Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ album gets a Spring Fling celebration, from beginning to end
CANNON BEACH — As part of
the Coaster Theatre’s Spring
Fling event, Merideth Kaye
Clark and Mont Chris Hub-
bard of Portland will perform
Joni Mitchell’s iconic album
“Blue,” from beginning to
end, in the original keys.
The show is at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 3, at the theater
at 108 N. Hemlock St.
Clark is an artist, traveler,
musician, songwriter, singer
and actress.
Originally from Kansas
City, Missouri, Merideth
studied neuroscience and be-
havioral biology at Emory
University before earning a
Master of Musical Theatre at
San Diego State University.
It was there, in California,
where she began her career as
a concert artist and musical
theater performer.
Clark has since performed
major roles in theaters around
the country. She has par-
ticipated in numerous de-
velopmental readings and
has originated roles in two
off-Broadway musicals.
Clark
performed
the
role of Elphaba in the First
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Merideth Kaye Clark
National Tour of the Broad-
way musical “Wicked” over
150 times in 35 major U.S.
cities.
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In addition, he has direct-
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at some of Portland’s most
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He has also released three
CDs of solo piano improvi-
sations, and his band, Scot-
land Barr & The Slow Drags,
won the 2012 Portland Music
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and he is the creator and
host of Portland’s endearing-
ly strange variety show, The
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Awards-nominat-
ed musical “Carnies,” and
his short musicals “Work
Friends” and “Save the Date”
(both co-written with Aubrey
Jessen) were produced in the
2012 and 2013 Fertile Ground
Festivals, respectively.
He received a 2011 Ken-
nedy Center American Col-
lege Theater FestivalMerito-
rious Achievement Award for
his original score (songs and
underscoring) and musical
direction of “The Caucasian
Chalk Circle.”
work with concerts across the
U.S. She performs in many
styles, including contempo-
rary musical theaters, clas-
sical, Broadway standards,
country, bluegrass and folk.
Clark is a multi-instrumen-
talist and plays anything with
strings, most notably the gui-
tar and viola. Her sophomore
album “Young Stellar Object”
garnered critical praise from
New York theater reviewers.
Mont Chris Hubbard is
an accomplished Portland
composer/performer/music
director. He is the co-creator
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