People’s Pick: Sue Menhart
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People’s Pick: Sue Menhart
TUNEFUL TODDLER
City by the Sea, New England
Objective: To be listened to, and to listen, rhythmically, lyrically, to the core
Summary of Qualifications:
A classically trained acoustic guitarist
A wordsmith whose first lines drop like rain onto the desert of her worrisome soul
A performer who looks back when the audience looks at her
Experience (Gigs):
Hootenannies for an Arts Cafe, Various locations, Jan. 28, 2010, and dates prior
Fretnoise Songwriters in the Round, Local cabaret, Jan. 22, 2010
Summer Festival Showcase, Various locations, July 2007-2010
Soulful Remedies : Three Songwriters, Local church, June 2009
Open mics, Various locations, As often as possible
Discs:
Love Is Hard, Independent producer, 2010
Letting Go Independent producer, 2008
Education:
Collaborating with area musicians
Playing etudes for my father, but not getting it right; only able to play for him at his deathbed, a peaceful smile on his face
Riding on the inspiration of a crush, with too many songs to count, then writing my way out of it
Deciding in my mid-40s to perform after my high school best friend told me my song about letting go of a friend who could never be a lover was a good one
Studying poets and poetry all my life
Attending a teen center for creative youth one summer, 1977
Remote tutelage to the greats: Janis Ian, Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchell, Lui Collins, Catie Curtis, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Ian Anderson
Teasing my Mom as she made up the forgotten words to church hymns
Learning not to run from the hole in my heart, but not to fall in either
Community Activities
Prison music minister, 2007-08
Chapel guitarist with choir, 1997-2009; 1995-96, 1980-82
Organizations
Shoreline group, 2007-present
Interests & Activities
Playing with my cats; working my day job only as much as I have to; cooking; finding cool chord progressions; Scrabble; finding ways to avoid shoveling or mowing the lawn