Meri's Musings

One of the artists who shared the stage at Cafe Impromptu with Mark Ward last weekend was a sassy young woman named Jerin Falkner . Jerin has released four albums, the newest being Pyro Aesthetic. I bought her 2007 Acoustic Journal during her performance at Cafe Impromptu. During the Folklife gig, she mentioned that she grew up around Spokane. She also mentioned that she has a little problem with electricity and getting electrocuted occasionally. Like when she used a curling iron with a frayed cord and ended up with singe marks on her face and her hand numb for four hours. PLEASE Buy a CD from this woman so she can afford to buy a new curling iron! Just click on her name up at the top of this post and you can visit her website. And just so you can see and hear how talented she is, I've inserted a You-Tube video she recorded herself, walking along with her flip-camera and singing her song, "Count of Three." And if you want more, click here to listen to some more cuts, incl...

One of the Sunday performers at Café Impromptu, a Northwest Folklife Festival venue in McCaw Hall, was a young man named Mark Ward . He's from Spokane, Washington and describes his music as folk rock, acoustic guitar, and indie sounds. For you oldies but goodies, he says he sounds like Neil Young. He was selling CD's with four cuts: Fighting with Lightning; Little Lights; You Are Light; and Meant the Most . I brought one home -- you can purchase from his website (click on his name to go to his myspace page). I hope Mark doesn't mind me cribbing some of the accolades on his website, but these comments aptly honor Mark's music. " When you're one person with a guitar, you better have something compelling to separate yourself from all your like-minded compatriots. Ward definitely does-a magnetic, spine-tinglingly beautiful voice ." -Jeff Echert, The Inlander (Oct 20, 2008) " The incandescent crackle of a young songwriter taking the lens of his musical id...