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A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Friday, August 26, 2011

What do songs sound like that come from a girl who: loves seaweed, seals and cats, bartends at a busy breakfast joint, has a bachelor-s in psychology, teaches yoga, used to attend rave parties in the late 90-s, adores Pee Wee-s Playhouse, and still hand-writes letters? You-ll get songs that run the gamut of curious human experience. From the epically melodramatic pop stuff of Rufus Wainwright, to the crunchy strumming of an acoustic guitar with driving, aching melodies akin to Neko Case; to the lovably raunchy poetry of Regina Spektor, the magical fairy never-never land of Tori Amos and the meloncholy lullabye drawls of Sarah McLachlan or Lucinda Williams -- Mary Bue draws from these influences to create her own home of sound. This is soothing, cathartic and quirky piano and vocal music, full of melodies with symbolic tendencies and the potential to \"emotionally sucker-punch\" you!

Since 1998, Mary Bue has been performing her extensive list of original songs all over the United States - 38 to be exact. Growing up in small town Minnesota, where the winters are frigid and long, Mary used the hours spent inside to be creative - writing thousands of stream of consciousness poems over the years eventually morphing into songs -- which made the poems complete at last.

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