Music this weeked: Wishing Chair and Quinn Sands

Friday, November 6: Quinn Sands

Vine and Bean welcomes back Quinn Sands to help take the chill out of a late autumn night. Come cuddle by the fire and take in her tales of love and not so much love.

Saturday, November 7: Wishing Chair Returns to Cleveland to release their eighth CD, Stand Up 8.

Wishing Chair

“Engaging performances, haunting harmonies, poetic, political, stellar vocals.”
Curve Magazine

Multi-instrumentalist Miriam Davidson and songwriter Kiya Heartwood have made an art of inspiring performances and award winning songs, seducing the listener with soulful confessions, political broadside and a wicked groove. Their songs combine a passionate mix of intelligent lyrics, spellbinding storytelling and breathtaking harmony over a full roots-and-roll sound.

Winning over audiences with their engaging performances, passionate activism and superb execution, they perform all over the country at venues such as The Kennedy Center, The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, The Bluebird Café, The National Women’s Music Festival, The Kerrville Folk Festival, and The Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Wishing Chair’s music is constantly being acknowledged: Folk and Roll Live in Austin is currently nominated for a 2009 Best of Folk CD and Best Folk Song from JP Folks, they are the 2008 Jane Schliessman Award Winners for Outstanding Contributions to Women’s Music and their catalogue has earned high honors from JP Folks (Best New Folk CD, Best Roots Song, 2006), OutMusic (Double Winner 2003, Finalist 2004), Kerrville Folk Festival (Political Songwriting Finalist 2005, 2003), The South Florida Folk Festival (Double Winner 2003), to The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (Emerging Artist Finalist 2002).

Kiya’s operetta for young people, Lying to the Sea Gypsy premiered in Philadelphia this past spring. Her newest musical, Out, debuts in South Carolina this winter.

Whether it’s a song about politics, true love, or Calamity Jane, Wishing Chair “has a passion about the truth, about being emotionally available to tell it.”

You can read more about Wishing Chair at www.wishingchair.com