Jamie Anderson in Concert at Herland
Herland is proud to present Jamie Anderson in concert at Herland on Friday, October 15, 2004, at 8 pm.
Touring nationally since 1987, Jamie Anderson is known for her solid songwriting and engaging stage presence. With a voice as smooth as Shawn Colvin and a sense of humor as wacko as comic Suzanne Westenhoefer, Jamie has entertained in hundreds of coffeehouses, concert halls and festivals all over the U.S. She’s performed on the main stage at the National Women’s Music Festival, the Kerrville Folk Festival, at colleges, pride events, folk festivals and at almost every women’s music festival. She has seven recordings, including the newest one Listen. Her songs have been featured on the Dr. Demento radio show, Car Talk and many stations all over the world.
Witty, charming, and sometimes topical, Jamie can run you through the entire gamut of emotions in one show, guiding listeners through the joy of families (”Forever Family”), the pleasures of love (”I Wanna Drive”), pride (”When They Know Who We Are”) and a good reason why you should never break up with a songwriter (”I Miss the Dog [More Than I Miss You)”. A song she wrote with Sue Fink, “A Family of Friends,” has been sung by choruses in the U.S and Canada, sometimes with Jamie as their guest artist. Jamie wishes her cat would stop trying to collect songwriting royalties for “When Cats Take Over The World.”
In the rare time that Jamie is not touring, she teaches songwriting at Duke University and other places. She has a chapter in Songwriting and the Guitar, a book that also includes Paul Simon, The Indigo Girls, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and others. Jamie has also penned several articles for Acoustic Guitar magazine.
Tickets are on a sliding scale from $10 to $15.
“As a writer, Jamie takes the archetypical forms of folk music and story telling and turns them on their heads! A fresh (in every sense) and original artist.”
– Catie Curtis
“For me, folk music tells a story about folks, simple truth-telling and magical mythology that invites the listener to lean in to the larger circle of life. Jamie Anderson is in that circle and she is singing some wonderful songs.”
– Holly Near