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42 jMSt QU* July 1.2005 DIVERSIONS ▼ Pittock Party PABA at the Pittock Invitation to a Summer Fling at Pittock Mansion 3229 NW Pittock Drive Libations, food, music, prizes, friends, and most importantly... YOU When: Thursday July 21, 6-10 PM Catering by Jake's Music by Magic Moments Cost: $40 until July 21 $50 at the door (per person) Reservations www.paba.com. Or mail a check to PABA, PO Box 6344, Portland, Oregon 97228 PORTLAND AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION Your GLBT Chamber of Commerce www.paba.com Ovezzfru Cycle (7 Works Profesional Service Comfortable Bikes Recumbents a Specialty! {COME. SEE WHY!) Open Iuc'Jux-*iunJas 2>0-772 > 2025 SE Flawthorn«. Goin back to Cali won Kith 2004’s Independent Music Award and the 2004 Outmusic Award for Best New Album, the three queers were signed to Daemon Records, an independent label created by Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. When the Indigo Girls subsequently invited the band to join them on the road, Girlyman received standing ovations at nearly every show and sold so many CDs, the label had to make two emer gency shipments to keep up with the demand. Since then, the buzz aK>ut Girlyman has grown to a low roar. It recently performed on the internationally syndicated radio show from- www.oregonzoo.org or Tickets West. —Jodi Darby For chose of you who can’t afford the trek to Michigan, consider the Northern California Prepare to laugh Women’s Music Festival Aug. 26 to 28 at the Skip your ab-busting crunch routine or Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, about 150 miles north of San Francisco. you’ll be too sore to belly laugh at the irrever ent comedy stylings of Lisa Koch. The three-day, two-night event is for This Seattle comedian blends music and women only, with the exception of boys up to theater with her solo act and hints at appear the age of 6. It will be centered on 40 private ances from her favorite characters, including acres nestled among old-growth oak and bay Sister Mary Agnes, a repressed nun who enjoys laurel trees and rolling hills in the heart of Mendocino County. discipline, and Nurse Julie, who does triple duty The site is furnished with a full kitchen, flush toilets, showers, RV parking (no hookups) and 18 teepees. It is accessible for dis abled people, and the festival will have a dedicated crew for disabled services. The land can accommodate 400 people, and tickets must be reserved in advance by calling 866-468-3399 or visiting www.ticketweb.com. Prices are $120 general admission, $95 for women 55 and older, $55 for girls 7 to 14 years old and free for kids 6 and younger. Meals can also be purchased in advance at a sub stantial discount. Artists booked so far include Gwen Avery, Sonya Heller, Nacha Mendez, Carolyn Brandy, Martin Moran recalls three years of sexual abuse in 77ie Tricky Part. Regina Wells, Prunella Sisters, Druid Sisters Tea Party, Alice DiMicele, Mountain Stage and received dazzling reviews in at a full-service women’s health clinic, juice bar Sherry Glaser, Copper Wimmin, Gushikawa, dozens of national publications. In addition to and cabaret. Linda Rose Stonestreet, Diane Patterson and appearances at the Winnipeg and Boston Folk Koch (pronounced “Coke”) has been the Mendocino Women’s Choir. For more Festivals, Girlyman was voted “Most Wanted to described as the love child of Bette Midler, Lily information visit www.norcalwomensmusic.org. Return” at the prestigious Falcon Ridge Folk Tomlin and Karen Carpenter. She has released —Jim Radosta Festival. three solo recordings (Both of Me, Colorblind Girlyman s second CD, Little Star, released Blues and You Make My Pants Pound and other in May, picks up where Remember Who I Am show tunes...), is one-half of hilarious Seattle Surviving sexual abuse ’ left off. With soaring three-part harmonies and sketch comedy duo Dos Fallopia (My Breasts The retelling of gay actor Martin Moran’s catchy, haunting melodies, the 12 original Are Out of Control, Pretty Girls, Not Too Bright) first sexual experience delves into the paradox songs are tied together by themes of love and and is an alum of cult quartet Venus Envy (I'll es of human relationships. His first sexual expe war. Throughout the disc, the rience is wrought with beauty and pain, pride members of Girlyman switch off and shame, with a strong current of violation on songwriting duties and play a from having his innocence taken. range of instruments, including “For those whose experience wasn’t purely the acoustic guitar, baritone gui violent, complexity, I believe, is part of the tar, djembe drum, banjo and stubborn legacy.... Why did 1 feel complicit mandolin. and violated, attracted and repulsed, all at “This CD is more political once?” Moran asked, recalling three years of than Remember Who I Am, and sexual abuse that began at age 12. even more eclectic,” explains The Tricky Part: One Boy’s Fall from Trespass Girlyman member Ty into Grace is the unflinchingly memoir of a Greenstein. “There’s straight-up good Catholic boy who was snatched from his pop, a slow country dance, sleeping bag and into the bed of his camp a variation on bluegrass that we counselor, a grown man. call ‘girlygrass,’ something vague With insight that comes from years of ly jazzy and a couple of rcx:kers. reflection, Moran revisits the boy he once was Lyrically, there’s both commen and confronts his violator as an adult. When tary and confession.” he meets his molester at a veterans’ hospital in Girlyman has been playing Los Angeles, Moran forgives him. together since 2001. Doris “I’ve spent so much time thinking that what Muramatsu and Greenstein, happened when I was 12 split me into pieces. who met in the second grade, Maybe pieces is part of being a whole. Maybe had recently abandoned a m<xl- it’s tangling with evil that helps us know good,” em folk duo project, and their he said. friend Nate Borofsky had just Moran will discuss The Tricky Part 7 p.m. moved to New York after four July 12 at Barnes & Noble Jantzen Beach, solo years on the Boston 1720 N. Jantzen Beach. His appearance will singer/songwriter circuit. From include a performance of an excerpt from his the start they vowed not to take one-man show of the same name, which will themselves too seriously, coming begin a two-week run July 13 at Seattle’s up with the moniker Girlyman Intiman Theatre. to reflect the mixture of sincerity —Jaymee R. Cud and humor expressed in their music. Girlyman opens for the Indigo Girls 7 p.m. July 17 at Brooklyn-based trio Girlyinan is on a roll. the Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW. Comedian idea Koch’* favorite character* include Sister After their debut CD, Remember Who I Am, Canyon Road. Tickets are $22 Mary Agnes, a rapraaaed nun adío enjoy* dtedpKno. Girly power
