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AWoW presents MARY McPARTLAN and BERTHA HOPE at NYC's ZirZamin, FRIDAY, MAY 24th

A special and unique collaboration has begun between the Irish Folk singer Mary McPartlan (who is in New York on a Fulbright Scholarship) and Jazz pianist Bertha Hope, one of the great exponents of the jazz idiom. Mary and Bertha, who both embrace AWoW’s multicultural approach to the arts, met when they each performed at an AWoW Showcase earlier in the year. The two women quickly hit it off and embarked on a new collaborative effort, which combines Mary’s Irish folk style and Bertha’s jazz piano.

Mary McPartlan has a high profile in Ireland as a tradional and contemporary folk singer with extensive rave reviews for two recent award winning albums The Holland Handkerchief and Petticoat Loose. Mary recently recorded a song with a poem from the now President of Ireland Michael D Higgins dedicated to the Chilean poet Victor Yara. Mary McPartlan Website

Bertha Hope has led an all american women’s ensemble JASSBERRY JAM for 15 years and is prominent on the jazz scene in the tri-state area. Bertha Hope Website

The collaboration and the making of this exciting piece of art will take place at ZirZamin, 90 West Houston, Friday, May 24 2013, 8pm. The doors will open at 7.30pm promptly and early arrival is clearly recommended. Click here for further details.

COLIN BRODERICK and JOSH BROLIN: BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT at BARNES AND NOBLE in TRIBECA, NYC

‘THAT’S THAT” Official Book Trailer

Join us tonight at Barnes and Noble’s Tribeca Store, 97 Warren Street, 7pm, for the official launch of Colin Broderick’s That’s That. AWoW member Broderick will be introduced and interviewed by his friend, actor Josh Brolin. The event is also being filmed for what will be the final scene of the long awaited biographical feature documentary based on Colin’s first book Orangutan. Following the launch, everyone is invited to the after party at Scratcher’s, 209 E. 5th St, in the East Village. It’s sure to be a great night!

Here’s a short excerpt from That’s That:

“Seen from the window of a plane Ireland is a patchwork quilt, little square fields of green stitched together by thin rows of thorns; spring green, fern green, forest green, pine, sea and shamrock green. From above, she is clean, mystical, magical to behold. That is her first great act of deceit, her lush, rolling beauty the first betrayal of her truth, for on the ground, and deeper still, buried beneath that verdant lawn is her pain; underneath, there is blood.

I assume you’ve heard bits and pieces of the history of Ireland already, some of the landmark atrocities that have made international news over the years, or perhaps you’ve heard snippets grumbled over small glasses of amber in the dim light of a smoky tavern in the Bronx, stories of the long and bitter hatred between the English and the Irish, of heroic young men in balaclavas, petrol bombs being hurled into the dark night, monuments of flame on the claustrophobic streets of Belfast, the ghosts of skeletal boys, naked and excrement-smeared, starving themselves to death in the cold cells of the H-Block. And if you did receive your Irish history lesson in a bar from some furtive creature with a brogue, then as the night wore on, you surely heard about his mother also, for every drink poured in an Irish bar leads back to the mother. As you may well know, there is no mother like the Irish mother, and there is no love more wounded and fierce than the love between an Irish mother and her son.

In honor of that age-old tradition I, too, will start with the history. (The mother I will get to in just a little bit.)”

"SPOTLIGHT ON" PLAYWRIGHT KATE McLEOD

Who is Kate McLeod?

I grew up in a small town in southeastern Massachusetts and lost my father, who I adored, at age nine. Post loss-of-parent, I spent considerable energy rebelling against my catholic/catholic boarding school life—shortening my uniform skirt to unacceptable lengths, smoking, running away from school, and drinking beer. My other extra curricular activity involved being on stage whenever there was something dramatic or musical happening. Oh, yes, and I learned stuff. I’m always trying to learn—that’s what so great about being a journalist. You’re always finding out new things or looking at something from a new angle. I saw New York when I was about 10. It was the proverbial love at first sight. So I grew up—up to a point. I took a few wrong turns and finally got to New York and I’m not leaving. Then, I did what I thought I couldn’t do—I became a writer.

What are you working on at the moment?

A revision of a play I wrote last fall. The play features two teenage girls who are best friends. Their relationship falls apart over their changing beliefs.

And a revision of a musical I wrote entitled, “I Heart My Car.” I’m working with a fantastic composer, Rob Hartmann.

Do you have upcoming events you’d like people to attend?

I just had a reading of my play Ice Floes or don’t stay, please go, no wait . . . on May 11th at the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, NY. I will be having a reading of Darwin Day—the new play––but probably not until the fall.

And I’ll be letting members know about The First––and possibly only––Bacon Theatre Festival. More later.

Who are the playwrights, past and present, you admire?

There are many. Certainly Samuel Beckett has been a big influence. Tom Stoppard’s plays have always made me think. I love his ideas and constructions. When I went to see the revival of Awake and Sing on Broadway a few years ago Clifford Odets’ work really astonished me. I went because “his plays were historically important.” But what I experienced was the work of a master of our craft who led me to feel deeply for his characters. Recently I loved the production of Golden Boy. Others: Edward Albee, John Guare, Tony Kushner. The Bard. David Ives. David Lindsay-Abaire. Playwright, Arthur Giron, who has mentored me from the start. I love Annie Baker’s dialogue and the way she fills silence and understands how people talk about their personal disappointments. She draws us in so that her characters problems directly connect to our own. I recently read a great book by Frank Gilroy, “How to Write for Love and/or Money.” Gilroy is a terrific playwright (The Subject Was Roses) but this book is something I’ll read again and again. Just the way he lays it down on the page.

What are your three (more if you like) all-time favorite plays?

For different reasons and in no particular order:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Top Dog Underdog

Private Lives

Auntie Mame

Arcadia

Waiting for Godot

Glengarry Glen Ross

August Osage County

Noises Off

One Man, Two Guvnors

El Grande de Coca-Cola

Richard III

That’s 11. I’ll stop.

Who/what is your greatest inspiration and why?

John Kennedy when I was a kid because of the how he brought people together in pursuit idealism—ask not, etc. He asked us to work for a better world. I was committed.

For the past 27 years, my husband, Jerry Flint, who died in 2010. He was a great journalist, iconoclast, wonderful writer, and a fearless, relentless reporter and later, columnist. And he believed in me. That gave me the courage to keep working towards becoming a better writer. He was a wonderful editor—read all my stories when I’d finished them and gave me feedback. He taught me so much about writing. I miss him. When Jerry died I founded a scholarship/internship in his name. It was fully endowed within eight months and I have now three scholars who have been awarded the scholarship from the Overseas Press Club Foundation.

Name five things you’d like to do or accomplish in the next five years.

1. Get the musical produced.

2. Write one full-length play a year. So let’s see, that five new full lengths by 2018? Hold me to it.

3. Launch a program I created called “What’s Your Story,” a week-long theatre workshop for disadvantaged kids. It aims to tap their creativity to, not only tell their stories, but to help them understand that the stories are an important part of the fabric of our society. We’ll do exercises and write in dramatic form. It culminates in a performance brunch open to friends and families. I hope to pay them each $50. I’m doing the first one in July at the Hudson Opera House and then I want to create a guide and give it away to interested communities around the country.

4. Learn how to sing. I’ve always sung, but I’m learning how to use the instrument now.

5. Get the 1961 VW Bug I bought, running. I’m going to take it apart and put it back together. And I’m thinking of turning the project into a reality show. Seriously.

If you could dream of trying something in the arts you haven’t tried, but would like to, what would that be?

1. Okay, fantasy land? I’d like to work with Peter Brook and his group and improvise an entire play. (He’s 88 and lives in France so this is a dream.) I’d love to do the same with Mac Wellman. And he lives in Brooklyn! I get to have puppets, a live orchestra, and as many actors as I want.

2. I’m always imagining these big conceptual art projects in my head. One day, maybe I’ll build one.

What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

I don’t think of time as spare (as in extra). Occasionally, I try to sit down and just sit down. It never works out because I invariably come up with an idea. Or I’m reading or writing. I love to cook and put great, interesting, different people together over a good meal. It’s an act of love and it is very satisfying to create conversation and good energy. Aside: My rhubarb pie just won second place in a Rhubarb Fest!

Some of my colleagues at Artists Without Walls know that my day job is being an auto writer. You can—and should—join my blog Girl Driver USA. People who don’t care anything about cars say that they enjoy reading it. You don’t have to read it. Just join—become a follower. I need the followers. Also, the Overseas Press Club Foundation

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AWoW MEMBERS and FRIENDS’ UPCOMING EVENTS: THE WEEK of 5/12

Annette Homann, solo violinist, Bikram Yoga Herald Square for Mother’s Day.

Today, May 12th, 4PM

Herald Square, NYC

Colin Broderick, That’s That book launch.

Tuesday, May 14, 7pm

Barnes and Noble, 97 Warren Street, NYC.

Party following at Scratchers,

209, E 5th St., NYC

Antoinette Montague,  NYC Jazz and Blues Entertainer, sings and swings this Tuesday, with Danny Mixon, who performed at AWoW’s Lehman event.

Tuesday, May 14. Two shows, 8pm and 9pm. Jazz at the Bahai , John Burks Gillespie Theatre, 53 east 11th street, NYC

Reservations recommended.  For $2 discount use special code AM20. Call: (Number on website)

Honor Finnegan at the Bronxville Women’s Club.

Friday, May 17, 8-9pm.

135 Midland Avenue,

Bronxville, NY

914 337-3252

Sweet little room in a lovely historic building, nice people, and tasty desert and coffee. Also featuring Kelly Flint and David Ray. Sal Casabianca hosts.

Seamus Scanlon

Saturday, May 18, 2:30-3:00pm

Spring Lake Irish Festival,

Spring Lake NJ

"SPOTLIGHT ON" SINGER/SONGWRITER HONOR FINNEGAN

Who is Honor Finnegan?

A kid from the south side of Chicago, a spunky little chick, Milo’s mom.

What are you working on at the moment?

My life! What are you working on? Let me get back to it!

I’m getting ready for the the New Folk Songwriting Contest in Kerrville, Texas. I’m a finalist! Kerrville is so much more than a music festival. It’s Lourdes for folkie songwriters. The song is sacred there.

Do you have upcoming events you’d like people to attend?

But of course! Check out my website below for details.

Playing a set, and teaching a workshop on songwriting at the NYC Ukulele Festival on May 31st.

Performing in Joni Mitchell’s Blue: A 40th Anniversary Celebration at First Acoustics on June 1st in Brooklyn Heights.

Who are the singer/songwriters, past and present, you admire?

I admire a range of performers including singers, singer/songwriters, actors, and comedians. I tend to get into women more. Judy Garland, Carol Burnette, Ella, Billie, Piaf, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Judy Collins, Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell, Gilda Radner, Barbara Stanwick, Kate Hepburn, Sarah Siskind, Anais Mitchell, Susan McKeown, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris, and Patti Smith. Doris Lessing is a great writer.

What are your three (more if you like) all-time favorite songs or pieces of music?

What a pleasurably agonizing task. “Where is Love?” from Oliver, for sentimental reasons, but all of West Side Story is dear to me. “God Bless the Child” for my Chicago soul. “Kisses Sweeter than Wine”, “If I Had a Hammer” from the American folk tradition. “Sweet Music Roll On” by Christy Moore reminds me of my father. Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” or Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” are both rich in joyful, vivid music-storytelling. So much more, especially stuff that makes you dance. “ABC” by The Jackson Five!

Who/what is your greatest inspiration and why?

I have a guru, spiritual guide, master, sensie, whatever you want to call it. It’s tough to describe why he is so inspirational because his greatness is something unseen like the depths of an iceberg, Love itself.

Name five things you’d like to do or accomplish in the next five years.

1)Establish a solid fan-base in folk music.

2)Have more people (possibly famous people!) cover my songs.

3)Make three or more CDs.

4)Feel inspired and write more songs that I’m proud of.

5)Fall in love with a man who is my equal, and who will be a true companion.

If you could dream of trying something in the arts you haven’t tried, but would like to, what would that be?

Something visual and tactile. I used to paint as a hobby. I would like to do that again someday. I enjoy getting absorbed in it.

What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

I’m a big fan of being lazy so I try to fit that in as much as possible, but I tend to be driven even in my idle time. I like to stalk people on the internet. I find them fascinating. I like to make stuff up in my head, daydream, fantasize, think.

Please check out my website where you can sign up for my mailing list and please like my Facebook page!

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AWoW MEMBERS AND FRIENDS’ UPCOMING EVENTS: THE WEEK OF 5/5

Today, Darrah Carr Dance at the NYC Irish Dance Fest, Sunday May 5, 3pm. Riverside Park So. Pier at W 68th St. New York, NY. For more information on the day’s events click here

Today, Annette Homann, violinist, with the International Street Cannibals at the Drom, Sunday May 5, 7:30pm. Drom 85 Ave A, between 5th and 6th Sts. Click here for ticket information

Saturday, singer/songwriter Honor Finnegan, An Anniversary Celebration of Join Mitchell’s “Blue” at the Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, NJ. Saturday, May 11, 7:30pm. Phone 609 586-0616

Saturday, a reading of short new plays, including playwright Kate McLeod’s “”Ice Floes or don’t stay, please go . . . no wait” at the Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY, 12534. Saturday, May 11, 7pm. Call 518 822-1438 for reservations. Ten dollar suggested donation.

ARTIST WITHOUT WALLS' SHOWCASE AT THE CELL THEATER, APRIL 30, 2013

“It was a privilege to read for a packed house at the Artists Without Walls’ Showcase at The Cell Theatre. It feels like home to be in the midst of such talent and support. Artists Without Walls is a family that I’m extremely grateful to be a part of.” Author Colin Broderick spoke those words before he read from the opening of his memoir That’s That, which, beginning May 7^th, will be on sale everywhere books are sold. Colin’s reading opened a small window into the life of a Northern Irish family in the1970’s, a time of great strife. A great work by an extraordinary talent.

The crowd was called to order on Tuesday night in a slightly different way. Niamh Hyland walked to center staged and began the evening with a stirring rendition of the opening to Brendan Connellan’s play Pompa Pompa. “It was a fun experiment to open our ‘Showcase’ in a different way,” Niamh said. “Having another opportunity to relive moments from Pompa Pompa and being accompanied by Moley ‘O Suilleabhain and Anthony Minto on beatbox was a treat.”

Brothers from Ireland, Owen and Moley Ó Súilleabháin teamed up once again with the dynamic spoken word poet from Nigeria, Koro Koroye. They performed a new work that brings together sacred song from ancient Ireland, Latin Gregorian chant and rap, with poems in Koro’s ancient tribal language and her contemporary themes of identity and individual expression. Ideas of family, home, migration, self-discovery and transformation were seamlessly presented in a dynamic performance that honors tradition and rejoices in innovation.

Jim Rodgers read his short story, “The Green Hills of Jamaica,” a sailor’s tale of Sam Brown, who, in the embraces of a loving Jamaican woman and the warmth of the “ska” music, finds a home–one he never had growing up–in the rugged highlands of Scotland. Later, as his ship founders in a storm and the rushing sea envelops him, his thoughts return to the green hills, the loving woman, and the ska music of Jamaica. A compelling work and beautifully read.

Kate McLeod’s monologue, “End of Times” was given a brilliant reading by Hannah Dahm, a vocal major at New York’s LaGuardia High School for the Visual Arts. The world has just ended and fifteen-year old Kate hates the dress she bought yesterday and is looking for the mall so she can return it. But she can’t find the mall where she’s to meet her friends. Where are her friends? Her iPod is running down. Where is her mom? She would keep the dress if only she could find her Mom. Sheri Bauer Mayorga composed and sang music for Kate’s spellbinding monologue.

Violinist Annette Homann began the second half of the program with a choreographed version of Adele’s “Skyfall.” Annette mesmerized the audience with her dance movements while mixing improvisational sections into the popular tune. Annette employed her athletic skills as well, impressing the audience with a far back bend at the end of the performance. One of the members of the audience commented,

“You know you have a great performer when you get the feeling that he or she is looking only at you and then you realize that everybody in the room feels that way.” Annette has that rare quality.

Cherie Ann Turpin’s essay “The Naked Self” captured the audience with her real-life story of her inner battle to dismantle internalized perceptions of the gendered and racialized body while struggling with body weight issues. Her story encourages women of all colors and body types to embrace their sensuality and to refute sexist and racist practices of body size shaming, all too common in popular media.

Honor Finnegan sang three new songs: Movie Star, Roses and Victory, and Sweet Something, while accompanying herself on ukulele. Her newer material is poetic and more serious thematically, while retaining the word play and strong melodic sensibility of her songs from her CD, The Tiny Life. Plus, the girl can sing. Might there be a possible collaboration between Koro Koroye and Honor in the future? Stay tuned…

Writer and poet, Vinnie Nauheimer, made his debut reading two poems from opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. The first, “Morning Glory”, a tribute to a glorious sunrise, of which an audience member commented, “I’ve seen a thousand sunrises, but never one as beautiful as that!” The second reading was the debut of his poem “Marathon Day”, which was an emotionally charged encapsulation of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon.

Closing out the evening and in celebration of International Jazz Day, singer/songwriter Tara O’Grady spoke of spending the day at Louis Armstrong’s house in Queens, and shared stories of the jazz legend. Tara ended with “What a Wonderful World,” a song Armstrong said reminded him of the kids in Corona who used to sit on his

Tzila Levy, Mary Ann Pierce and Tara O'Grady — **Tzila Levy, Mary Ann Pierce and Tara O’Grady**

front steps while he played his trumpet. Tara’s CD launch party for her new release, A Celt in the Cotton Club, is Thursday, May 23 at 7:00pm at Mary O’s, 32 Avenue A. If you haven’t heard her with a live band, this is the night.

And this from Jim Rodgers, “I’m always amazed at the talent AWoW gathers, and I’m honored to share the same stage with such talented artists. Once again AWoW proved they are the United Nations of the NYC cultural scene. The performers and audience included folks from Germany, Israel, Egypt, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Ireland and the United States. Great night!“

All photos except Colin Broderick’s are by Cat Dwyer

"SPOTLIGHT ON" AUTHOR COLIN BRODERICK

Who is Colin Broderick?

That really depends on who you’re talking to. To some I’m a carpenter, to others, a writer, to a small handful I’m an ex husband, to others, I’m that crazy Northern Irish guy who drank a lot and now writes and makes movies, and to my four year old, Erica, I’m just daddy.

What are you working on at the moment?

At the moment I’m in that rare terrain where it’s all about publicity and selling my new memoir That’s That, which was published by Crown Publishing Group.

Do you have upcoming events you’d like people to attend?

Tuesday night, April 30th, 7pm I’ll be reading from That’s That at the Artists Without Walls’ Showcase at The Cell Theater, 338 W. 23rd Street.

Everyone should come to my book launch at Barnes & Noble, Warren street in Tribeca, May 14th at seven pm. The actor Josh Brolin will be there to introduce me, so that should be fun. I believe he is going to interview me about the process of writing this memoir which Random House are billing as “The first book to paint a detailed depiction of Northern Ireland’s Troubles.” There will be an afterparty at the Scratcher Bar all are welcome to come along with us after the reading.

Who are the writers, past and present, you admire?

Philip Roth, Hemmingway, Graham Greene, Fitzgerald, Jonathan Franzen, Bukowski, Adrienne Rich, and Woody Allen, to name just a few.

What are three of your favorite literary works?

A Moveable Feast; Hemmingway

The Great Gatsby; Fitzgerald

The End of The Affair; Graham Greene

Who is your greatest inspiration and why?

My daughter because she brings me into the moment and reminds me that innocence is still attainable.

Name five things you’d like to do or accomplish in the next five years.

Buy a little house in the country.
Write a novel.
Direct this feature movie that I’ve written and complete another.
Win both an Oscar and a Pulitzer.
Stop worrying so much.

If you could dream of trying something in the arts you haven’t tried, but would like to, what would that be?

I’m going to start playing the Bodhran shortly.

What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

I don’t have much of that at the moment, but if I do get a few hours I love to watch movies. I’m addicted to the screen; aren’t we all.

Colin Broderick Website

“That’s That” by Colin Broderick-Excerpt

Colin Broderick Facebook Page

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SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCES AT AWoW's SHOWCASE: LEHMAN COLLEGE, APRIL 25, 2013

“It was great to see AWoW in action once again doing what it does so beautifully — making great art accessible and connecting artists with each other and with new audiences.” That’s what filmmaker Barbara Rick said after the Artists Without Walls’ Showcase at Lehman College.

The lights dimmed at 7:15, followed by the slow tolling of a bell, a driving guitar and the crashing of drums. And to AC/DCs lyrics’ “I’m rolling thunder,” Billy Barrett walked onto the stage.

“The first thing you need to know is that I was raised by sociopaths,” and with those words a great evening of entertainment was set into motion. Billy’s upcoming memoir, Highway Star, smacks of unique storytelling genius. He moves words around so that his stories pop off the page with a crispness and clarity. And there is no shortage of stage presence, which is sure to cause a stir in the literary community. Billy and award winning, best-selling author Peter Quinn will soon begin editing Highway Star.

**Danny Mixon, Antoinette Montague and Charles Hale**

Jazz and blues vocalist Antoinette Montague and legendary jazz pianist Danny Mixon lit up the room with some welcoming blues’ notes, “Let The Good Times Roll. “Noting that it was the “First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald’s ninety-sixth birthday, Antoinette followed with one of Ella’s big hits, “A Tisket A Tasket.” Antoinette and Danny slowed the tempo with a soulful rendition of Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child” and a rarely heard tune “I’m a Little Blackbird,” popularized by Florence Mills. They ended with a quick out, an “AWoW” blues theme. You can hear this great duo at The Baha’i Center, 53 East 11th St, NYC, on May 14.

Marni Rice, chanteuse-accordionist and theater artist from New York City and Xio Evans, dancer choreographer from Costa Rica, co-wrote and performed a riveting work called “Have You Seen My Son?” a performance piece about gun violence. The text is in Spanish and English and the performance is dedicated to the issue of social justice. If this duo comes your way you must see them. This act is stirring, compelling and timely. Brilliant.

Moley and Owen 'O Suilleabhain — **Moley and Owen ‘O Suilleabhain**

Owen and Moley O Suilleabhain, singers from Ireland, and Koro Koroye, a spoken word artist from Nigeria, performed together for the first time. Their performance explored the ancient traditions that they have inherited and how they have transformed this heritage into a voice they can truly call their own. Now living in the melting pot of New York City, they are sharing

the common experience of rediscovering their ancient identities with their own contemporary voices. Their wonderful performance represents what Artists Without Walls intends, cultures coming together to create new and exciting works of art. This surely qualifies. A show stopping performance by three talented young performers.

Katherine O'Sullivan and Paul Nugent — **Katherine O’Sullivan and Paul Nugent**

Boys Swam Before Me, a play written by playwright and author Seamus Scanlon followed. “Boys” centers on a son, Victor McGowan, who is surreptitiously visiting his mother, May McGowan, in a nursing home. The play, which included stellar performances by actors Paul Nugent and Katherine O’Sullivan, examines memory, loss and longing. Don Creedon masterfully directed this compelling work.

Violinist and fiddler Annette Homann combined her fascination with voice and violin in her original spring-feeling song “Permanently.” She followed with a fiddle variation of the “Radetzky

March,” a work of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Sr. Annette called it “The German (speaking) Irish connection” combining the March with rhythmic marching patterns and Irish fiddle stylistics. A very talented fiddler and a delight to watch

Salina Sias, accompanied by guitarist Thad DeBrock shared stories of her journey toward self-identity, acceptance of her Mexican roots while beautifully performing original numbers from her up and coming album, including a personal song she penned in Spanish.

Honor Finnegan and her guitarist Aviv Roth closed out the evening in rollicking fashion, singing two songs, “Life is Short” and “Internet Junkie from her CD, The Tiny Life,” as well as one of her newer pieces, which has been recorded by critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, Amy Speace. The Tiny Life was #9 on the Folk DJ Charts in February 2012, and Honor was

recently selected as a finalist in the prestigious New Folk Songwriting Contest as part of the Kerville Folk Festival in Kenville, Texas. Honor combines a great (and big) voice with a witty, easy-going stage presence.

A fun evening packed with stellar performances.

One final note, a big thank you to the folks at Lehman College for hosting this event; the Studio Theater, the production crew and the staff are all top notch. And finally, to the people most responsible for putting on the show, Deirdre O’Boy and Joseph McElligott, a hearty, “You guys are the best.”