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Tricia Alexander : Singing and Teaching and Healing, Oh My ! ! !
Tricia Alexander  
Singing and Teaching and Healing, Oh My !!!
773 / 478-8778  . . .  triciababa@aol.com  
 Exquisite voice, accomplished rhythm guitarist,  powerhouse harmonica player!

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OFFICE HOURS  -  Fridays, Noon-10pm
CARY GROVE CENTER FOR THE HEALING ARTS
204 Spring Street  (Cary, IL)

Reiki and BodyTalk sessions
     Reiki Students (First, Second, Third Degree, Teacher Training)  

OPENING SPECIAL   (during May and June):
$50. Reiki or BodyTalk sessions (normally $75)
By appointment:  773 / 478-8778

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TRICIA ALEXANDER
CONCERT and WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
ONE OF CHICAGO'S FINEST FOLK PERFORMERS LE ON THE JAZZY SIDE
(Chicago Sun Times)



MAY


CONCERT – TRICIA & ALPHA . . . HOORAY
Friday, May 9th  (8:15pm concert / doors open at 7:30pm)
The DYNAMIC DUO !!! returns:  
TRICIA in concert with ALPHA STEWART, JR
TWO WAY STREET COFFEE HOUSE
1047 Curtiss Street, Downers Grove, IL, www.twowaystreet.org/
If you’ve been wanting to hear some great classic Tricia and Alpha, this would be the
night! Alpha is known as the percussionist of wonder and light for a VERY good
reason,  he’s absolutely AWESOME!  Brimming with pure percussive joy - and when
Tricia and Alpha get together, the result is rhythmical, musical magic.
This is a great intimate setting - serving coffee, tea, soft drinks and sweets.
Cover Charge:  $5.
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CONCERT –  UTAH PHILLIPS BENEFIT
 Wednesday, May 14th (7pm)
Skip Jones, MC ... Tricia Alexander, Larry Penn,  Stephen Lee Rich
(other performers and details: TBA)
BARRYMORE THEATRE , Madison, WI
 2090 Atwood Avenue, on Madison’s east side
Each musician will perform 1 Utah Phillips song and 2 of their own pieces.
$12. Admission:  Proceeds will go to Utah
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CHURCH MUSIC
Sundays:  May 11th & May 18th  (9:45 Meditation / 10am Service)
MCHENRY COUNTY CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE
Center for Spiritual Evolution . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman, www.newthoughtmchenry.org
!!!  NEW LOCATION  !!!
204 Spring Street (Cary, IL)
It's no secret that this church offers up practical, mystical spirituality
Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.
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! ! ! ! !  REIKI SUPPORT THIRD SUNDAY EVERY MONTH  ! ! ! ! !

Sunday:  May 18th    (starts promptly at: 1 - ends at 4pm)
REIKI SUPPORT Group  -  Tricia initiated and facilitates this group
School of Intuitive Arts and Sciences  (www.intuitiveschool.com)
314 NW Hwy (RT 14), Fox River Grove, IL  (847-462-8951)
Open to all First, Second and Third Degree Reiki Initiates
If you are interested in attending and have not yet been attuned,
please contact Tricia directly:  (773) 478-8778) and learn how you can participate
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LIVE ON-AIR RADIO INTERVIEW AND PERFORMANCE
Tuesday, May 27 (7-9pm CST)
Folk Festival (Lilli Kuzma, host)  . . .  90.9fm WDCB Public Radio
Tricia Alexander will be a studio guest on the "Folk Festival" radio show
Folk Festival airs: 7-9pm (CST).  Tricia's spot starts about 8:15pm.
90.9fm WDCB Public Radio, broadcasting just west of Chicago in Glen Ellyn, IL
Streaming online for free listening at www.WDCB.org
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CONCERT –  THE SHAMELESS HUSSIES
 Wednesday, May 28th (8pm)
 Tricia Alexander, Diana Laffey, Kate Moretti
Jacquie Manning, Patti Ecker and Margaret Nelson
FITSGERALD'S NIGHT CLUB
 6615 Roosevelt Rd . . . Berwyn, IL
This is a once a year, not to be missed event!
Join us as we share individually  -  and collectively
 songs, humor and a few poems  that we can't share from our regular concert stages.
Bawdy, off color and VERY blue!

Cover Charge:  $10.
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JUNE

UU CHURCH SERVICE:  TALK AND MUSIC
Sunday, June 8th (10am Service)
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OF PARK FOREST
70 Sycamore Drive (at Western Ave.),  www.uuccpf.org
Tricia is giving the talk, music and creating the order of service
for information: triciababa@aol.com or 773 / 478-8778
Topic of service:  The Art of Well BEing: Fearlessness
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CHURCH MUSIC
2 Sundays:  June 15th & 29th    (10am Services)
UNITY CHURCH OF CRYSTAL LAKE . . . Reverend Tom Wendt
200 Elsworth . . . www.uccl.org
Wonder-FULL, energetic and welcoming community of love and spirit.
Tricia provides special music for Sunday services.
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CHURCH MUSIC
Sunday:  June 22nd  (9:45 Meditation / 10am Service)
MCHENRY COUNTY CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE
Center for Spiritual Evolution . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman, www.newthoughtmchenry.org
Country Inn & Suites, 600 Tracy Trail (Crystal Lake, IL)
It's no secret that this church offers up practical, mystical spirituality
Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.
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JULY


CHURCH MUSIC
2 Sundays:  July 6th & 20th    (10am Services)
UNITY CHURCH OF CRYSTAL LAKE . . . Reverend Tom Wendt
200 Elsworth . . . www.uccl.org
Wonder-FULL, energetic and welcoming community of love and spirit.
Tricia provides special music for Sunday services.
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UU CHURCH SERVICE (TALK AND MUSIC)
Sunday, July 13  (10am Service)
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OF PARK FOREST
70 Sycamore Drive (at Western Ave.),  www.uuccpf.org
Tricia is giving the talk, music and creating the order of service
for information: triciababa@aol.com or 773 / 478-8778
Topic of service:  TBA
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CHURCH MUSIC
Sunday:  July 27th   (9:45 Meditation / 10am Service)
MCHENRY COUNTY CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE
Center for Spiritual Evolution . . .  Reverend Anne Muelleman, www.newthoughtmchenry.org
Country Inn & Suites, 600 Tracy Trail (Crystal Lake, IL)
It's no secret that this church offers up practical, mystical spirituality
Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.
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AUGUST  


CHURCH MUSIC
2 Sundays:  3rd & 24th    (10am Services)
 UNITY CHURCH OF CRYSTAL LAKE . . . Reverend Tom Wendt
200 Elsworth . . . www.uccl.org
Wonder-FULL, energetic and welcoming community of love and spirit.
Tricia provides special music for Sunday services.
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UU CHURCH SERVICE (TALK AND MUSIC)
Sunday, August 10th  (10am Service)
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OF PARK FOREST
70 Sycamore Drive (at Western Ave.),  www.uuccpf.org
 Tricia is giving the talk, music and creating the order of service
for information: triciababa@aol.com or 773 / 478-8778
Topic of service:  TBA
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CHURCH MUSIC
Sundays:  August 17th & 31st  (9:45 Meditation / 10am Service)
 MCHENRY COUNTY CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE
Center for Spiritual Evolution . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman, www.newthoughtmchenry.org
Country Inn & Suites, 600 Tracy Trail (Crystal Lake, IL)
It's no secret that this church offers up practical, mystical spirituality
Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.
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SEPTEMBER  


CHURCH MUSIC
2 Sundays:  7th & 21st    (10am Services)
UNITY CHURCH OF CRYSTAL LAKE . . . Reverend Tom Wendt
200 Elsworth . . . www.uccl.org
Wonder-FULL, energetic and welcoming community of love and spirit.
Tricia provides special music for Sunday services.
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CHURCH MUSIC
Sundays:  September 14th & 28th  (9:45 Meditation / 10am Service)
MCHENRY COUNTY CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE
Center for Spiritual Evolution . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman, www.newthoughtmchenry.org
Country Inn & Suites, 600 Tracy Trail (Crystal Lake, IL)
It's no secret that this church offers up practical, mystical spirituality
Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.
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DECEMBER

THE TRISHMAS CONCERT

Sunday, December 21st  (7pm opening act: TBA / 7:30pm concert)
LAKE COUNTY FOLK CLUB:  EL BARRIO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE
1122 Diamond Lake Road, Mundelein . . . $10. cover charge
YES ! YES ! YES !  After a couple of years down, the TRISHMAS CONCERT resurfaces with some holiday classics, some butchered classics, some politically incorrect impresssions (yes - Rudolf's Mother), some smokin' blues, some great jazz  - of course, some singing along . . . and just enough lunacy to make the evening complete.  Hoping you'll join us!
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MORE PRESS QUOTES ! ! !

. . "MODERN DAY AESOP"  (Humanities Iowa)
. . . . "Enthusiastic and Dynamic"   (Greenwich Times, England)
. . . . . . "CHICAGO'S OWN FOLK-TORCH SINGER!" (Bill's Blues, IL)
. . . . . . . . "Pyurdedbrilyant!"   (Mayfest, Scotland)

"This is one gifted singer-songwriter !
... remarkable vocals,  guitar harmonica and cazoo.
Tricia creates an atmosphere that is upbeat, moving and many times, comical.
You'll never forget her arrangement of Amazing Grace!"
. . . . . . . . . . (Winter Folk Festival, IL)

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WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING ABOUT TRICIA'S  GRACE CD

"Isn't Grace Amazing?  ...  I  fell in love with it the first time I heard it as do most listeners.   It's been an honor to be able to play it  ... It simply has become 'The National Anthem' of these Sunday night programs."
. . . . Jim Naydor,  Host  (Magnificient Obsession)  NPR Chicago, 91.5 FM
. . . . www.wbez.org/programs/magobsession/magobsession.asp

“Tricia Alexander's GRACE is a beautiful and courageous journey of the heart"
. . . . Rick Rock, Tribes Hill / Kindred Folk / NY

"GRACE is a comforting musical soundscape.  Inspiring, healing and human.
I very rarely listen to a whole CD all the way through these days, but I did with GRACE.  I couldn't wait to hear what would come next. There is such a variety of dynamic sounds from spoken word to rhythmic upbeat to pensive acoustic, it is a pleasing, satisfying experience.”

“I came away feeling like Tricia really cares about her audience.  She is the nurse who says, "are you comfortable in that chair? Do you need something  to drink?  Can I rub your back?  Do you want to listen to some music?"  In so many ways, she says this to us and we can just drift right out of our life worries and into her musical soundscape, knowing that everything is going to be alright. Not only just all right though, but everything is great!  This is how I felt after listening to Grace."
. . . . Blue O'Connell, Eclectic Woman, WTJU FM 91.1 / VA)

"Tricia Alexander's "Grace" is a beautiful and courageous journey of the heart ... an exquisite tapestry of songs and stories of growth and healing. It is soothing, peaceful and refreshing.   She celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and its constant movement to the state of grace. The collection of songs and stories stories blaze an enlightening trail.  It is a journey worth taking."
. . . . Rick Rock, Tribes Hill / Kindred Folk / NY

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CDs  . . .  CDs  . . .  CDs

Tricia's CDs are available at concerts, by email or can be purchased at:
Sheriar Books,  807  34th Avenue So.  (No. Myrtle Beach, SC)
Open Door Illuminating Gifts, 314 NW Hwy/RT 14 (Fox River Grove, IL)

GRACE
($15 at concerts / $18. by mail)
13 music pieces /  3 spoken word pieces
Includes:  Forever We're One, Motherless Child, Isn't Grace Amazing?,
A Heart To Sing, Little Light, When All Thy Names Are One,
I Think It's Going To Rain Today, and She's Been Waiting

MAKE ME YOUR SONG
($10 at concerts / $12. by mail)
10 music pieces / 1 spoken word - live performance, humor (KUNI, NPR/IA)
Compilation, previously released on cassette, includes:  Make Me Your Song, I Can Sing a Rainbow, All Gods Critters, The Glory of Love, Love That Strains the Heart, Amazing Grace Grandma's Hands, Watching the River Run and There Is Nothing Wrong with This Body

TRISHMAS CAROLS
($10 at concerts / $12. by mail)
5 music pieces / 1 spoken word - humor live performance (KUNI, NPR)
Includes:   Little Drummer Boy, Let It Snow, White Christmas, Do You Hear What I Hear?,  Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Trishmas Carols
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BIOGRAPHY _______________________________________

Tricia Alexander has been singing for as long as she can remember. She was raised on 'old country' Assyrian music, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, Rosemary Clooney and the Smother's Brothers (which - if you've seen her perform - explains a lot!).  She began playing guitar in her late teens; she swears it was an act of musical revenge, "Guitarists were always getting really mad at me because I didn't want to sing the songs they way they were already being done - I mean Dylan already did Dylan, I didn't want to be Dylan - I just wanted to be Tricia."

In college (after flunking music theory twice), she got serious about playing the guitar and about reinterpreting other peoples songs - making them uniquely her own.  She also started writing her own songs. Rich Warren (of WFMT's Midnight Special and Chicago Magazine) said she "has one of the most GORGEOUS voices"  and is  " ... particularly adept at interpretations of other contemporary singer-songwriters."  The Folk Music Source Book described her own material as "intelligent, contemporary writing." in the same league as Anne Hills, Cheryl Wheeler, Holly Near, Christine Lavin, John McCutcheon, Nancy Griffith and John Gorka.

Tricia is also an accomplished guitarist and harmonica player, a performance poet, an award winning facilitator of creativity and self expression - and a Reiki Master / teacher. She combines her ability to vocally channel Reiki energy with her love for music, spoken word and humor.  Weaving together the best of jazz, blues and folk, she creates concerts that are entertaining, soothing and joy-filled.

Early in her career, she served as an Artist in Residence for both the Chicago Council on Fine Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Then in the mid 80’s, she began touring extensively throughout America and Great Britain (she's also given concerts and workshops in Canada and India).  Tricia's music, literary projects, and community-based workshops have received awards both in America and abroad:  Williams Prize (England), Spectrum Awards (Scotland), Joseph Jefferson Special Honors Citation (Illinois), Special Recognition Award (Chicago Council on Fine Arts, Illinois).

For more than 30 years, Tricia's been performing, facilitating, mentoring, directing and writing - always steering true to her original course, "to stay with community."   She's appeared on festival stages and in theaters, in living rooms and coffeehouses, in schools, hospitals and prisons.  She has released three CDs (Grace, Make Me Your Song, Trishmas Carols), three cassettes (Entirely Too Much Tricia, Love That Strains the Heart, Alexander Noelle, one 45rpm record, one poetry 'chapbook' (The Path of Love) and one poetry journal (Moon Cycle).  She also has to her credit four self-published chapbooks of inner city youth poetry and art, and one chamber orchestra composition (Children’s Suite).  She's served on the creative teams that birthed several other classical pieces, several small community theater pieces and one award winning full-length musical theater documentary, Project! (with Free Street Theater and Chicago's Cabrini Green Community).

In the last 15 years, she's added a couple of the healing arts (Reiki and BodyTalk) to her repertoire and she's started a small private practice - which she hopes will continue to grow gently as she eases back on her touring. She’s working on both a new CD and a new book of poetry, Hymns to Her - and after many, many years of dreaming about it - she finally lives in Wisconsin!
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CONCERT  /  PERFORMANCE   HIGHLIGHTS  ___________________

Peace Jam Conference  with the Dalai Lama  (IN)
The Song Is Love! - A Concert in the Chapel, Unity Northwest Church (IL)
Fearlessness and Healing: Concert Dialogue School for the Intuitive Arts & Sciences (IL)
Forgiveness and Healing: Concert Dialogue, School for the Intuitive Arts & Sciences (IL)
Gratitude: A Concert in the Chapel, First Congregational United Church of Christ, A Thanks Giving Event  (IL)
Grace, A Concert in the Chapel: First Congregational United Church of Christ, (IL)
Four Directions Concert  -  Munsee Stockbridge Mohican Community  (WI)
Little Company of Mary Hospital Women's Wellness Conference (IL)
Women's Wellness Conference  (2 years) Opening Keynote, Closing Keynote  (MI)
Peace Witness Concert  UMC, San Raphael  (CA)
Songs of Peace and Justice, First Congregational United Church of Christ, (IL)
Songs of Spirit Baba Concert - Sufi Bookstore (NY)
New Horizon's Centre:  A Musical Celebration of Diversity  (UK)
Dixon State Correctional Center - Annual concerts for the women's population  (IL)

Woodstock Opera House (IL)
(Opening for Steve Goodman and Jethro Burns, Opening for Loudin Wainwright, III)
The Bog Theatre, Featured Performer (IL)
The Discovery Theatre, Featured Performer (MI)
Theatre Royal Stratford East (England)
Albany Empire Theatre (England)


SCHOOL CONCERT / DIALOGUES -  HIGHLIGHTS  ___________

. . Lincolnshire Middle School  Fine Arts Day  (IL)
Concert/Dialogue:  Blues and Humor (3rd & 4th Grade)

. . Johnny's Kids (MI)
Concert/Dialogue:  Blues and Humor (Developmentally Disabled Teens)

. . Southwestern College Residency  (KS)
Concert/Dialogue:  Creativity and the Artist Self.

. . Coffeeville Humanities Series, A Feeling Called the Blues
5 days of concert-dialogues with Elders, College and Youth populations (KS)
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FESTIVALS  -  HIGHLIGHTS  ___________________________

DAFT Festival - Mainstage Performer  (MI)
Heritage Festival Folkstage - Performer  (IL)
Lake County Folk Festival - Mainstage Performer  (IL)
Woodstock Folk Festival - Mainstage Performer  (IL)


CONCERT SERIES -  HIGHLIGHTS  ______________________

KOG Concert Series  (WI)
MAMAs Concert Series (MI)
Kingslight Concert Series (MI)
Portland Folklore Society (OR)
Mast House Concert Series  (IL)
Delta Folks Concert  Series  (MI)
Off The Square Concert Series  (IL)
Bill’s Blues Folk Concert Series (IL)
Maple Street Chapel Concert Series (IL)
Endangered Singer Songwriter House Concert  (WI)

Cafe Carpe, intimate concert setting (WI)
Stage Left Cafe (IL) intimate concert setting
Johnny's Speakeasy, intimate concert setting (MI)
World Folk Music Company, intimate concert setting (IL)
Edgar's Place, church-based, multi-generational concert setting (IL)
Two Way Street Coffee House. church-based, multi-generational concert setting (IL)
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CHURCH SERVICES  (service leader, talk and music) ________________

Unitarian Universalist Church (Park Forest, IL)
. . . . . The Spiritual Aspects of Healing
. . . . . Living in a State of Grace
. . . . . The Art of Gratitude
. . . . . Making Peace with the Darkness
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SPECIAL MUSIC FOR CHURCH SERVICES  ______________________

McHenry County Church of Religious Science  (IL)
Unity Church of Crystal Lake  (IL)
Unity Church of Lincoln Park  (IL)
Unity Northwest Church (IL)
United Methodist Church  (IL)
United Methodist Earth Church (CA)
Greenwood United Methodist Church (MI)
Science of the Mind  (MI)
Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth (MI)
Silver Winds Church (MI)
First Congregational United Church of Christ  (IL)

Meher Spiritual Center  (SC)
Meher Spiritual Center (India)


CONCERT DIALOGUES FOR RETREATS ________________

First Congregational United Church of Christ  (IL)
. . . Women’s Retreat
. . . Youth Retreat


CHURCH SERVICES  (service leader, talk and music)

Unitarian Universalist Church (Park Forest, IL)
. . . . . The Spiritual Aspects of Healing
. . . . . Living in a State of Grace
. . . . . The Art of Gratitude
. . . . . Making Peace with the Darkness

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PERSONAL  DISCOGRAPHY  ________________________

Rampur Records: Celebrating 30 Years (2007, Rampur)
. . Tricia Alexander, Dev Singh, Darkwood Consort, John Jacobs, Gaynor Jenkins
Grace (2003/CD, Rampur)
Make Me Your Song (2003/CD re-releases from earlier cassettes, Rampur)
Trishmas Carols  (2002/CD, Another Little Miracle)
Trishmas Carols  (1999/Cassette, A Little Miracle)
Love That Strains The Heart (1993/Cassette, Rampur)
Entirely Too Much Tricia (1988/Cassette, Rampur)
Alexander / Noelle (1985/Cassette)
Gay and Straight Together (1980/LP, Folkways Collection: Lately I See)
Woodstock b/w Here We Go Again (1979/45rpm (vocals, harmonica)
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ADDITIONAL  DISCOGRAPHY __________________________

These Bones - Margaret Nelson (2006, CD: vocals)
Balboa - Dev Singh (2003/CD  Rampur: vocals)
How Many Lifetimes? - John Marc DeMatteis
. . . . . . . . . (Creation Point Media, 1997/CD: Co-producer, guitar, vocals)
Midnight Muse - Jim Gary (1996/CD Bjornson Music: vocals)
Heartscape - Dev Singh (1983/CD  Rampur: vocals)
Fresh Produce -Terry MacNamara / Wingwalker (1997/Cassette: harmonica)
Made in Chicago - Dev Singh (1983/LP, Rampur:vocals)
Chicago Style - Friedlander & Hall (LP, vocals)
Cleaning Rag - Ginni Clemmens
. . . . . . . . (1981/LP, Open Door Records, vocals, harmonica)
Gay & Straight Together (1980/LP, Folkways Collection: "Lately I See")

 

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