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Susan
Finkleman began her delusional existence as a struggling novelist in
Detroit, Michigan at age 10, and as a poet at age 13. She has been
recently encouraged in these delusions by such publishers as Tiger's Eye, Susurrus,
Rattlesnake Press, The Yolo Crow, the Sacramento Bee, and the Sacramento News and Review,
as well as by her husband Joseph Finkleman, with whom she is
co-authoring a novel for children and any number of two voice poems.
Having recently burned out on transforming classrooms full of students
into struggling writers, she is now employed as the office manager of a
very lovely cemetery. In her miniscule spare time she whirls around
contra dancing; when she is thoroughly spun out, she practices Zen.
Joseph
Finkleman has enjoyed basking in the limelight since his birth in
Hollywood, CA. These days he hangs out on stage performing two voice
poetry or at galleries, where he shows both photography and watercolor.
Joe has a BFA and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Before
transferring to art school, he was a literature major with a journalism
minor. Joe is a history buff with a voracious appetite for all sorts of
books that exceeds even his appetite for gourmet food, much of which he
cooks himself. After 20 years as a professional photographer, during
which he taught photography and animation, these days Joe pursues the
creative from behind the lens, the brush and the pen. Along with
writing the novel, a number of short stories and plays, and a great
deal of poetry, Joe has recently completed the libretto of an opera
which will be performed soon at Sacramento State University.
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And Our Musicians...
Francesca Reitano, whose music can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/francescasongspirit/, has always enjoyed making sound. It has become a path of
communication, expression and healing. "I’ve sung since I could make noise, played piano since I was 8 years
old, guitar since about 13, and even made all-state orchestra as an oboist,
when I was in high school. I've been a singer/songwriter since
the '60s (voice, guitar, piano), and in about 2003, I seriously picked up the
Native American flute due to the influence of Paul Stone and one of his
flutemakers, Mark Brajevich, from whom my mother purchased my first decent
Native American flute, and then hearing Mary Youngblood's CD, 'Beneath the
Raven Moon.' I have had the privilege
of taking flute lessons and workshops with Mary, and duetting with her in several
local concerts. She is my flute mentor and inspiration, along with all the
folks in the Northern California Flute Circle and my virtual flute circles on
the Internet."
Mark Halverson started playing drums in local surf, rock, soul
and blues bands in the 1960's & '70's while taking lessons from
local percussion master Stanley Lunetta. He was pit orchestra
percussionist for the CALIFORNIA STAGE production of Let the Eagle Fly. Currently
he performs with the all-original blues-rock group Lucy's Bones (http://www.lucysbones.com) and the blues-rock party quintet The
Blues Gurus (http:www.myspaces.com/bluezgurus).
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