Strength, Love and Persistence

Greetings All!!
This is your Diva for the Day Kimberly C. Gaines and it has been a very interesting week, first my computer crashed then my cellphone was on the fritz.... whew! And through it all I got my taxes done and created this show! All in all I am grateful! I hope you enjoyed, human errors and all! :)

Don't forget this Saturday's special LIVE broadcast produced by Sophies Parlor... Saturday morning on WPFW 89.3 tune in to a special program being broadcast LIVE March 28th from 11 AM to 4 PM. The program is entitled “Yes We Do; The Many Faces of Women in Music”. There will be 3 live Music Sets and 3 Roundtable discussions. This program is a collective effort of Sophie’s Parlor and Women programmers of WPFW. This is an event you don’t want to miss!!!!

Here is the playlist for March 26th...

Love Song 2:30 Shaday Ofra Haza

Unconditional (Mad Love) 4:38 Finally Karen (Live) Karen Clark Sheard

Muita Bobeira 2:53 Duos II Luciana Souza/Romero Lubambo

Precious 4:25 Esperanza Esperanza Spalding

Sangria 3:56 Come With Me Tania Maria

I Keep/Still Here 8:45 Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds... Jill Scott

Munkaroo 4:43 Alice Russell

Nêga 4:10 Come With Me Tania Maria

Love In Time 5:47 Esperanza Esperanza Spalding

Just Like Water 6:09 M T V Unplugged 2.0 (Disc 1) Lauryn Hill

Cuerpo Y Alma (Body & Soul) 8:02 Esperanza Esperanza Spalding

Im Nin' Alu 3:32 Shaday Ofra Haza

I Get Out 5:17 MTV Unplugged 2.0 (Disc 2) Lauryn Hill

Butterfly 3:55 Corrine Bailey Rae

I See It In You 4:27 DC in the Cut Ayanna Gregory

Empires 5:08 Learning From Falling Lamya

Madalena 5:19 A Mulher Gera O Mundo DiDa Banda Feminina

Incensa 3:04 Fabiana Cozza

The Woman Who 4:45 Learning From Falling Lamya

Balance 4:34 Sara Tavares

Yellow Daisies 3:41 Fertile Ground

I Remember 3:47 MTV Unplugged 2.0 (Disc 2) Lauryn Hill

Immigrant 3:50 Lovers Rock Sade

RESPECT 2:29 Aretha Franklin

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GrapeVine 3-26-09

Sophies Parlor Women’s Radio Collective
The Grape Vine
March 26, 2009

This is the Grapevine, a source for what, where, when and who and is brought to you by Sophie’s Parlor each and every week. Sophie’s is show by womyn, about womyn, but for everybody. We welcome you this final week of the 2009 Women’s Herstory Month. Please go out and celebrate!!!!

Thur. Mar. 26th

Catch opening night of Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. At the Theatre on the Run located at 3700 South Four Mile Run Drive in Arlington. This will run through April 19th with performances Thursday - Saturday at 8pm Sunday at 2pm.

Fri. Mar. 27th

Please join us at for an evening with Vera Yaa-Anna of Palaver Hut, a West African Culture and healing, experience at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 5301 North Capitol Street N.E., beginning at 6pm. For more information call 202-723-5330 or visit www.plymouth-ucc.org.

Sat. Mar. 28th

Soar high at the 43rd Annual Smithsonian Kite Festival held on the federal mall beginning at 10am. This family friendly event is free and open to everyone, bring a kite. For more info check online at www.kitefestival.org.

We want to make sure that each of you is aware of the special program being broadcast from the station this Saturday March 28th from 11 AM to 4 PM. The program is entitled “Yes We Do; The Many Faces of Women in Music”. The program will present 3 live Music Sets and 3 Roundtable discussions. This program is a collective effort of Sophie’s Parlor, Women programmers of WPFW. This is an event you don’t want to miss!!!!

Ladies Verse 9: State of Mind is an event like no other. Join the Ladies for an evening of true entertainment, woman styled. A Cultural fair begins at 7 pm, performances at 8:15 pm at the Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD.

Tues. Mar 31st

Join us for an exciting videoconference event with writer Elizabeth Moon, author of The Speed of Dark. Ms. Moon will be joining us live in an interactive discussion with students, faculty, staff, and community from 12:30-2 PM at Howard Community College, Monteabaro Hall (Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center 130). For more information go online to www.howardcc.edu.

Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO welcomes you out for a Women’s History Month Celebration with guest speaker Congresswoman Donna Edwards. The event takes place from 6-8pm at the IBEW Local 26, which is at 4371 Parliament Place in Lanham. For info call 443-995-6860 or 410-318-8507.

Ongoing/Upcoming Events and Notices

April is…

African American Woman’s Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
National Poetry Month

AGAIN!!! We want your events. Please share them here on the Grapevine. You can email us at sophies@wpfw.org or leave your event as a comment on our blog, that’s sophiesparlor.blogspot.com

The GrapeVine has been written by Andrea Thompson and you’ve heard it all here on Sophie’s Parlor, WPFW, 89.3 FM Washington. Now back to today’s DIVA, the charismatic Kimberly!!!!

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Who Does She Think She Is?

Celebrating the accomplishments of women who dared to dream and dared to DO! 1-3 PM on WPFW.org or 89.3 FM in Washington, DC. Join me! (I hope I get to play them all - I'll have to talk fast...)

Heleeene's Playlist:

Change the World, Magdalen Hsu-Li, Smashing the Ceiling
The Mermaid, Mari Boine, In the Hand of the Night
Chachimurenga, Stella Chiweshe, Talking Mbira
Spring, Heather Rigdon, Young & Naïve
Electro Reading, Syntheme, Lasers 'n' S**t
Summertime (Live), Janis Joplin, Cheap Thrills / I Got Dem 'Ol
Kozmic Blues Again Mama! / Pearl
Shamrock Green, Susan McKeown, Sweet Liberty
On the Sunny Side of the Street, Billie Holiday, The Very Best of Billie Holiday
Vul'indela, Brenda Fassie, Greatest Hits: The Queen of African Pop
Have a Little Faith In Me/Patty Larkin/Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
Ko Te Ao Marama, Mahinarangi Tocker, The Mongrel In Me
They Say It's Spring, Erin McKeown, Sing You Sinners
To the East, Electrelane, No Shouts, No Calls
Mysterious Ways, Angélique Kidjo, In the Name of Love –
Africa Celebrates U2
Mfan' Omncane, Dorothy Masuka, Women of Africa
Here Comes the Sun, Nina Simone, The Very Best of Nina Simone:
Sugar in My Bowl (1967-1972)
Demons, Yo La Tengo, Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
Life Begins At Forty, Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
Riti, Saulit, Ritedama, Ilgi, Riti
Zen, Rokia Traoré, Tchamantché
Ain't Misbehavin', Carmen McRae, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium
Collection: The Best of Carmen McRae
La Sopa en Botella, Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera, The Best of Celia Cruz
I'm Glad There Is You, Natalie Cole, Ask a Woman Who Knows
Spring, Ursula Rucker, Supa Sista (Limited Edition)
My Head May Be Small, But My Heart Is Bigger Than Yours - Neotropic,
Riz Maslen, Bip-Hop Generation Vol. 3
Sassy's Blues, Sarah Vaughan, Verve Jazz Masters
Springtime #2, Venus Hum, Big Beautiful Sky
Will Your Lawyer Talk to God? Kitty Wells, 20th Century Masters - The
Millennium Collection: Best of Kitty Wells
Four Loom Weaver, Maddy Prior & June Tabor, Silly Sisters
Daughters of the Kaos, Luscious Jackson, In Search of Manny
Feelin' Good, Carmen McRae, Women Talk (Remastered)

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GrapeVine 3-13-09

Sophie's Parlor Women's Radio Collecitve
The Grape Vine
March 12, 2009

This is the Grapevine, a collection of the goings around in our area, is brought to you by Sophie’s Parlor each and every week. Sophie’s is show by womyn, about womyn, but for everybody. We welcome you this second week of Women’s Herstory Month 2009.

Thur. Mar. 12th
Patti Austin pays homage to Ella Fitzgerald, Strathmore Performing Arts Center.

Fri. Mar. 13th
7 p.m. We have been looking forward to scholar ELAINE SHOWALTER's comprehensive presentation of America’s literary women, A JURY OF HER PEERS: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. Politics & Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC (202) 364-1919 or (800) 722-0790 www.politics-prose.com
Debbie Allen's OMAN…O Man! Bringing together young dancers from the Sultanate of Oman, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and the D.C. area, this exciting music and dance extravaganza will transport you to where the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea meet and the desert dunes mystify. This event runs until March 15th in the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center.

Sat. Mar. 14th
10:30 a.m. TANYA LEE STONE reports how the pioneering Mercury 13 women fought to participate in NASA's space program; were ALMOST ASTRONAUTS; and paved the way for women pilots and astronauts who followed. Ages 10-14. Politics & Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC (202) 364-1919 or (800) 722-0790 www.politics-prose.com

Sun. Mar. 15th
Stay tuned. Not Such Stuff Written by chris wind and Directed by Deborah Randall
Produced by Venus Theatre Sun matinees at 3 pm.Where: Venus Theatre Play Shack , 21 C Street, Laurel, Maryland

Mon. Mar. 16th
Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Claudia Emerson and Natasha Trethewey read from their celebrated works on Mar 16. Emerson is the winner of the 2006 prize for poetry and the author of four books, including Late Wife. Trethewey's latest collection of poems, Native Guard, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. The reading is followed by a wine reception.

Ongoing/Upcoming Events and Notices

Let Freedom Sing: An Opera for Marian Anderson Mar. 22nd
WPFW IWD Day of Women in Music Mar. 28th
The Kite Festival Mar. 28th

April is…

African American Woman Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
National Poetry Month

AGAIN!!! We want your events. Please share them here on the Grapevine. You can email us at sophies@wpfw.org or leave your event as a comment on our blog, that’s sophiesparlor.blogspot.com.

This has been the GrapeVine, compiled by Andrea Thompson and you’ve heard it all here on Sophie’s Parlor, WPFW, 89.3 FM Washington. Now back to today’s DIVA, always changing Andrea !!!!

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She is so Sassy--w/guest Lisa Pegram

For this Women's Herstory Month show I choose to explore, through music and our special guest, Lisa Pegram (Youth Arts Activist), just what is sassy and why and how do women display this.

For more information on Lisa Pegram and the arts program she spoke of, please email Lisa at lisa.innerchild@gmail.com.

I hope all of you out there listened and benefited. Please comment on the quality of this program if you like.

Andrea

The Playlist 3-12-09

• Say Yes Floetic Floetry
• Calima Women's World Voices (Vol. 5) Kristi Stassinopoulo
• Pipo Woman On Fire Mujer Ardiente Mayra Casales
• The Man Next Door Royal Blue Koko Taylor
• It Don't Mean A Thing Freedom In Song Afro Blue
• Baila Yemaya Salsa Queen: Cuban Roots Celia Cruz
• Amazing Sitar Women's World Voices Ensemble Ethnique
• (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along Fine and Mellow: Live At Birdland West Carmen McRae
• Merceditas Invention & Alchemy Henson Conant, Deborah
• The Good Life Look What I Got! Betty Carter
• Fever Imagine Eva Cassidy
• Sinuoso Trópico (Chile) Women of Latin America Jacqueline Fuentes
• Whenever You're Around Jill Scott - The Real Thing - Words and Sounds, Vol. 3 (Bonus Track Version)
• Sweet Toffee Women's World Voices Moodorama
• Egoismo Salsa Queen: From Havana to N.Y.C Celia Cruz
• It Don´t Mean a Thing The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets Carmen Mcrae & Betty Carter
• Oh My Love (Djarabi) Red Earth - A Malian Journey Dee Dee Bridgewater
• Resurrection Blues (Tutu) Traveling Miles Cassandra Wilson

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