Shows

A Girl Named Vincent

Prudence Johnson sings music inspired by the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Girl Named Vincent is a multi-media concert in which a free-spirited young poet of a century ago comes to life in stories, pictures & songs. Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of America's greatest poets. She would become a national celebrity and, at 31, win the Pulitzer Prize. Thomas Hardy would say there were really only two great things in the United States: the skyscraper and Millay's poetry. But all that would come later — these are the poems of an elfin young woman in her teens and twenties, with sea-green eve? and a wild head of red hair, brilliant and free-spirited, drawing inspiration from the rocky Maine sea-coast or the streets of boheinian Greenwich Village, leaving a trail of lovers and admirers in her wake. To those close to her, she was known simply as Vincent.

** Special Note for Duluth Show on May 7th **

Featuring:

• Prudence Johnson: voice & ukulele
• Laura Caviani: piano & voice
• Joan Griffith: acoustic & electric bass, guitar & mandolin
• Michelle Kinney: cello & voice
• Joe Savage: pedal steel guitar, harmonica & voice
• Marc Anderson: perscussion

Alan Frechtman: Visual design & tech direction
Maury Jensen: Sound design