Alicia Bay Laurel onstage at
Java Joe's, Ocean Beach, California, March 16, 2002
Alicia
Bay Laurel's one-woman storytelling/comedy/singing/guitar-picking
shows entertain while offering rich historic and cultural insights
and inspiring the artist in each of us to persevere.
Each of
the two shows is autobiographical, each focusing on one of her
works. Her first piece, Living On The Earth: The Musical,
tells how she came to create the bestselling Living On The
Earth at age 19, what happened after, and how the book came
to be published again 30 years later. The story careens between
bohemian communites, including Big Sur, the Diggers, the Merry
Pranksters, the Haight Ashbury, Gate Five Sausalito, Wheeler
Ranch Commune, The Whole Earth Catalog, the Liberation News
Service, and Maui in the 1970's, and collides head-on with the
world of Big Publishing. She illustrates each section of the
story with an original song composed during the period of the
story. The songs in the show are on her CD, Music From Living
On The Earth, which she released in April 2000, just before
her first tour of the show, an 8-month, 75-performance epic
drive around the United States.
The other
show, Living In Hawaii Style: Talk Story, goes into greater
detail about Alicia's nearly 30 year residence in Hawaii, learning
Hawaiian music from prominant Hawaiian musicians, and releasing
her CD, Living In Hawaii Style, in August 2001. The story
offers visions of an idyllic Kihei, Maui, in the 60's, life
in remote Hana town, life as an underwater photographer, a freelance
musician, a wedding coordinator, an artist making a comeback.
Both the show and the CD contain about half original songs and
half historic pieces, some in ki ho'alu (slack key, or open
tunings), and some hapa-ha'ole--in the jazz-influenced style
of the big band era. Alicia began touring this show in December
2001, with about thirty performances in Hawaii and California
as of June 2002.
"...a
humble but accomplished sorceress...singing songs of the waves
and flowers and people. ...What is so evident in Alicia's work
is her love for traditional Hawaiian music and for the guitar
itself....I thank Alicia for bringing the spirit of the goddess
and her magic all the way across the sea to me. Her songs ran
through my dreams all night." Kathie
Gibboney, Topanga Messenger, April 18, 2002
For
more information, or for bookings, please contact Alicia Bay
Laurel by email at alicia@aliciabaylaurel.com,
by phone at 1-808-334-3314, or by post at HCR 3 Box 11116, Keaau,
Hawaii 96749-9230 USA
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