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Songstresses From the Edge


Jody Redhage, voice & cello

Molly Thompson, voice, piano, & accordion


Last month, Songstresses from the Edge gave their debut concert at First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. The program featured a number of guest artists and composers (including yours truly). The evening’s through-line was “indie art song:” vocal concert music that combines modern classical reference points and instrumentation with contemporary indie pop signatures and energy. Think Wordless Music meets a hipper, up-to-date version of Lilith Fair.


Jody and Molly will be taking the Songstresses from the Edge project to California next week, presenting two programs of original compositions.


Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 4:00 pm


Old First Concerts at Old First Church,

1751 Sacramento St. (at Van Ness),

San Francisco, CA.

$15 general admission/$12 for seniors & students.


Thursday, October 29, 8-10 PM


A’Roma Roasters

95 5th Street

Santa Rosa, CA 95401

free/donations accepted

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Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon

Program Note: “Song;” “Otherwise

Jane Kenyon’s poetry speaks, sometimes in the same breath, of coping with life’s struggles and marveling at its beauties. “Song” is one of her many poems that extols the beauty of nature, of the everyday and commonplace, and of romantic love.

It was first performed by Jody Redhage at my wedding to Kay Mitchell, less than a month ago, in Princeton, New Jersey.

During their marriage, both Kenyon and her husband, the poet Donald Hall, battled cancer (Kenyon ultimately succumbed to the disease in 1995). One of her late poems, “Otherwise” is a meditation on “walking in the valley of the shadow,” yet abiding and enjoying what life still offers.

It was premiered by Jody Redhage at San Francisco’s Red Poppy Art House in 2008.

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NY Magazine called Songstresses from the Edge one of its top picks for the week.

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