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    MAMA presents Sara Grey and Kieron Means

    MAMA presents Sara Grey and Kieron Means

    Presented by Memphis Acoustic Music Association (MAMA) at Otherlands

    March 7, 2009

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    Once you have heard Sara Grey you will never forget her. Her voice is both powerful and sweet with a distinctive and lovely tremolo. Grey's singing reflects her great knowledge of and feeling for traditional music. She is a ballad singer of great strength, understanding the importance of understatement. She is equally at home with a gentle lyric or a harsh account of life on the frontier. One of the most popular singers on the folk scene, Grey often accompanies herself by frailing a five string banjo, and she is regarded as one of the foremost exponents of the old-time style. Grey is also a fine story teller, specializing in stories from New England where she grew up and learned many of her stories from her father. Kieron Means, the son of Sara Grey and music journalist Andrew Means, is a singer primarily of traditional but also of contemporary songs; many of the latter he has written himself. A guitar player of great merit, Means has a great rapport with an audience. Possessed of a voice that is as smooth as silk, rich, and mellow, he sings to his audience, not in spite of them. Means was born in the United States and grew up in Britain, gaining a great love of the music of both traditions as well as the contemporary scene. He has become a performer of traditional songs from the US and from the UK. Means has toured in the States and has often performed with Sara Grey. Of his understated style, Brian Peters has written, "Where so many young folk musicians of today dazzle us with their instrumental virtuosity or flatter our ears with their vocal purity, Means delivers a much rarer virtue: a true passion for the music he plays. He sings the songs because he loves them and, whilst his stage presence carries undoubted charisma, his work betrays no hint of artifice or pretension."


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        Otherlands

        641 S. Cooper
        Memphis, TN 38104

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        Tickets: $12 tickets are at Otherlands Coffee Bar and at Davis-Kidd Booksellers

        Info Phone: 278-4994

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        March 7, 2009

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        8 p.m.

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