Songbook
Concerts
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People Are Talking Home Performance
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Songbirds
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Brenda Freed and Karen Douglas combine their talents in Songbook, a series of concerts featuring the music of some of America's best-loved composers. Each concert is approximately 50 minutes in length and includes a biography of the composer(s) and over 20 songs performed as solos, duets and medleys, including harmonies and some choreography. Currently available shows are: Rodgers & Hart; Rodgers & Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. These shows are well-received in settings such as event banquets, retirement homes, residential care facilities and private parties wanting to provide a show for their guests. Both women come from professional backgrounds. Karen Douglas moved to Texas in 1981 after an extensive career in New York theater where she played in everything from Shakespeare to musical comedy. She is a member of both the Screen Actor's Guild and Actor's Equity and has appeared in off-Broadway shows, National Touring Companies, Summer Stock, Dinner Theater, on film and television including the popular soap opera, Dark Shadows. In 1983, Douglas founded the Actor's Workshop in Houston, Texas where she produced and directed over 60 shows and taught classes in beginning and advanced acting. She also wrote and performed her own one-woman musical at St. Thomas University in Houston. Karen now happily resides in Wimberley, Texas with her six cats. Brenda Freed began singing in the church choir at the age of six and has been performing ever since. She earned a Masters Degree in Music Therapy and Music Education from the University of Iowa. In 1991 she arrived in Texas after a cross-country bicycle trip led her to the Kerrville Folk Festival. As a singer/songwriter Freed has released three CD's and toured Texas, the Midwest, Southern California, England and Ireland. She was the founder of Texas Hot Flash , a cappella and then some, who released 3 CD's and won an Austin Music Award in 2005. Currently, she also performs as a duo with her husband, Michael D'Eath, called Him and Her . Freed teaches piano, guitar and voice at her studio in Wimberley, Texas. For Douglas and Freed, Songbook Concerts is a project filled with love, laughter and respect for each other's talent and the artistry of the material they are performing. To Book Douglas and Freed Songbook Concert Series contact: |
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