An Evening with

Emily Kaitz, Nancy Scott & Melinda Brooks

Emily Kaitz, a Fayetteville, Arkansas, resident since 1998, cut her musical teeth in Austin, Texas, where she lived for 21 years and played “every place that had original acoustic music and didn’t pay enough.”  She has written songs recorded by Trout Fishing in America, The Therapy Sisters, and The Austin Lounge Lizards and has recorded six albums of her own. Emily sings original, largely humorous songs to solo guitar accompaniment. Her music is whimsical, irreverent and highly entertaining.

Nancy Scott has been performing in and around Austin for over 30 years at venues such as Emma Joes, the Chicago House, Chances, the Cactus Cafe, BookWoman, Rusty’s and Artz Rib House. She currently hosts Artz Songwriting Circle at Artz Rib House once a month and is involved with BookWoman’s quarterly Equinox and Solstice events. She also performs at house concerts, parties, benefits, festivals (yearly at the Friend’s Fest in Dripping Springs) and does kid’s shows. She has done shows in Oklahoma at the Herland Retreat and on the Day Stage at the National Women’s Music Festival to mention a few out of Texas places.  

Melinda Brooks- I was lucky enough to start playing with Bruce Jones a few years back as part of “Bruce Jones and the Monotones”. The Monotones are the duo of Jeanne Kyser (fiddle), and me (mandolin) and Bruce is about the best songwriter I know living in Austin. We teamed up with Emily by accident to form “Emily Kaitz with Bruce Jones and the Monontones Featuring the East Side Flash” (longest band name in history) and the Monotones had a blast getting to do some gigs up in OK and AR, and here in TX. Along about this time I started to write some songs (mostly about my dog and cats because that’s something I know about), but lately have branched out a bit. I was fortunate enough to be a regional winner (Ballad Tree) at Kerrville in 2010, and won third place in the Blues category in the Austin songwriter’s Contest that same year - pretty much the biggest thrill of my life! 

Patricia Austin, professional psychic, will be reading Tarot Cards, Palms and sharing other divination tools for BookWoman's clientele as a benefit for BookWoman. Recommended donation is $25 for a 15 minute reading and $1 a minute over. Cash and checks are the preferred methods of payment. Pat gives positive and constructive information.

Call (472- 2785) to get on the list, or take your chances and just drop by, although reserving a spot is recommended!

This show will showcase the talents of independent musician and author, Audrey Ryan (Somerset, MA), who has recently published a book entitled, The Need To Be Heard. The book is “ for and about DIY (“Do It Yourself”) musicians- those artists who do not have big support teams that consist of labels, managers, and lawyers. It is the story of a variety of artists, both known and unknown, all united by a burning desire to be heard.” Audrey Ryan will be playing a set of music as well as talking about the book. 

We also have very special guest opener, Chrissy Flat, featuring Eric Hisaw, performing a set of music as well. This is not to be missed. It is free to the public and byob.

Show starts at 6pm with Chrissy Flatt and then Audrey Ryan will perform at 7pm as well as talk about her book between songs. 

SUE DONAHOE will sign copies of her new book, Never Heard of 'Em: Austin's Music Explosion. 

Packed with photos, magazine articles, bios and her personal accounts, this happy new book documents Austin’s exciting indie music scene in the ‘90s and takes a peak at the faces and places in Austin music today. Includes lots of women musicians.

South by North Lamar Musical Showcase 

A Celebration of the Power of Women in Music! 
Hosted by Kiya Heartwood. Featuring performances by Noelle Hampton, Christy Claxton, Nancy Scott, Stefanie Fix, Jan Seides, Meg Barnhouse, Jean Synodinos, Therapy Sisters and more!

The BookWoman BookGroup will meet to discuss Oranges Aren’t the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Come join us!!!

Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette's insistence on listening to the truths of her own heart and mind - and on reporting them with wit and passion - makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood.

The BookWoman BookGroup usually meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month. We read a variety of genres and we welcome new members!

Revolution, A Love Story is the story of how it's possible for "ordinary" people to reclaim their dignity through participation in politics and community organizing. Cindy's quest for peace led her to both Venezuela and Cuba where she has been privileged to witness true revolution in process. This book is the story of that process. The book is also Cindy Sheehan's "love letter" to the people of Venezuela and the charismatic leader of the nation that has prevailed over terrible odds from surviving a demonization campaign and a CIA sponsored coup against him, and recently a scary bout of cancer.

Hope can be a good thing if we place it where it belongs--firmly in the hands of the people. 

Cindy Sheehan, “Peace Mom”, revived the anti-war protest in 2005 when she went to Crawford to ask President Bush for what noble cause did her son die, resulting in spontaneous demonstrations known as Camp Casey. Since then she travels the world as the face for the peace and justice movement.

The KinCity Reading Series brings together poets from Austin and San Antonio. The next reading will be Sat., April 1 from 3-5 p.m. at BookWoman on N. Lamar Blvd. and will feature Jesse Bertron, Jack Brannon, Eric Cruz, Alen Hamza, Dorothy Meiburg,  Alysa Hayes and Celeste Guzman Mendoza.

Please come a little early and join us for refreshments musical entertainment by ire'ne lara silva and Moises S. L. Lara before the reading begins.

Atlanta based ghostwriter Kim Green comes out of the shadows with her debut novel, "Hallucination", which introduces us to the unforgettable heroine Ave Morgan Blackmon and the story of Morgan's healing journey through the pain of lupus to a place of wellness inside and out.  

"Hallucination" is a story about unexpected occurrences and how they can stop your life and change it whether you are ready for change or not. This is a story of surviving some of life's unavoidable miseries and coming out on the other side, a little wiser and a little closer to yourself. "hallucination" is a story of regular life, sudden illness and irregular outcomes. "Hallucination" is NOT a story about being sick. It's a story of becoming well...inside and out. 

Jaynee presents:

"Crystal Singing Bowls and Vocal Toning Workshop"

Enjoy the beatiful sounds of pure quartz crystal singing bowls. 
Each bowl corresponds to the seven chakra (energy) systems of the human
body. When the crystal bowls are played, your chakras will resonate with
the highest healing frequencies, releasing stagnant energies and
renewing your whole being. Suggested love offering: $12.00 (no one turned away)

The Muse of Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word: This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the jazz tradition and its representation in poetry. Applying prosodic analysis to emphasize the musicality of African American poetic performance, she examines the gendered meanings evident in collaborative performances and in the criticism, images, and sounds circulating within jazz cultures.

Meta DuEwa Jones is Associate Professor in English and faculty affiliate in African and African Diaspora Studies at University of Texas, Austin.

Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith: The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. She is attentive to how the artists manipulated clothing, mannerisms, voice, and other signs to negotiate their assumed identities. Cherise Smith argues that by drawing on conventions such as passing, blackface, minstrelsy, cross-dressing, and drag, they highlighted the constructedness and fluidity of identity and identifications. Enacting Others provides a provocative account of how race informs contemporary art and feminist performance practices.

Cherise Smith is Associate Professor of Art History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.   

The Muse of Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word: This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within the jazz tradition and its representation in poetry. Applying prosodic analysis to emphasize the musicality of African American poetic performance, she examines the gendered meanings evident in collaborative performances and in the criticism, images, and sounds circulating within jazz cultures.

Meta DuEwa Jones is Associate Professor in English and faculty affiliate in African and African Diaspora Studies at University of Texas, Austin.

Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith: The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. She is attentive to how the artists manipulated clothing, mannerisms, voice, and other signs to negotiate their assumed identities. Cherise Smith argues that by drawing on conventions such as passing, blackface, minstrelsy, cross-dressing, and drag, they highlighted the constructedness and fluidity of identity and identifications. Enacting Others provides a provocative account of how race informs contemporary art and feminist performance practices.

Cherise Smith is Associate Professor of Art History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.