2005 Schedule
1:30 Pam Sisson
Pam Sisson is a talented singer, songwriter, arranger
and recording artist who has two studio recordings. She is a versatile
solo performer whose original music encompasses blues, jazz, folk,
rock and latin. Her lyrics and tunes are her hallmark. Song topics
include women's issues, justice, peace, humor and personal reflections.
She plays guitar, piano, harmonica and hand percussion, but her
voice is her primary instrument. Pam has opened for Holly Near,
Robin Tyler, Sue Fink, Charlie King and other major concert artists.
She performs with and promotes many women artists, some of whom
are featured on her recordings.
2:00 Chara
Love
Chara love is a singer\songwriter she is currently a
student of music at lansing community college for commercial voice
she is working on her first cd with a lansing based record company
called Illegible Records she has started hitting the open mike
nite around lansing and was invited to sing with the women in
the arts this year. She has always done karaoke prior to writing
her own music but found that she could never sing the songs like
the original artists could. She is making a big leap from karaoke
to her own music, but she is ready to take the plunge.
2:30 Rachel Alexander & Jeanne Donado
Rachel Alexander and Jeanne Donado have been performing
folk, women’s, and original music together for the last
five years, most recently at the Closing Ceremony at this year’s
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Both are seasoned musicians
who bring an eclectic mix of musical interests to their collaboration.
Rachel, who performs on fiddle, cello, recorder, and Melodica,
founded Sistrum, the Lansing Women’s Chorus, and served
as its director for 15 years. She is currently in her eleventh
year as Music Director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Greater Lansing, and is well-known around town as a piano tuner-technician.
Jeanne first took the stage with her dad at the age of 4. Since
then she has sung with numerous choral groups in three states,
and has appeared both as a solo musician and a member of various
folk ensembles. Jeanne, who plays acoustic and electric guitars
and bass, has opened for Fred Small and Guy and Candy Carawan,
and has accompanied both Sistrum and the Athens, Ohio women’s
chorus, Calliope. Both Rachel and Jeanne are members of the Lansing-based
acoustic band, The Bench.
3:00 Jessi De La Cruz
Jessi De La Cruz will share selected pieces of her poetry —
touching on themes of love, death and acceptance. Her works are
typically written in free verse and strive to depict the everyday
struggles people encounter in relationships with others and in
relation to themselves.
3:30 Lizette Chevalier
4:00 Cindy Lehmkule & Murray Stewart
Jones
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2004 Women in the Arts
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