Fiction writer Christine Allen-Yazzie will read from her work and folk
singer/songwriter Anke Symmerhill will perform at the Salt Lake Public Library
at 7:00 P.M. on May 16th as part of the City Art reading series.
Christine Allen-Yazzie lives in Utah with her husband and two daughters. Her
collection of short fiction has been recognized with a Utah Arts Council grant
and a Lorian Hemingway honorable mention, and by the Drue Heinz competition as
a runner-up. Her stories have been published in a number of literary journals,
most recently DOS PASSOS REVIEW. She has an MFA in creative writing.
THE ARC AND THE SEDIMENT was awarded a first-place prize for best novel by the
Utah Arts Council in 2001, as well as a subsequent publication prize for best
book-length work. The novel was also a finalist in the James Jones First Novel
Competition in the same year. A short excerpt is available at
www.eclectica.org.
Anke Summerhill's new CD project, "Shine On Through", is the latest
collaberation with her long time friend and producer Kate MacLeod. It features
many of the same musical friends who were included on her debut recording:
"The Roots Run Deep", as well as some fun surprises.
"Shine on Through" was self-released through Sky & Earth Music, to radio
stations across the USA, Canada & to some stations Internationally.
In February of 2004, her second full length recording of original songs was
listed at #16 out of 70 CD's surveyed on the Folk DJ list. Of her debut CD
release, "The Roots Run Deep", Independent Songwriter Web-Magazine writes:
"The emotional bond is established with the audience from the very first note.
It's personal, yet universal. You may cry, you may find yourself becoming
philosophical, but you will feel something totally unique from any other album
you've ever heard." Anke's diverse background and powerful gift of observation
has seasoned her songwriting and performances with that, which makes us
compassionate.
Her first full-length CD project, "The Roots Run Deep," was produced by
Waterbug/Folk Era recording artist, Kate MacLeod, whose vision clearly had a
major impact in shaping the package for Summerhill's honest & excellent
writing. It is a mature, fully developed concept that features MacLeod's
talents on fiddle, plus tasteful guest performances by Carla Eskelsen, Matt
Flinner, David Grier and David LaMotte.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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Grammy winning musician Scot Ray will play guitars with poet Joel Long and
Phyllis Barber will read from her fiction on May 9th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt
Lake Public Library as part of the City Art reading Series.
Multi-instrumentalist Scot Ray is an active and innovative musician/composer.
Being equally fluid on 6, 12, and 22 string slide guitars, as well as slide
trombone and tuba, Ray has been featured on many recordings covering a wide
spectrum of styles. Ray spent a three year period recording and touring with
'Stray Cat' Brian Setzer and his rockabilly orchestra. Ray received a Grammy
for his work on "Caravan" from Setzer's 2000 release entitled "Vavoom.Â
Ray has also performed with Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, blues legend Cash
McCall, jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, Elliot Easton of The Cars, Cuban conguero
Francisco Aguabella, and pop diva Gwen Stefani; as well as working with such
new music pioneers as Nels Cline, Vinny Golia, Alex Cline, Jeff Gauthier,
Steuart Liebig, Michael Cain, Shaun Naidoo, Adam Lane, Ryan Francesconi, Bill
Barrett, Tom Varner & Mark Dresser. He has performed in well over a dozen
countries including appearances at The DuMaurier Jazz Festival and Eddie Moore
Jazz Festival.
In addition to playing on numerous soundtracks, which include Stuart Little,
Me Myself and Irene, and Three To Tango, Ray has also performed on such prime
time shows as Sessions At W. 54th Street, Conan OÂBrien, Late Night with David
Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Ray currently resides in a small mountain town - balancing his time between
traveling, composing, and reinventing an old stage coach stop which he now
calls home.
Joel LongÂs book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
His chapbook, ChopinÂs Preludes was published in January by Elik Press. His
poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review,
Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, Weber Studies, Willow Springs, Sonora
Review, Mid-American Review, , Rhino, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Seattle
Review among others. His poems have been anthologized in American Poetry: the
Next Generation, Essential Love, and Fresh Water. He won the Sherwin Howard
Award in 2004 for his poems in Weber Studies. Currently teaching creative
writing and English at Rowland Hall-St. MarkÂs, Long received the Educator of
Excellence Award from Writers at Work in 2002 and was the Jordan School
District Educator of the Year in 2004. He is the founder of the Lake Effect
Writers Conference and the president of the City Art reading series.
Phyllis Barber has published six books, including How I Got Cultured: A Nevada
Memoir; And the Desert Shall Blossom, a novel; The School of Love and Parting
the Veil: Stories from a Mormon Imagination (short stories); plus two
children's books, as well as pieces in many literary magazines such as Kenyon
Review, North American Review, Fiction International, The Chariton Review, The
Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, Crazyhorse, among others.
She received Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XIII (1988) for "Wild Sage" and
Distinguished Western Story Mention in Best of the West 6 for "At the Talent
Show" and Best of the West 3 for "Criminal Justice" (also appearing in
Crosscurrents Best Fiction Anthology, July 1994). In 1996 she received first
prize in the Sunstone D.K.Brown Fiction Competition for "Mormon Levis."
In 1991, she received the Associated Writing Program Award Series Prize in
Creative Nonfiction for How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir. In 1993, the book
was also awarded Best Autobiography by the Association for Mormon Letters.
A member of the faculty of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program since
1990, she received the Louise Crowley & Roger Weingarten Award for Excellence
in Teaching in Summer, 1999. She also taught as a Visiting Writer at the
University of Missouri in Columbia (Spring 1994). She is a co-founder of the
Writers at Work Conference in Park City. Barber was inducted into the Nevada
Writers Hall of Fame, October 2005.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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