CELEBRATE LOVE on LEAP DAY!
On February 29th, 2024, Judith-Kate Friedman hosts a watch party for Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff . This event blends a classic concert video (filmed on Valentine's day, 2015), plus new love poems and music from Judith-Kate and time for conversation. These events will be held on zoom. Donations benefit the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
The Concert:
In this two-set concert, internationally acclaimed songwriter-performers Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff celebrate romance, fidelity, compassion, justice, community, and the power of song. The program features their original and classic love songs-- many written for each other-- and musical settings of poems by Rumi and Robert Bly. Beautifully filmed at KEY CITY PUBLIC THEATRE , the video has become a classic brimming with love, humor and the artist's most potent songs. Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel "3D" Deardorff were life partners and musical compadres from 2006-2019. The Mythsinger Legacy Project is keeping Daniel Deardorff's music, mythtelling, and teaching alive as she grows in the lineage of his -- and our -- vision: to restore the wisdom of myth to culture and community.
This event is offered on a pay-as-you-can, pay-what-you-wish basis with all funds benefiting the Mythsinger Legacy Project, a fiscally-sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation (501c3).
The Evening:
We'll gather around the virtual hearth on zoom to listen together. Before and after the concert Judith-Kate will read new poems and add a song or improvisation or two. Afterward, we'll share conversation together and celebrate love-- past, present, and future.
The Artists:
Judith-Kate Friedman inhabits flinty places where art, activism, ritual, and Oral Tradition dance. She sings, composes, writes, performs, curates spaces, produces events, tends hearth-fires, tells stories, and celebrates aliveness. Born in New York City, she now calls Washington State’s rural north Olympic Peninsula (traditional Coast Salish lands) home. An award-winning vocalist, performing songwriter, and producer, she is a three-time National Endowment for the Arts grant recepient for her projects with Songwriting Works™ Educational Foundation and serves as Steward of the Mythsinger Legacy Project. Learn more about her multi-modal arts and music at alivenessthrougharts.net
Daniel '3D' Deardorff was a "Singer" in the old sense of the word: a musician, storyteller, and maker of ritual. As a composer, performer, mythologist, author and producer for more than four decades he performed throughout the U.S. and Canada, in South & Central America and the UK. His credits include touring as the opening act for Seals and Crofts (1970’s), appearances on national television (1980’s), and production of acclaimed albums for Tingstad & Rumbel, Michael Tomlinson, and award-winning children’s artists Tickle Tune Typhoon (1980-90’s). He is the author of The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, & Psyche, published in an expanded 3rd edition by Inner Traditions in 2022.Learn more at mythsingerlegacy.org
Thank you for joining us!
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