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At 13 I tagged along with the neighborhood hippies and started going to the free concerts in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. There was also a family up the street that had actual teenagers with there own real, live psychedelic garage band called “The Forgotten Society”. I sat for hours on the curb listening to them practice, then going home and prancing in front of the mirror with a hair brush microphone. At 16, in the summer between my sophomore and junior year of high school, I married the boy across the street. He was the first of a string of guitar slingin’ mates I hooked up with until I realized, ‘Hey, I want to sling my OWN guitar’, which freed me from a dangerous but never boring romantic fixation. Later I met and subsequently lived with my fellow Curio Lee Parvin who taught me about being a studio musician at Parvin Studios in Pacifica, CA, thereby ensuring I could always make a living as a musician. Even though we broke up, we insisted we be in a band together forever and we've been playing, performing, writing and recording together ever since. I got to sing and play with a lot of amazing musicians over time, the undisputed highlight being a year long tour with Neil Young and Crazy Horse. The experience is chronicled in Road Dog Girl, the on-line diary I kept while we toured twice through the U.S. - first in giant arenas and then small theaters - followed by trips to Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. Fast forward..…2008 was the Curios 11th annual Winter Concert, and we sold out a standing room only house and sold every CD we had. We are completing our 3rd CD “Pillow Book” that will be released in the fall of 2009 -or as soon as it is done! Two previous CDs are available on this web site (see ‘music and videos’ drawer) “Everything Knows You “, and “Songs and Stories”. Wanna talk back? Visit the blog drawer...we’d love to hear from you! xo Nancy |
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