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Warming weather and hot tunes are on tap this week to thaw thick blood and to refresh cultural gullets parched by the pandemic. Either sitting down or standing up, get ready to get those feet tapping, hips rolling and shoulders shaking with new local and national song releases on offer from CAFE 541 this week.
Local releases Kudhara, Ratie D
Right from the start, performer Ratie D’s December 2020 “Ink & Melodies” draws listeners in with a joyous collision of percussion, strings, horns and lyrics. Sung in English and her native Chivanhu language, the Zimbabwean Eugenean Ratie Dangarembwa Morgan sings about love, family and identity reflected in Eugene and from her south African roots.
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Gay Bar. We go out because we re thirsty. We go out to return to the thrill of the chase . We go out for the aroma. Some nights just smell like trouble.
The subtitle of Atherton Lin s book is
Why We Went Out, and the London-based author offers plenty of reasons in this remarkable debut.
Gay Bar combines memoir, history and criticism; it s a difficult book to pin down, but that s what makes it so readable and so endlessly fascinating.
Atherton Lin s book starts off in a crowded room in a gay bar where he s gone cruising with his partner, whom he refers to throughout the book with the Leonard Cohen-inspired nickname Famous Blue Raincoat. Atherton Lin participates in a sexual encounter with a stranger, and reflects on what sets him apart from the tough-looking crowd: I saw these men as being in their domain, depraved and sketchy, whereas I was just passing through. I m the com
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Joan Sutherland Theatre, December 12
★★★★
They dance through verse after verse, putting flesh on the despairing bones of his songs. Nancy, Suzanne and the rest could form an Old Testament litany of Leonard Cohen s loves. But they were never notches on a gun, rock n roll style. Each was adored for who she was; the warmth and light she brought to his life; a smile amid the futility, and the sensual corollary of his other obsession, theology.
Abby Dobson, Here with Yaron Hallis, made each word of Famous Blue Raincoat give up a little drop of blood.
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