Cholla Needles

This set by Lisa Mednick Powell covers 30 years of music in a half hour. The presentation was created to play loud 1/2 hour before our annual Poetry Month live extravaganza. The Corona Pandemic has stopped the world, so I reached out to Lisa to see if we can still thrill our audience with her performance poetry over the internet. Guaranteed to be 100% virus free - this set is entitled "Freedom Songs", and all the poetry in this set appears in issue 40 of Cholla Needles - April 2020. Five of the performances are culled from three of Lisa's solo albums - Artifacts Of Love (1993), Semaphore (2002), and Blue Book (2017). Her composition Face In The Crowd from 1987 was recently re-recorded and appears on the new Song Dogs CD entitled Light In The Distance (2020). Visit Lisa's website at LisaMednickPowell.com

Ernest Alois shares his greatest hits, along with new pieces. Bonnie Brady reads from her beautiful memoir, Impressions of Guatemala.

Lisa reads from Cholla Needles 34, and from her powerful first book Finding The Azimuth. She also sings outdoors with a battery operated Casio =:-) You can see Lisa with her husband Kip performing at the Joshua Tree Saloon Mondays from 1-3, and Saturday evenings as Arroyo Rogers. Good Times! 

John Kenny reads from his novel, The Spark, and answers audience questions. John has been a firefighter since 1989, and is currently a fire Captain in Ottawa. The Spark has a five-star rating on Amazon. 

01 Intro to John Kenny • 02 The Spark Chapter 1 • 03 Interview • 04 Audience Questions • 05 Outro