Meet the Cast:
As one of Australia's independent bands, bluehouse have stamped out their own unique style by combining folk flavored pop melodies meshed with heavenly, intricate harmonies and inspired guitar and bass playing, along with sardonic wit and one liners thrown in between songs. The dynamic duo, Jacqueline Walter and Bernadette Carroll, met in a pub in Melbourne in 1995 and bluehouse was born. They have since forged a successful career worldwide, by honing their performance skills through beautiful singing, clever thinking and near constant touring. They have received five-star reviews from critics and fans alike. bluehouse have independently released two EPs and three full-length CD's, Big, 6 Minutes of Breathable Air and the most recently, These Days. After performing sold out shows all over Australia, they moved on to play to audiences in Europe, including spots at WOMAD and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Beginning with their first tour of North America in the summer of 2002, they have wowed audiences at many prestigious music festivals and showcase venues including California WorldFest, Stan Rogers Memorial Folk Festival, Mountain Stage, Philadelphia Folk Festival, the prestigious US National Folk Alliance, Kerrville Folk Festival, the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, and Austin's Cactus Cafe. bluehouse have shared the stage with Neil Young, Cowboy Junkies, UB40, Elvis Costello, Tommy Emmanuel, Neil Finn (of Crowded House) and many others. They've also played to an estimated worldwide listening audience of 200 million on the 'Mountain Stage Radio' show based in West Virginia.The Sydney Morning Herald recognized the band as "essential eclecticism, terming their music delicious folk-pop... tinged at times with sweet gospel soul, before plunging into raucous guitar riffs" and "exuberant, sad, wise, harmonically dazzling... a lively display of both instrumental and a cappella with attitude and polished pop." Lesley Sly of Rolling Stone writes, "This acoustic duo from Melbourne have been winning rave reviews. They write powerful, radio-friendly tunes and twist them with a quirkiness which keeps them outside formula pop." Geoff Wilson of Scene Magazine writes about bluehouse: "An immensely entertaining and engaging live show has been the hallmark of their success, garnering them such praise as the best night you've ever had with glorious harmony work and individual voices ranging from teardrop soft to thunderstorm forceful."
Carlease! AKA Carlease Burke, has been living and performing on the West Coast since relocating from New York in 1985.
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While singing and dancing her way through international waters on the Sitmar Cruise Line in 1984, she had the opportunity to get a feel for the "other" coast. That journey...
"She's witty, she's wonderful, she's the gay man's Wesbian!" raved Elmer Fudd. With 20 years of gay stand up experience at her hip, comedian Shann Carr weaves a storytelling style that makes you feel like you're sitting in your living room with an eccentric friend who has your whole dinner party in...
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Whether poignant, pissed off, funny, or heartbroken, Corday will win you over with her charm, her wit and her red-hot intensity! Corday is poised to release her fourth studio album, Superhero, a sticky delicious pop rock record that will break rules, break hearts and be her breakthrough to...
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Gail Ann Dorsey's musical journey began as a 70's teenager in West Philadelphia, playing guitar, bass, clarinet, drums, singing and eventually penning her own musical compositions. An ardent creative writer and film buff, Gail also wrote feature-length screenplays to accompany some of her musical...
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Mimi Gonzalez was once told by her mother, "You're such a beautiful girl, but then you open your mouth and spoil it all." Mimi graduated from high school as the class clown and then received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Central Michigan University. A move to New York slapped the corporate...
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MAKENA (pronounced mah-keh-nah) is the acoustic partnership of two girls born and raised in Hawaii, who took a chance on "the mainland" 5 years ago, and are now beginning to see it pay off.
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Their homemade recordings and growing name caught the attention of Grammy-winning producer Daniel Ho...
LaTonya Peoples was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. She began taking violin lessons at the age of five. At the age of sixteen she became a certified Suzuki Violin Instructor giving private lessons. Latonya graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Music Therapy from Howard University in May of 1994,...
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Singer, songwriter, actress: Patti Rayne has been many people in many cities. Originally from Louisiana, Patti has been exploring sound and stage in Houston, New York, Boston and now Los Angeles; In Houston, she was the girl who sang the national anthem for 16,000 in the Summit for more than a...
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Sweet Baby J'ai got her start under the guidance of her mentor, the legendary Phil Moore. Shortly thereafter she could be found performing in jazz clubs in Paris. Back home in the U.S., she benefited early on in her career from the support and direction of working with legends, saxophonist Teddy...
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Sherry began taking pictures as soon as she was able to hold her first pint-size Kodak Brownie box camera. OK, not a true "Brownie" - it was turquoise blue. She began to focus on the things around her that caught her eye... beginning with her B&W cat, her friends and anything in her small, but...
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Ten years ago avid cyclist and native Californian Andrea Meyerson placed a classified ad looking for other female Los Angeles-area cyclists. (www.womenonaroll.com) Little did she know that this simple ad would eventually inspire her to leave her corporate career to start one of the largest and most...
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