Stephanie Rearick, Natalie E. Illum, Sandra Beasley

Saturday, October 8, 2005

This is a special 'welcome home' show for Stephanie Rearick as she returns from a three week tour of the midwest and west coast. She will be joined by two poets that she met last year while touring the east coast.

Rearick is a pianist who's music is best described as pop/cabaret.

"Imagine Tom Waits reincarnated as Debussy, playing Joni Mitchell versions of Edgar Allan Poe poems on a 1920s era piano, and you get an approximate sense of the influences singer/pianist Stephanie Rearick channels on the way to making her very unique, idiosyncratic art pop." -- Berkshire Eagle

Natalie E. Illum is from Washington DC and is a founding board member of mothertongue which is a spoken word, poetry and creative writing women's organization. They are an all volunteer run nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women and young girls a safe space to be creative and empowered by the strength and courage of their own voices and experiences. She will read from her collected works.

Sandra Beasley is a writer, a photographer and a poet. She has had quite a few of her works published including one in the 2005 edition of Best new Poets.