Date/Time
Thursday Feb 23rd, 2012
7:30 - 9:30
Location
UWM Union Art Gallery
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd, W199
Milwaukee, WI
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Attributes
Sponsor: UWM Union Programming
URL: heroines&hellions.uwm.edu
Email: lcpardee@uwm.edu
Phone: 414-229-3111
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Innovative, award-winning songwriter and performance artist Evalyn Parry takes her audience on an uncommon musical and poetic trip, spinning a web of ideas that travel from 19th century cycling heroines to 21st century sailors; from “feminine protection” to bottled water, to the quest for the Northwest Passage. Accompanying herself on an eclectic collection of instruments which include guitar, water bottle, shruti box and loop pedals, Parry’s outspoken, witty and personal performances are inspired by a powerful vision of political activism. Her latest recording SPIN – recently nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award – is full of catchy indie-folk/pop songs and stories which uncover little-known female characters from history (from the incredible true story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to ride around the world on bicycle in 1894, to Amelia Bloomer, namesake of “bloomers”), and locates the personal inside contemporary, political issues of gender equity, consumer culture and the environment.
