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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
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Your GLBT Chamber of Commerce
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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