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Review: Keeping Company with Donna Klein, Friday, June 21, 2002
Through song and conversation, Donna Klein served up a rare opportunity for
an audience to gain insight into the creative mind and inner workings of the
singer-songwriter. Each artist in-turn shared their unique approach to
melody and lyrics while unintentionally providing us ....a glimpse of their
own souls. A period of Q & A followed the show with a final
"patriotic"
closing of "This land is your land." (Including audience
participation).
First up was Sheila Kirsten Hughes, drawing her craft straight out of her
dreams (I'm jealous!).....Next, Ted Wray spliced in his own sense of "black
humor".... rhyming on cannibalism and spoofing on the etiquette of
"breaking
up." Donna Klein and Joel Frye, the over 40 artists (can I say
that?),
pulled from years of artistry to bring us closure and reminders of our human
frailty and collective experiences.
Such raw, local talent is deserving of a much larger venue. I look forward
to another Donna Klein roundtable ...and who knows...., with the stylings of
D.K. and Friends perhaps the folk scene can be resurrected once again.
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John Lieberman
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