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Barbara McAfee is a Twin Cities-based singer/ songwriter whose songs are flavored with jazz, blues, gospel, and Celtic influences. What they have in common is her clear-eyed reflections on the human experience, exquisite lyrics, sassy wit, and piano-infused arrangements. When Barbara serves them up in her clear, strong voice, they go straight to the heart. www.barbaramcafee.com |
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ROSEMARY SAVAGEAU Piano/vocal Saturday 9-10 AM |
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Rosemary hails from Fargo, North Dakota. She currently attends Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and is pursuing a double major in Apparel and Design and Public Relations. She has been playing piano by ear since the age of two. Since then, she has been involved in numerous musical events in her community. She says piano has always been her passion and continues to be. Although she has been involved in organized singing groups throughout high school and college, she admits to a fear of singing in front of a crowd until "very recently." As she puts it: " I realized I have a lot of songs in my heart and it isn't fair to keep them to myself any longer." |
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DEBI ROGERS Folk / Celtic Music Saturday Noon - 12:45 |
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Debi is a long-time WomanSong favorite! She is a colorful and talented folk singer, musician and storyteller. Using both harp and guitar, she performs a broad variety of music, Celtic being one of her favorites. She is a music teacher, actress, director, artist-in-residence and recording artist who performs throughout the region in venues ranging from schools to local clubs to festivals. |
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NITA VELO Folk Saturday 2:15-3:00 pm |
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Nita’s music has been described as “contemporary folk with a spoon full of blues and a twist of jazz”. Born and raised in Ottertail County, Minnesota, at age 8, her father taught her to play an old guitar using open tuning and a butter knife as a slide. She has appeared with Garrison Keiller (Prairie Home Companion) and been a repeat guest on Public Radio and TV stations across the country. Nita’s songs have won national recognition. “One Spirit”, from 1998’s “Imagine That”, was a unanimous feature selection of the Campus Crusade for Christ International, and has been used by numerous churches, schools and music festivals nationwide. Now living in Nashville, Nita continues her writing around singing demos and a performance schedule stretching from Tennessee to Minnesota. Nita’s music can be found on amazon.com, cdbaby.com, sonicbids.com, NIM.com, and myspace.com. Nita can reached at nvelo@hotmail.com and has a site at myspace.com/nitavelo. A Nita Velo electronic press kit is also available at sonicbids.com. |
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KELSEY LEE Contemporary Saturday 3:15 - 4 pm | |||
She has been compared to Jewel, The Cranberries, and Alanis Morrisette, with the hypnotizingly powerful vocals of Amy Lee of Evanescence ( and no, they aren’t related!) Enchantingly sweet, she can single handedly charm any crowd with her melodic tales of love (and the lack thereof!) From her romantic ballad entitled “Dance With Me”, to her more folk rock tune “Sometimes” played several times on local radio stations, Kelsey continues to write mostly about her experiences as she weeds through the villains to find her prince charming, and how she’s growing as a person and learning of her life’s direction.
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RACHEL NELSON Songwriter/Folk Musician Saturday 5:15 - 6 p.m. |
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Rachel Nelson is a songwriter and folk musician whose feet have been firmly planted in the tradition of live performance for over twenty years. Her passionate live performances connect with listeners. Mature, deft lyrics are seamlessly wedded to melodies ranging from Celtic simplicity to blues and jazzy grooves. Accompanying herself on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and washtub bass, Nelson weaves her original songs with stories, traditional tunes, and poems for an evening of warm, spontaneous musical fun. |
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RHODA ANDERSON HABEDANK Twin Valley, MN Sunday 9 - 9:45 a.m. |
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Rhoda is a native of Northern Wisconsin, a Concordia College grad, former youth director in North Hollywood, CA; Fargo, ND; and counselor at Waldorf College in Forest City, IA and Twin Valley, MN. She has two recordings “Loonin’” and “Lullaby Creek”. She has a wildly checkered past as far as where she has sung & played… from college campuses, camps across the country all the way to a chicken coop stage in Northern Iowa. She and her husband live on their farm outside of Twin Valley with their 2 young sons. |  |
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KRISTIN KITKO BISMARCK, ND Sunday 10 - 10:45 a.m. |
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The Chicago Tribune says Kristin Kitko has “musical superpowers!” She is a performer, composer, and recording artist. She sings and plays guitar, harmonica, percussion, mandolin, keyboard, and, well, the kazoo. Kris has performed at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio, Prairie Public Radio, Windy City Radio, and Laney Goodman's "Women in Music." She is currently recording her next CD release and is preparing for the shows to follow in 2007 and 2008. |
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PATTY KAKACK |
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Patty Kakac has been singing and writing music professionally since 1978. Guitar, harmonica and autoharp are her main instruments. Her voice and style have been likened to Kate Wolf, Joan Baez and Judy Collins. Her songs have been used in plays, documentary films and in the PBS documentary Dairy Queens. She has performed with such notables as Garrison Keilor. Patty perhaps is better known to many as half of the popular duo the Granary Girls (disbanded). Patty will be singing many of her popular songs that have been recorded on her 4 albums, 2 on her own and 2 as Granary Girls. She is inviting some of her friends to join her for Woman Song which will include Mary Pohl. Mary plays autoharp and has joined with Patty to perform in a very popular Irish show from their hometown area. As one audience member stated, “Once again I could breathe in the magic that I used to enjoy with the "Granary Girls.” |
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