Charming Hostess:
Revolutionary Voices Sing at MIT: Sept 16
 Charming Hostess
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For Immediate Release: September 1, 2005
Contact: Mary Haller
Director of Arts Communication
MIT Office of the Arts
20 Ames St., Rm E15-205
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-4006, e-mail haller@media.mit.edu |
"Their voices radiate female energy and their singing transforms the spirit.""
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Eisenberg's songs are hilarious and touching-they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful."
--New Yorker
"Charming Hostess is a dazzling display of vocal agility, wit, emotional flexibility, and imaginative depth."
--The Wire
Cambridge, MA...The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at MIT and the MIT Office for the Arts is pleased to present composer/performer Jewlia Eisenberg this year's Katzenstein Artist-in-Residence at MIT and her mission to bring Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girlie joy to Cambridge.
On September 16, join Eisenberg and Charming Hostess for a performance from their new CD, "Sarajevo Blues" (Tzadik): a tour de force of vocal brawn and brains. Drawing on Bosnian poetry of love and resistance, Eisenberg's bold compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way.
Charming Hostess is three women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm, and radical smarts. Their music is rooted in the body--voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. Charming Hostess lives where Jewish and African Diasporas collide, incorporating doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Sufi melody. Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes and Cynthia Taylor. Their genre is best described as: NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLIE.
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CONTACT:
FOR CHARMING HOSTESS:
E-mail charming@charminghostess.us
www.charminghostess.us
(510) 393-6168
FOR CONCERT INFORMATION:
Event Information Line: (617) 253-2341
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Andi Sutton
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at MIT
(617) 324-2085
E-mail arsutton@mit.edu
FOR PRESS AND JEWLIA'S ARTIST'S TALK:
Mary Haller
MIT Office of the Arts
(617) 253-4006
E-mail haller@media.mit.edu
CHARMING HOSTESS PERFORMANCE:
Friday, September 16
8 p.m.
MIT Campus
Building 54 (Green Building, Room 100 (access via 21 Ames St)
Cambridge, MA
Admission free
CONVERSATION WITH JEWLIA:
"Voice, Text and Diaspora Consciousness in Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girlieland"
Thursday, September 15
7 p.m.
MIT Campus
Building 6, Room 120
Enter at 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Admission free
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