished harmonies create a
mi* ol muscal styles, each very individual, from
the women of the Willamette Valley Folk Festival this
year
The festival features many women's bands and
soloists May 21 -23
The sounds ol Cheralee Dillon, Laura Kemp. Mor
gan and Phelan. Joanne Rand. Suzi KaU and Am
DiFranco torm a range ot musical styles from (oik,
blues, gospel, and rock that combine politics and
poetry to bang the audience through a lull range of
emotions
Morgan and Phelan star! it off for the women's
groups a! 2 p m . May 21 These women have been
playing together since 1980, pertormmg lot thou
sands ot school age children around the country,
introducing them to traditional lolk music and stones.
"Morgan and Phelan's original songs and selected
anthems were gentle, inspiring and totally involving.
Their performance skill are as strong as their musi
cal talents and the message they convey " (Joan
Franklin. Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA ). Their
performances include guitars, mountain dulcimers,
mandolin and keyboards lot the instrumental mtlu
ence to their traditionally based original music
Cheralee Dillon, a Wues and gospel influenced lolk
singer, starts at 1 p m Saturday, May 2? She recent
ly released her first full-length cassette album titled.
Old t Love Son.js She presents a viewpoint that
could be taken as deepiy feminist, although that term
does not imply "man-hating."
Some of her terrific lines include "Maybe she'll get
a )0b selling crystals, and reading the tarot to her
father's mistress make a fortune in karma then bolt
lor the door up to the mountain where she'e never
been before .''
Sunday. May 23 at 5 p m . the Laura Kemp Band
plays Singer'Songwriter Laura Kemp has joined up
with three musicians to create an ail new "Folk rock”
quartet, home grown in Oreg, n s Willamette Valley
Their sounds range Irom folk to bines grass to coun
try swing
Kemp has been described as "a musical poet, the
words accompanying her muse show unique insight
and an ability to paint vivid lyrical pictures.” Kemp
'Morgan and Phelan’s original
songs and selected anthems were
gentle, inspiring and totally
involving. ’
Joan Franklin
Newton Arts Center spokesman
also has a new album out with ten fine originals with
such themes as love, relocating, violence overseas
and at home
Sunday. May 23 at 7 p m., Joanne Rand starts with
her five piece Little Big Band Her unique, progres
sive-folk-rock style is a blend of genres from ethnic
to classical, from indigenous to avant garde.
Her work goes beyond performance into the realm
of "earth-healer," and has taken her to the Amazon
Rainforest to record the music of the native people
and help spread their message of resistance
"Joanne Rand’s singing raises your hair — elegance
and fierceness in the same deep breath ” (Gary Sny
der, Pulitzer Prize winning author).
Powerful feminist performer. Am DiFranco, will be
singing on the EMU main stage at 8 p.m May 21
Her music is considered by many as alarmingly pre
cise m content and beautifully convincing in sound
DiFranco was born and raised in Buffalo. New York
and has been traveling thoughout the nation for three
years, spreading her message m music as she goes
She has a soft, friendly nature, but her words often
reveal a different attitude with forceful melodies
At 22 years of age, DiFranco has made it far in her
career, with three albums released and a lot of musi
cal talent developed to provoke arid encompass audi
ences. luring them to listen while she performs
All ol these women will create their own unique
presence at the festival Two women, Suzi Katz and
Laura Kemp, will also be teachma a workshop on
songwnting called "Songwriters in the Round" Sat
urday at noon. These women along with many.oth
er styles and creations of musical taient will perform
during the festival to entertain and touch all who
attend
Teresa Isabelle
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