14th Anniversary Celebration!
Stories
- Joan Bernier, The Captain (excerpt)
- Natacha Ruck, You’re good for nothing. I’ll milk the cow myself.
- Linda Moore, No place of her own
- Tommi Avicolli Mecca, the old brown jacket
Music
The Potrero Hillbillies; Eclectic as all get-out: Joe Cunningham (guitar, vocals), Christopher Gray (vocals, vocals) and Joshua Raoul Brody (keyboards, vocals)
About the Performers
The Potrero Hillbillies first got together to scratch a shared itch: a fondness for the Kinks’ unjustly overlooked album Muswell Hillbillies. Following that, the trio attacked with gusto Joe Cunningham’s song cycle about growing up in Flint, Michigan, and most recently devoted an evening to a small fraction of the songbook of Kessler and Brody. They are eclectic as all get-out, and each of them is charmingly vague in his own way.
Joan Bernier is an actor/theater maker who lives and works in the Bay Area. www.snakeandrodtheatre.org
Natacha Ruck will lie for a good cause, and tell the truth for a bad one. She is currently workshopping an hour long solo performance with David Ford at the Marsh and runs DoTellDo.com, a storytelling services company.
Linda Moore has said Yes! to Storytelling. It puts meaning into her life, honors her ancestors, and is her passion for sharing. Linda gets her storytelling genes from her Aunt, who told stories on her back porch at night. Engaging and warm, Linda has told stories to all ages and specializes in personal stories. Linda tells historical stories, women-focused stories, African tales, and universal stories—everyone connects knowing fear, prejudice, homelessness, love and healing.
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, playwright, storyteller, singer, and poet, started doing performances in the ’70’s in his hometown of Philadelphia. Since moving to SF in 1991, he’s had three residencies at the Jon Sims Center (producing one-act plays), a one-man show at Josie’s Cabaret, and a musical on the SF housing crisis (written with Alison Wright) at last year’s Queer Arts Festival.