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Saturday, November 10
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2007 Schedule
Day Stage Artist Information Shelley Graff Shelley Graff is a singer/songwriter/ teacher/healer who knows that the power of
women’s voices will change the world. Shelley Rachel Alexander/Catherine Ellis Rachel Alexander grew up in a musical family and learned to read music before she learned to read words. At home in a wide variety of musical genres, she has honed her skills singing and playing cello, fiddle, recorders, and Melodica in Women at Catherine Ellis began singing and playing music back when her first used Sears guitar was still larger than she. Her first original tune was written in collaboration with her best girlfriend for their junior high talent show. Her stage skills were
I'm a Leo and I like dancing, reading, karate and taking long walks... oh
wait, this isn't the personals. I have been writing poetry for
over 20 years and maybe now I've gotten it right. Ruelaine Stokes
Chey Davis Chey Davis, a native of Lansing, has been writing poetry since early childhood. Bad Dog Behaviour is her divorce compilation. She teaches English at Delta College in University Center, MI. kokko What do I do? That is a hard question for me to answer because I don't really believe people are what they do. I do write poetry, but am I a poet?; not so sure. I've done some shitty things, I do, do shitty things, but I wouldn't say I'm a shitty person. And sure my poetry does reflects what am I, or what I was, but who really knows who the fuck they really are. Even if I figured it out one day I probably wouldn't have the words to put it down so fuck it. But I do love to talk, boy do I love to talk. Over the years I usually end up sticking to talking about sex, sexuality, sex and shitting. I wouldn't say my life is shitting and sex, but I try to do both as much as possible, so maybe I'm getting somewhere, but then again I don't really exude sex, and i'm most definetly not shit, so really it proves my point all over again. I do try to not judge people by what they're doing but I usually just end up judging them anyway so there goes that. I do NOT do a lot things, and if thats doing something, I do a lot. I wish I had a clever way to end this, but you see I don't do clever. I will say I do, do life, with everybody else on this earth, becaues really theres no choice. So everybody good luck with your adventure called life. (and yes i do, do cheesy) Chris Pereira Chris is a sassy sagittarian originally from New Hampshire. While in Michigan the journey of life has included school, school, and oh more school. Chris is a passionate activist for multicultural issues and is currently on staff at The Leaven Center. Words of advice: be yourself, take risks, laugh a lot, and create the peace, love and joy that you seek.
Lisa Sayles Lisa (Lee) Sayles is a local writer working on her second chapbook of poetry.
Tammy Cook/Amy Starr
E. Marie I'm E. Marie; I play & write my own songs. My songs are about Love & Friendship and for the lost child. The goal is for my songs to leave an everlasting impression.
ThE BrinK
Christine Sayers
Cindy Lehmkuhle/Murray Stewart-Jones/Stephanie Hasley
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has been making music with women
and for women for over seventeen years. During the past four years, Shelley has been
joined by Kathy Crocco, Julie Kronenberger, dorrie andermills, and Karen Andermills on
a journey creating music for women’s voices and women’s souls. Shelley's newest CD, Fire On The Arrow, was inspired by and is a tribute to the healing/sounding work of the
living spirit of the late Kay Gardner. 
Play (a Grand Rapids-based world-beat improv band), the Treble Makers (an a cappella women’s quartet), and The Bench (an eclectic multi-instrumental band). In the past year she’s been heard out and about with Barb Barton, and recent recording credits include appearances on CDs with Annie & Rod Capps, Lyn Sawicki, Judy Insley, and Kate Peterson. Rachel was the founding director of Sistrum, the Lansing Women's Chorus, which she led for 15½ years before stepping down in 2001. For the past twelve years, she has been the Director of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Church in East Lansing, and she directs the Festival Choir at the Mid-Winter Singing Festival. Rachel is a prolific choral arranger, and a self-employed piano tuner-technician.
honed at Tom’s Foolery in Mount Pleasant as a CMU student. Her journey since has been filled with singing, writing, and performing in venues as diverse as the back of a hay-filled pick-up truck in a small-town parade to Kalamazoo’s Fetzer Institute and Nashville’s Vanderbilt University stage. In addition to her years of performing with the bands Acoustrio and Counterpoint, she has collaborated onstage with Joel Mabus, Mark Shatz (of Nickel Creek), Pat Flynn (formerly of Newgrass Revival), Anne Hills, and Candace Corrigan (Anderson). She has recorded two CDs, “Looking to a Future” with Counterpoint, and a solo project entitled “Time Again”. Catherine is also a psychotherapist who offers workshops in music and healing.
Susan Harris 
Ruelaine Stokes is a well-known poet and spoken word performer based in the Lansing area. She also coordinates the Old Town Poetry Series at the Creole Gallery in Lansing’s Old Town, one of the hottest poetry venues in Mid-Michigan. During the day, she serves as a specialist in English as a Second Language at Michigan State University’s English Language Center, a language training center for international students. Her poetry can be found in “Four Against the Wall,” a collection of poetry and interviews published in 2005.
Longtime friends and frequent band mates Tammy Cook and Amy Starr have played in rock, blues, folk and punk bands in bars, festivals, coffeehouses and basements across the midwest for years and years and years now. Their latest project, The Cheaters, performs in bars throughout Michigan and records in the band's tiny home studio, producing songs that seem strangely obsessed with love, cars, arson and abstract expressionist painters. Tammy and Amy will be playing acoustic versions of some of these very songs. 
ThE BrinK is the newest indie-jazz-folk-rock lesbian band to hit the greater Lansing area! ThE BrinK's multi-talented two member group comprises the band's eclectic sounds, which goes to show that great things do come in small packages! For ThE BrinK, Chara Love plays the drums,guitar,harmonica and sings. Chara Love played Wita 2005 and 2006. In April of 2006, Illegible Records released her first album "Core." Chara is pursuing a Music Degree at Olivet College. Rachel Brian, a graduate student in public health at the University of Michigan, plays the drum set, guitar, trumpet, saxophone and sings for ThE BrinK. An activist among the Northwestern Michigan LGBT crowd, Rachel played for Traverse City Pride from 1998 until 2004. Make sure to be on the look out for ThE BrinK! 
Christine is a social worker that lives in Lansing.
She grew up in a small town where her childhood events helped shape a still
present fear of church hymns. Her strict upbringing and 7 years at a
Baptist school gave way to an adult with an outrageous perspective and blunt
delivery. Behind her socially awkward presence is a witty and often
inappropriate chuckle waiting to be had. 
Local singer/songwriter Cindy Lehmkuhle with her recently released debut album, "EveryRoad", focuses on a blues-based style of writing and brings you a colorful picture of life through her music. Currently she is collaborating with Stephanie Hasley on the bass, and Murray Stewart Jones on Accordion.| pleasantlyprogressivedesign | Updates
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