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"Songwriters with charisma to spare"
Eleni Kelakos is a performer who's been driven to take to the stage ever since she was an 11-year-old "embassy brat," a daughter of a career foreign service officer. She's a compelling presence in person, six feet tall and a powerful vocalist whom the Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun called "a real revelation." Her original songs are unflinching creations that take on subjects such as ageism and gang violence, and she returns to The Ark in support of a new album, Where I Come From. Terri Gonda has been a fixture of Michigan's folk scene since the mid-1990s, but she's waited until now to release her debut CD, love, lose, repeat. The Detroit Free Press has described Gonda as an "intoxicating" performer. As a songwriter, this engineer-theologian-lecturer is known for following her muse wherever it leads, into folk music, pop, torch singing, poetry, and humor.
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