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34 J « « M t » november IS. 2002 MUSIC Silent Auction Fundraiser! Saturday, Dec 7th 1 - 4:30 pm Enjoy 3 local Marimba bands from 1 to 6 pm Trinity United Methodist Church 3915 SE Steele Street at 39th Carol Reise makes a grown woman blush For more info or to donate, call (503) 471 -1555 or check our web page at www .georgenasjourney.org The Willamette Valley Mixed GALA Chorus Confluence Chorus cHome fo r the ^ofiifays S a t u r d a y , D e c e m b e r 7th at 8 p . m . U nitarian U n iv e rsa list C o n g re g a tio n of S a lem , 5 0 9 0 C e n te r St.. N E, Salem 6 T ick e ts $ 10 concert $25 season S u n d a y , D e c e m b e r 8th at 4 p . m . 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C o rn e r o f S andy Blvd. & N E 6 4 th 3 1 0 6 N E 6 4 th P o rtla n d , O R 9 7 2 1 3 DOWNTOWN @ 927 SW OAK • 226-8141 503 280 8080 hat is it paper bag. I was flat about Carol and sharp. My throat by K athy B elge Reise that was sir dry I could makes a have spit cotton grown woman blush? halls. I was so scared.” Those who saw her A week later she perform “Beaver” at mustered up the the Portland Gay courage to ask if she M en’s Chorus Adults could try again, and Only Cabaret might Dworschak agreed. he able to say, or She nailed the sec they might, like one ond audition and has unnamed audience been with the hand member, be too ever since. “She said tongue-tied to she flubbed it up,” respond. smiles Dworschak, Reises perform “but we thought she ance of the campy, was fine.” sexy rewrite of Peggy It’s clear Reise Lee’s “Fever” stopped and the swingsters the show, according are a gotxl match. “I to chorus director love singing with Tony Stroh. Becky the hand!" she effus Bilyeu, owner of es. “I love the big- Touchstone Coffee band sound. 1 feel House, was there and extremely fortunate claims the women in that I have the attendance really opportunity to sing enjoyed her number. with them and that “She was great— very they like me to sing sexy, very polished. with them. They’re She really ignited the such a fun group of audience.” people. I respect Reise herself gives them musically.” the crowd half the T he respect is credit. “The energy mutual. “T here’s a from the audience lot of great voices was great," she out there, hut she’s exclaims. “T he tim got such a great per ing was right on, and sonality,” asserts I could just feel it. Dworschak. They were stomping A few shows hack, the floors. If I can he Reise began bringing naughty and suggestive, her theater background it’s fun for me because I’m not really like that. into the act, and has turned what were dances It’s like playing another person.” into full productions. The November show will A horn performer, Reise knows how to feature a plate spinner, a magician, a baton work a room. “It actually began when I was in twirler and a professional dance team. Poison kindergarten, and I performed for the church Waters will be the mistress of ceremonies. Christmas pageant. 1 was just a little thing with Reise grew up in Hcrmiston, the middle missing teeth. 1 loved it because the audience child of a large family. Early influences were laughed." She’s been hooked ever since. the Ink Spots, N at King Cole and Peggy Lee. “I Reise spent many years in theater, perform heard Peggy Lee, and I fell in love," she gushes. ing in high school and in community theater But Billie Holiday was her biggest influence, in Salem. But what she loves most is when she she remembers. “How she would sing a song and can combine that skill with singing. slide around in it. It was as if she put this big W hen Reise was underage, she would don a blanket on and was so comfortable in the music.” cheap cocktail dress and sneak into piano bars. Reise lives in N orth Portland with her part Sliding up to the piano, she’d knock out songs ner of 13 years and a big fat cat. Her day job is and have a blast. as a nnit secretary for Legacy Good Samaritan “I’d have a couple of cocktails under my Hospital. But she thinks her true healing takes belt and get up and start singing. I’ll still do place at night. that. I’ll go anywhere there’s a piano bar.” “I hope that when I’m singing, I lighten somebody’s life— that they forget about their eise regularly performs with Rose City own life for a period of time. I love entertain Swing, a 16-piece subgroup of the Rose ing and making people happy.” J D City Gay Freedom Band. She and the hand perform the dance and variety show “A nother R ose C ity S w ing performs "Another Holiday Holiday Affair” Nov. 30. Affair'' 8 p.m . Nov. 30 at the Portland Metro Reise was “discovered” four years ago in a Club, 618 S.E. Alder St. Tickets are $10 from karaoke bar by Rose City Swing’s then director 503-790-2170 or Gai-Pied. Brenda Dworschak, who asked her to audition for the hand. K athy B elge is a free-lance writer who has two “I fell flat on my face," she claims. “I trem fat cats and a penchant for music. She can be bled with fear. I couldn’t sing my way out of a reached at kbelge@pacifier.com. R
