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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 2003)
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Sunday, November 23 Hollywood Theatre Join us as Just Out celebrates 20 years of community. by K athy B elge allin^all burned-out Nocial workers, peace activists and union organizers: Anne Weiss invites vou to her Oct. 11 concert tor a little rejuvenation. The 41-year-old bisexual singer believes music is a way tor people to celebrate and 1 connect with each other. Citing a quote from anarchist Emma Goldman. “ It I can’t dance, 1 don’t want to be parr ot vour revolution,” Weiss savs she often sees activists fighting against injustices, and when they don’t have a positive vision to move toward, they just bum out. She hopes her folk-, blues- and gospel-fused music can help create that positive vision. The guitarist and pianist has lived in Portland for nine years, but before that Music is not a “ one-dimensional she spent about 10 on the road, a self- experience” to Anne Weiss. See her described political hobo. Weiss hitch Oct. 11 at Alberta Street Pub. hiked cross-country with friends at 16 after reading Jack Kerouac’s On the Rood. And she tries to carry that tradition forward. Although she had always been somewhat of “For me, my most successful concerts are when an activist, her time on the road solidified it. the music is reallv gcxxJ, but also when people “Most of it was reallv lovely,” she says. “It was feel uplifted and connected to each other," she an opportunity to fall in love with the world explains. “When it’s not just me up on the stage and a really good reason to want to preserve it.” doing something hut helping to create some After her initial trip, her travels became thing among all the people that are there.” more focused. She helped organize political Weiss names Dar Williams and Catie Curtis movements tor peace and justice in the United as friends and has shared the stage with the likes States and Central America, all the while singing and writing songs. of Joan Baez and Ani DiFranco. Also recognized as a pixrt, Weiss published Weiss has lived in a cave in New Mexico, a hxik of poetry, Milking Paper from Leaves, traveled through Central America, met a her last year. mit and lived among Native Americans in the Southwest and farmers in France. She stayed 1 ler CD release concert tor Braille last Febru with a motorcycle gang and a family with 10 ary at Alberta Street Public House was one ot kids in Oklahoma. “You would meet people her first times playing with a full hand. “I had and have all kinds ot preconceived notions many people come up to me and said they hadn't about them— and they would be undone,” she heard ot me...and that they walked in feeling notes. “And that was an exceptional and beau • down, and they were walking out very up." tiful experience.” Weiss describes herself as visually impaired A full-time professional musician, most ot and, although she doesn’t read Braille, she her traveling these days is for performances or hopes her music reaches out hevond the five to reach guitar workshops. But, even there, she senses. Music is not, she says, “a one- finds unique ways to connect with communi dimensional experience. It’s a sensual experi ties. One of her favorites is through small ence. It you write well and play well and try to house concerts. “You really get to meet the layer it in many different ways, it has a texture community where you’ve gone. Something spe that people can experience.” JH cial comes out of it.” At one house concert in upstate New York, ANNE W eiss fterfemns 8 p.m. Oct. 11 at Alberta i some ot the audience members decided to form Street Public House, 1036 N.E. Alberta St., with the a blues band. Weiss gave them pointers to get Feel This Band. Admission is $6~$12 sliding scale. them started. “You feel like you’re leaving something behind that’s positive,” she adds. K athy B elge is your Guide to Lesbian Life at www. lesbianlife .about, com. eiss grew up in a diverse New York City neighborhixxl where she says people often played music on the street. Her family was musical, and she began taking piano lessons at age 3 and performed at a church coffeehouse at age 11. She has always been attracted to musicians who try to better the world. “A lot of the folks who inspired me were involved with peace and human rights and gay rights and all that stuff," she savs. Her earlv influences were Aretha Franklin. Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown and older blues artists like B.B. King and Sippy Wallace. She is inspired by musicians who use music as a way to have a positive impact on the world. W
