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PORTLAND LESBIAN CHOIR
10 am-8 pm Every day
Sat, April 22nd, 8 pm • Pine Street Theatre
Tickets $ 9 Advance / $11 Door
232-9051
Available at A Women's Place Hookstore
For Information call 281 4635
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Dianne Davidson
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ducing Davidson’s album-touting concert on
March 31 at Northwest Service Center.
“ Well this is a real thrill for me,” said
Luckett, “ Because I was just dearly in love with
this woman at the tender age of 11. We were at
he’s been compared to the likes of Diane
4-H camp and I followed her every where carry­
Schuur and Linda Ronstadt, and she has
ing her guitar case for her. I like to say I was
recorded with artists ranging from B. B. King to Dianne’s first groupie.”
Barry Manilow. But try to classify rather than
Luckett kept track of Davidson through a
compare Olivia artist Dianne Davidson and you
mutual friend.
will have more trouble. Davidson is a singer,
“ And I said to her one day, ‘Where’s Dianne
songwriter, musician, producer-performer who
Davidson these days?’ And my friend said,
says she does not care if you classify her as
‘Well, she’s on the women’s music circuit.’ I
blues, rock, country, folk, or “ field and
just laughed and knew I’d been right on twenty -
stream.” Davidson’s trademark is not singing
three years ago.”
within a particular genre, but rather an ability to
When Olivia needed a producer for David­
sing from the heart with shattering intensity.
son’s Portland concert, she told them about
Breaking All The Rules, Davidson’s first al­
Luckett. Olivia contacted Luckett and hence,
bum on Olivia’s Second Wave label might not
the work began.
break all the rules, but it certainly bends a few.
“ I love producing events. Most of the work
Her husky vocals on Willie Dixon’s “ Built for
I’ve done to date has been for benefits — so this
Comfort” to her sensitive interpretation of
isn’t a new experience for me, but it is a differ­
Jennifer W ames' “ Song of Bernadette” to her
ent angle — but I always get so much help and
own gospel-drenched original, “ Heaven Bound”
encouragement that I’d be a fool not to do this.”
show this Tennessee woman’s boundless talent.
Tickets for Dianne Davidson are available at
This month, Davidson will be visiting an old
A Woman’s Place Bookstore.
friend, Donna Luckett, who will also be pro­
— K.C. de Gutes
Portland playwright
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Los Angeles production of Portland
playwright Michael S. Reed’s seven
Sundays has received accolades from critics,
and nominations and awards from Los Angeles
area press.
seven Sundays, first produced in Portland in
1986, tells the story of a relationship which
develops between a gay man with AIDS and a
“ pal” who visits him in the final weeks of
his life.
Reed’s play received seven Dramalogue
awards, including outstanding achievement in
acting, direction, production, and playwriting.
seven Sundays won nomination for best play of
1988 from the LA Weekly. More than 700 new
plays were produced in Los Angeles last year
and seven Sundays was one of three to be
nominated for best play. It has been also
nominated in this category by The Dispatch, a
gay newspaper in Los Angeles.
New productions of seven Sundays will be
mounted in San Francisco and Long Beach this
month. The San Francisco production will be at
Grace Cathedral.
While he is finishing a new play. Reed will
take a break from writing his column “ Tribal
Drum,” which has appeared in Just Out for
almost two years. We wish him well.
— Jay Brown
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»March 1989