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!

OFFICE HOURS - Fridays, Noon-10pm

CARY GROVE CENTER FOR THE HEALING ARTS

204 Spring Street (Cary, IL)

Reiki or BodyTalk sessions: $75

Reiki Students (First, Second, Third Degree, Teacher Training)

By appointment: 773 / 478-8778

CONCERT and WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

ONE OF CHICAGO'S FINEST FOLK PERFORMERS LE ON THE JAZZY SIDE

BENEFIT CONCERT for STEVE YATES

Producer & Recording Engineer

Monday, July 28th (7pm- Midnight)

S.P.A.C.E. . . . 1245 Chicago Ave. . . . Evanston, IL

www.evanstonspace.com . . . 847/492-8860

In June, Steve Yates suffered multiple injuries after a fall while trimming a tree behind his Morton Grove studio. The injuries included: Six broken ribs, a broken clavicle bone, a spinal fracture, and a concussion which resulted from two skull fractures.

Stuart Rosenberg has graciously offered his new "SPACE" for this fundraising party.

Confirmed Performers include: Tricia Alexander, Small Potatoes, Bucky Halker,

Don Stiernberg, Doug Lofstrong and the New Quartet

(14 acts will be performing during 5 hours).

Suggested donation: $10.00.

If you can't make the benefit, you can still help

by purchasing ticket(s) at SPACE's website: www.evanstonspace.com

This should be an AWESOME event

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Sunday, July 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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Sunday: July 27th (9:30 Meditation / 10am Service)

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

A Religious Science Community . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman

www.newthoughtmchenry.org

204 Spring Street (Cary, IL)

This church offers up practical, mystical spirituality

Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.

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!!! date changed CONCERT: REIKI SONG

Saturday: August 23rd (Doors Open: 7pm, Concert: 7:30pm)

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

A Religious Science Community . . . 204 Spring Street, Cary, IL

Alpha Stewart, Jr. percussionist of wonder and light joins Tricia

for this Reiki-filled musical concert event.

Reiki Song is an uplifting, Reiki-filled concert of blues, jazz and folk music,

humor, spoken word - and of course . . . singing along!

2 sets with short break for beverages, sweets and conversation.

We'll end the night singing together - resonating and recharging our wond'rous spirit Selves

Suggested Donation: $10.

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2 Sundays: August 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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Sundays: August 17th & 31st (9:30 Meditation / 10am Service)

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

A Religious Science Community . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman

www.newthoughtmchenry.org

204 Spring Street (Cary, IL)

This church offers up practical, mystical spirituality

Tricia provides special music for these Sunday services.

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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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Sundays: September 14th & 28th (9:30 Meditation / 10am Service)

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

A Religious Science Community . . . Reverend Anne Muelleman

www.newthoughtmchenry.org

204 Spring Street (Cary, IL)

This church offers up practical, mystical spirituality

This church offers up practical, mystical spiritualityTricia provides special music for these Sunday services.

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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)

. . . . . . . . (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)

($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

($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

($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)