CHRISTYMERRY
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PRESS:
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10/1/2024 - Won Third Place ($100) & publication in the Oct/Nov issue in the Lake Country Journal poetry contest! Read winning poem here.
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7/26/2023 - Ellen Stanley played 'Crazy' from Doree & the Dishes EP on her Womenfolk radio show on KFAI that previewed the artists for the Music in the Backwoods show
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7/23/2023 SLP Sun Sailor article featuring Doree & the Dishes EP
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7/11/2023 - KAXE/KBXE interviewed me for their Centerstage Minnesota show - listen here
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7/7/2023 - Mostly Minnesota also premiered the final music video for 'Crazy' - premiere here.
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4/1/2023 - Mostly Minnesota premiered the music video for 'It's Like Rock', and they also interviewed me about the song/video.
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May 2023 - Featured in Best New Minnesota Songs playlist by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
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4/27/2023 - 'It's Like Rock' played on Minnesota Homebrew, on Pioneer 90.1 in Thief River Falls
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March 2023 - a 2021 interview with Aldora Britain Records re: here for you EP - Issue 98
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8/20/2022 - Peter's Lullaby (from here for you EP) played on Macalester College radio (WMCN) on the Mostly Minnesota show
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1/6/2022 - review of here for you EP published in Aldora Britain Records ezine, issue 63
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6/6/2021 - 'Naive' from here for you EP played on Coast to Coast AM radio bumper music as an emerging artist, for New Music Sundays feature
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3/30/2021 - Feature story in the St. Louis Park/Hopkins Sun Sailor newspaper
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3/23/2021 - First full song air play for Reach For Me Single on Womenfolk, KFAI 90.3 FM
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2/9/2021 - Northeaster newspaper story re: here for you EP & Before Cancer Comes For Me poetry chapbook​
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1/28/2021 - Mostly Minnesota video interview re: here for you EP & Before Cancer Comes For Me poetry chapbook
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1/26/2021 - Urban Achiever podcast pt. 2 of Tommy's interview - around 24 min. mark they talk about here for you & play a little bit of it
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BOOKS:
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The Year Without You, Handing You My Heart & Before Cancer Comes For Me poetry chapbooks available for sale online at Bandcamp & in person in NE Minneapolis at Eat My Words Bookstore or Cosmic Coffee (as well as available for checkout at the Northtown Library in Anoka)
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Don't Kiss the Messenger (2024) available on bandcamp and Cosmic Coffee only
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Land of My Love (2006) poetry chapbook out of print available on Kindle only
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MUSIC:
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King For A Day compilation put out by Aldora Britain Records 10/3/2021 ('I Wish You'd Tried' from here for you EP is Track 24)
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Quarantine Dream compilation album, Tommy & I have a song - Michelangelo - on it
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Erel Pilo (South Carolina)
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Il Neige (Chicago, IL)
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The Wealthy Orphans (MI - now defunkt)
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Naomi Wachira (Seattle)
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Sarah Harmer (Canada)
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Kat Jones (Nashville)
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Over the Rhine (Ohio)
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Rachel Kurtz (Minneapolis, MN)
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The Happy Hollows (L.A.)
OTHER:
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ParkTV video of St. Louis Park All Ages Talent Show 8/14/24 at Wolfe Park - I did 2 sets at 17:05 minute & 50:05 minute marks
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video of poetry set for Eat My Words Bookstore 10 year anniversary 2/3/2024 coming soon
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video of St. Louis Park All Ages Talent Show, in which I featured, on 8/16/2023 (2 sets of music & poetry, at beginning & end)
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video of The Year Without You/Handing You My Heart release/reading (Part 1 / Part 2)
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April 2021 - I was one of the features in Poets & Pints 71st reading (online due to the pandemic)
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Me reading The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton on YouTube
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Erin Lynn Marsh - poet/best friend
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Marianne Waits for the Bus - story by my friend Richard Hackler (who I met through the Food for Thought forum)
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Boswellia Curcumin - this supplement helps with inflammation & has given me my life back these last several years after 17 years of managing pain (using frequent high doses of ibuprofen & sometimes stronger meds) before that - about $22 for 4 bottles / 4 month supply (I take 2 each night for maintenance, 2 more in morning if feeling pain but that is rare now.)
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Carol Foster half-somersault maneuver for vertigo - dealt with vertigo at one point and this is easier to do yourself than the Epley Maneuver which is easier with 2 people (I suggest - if your vertigo is bad - having a tub nearby in case you throw up, sorry if TMI!)
Reading at Bagley Public Library (4/21/2022, opener for Erin Lynn Marsh)
Studio Beerhorst
I got to perform in various venues (coffeehouses and once the basement of CBGB's) with Rick Beerhorst in NYC in 2006. This is a music video featuring him and his family after they had moved back to Michigan the following year.
Lover's Corner
Tommy Rehbein is my husband, lover and friend - so I guess it's no surprise that I'm a fan of his musical talents! Early on, he toured the US and internationally with Small Towns Burn a Little Slower. When we met, he was in the bands Party House and Farewell Continental, and was doing solo side projects under the moniker International Karate. Before and between these, he was in LOTS and lots of other bands. I am always meeting people who say "Oh yeah, we were in such&such a band together back X number of years ago..." A recent project (which came to an end in May 2017) was a punk band called Naive Sense. Robosapien was also a project of his prior to the pandemic. Toilet Rats is his current project, which technically began during the pandemic as a solo project, but has now included a pretty decent number of bandmates for performances both in Minneapolis and Rochester. Here are a few videos from past projects below:
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