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Dyke spoken word artist will shake up the night
hrow in one part Alix Olson and one part
Ani DiFranco and you have Toronto-
based lesbian artist Evalyn Parry.
A la DiFranco, Parry runs her own
label, Ponygirl Records, and, like Olson, per-
forms queer-inflected spoken word and folk
music. She performs May 8 at Portland State
University’s Take Back the Night and May 11 at
the Mississippi Pizza Pub.
Parry spoke with Just Out about her creative
process, growing up Quaker, her new album and
why she’ll sing as a giant maxi pad.
Kelly Wallace: How did growing up
Q uaker shape your political and worldviews?
Evalyn Parry': Gave me a pretty hardcore
left-wing perspective from a very young age! And
taught me to speak my truth and he a leader. 1
think very early on 1 internalized the notion that
our place in the world as humans is essentially
about working for justice and equality for every
one. I definitely see my art as an extension of
that; it’s my way of speaking truth to power.
KW: O n your Web site you write, “ It was
during university that I started writing with
performance in mind: personal monologues,
comedy and performance poetry.” Can you
describe what that process was like?
EP: I was studying acting at university, hut I
started to realize I wasn’t satisfied by just saying
other people’s words; 1 had so many things I
wanted to say myself. So I started to write and
perform my own words, and people laughed, and
that was so fun! 1 wanted to make them laugh
again, and I discovered 1 like being myself on
stage more than I like trying to be someone else.
KW: Tell me about the album you just
released in M arch.
KW: W hat was your motivation for w rit
ing the song “ Always” ?
EP: This incredible advertisement I came
across for Always maxi pads, advertising one of
their new products with the slogan “Being a
woman just got better!” And 1 was like, well,
no kidding.. .and 1 started to imagine how I
could dress up as a pad and sing from her per
spective about how great it is to he a woman,
and 1 got this little jazzy tune in my head...and
“Always" was horn.
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KW: W hat can Take Back the Night-ers
look forward to at your performance?
EP: A singing maxi pad, ass-kickin’ politi
cal spoken word and songs, some laughs and a
Canadian perspective on matters of the
heart...all in all, a little fuel for your fire. J H
E valyn P arry appears 9:15 p.m. May 8 at
Smith Memorial Center, 1825 S.W. Broadway, as
p a rt of Portland State University’s Take Back the
Night. She performs 8 p.m. May 11 at the
Mississippi Pizza Pub, 3552 N . Mississippi Ave.
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EP: Unreasonable is my second album, and
the process of making it was amazing, so much
fun and so much learning. I feel like every level
of my being got expanded.... Now that it’s
made, I hope the result feeds and nourishes and
inspires those who listen to it.
The first album, Things That Should Be Warn
ings, was simpler, fewer instruments and musi
cians, less “production,” and 1 feel the songwrit-
ing, the craft was less developed. This second
album is the next step! I got to work with an
incredible producer this time around— Ken
Whiteley— he really challenged and inspired me
and brought so many new ideas to the tahle.
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