The young and witchy star of Os Beaches/Family Folk Explosion, Annie Girl was raised amongst wolves under the Colorado big sky before taking flight toward the coast and teaming up with the FFE in their fight for the light. Annie Girl & The Flight’s debut album was produced at San Francisco’s legendary Studio C (the Cosmo’s Factory of CCR lore) and comes out on July 25! Whatever road she’s on, you can be sure it leads home.

Nora Toomey has big dreams for poetry. She is most interested in creating multi-textual, audio, visual, tactile spheres where her poems can live. She would love it more than anything if you visited them in there. Turns out you’re here! She will be happy. Also, congratulations, you are part of an experiment. Look at us being brave, re-defining what it means to be a poet and what it means to be a poem. These are exciting times.

Cat Bones in the Flower Beds, is a surprise and a memory. Something strange and beautiful dug up in the garden. Nora will use Cat Bones as a kitchen table, an open window, a safe, sturdy place to experiment and process. Some of the poems published in Cat Bones will be old poems, re-defined, carving out new meaning with color or sound. Some of the poems will be new, shaky legged, searching for solid ground to stand on. All of them, delighted, thankful, inspired to make the magic exchange, from one heart and brain, to another heart and brain.

A warm breeze blows North from Bahia, carrying strains of a raucous samba bateria, a snippet of bird-like choro played by a duo of violin and clarinet, and the fuzz of a distant, piercing electric guitar. Troubling memories of dissent, imprisonment, and exile are defused by the seduction of infectious rhythms and melodies. A singer bursts into a new song. Her face displays lines of age -- inscribed at once by a fraught history and a lifetime of joyful musical mischief.

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