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Award-winning songwriter, poet and ironic social commentator evalyn parry is gifted with a sharp pen, a quirky musical sensibility and a wicked sense of humour. From 19th century cycling heroines to 21st century sailors; from ‘feminine protection’ to bottled water to the quest for the Northwest Passage, evalyn’s outspoken creations hold out a powerful vision of social and personal change, while her irreverent wit holds nothing sacred.
And…we’re back from the tour. Well, almost: we’ve been west, and we’ve been east – and next week we head back to the left coast to Victoria’s amazing UNO Festival for two more shows. Then a handful more shows over the summer months here in Ontario. Tour report so far? The week on [...]
Announcing the digital release of a new song from SPIN: ”A Letter from Annie Londonderry’s Granddaughter”! You can download it from Bandcamp right here, right now, for the low low price of Pay-What-You-Wish. The song is based on a real letter, that I really received, from the real granddaughter of Annie (first woman to ride [...]
So happy to have landed in Vancouver, at the beautiful Cultch, for a two-week run of the show. It’s spring here, full of cherry blossoms and flowers, we’ve borrowed ourselves some bicycles to ride around on, Vancouver is full of bike lanes, and the show is getting full houses and enthusiastic audiences, so…I’m a very [...]
First stop on the spring 2013 SPIN tour is Wilmington,North Carolina. After some epic packing to fly this show thru the air, we arrived late last night with all our bits in tact. This morning I did a workshop at the University (for a gender studies class -very fun, although 9 am is admittedly [...]
International Women’s Day is Friday March 8th, and I’ll be performing SPIN at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts that night. Come celebrate women and bicycles with us! In April, we take the bike on it’s biggest tour yet – starting off with two shows in North Carolina, followed by a two-week [...]
The ever-inspirational, annual Rhubarb Festival kicks off this Wednesday evening at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, for a two week romp of outside-the-box new performance / theatre / dance / music. I love this festival and the line-up this year is amazing, with all kinds of stuff that I’m excited to see… but most of all, [...]
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