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xo Candye
 

Candye Kane News and Calendar 7/1/09....

Howdy Y’all!!....

 

We had an amazing tour of the Midwest for an entire month! I had just a few days off at home in between tours. Frankly, I am pretty tired and could have used some more downtime but now its back in the van and back to the grindstone. We are on our way up the West coast for shows in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Eugene and many more. The new cd, Superhero is out now on the Delta Groove Label and its doing great so far. Thanks to all of you who have ordered it online at www.deltagrooveproductions.com or helped it to be in the top 20 downloaded blues albums on Itunes. You guys rock!! 

 

It was great seeing so many old and new friends in the Midwest. We had so many special, memorable nights and here are a few of the highlights; Boulder, Colorado at the Outlook Hotel - our friends and label mates, The Insomniacs sat in. That was awesome seeing them again and having them play with us. What a killer band! Another amazing night was in Eureka Springs at the Blues Festival when my longtime friend, classy harmonicat and gentleman, RJ Mischo sat in with us. It was great seeing RJ and his wife Heidi and we had a wonderful time in Eureka Springs. What a cool town! Kansas City was also special when pianist Bruce Katz, members of his band and the KC hometown heroes, Trampled Under Foot, sat in with us at Knuckleheads. We all had a fabulous evening jamming under the stars in KC. Dallas was fun when my friend, harp player Cheryl Arena sat in and sang a few. We also had a great bunch of shows in Michigan. I was really pleased to see so many people coming out to support live music in such a messed up economy. They are really feeling the heat in Michigan with unemployment at 12% so it meant so much to have so many beautiful music lovers spend their hard earned money on us!

We came home to San Diego and filmed a live DVD/CD for later release, at the first class venue, Anthology. It is such a beautiful setting and we are all excited to see the results. My friends Sue Palmer and Michele Lundeen sat in and made the evening even more incredible.

 

This month, there is an awesome feature story about me in Blues Revue Magazine www.bluesrevue.com I am very proud of the story by Stacy Jeffress and they also have a great review of our new cd.

Candye Kane band shows

6/28 San Francisco, CA/Biscuits and Blues

7/1 Port Townsend, Wa/ The Upstage

7/2 Seattle, Wa/ Highway 99 Blues Club w Becki Sue

7/3 Waterfront blues fest river cruise

7/4 Portland, Oregon/ Waterfront Blues Festival (Mainstage)

7/5 Eugene, Oregon/ Sam Bonds Garage

7/10 Folsom, Ca/ Po Boys Bar and Grill

7/11 Phillipsville, Ca/ The Riverwood Inn

7/15 Leucadia, Ca/ Calypso Café with Gypsy Groove band

7/17 Solana Beach, Ca/ Belly Up Tavern Happy Hour

7/24 Sherman Oaks/ Cozys Bar and Grille

7/26 San Francisco, Ca/ Center for Sex and Culture/Spoken word performance for new anthology : Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys on Skull Press. Other readers include Annie Sprinkle, Carol Queen and compilation author, David Henry Sterry

8/1 Columbus, Ohio/ Thirsty Ear Tavern

8/2 Chicago/ Halstead Market Days/Belmont and Halstead

8/4 Indianapolis, Indiana/ The Slippery Noodle

8/5 Cleveland, Ohio/ Beachland Ballroom with Blue Lunch

8/6 NYC/ Happy Ending Bookstore/ spoken word performance Sex Worker Literati 302 Broome St/ 212-334-9676

8/7 Providence, RI/ The Hi Hat

8/8 Hartford, Ct/ Black Eyed Sallys

8/10 Rockland, Maine/ Time Out Pub

8/12 Piermont, NY/ The Turning Point

8/13 North Hampton, Ma/ the Ironhorse

8/14 Woonsocket, RI/ Chans

8/15 Campton, New Hampshire/ White Mountain Blues and Boogie Festival w UK singer Dani Wilde

8/17 – 9/13 United by Music Tour of Ireland and the Netherlands/ www.unitedbymusic.eu

9/29 Sydney, Australia/ The Basement/ all Australia shows w/ Charlie Musselwhite

9/30 Adelaide, Australia/ The Gov

10/1 Melbourne, Australia/ The Corner

10/2 and 3 Narooma, Australia/ Great Southern Blues festival

10/16 San Diego/ Blues Cruise Launch Party for BLUSD

10/17 San Diego/ Tio Leos

10/30 Alexandria, VA/ The Birchmere Theater

 

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Here is a new anthology in which my essay, The Babysitters Secret is included. I am proud to be part of this collection of fine writers - all former and current sex workers. Check it out!

I was 16 when I was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. 

For years, the church had been a huge part of my life. As a small child, 8 years old and up, I attended primary and sunday school and it represented a safe haven for me where on the surface, it seemed that no one was verbally abused or taught to shoplift. As a teenager, I escaped the hysteria of my own dysfunctional family life and avoided the rough and tumble junior high school gangsters, by teaching music to the primary childrens choir and enjoying community activities like road shows and bake sales. In church I was chaste and clean and treated like a precious child of God. I attended sunday school and sacrament meetings, went to church dances and had my first real boyfriend, when we giggled and passed notes during prayer meetings. I loved the church and the holy feeling I got there. I loved my church friends and their quiet family home evenings. There were three Mormon families on my block and I was always welcome at dinnertime and on Monday nights. No one ever got called a cock sucker at their houses, and no one ever ended the sweet get togethers with the tuna casserole flung across the room or the easter ham catapulting out the window. I believed in the Mormon values of staying sweet no matter what and really believed that Jesus wanted me for a sun beam to shine for him each day.

Then I started high school and met my first true love. His name was Arturo Gutierrez and he looked just like Rocky. I loved him instantly and was determined to make him my boyfriend. After months of rejection, I finally succeeded in making him my boyfriend, partly because I was willing to give him the ultimate gift of my virginity on a grassy Mt. Washington hillside one summer day. Art and I became inseparable and I started going to Mass with him. His family was intensely Catholic and though I missed my Mormon friends, I still saw them at school sometimes and little by little, I fell away from my Mormon connections.

Still, when the Bishop called me into his office one day for my yearly interview, I felt ashamed. I believed that the bishop had a direct hot line to God. I believed he could already tell by my face that I was engaged in premarital sex. I knew that some of my other Mormon friends were also having sex with their boyfriends, so when he asked me if I was morally clean, I didnt want to lie and compound my problems. I knew the Bishop would already know that I was having sex with Art. The Bishop was holy. He was Gods pal. He had god wrapped around his finger. Lying would only make it worse. So I told the truth that day. Yes, Bishop, I have been having premarital sex. Yes Bishop, I have been morally unclean. I didnt realize that because of my honesty, I would be excommunicated and banned from the church, FOREVER.

It hurt a lot when I had to appear before a tribunal of three of the elders of my church ward. I was in love with my boyfriend but I didnt want to lose the stability and sanctity that the church had provided. I was a kid from a messed up family where it was normal to shoplift with your mom and it was normal to be pulled by your hair down the stairs or locked out of the house with all your clothing strewn all over the front yard. The church was the only semi-normal link I had with people I perceived as good and kind and honest. And that day, the tribunal decided to excommunicate me forever.

There's a weird sense of finality about it when you are kicked out of a church. They said I would never be welcome there again. That I could no longer speak to my old friends from church or greet them on the street. I dont think my friends knew about the edict commanding them to avoid me. Many of them are my friends, now, here on Facebook. But the damage was done and I was effectively isolated and cut off. I was 16. Maybe I would have seen the error in my ways if I had been embraced in my time of need and accepted. Instead, I was cast out like stale sacrament bread. I was no longer Mormon. I no longer belonged. A short year later, I became a teenage mother when I became pregnant with my son Evan.

This was many, many years ago, and since that day, I have been thru many religious and spiritual journeys. I have finally settled into my spiritual home - Judaism. In Judaism what happens right here on earth is far more important than some invisible kingdom on the other side. In Judaism, it is our solemn responsibility to heal the world now, Tikkun Olam and to make the world a better place to live. No religion has all the answers but when my Rabbi said that God could be male, female or not trapped by gender at all ; when my Rabbi acknowledged that gender could be a trap, that was enough for me. I worked super hard to become Jewish and now have a spiritual home where I know I wont be given the boot for having sex outside marriage. I could even become a Rabbi or a Cantor if I were so inclined and would never be kept out because of my gender. (Unless I were orthodox, which is another patriarchal story entirely.)

So the Mormon churches calculated campaign to confuse and confound the mostly progressive population of Southern California didnt surprise me at all. Unfortunately, while it was happening, I was even confused. I saw the well groomed, wholesome looking college aged kids on the corners waving signs that said Vote Yes on 8 with the silhouettes of families and I was happy. I thought : "How lovely that these kids are pro equality and pro marriage for everyone." I didnt understand that their presence and the entire campaign was designed to confuse people into voting AGAINST equality. It wasnt until AFTER voting day, that many of my family members and friends were aghast that they had actually voted against equality, and had voted to actually CHANGE our constitution, for the first time ever - to specifically discriminate against another group of human beings. Many people I know felt like they had played right into the hands of the enemy. We had been duped. We had believed and fallen for a phony scam, hook, line and sinker. We had all helped to sink our own ship.

There was a time in this country when women and black men couldnt vote. There was a time when Native Americans could not own property. There was a time when women could not divorce their husbands and Jews, Blacks and Dogs were banned from certain public places. I didnt think that this issue would arise in my lifetime but here it is again, rearing its ugly head. When will Americans learn that equality and separation of church and state is what makes our country unique and democratic? Our constitution and the writings of our forefathers guaranteed us certain inalienable rights as human beings. There was a reason why the separation of church and state was included in our constitution. It was so no one human could enforce his own will on another human being. This constitution is what makes America a place where we can all coexist like the corny bumper stickers say. We do coexist in this country. The Supreme Court of California will let the voters decide again, and hopefully this time, we will not allow a racist and patriarchal mormon church to mislead us into doing the right thing. The Mormon church kicked me out and confused me as a teenager and then they confused me and my friends and family again as a full grown adult. Regardless of what your personal feelings are about homosexuality, you must agree that all of us are created equal as humans, and as such, all of us should have an equal right to marry and to be miserable if we are so inclined. It is the right and just thing to allow all humans to be in committed relationships if they wish. Furthermore, dare I say it is the Christian thing to do? jesus was a guy who believed that even prostitutes were holy and had merit in society. Jesus was a guy who believed that everyone was equal in the eyes of God. Mormons are Christians. Their whole church is called The Church of Jesus Christ. So shouldnt they take a Christian attitude towards their fellow man and not impose their superiority complexes on the rest of us? The Government is way too big and intrusive already - telling me what I can smoke and where, and now who I can marry! Its time to stop this madness. One group of humans is not superior to another group of humans. We are all organic organisms and we are all headed to the same place - DEATH. Why make it harder on others while we are here on this planet? How truly un-Christian can you get? 

So, I am cleaning up my friends list. I cannot and will not continue to be friends in cyber land or otherwise, with people who feel they are superior to others. NO ONE should be allowed to decide whom another person can or cannot marry. No one elses marriage is a threat to anyone elses. This is not a moral issue. This has nothing to do with sexuality or the sanctity of marriage or anything else. This is a civil rights and equality issue. We all pay taxes. we should all be able to get married. PERIOD. 

All love is divine. I will remove anyone from my friends list whom I find to be a bigoted human being in the name of Jesus, the Jewish Zombie, or a so- called God or any other religious entity or edict that gives you the right to discriminate against someone else. Goodbye Cinda Marie Price. It was nice knowing you in the mormon church when we were 12. Too bad you grew up to be a bigot and I grew up to be a free spirit who believes that all love is sacred and should be allowed to flourish and thrive whether that is in marriage, or any other kind of union. Glad I am the free spirit and not the bigot. May all of us be able to marry and celebrate love and diversity. Thats as American as Apple Pie.


Candye Kane

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Had an amazing time in Memphis at the Blues Foundation awards. I was already slated to appear at the Delta Groove showcase with my homeboys from the label but at the last minute, Steve Miller cancelled as a presenter at the awards and I was lucky enough to be asked to fill his shoes as well as perform my three songs on the DG showcase. Thank you Randy for giving me this opportunity!!

 

I presented awards alongside my dear friend Bill Wax, to BB King, Janiva Magness and Jeff Healey. I got a bit choked up when thanking the Hart Fund for their generosity during my illness and cried a bit more when I thanked the crowd for all their healing white light and positive vibrations! I hate when I burst into tears like that in public, but I think cancer has made me a bit more vulnerable somehow and it seems to be happening more frequently. Hopefully people just appreciate my honesty and don’t think I am a big crybaby!

 

Anyway, it was really fun being there in Memphis, despite the well meaning person who snatched my cell phone off of my table while I was in the ladies room, the trip was perfect. Laura and I managed to do it with very little sleep. Josh and Jeff from the label, made sure that my postcards announcing the new cd Superhero, were on every table. And lucky patrons who attended the Delta Groove showcase were able to be the first ones to buy copies of my yet unreleased CD!

 

I got a hug from BB King and a wave from Bonnie Raitt and that was a lot of fun. Some highlights of the awards show for me, besides the aforementioned hugs and waves, were seeing Gaye Adegbolala, Jason Ricci and Resa Miller, Bob Margolin, Bill Stuve and Jimi Bott get up onstage and play Gayes song “Im here, Im queer – get used to it.” It was an historic moment watching the patriarchal old school blues people get a healthy dose of diversity and same sex sexual celebration. Gaye is so brave.

 

Other fun moments were riding in the elevator with my friends, Marcia Ball and Maria Muldaur and sitting in with Marcia the next day at her showcase at Alfreds on Beale street. It was great fun swing dancing with Gaye and meeting her son and having the one and only Bob Margolin run over to take these amazing photos of the moment. It was also fun seeing my agent Steve Hecht there. He took all these photos of me in the wonder woman costume. I hung out a bit with my sweetheart Preston Hubbard, super cute power couple Gina Sicilia and Dave Gross and got to catch up with my longtime friend,  the Mojo Queen of Beale street, Miss Zeno. It was funny running into my friend  blues list friends Ricky Stevens and Amy Brat Blues. Brat girl and I were wearing the exact same Maggy of London dress! Damn, that girl has great taste in clothing! I also loved seeing passionate performances by Eden Brent, Maria Muldaur and Taj Majal, Koko Taylor and the Mannish Boys, Curtis Salgado and BB King. What a line up! Johnny Rawls and Jackie Payne epitomized soulfulness and there were stellar performances by Watermelon Slim, Robin Rogers and Bob Brozman. I think they did a really good job with the production of the show this year. The food was still a bit disappointing since I don’t eat mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, bread and potato salad but it was an amazing night on so many other levels, I ignored the growling in my stomach.

 

The next night was the Delta Groove show at the New Daisy Theater. Laura and I were the only females on the show and it was pretty cool representing for the women in the blues. I especially loved John Black and his awesome band. Jackie Payne and Steve Edmondson were also incredible as were the always wonderful Johnny Dyer and Finis Tasby. Laura slayed em’ and we were lovingly backed up my Richard Innes on drums, Tom Leavey on bass, Kirk Fletcher on second guitar and Fred Kaplan on piano. We only did three songs, but I felt like Laura proved that she can hold her own on the big stage next to Junior Watson, Kid Ramos and Kirk Fletcher. She doesn’t need to prove it to me, but it was fun to see the people at the label witness her awesomeness for the very first time.

 

Even though I was a bit worried about wearing my wonder woman costume, I figured it was appropriate since it was the first night the actual cd was sold to the public. I have fought hard to be taken seriously by the blues people so I was a bit scared that the costume would be too silly for them, but no one seemed to mind. Who else could pull it off anyway? Maybe Jason Ricci? Anyway, I am glad I wore the gold high top converse tennis shoes because they completed my goofy outfit. It was so much fun. The show was a bit too expensive at $40 a ticket and I think that’s why in spite of an incredible line up, it was under attended, but the people who did show up seemed to have a rollicking great time. I wasn’t even looking and I saw Joanne Shaw Taylor, Cassie Otis, Deb Lubin, JT Lauritzen and Julia Magness in the crowd.

 

After two days of intense fun with very little sleep, we had to get up at 4 am for our flight out to San Jose and the Metro Fountain Blues Festival. This was an awesome festival and one of the best run festivals I have ever played and I have played a bunch! Tommy Castro, Derek Trucks, Lurrie Bell and Chris Cain were also on the fest and again, Laura and I were the only women. Its fun to be surrounded by so many men but it makes me sad sometimes that so many girls give up music and don’t continue to become instrumentalists once they become dating age. My belief is that they don’t want to be better than the boys and so they become cheerleaders instead of musicians themselves. I made a speech about that and encouraged more young girls to stick with their instruments. Its fun seeing all the young girls come up to the merch booth afterwards who are inspired by Laura. She is doing very important work from a feminist perspective and I hope she continues to inspire more women to play instruments. Laura slayed em at the festival of course. San Jo is her hometown and she wowed the crowd and they showered her with love. Speaking of love showers, Tommy Castro mouthed “I love you” to me from the bandstand and that made all my sleep deprivation worth it. A hug from BB and “I love you” from Tommy Castro in the same weekend! WOW! I am one lucky girl! We were also very lucky to have my dear friends, Barbara Hammerman and Amanda Gresham and Clint selling cds and t shirts for us. Thank you so much!

 

After the san jo fest, we drove thru the night to get to Orange County where we played a special noon time Mothers Day show at the swap meet. It was a lot of fun seeing my sweet friend John Hill there with his darling mom. John has three tattoos of me on his arms and he is my biggest fan and now my dear friend. I also met my friend Zev Feldman there and Tom and Glenda Garcia. Thanks to all who came out to support us!

 

Anyway, it has been a long couple of days and I am exhausted. I have  three days home before I leave on Thursday for my long month tour of the Midwest. I am tired as hell but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Everyday that I get to make music is a blessing. I’ll sleep later, when I’m dead. For now, I just want to sing and celebrate life every chance I get!

 

Happy Mothers Day all….

 

Candye

 

Candye Kane band shows

 

5/16 Casper, Wy/ The Attic

5/17 Denver, Co/ Lannies Clocktower

5/18 Lyons, Colorado/ Oskars with Jodie Woodward

5/20 Boulder, Co/ The Outlook Hotel

5/22 Dallas, Tx/ Pearl at Commerce w Cheryl Arena

5/23 Austin, Texas/ the Continental Club w Eve Monsees

5/24 Houston, Texas/ The Continental Club

5/28 Lincoln, Nebraska/ The Panic

5/29 Kansas City/ Knuckleheads

5/30 Eureka Arkansas/ Blues festival

6/2 Lincoln, Nebraska/The Zoo Bar

6/3 Des Moines, Ia/ Blues on Grand

6/4 Omaha, Nebraska/Murphys

6/5 Navarre, Mn/ Narrows Saloon 13th

6/6 Chicago, Ill/ Fitzgeralds

6/7 Ann Arbor, Mi/ The Ark

6/9 Grand Rapids, Mi/ The Intersection

6/10 Kalamazoo, Mi/ 411 club

6/12 Oklahoma City, OK/ Bricktown Blues Festival

6/17 New CD Super Hero! released on Delta Groove records!

6/19 ONLY SAN DIEGO APPEARANCE FOR MONTHS! ANTHOLOGY ON INDIA STREET/ CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!

6/20 Dana Point, Ca/ The Renaissance

6/26 Cloverdale, Ca/ Downtown Cloverdale concerts

6/27 Point Arena, Ca/ Arena Theater

6/28 San Francisco, CA/Biscuits and Blues

7/2 Seattle, Wa/ Highway 99 Blues C;lub

7/4 Portland, Oregon/ Waterfront Blues Festival (Mainstage)

7/5 Eugene, Oregon/ Sam Bonds Garage

7/10 Folsom, Ca/ Po Boys Bar and Grill

7/11 Phillipsville, Ca/ The Riverwood Inn

7/18 Long Beach, Ca/ Smooths Sports Grille

8/1 Columbus, Ohio/ Thirsty Ear Tavern

8/2 Chicago/ Halstead Market Days/Belmont and Halstead

8/4 Indianapolis, Indiana/ The Slippery Noodle

8/5 Cleveland, Ohio/ Beachland Ballroom

8/7 Providence, RI/ The Hi Hat

8/10 Rockland, Maine/ Time Out Pub

8/14 Woonsocket, RI/ Chans

8/15 Camton, New Hampshire/ White Mountain Blues and Boogie Festival w UK singer Dani Wilde

8/18 – 9/13 United by Music Tour of Ireland and the Netherlands/ www.unitedbymusic.eu

10/3 Narooma, Australia/ Great Southern Blues festival

10/16 San Diego/ Blues Cruise Launch Party for BLUSD

 

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Today is my one-year anniversary today from the cancer surgery I endured on April 18, 2009. I really am amazed that I am still here, alive and actually performing tonight at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Club here in Paris!! What an incredible year it has been.

When I think back to how fragile and sick I was the first few weeks after the Whipple procedure for my pancreatic cancer, I am really astounded to be feeling as strong and healthy as I am today. I feel that I have been given a second chance at life and want to use every opportunity to inspire others to fight their own challenges and stay strong. If I can be an example to others of how to take charge of their own bodies and how to make lemons from lemonade, I will feel like all the pain and struggle of the last year has been worth it.

Just one year after cancer, I have been chosen as an ambassador for the Electra Bicycle Company in their 2010 catalog and Way To Roll ad campaign. The WTR campaign celebrates individuals leading unique & inspired lives in the hopes of inspiring others and igniting a chain reaction of positivity, awareness, change and artistry to make the world a better or more beautiful place to be. The campaign will be rolled out across several formats: advertisements in US and international magazines (mainstream pubs and those endemic to cycling culture), the beautiful 2010 Electra Bicycles catalog, and online at www.electrabike.com. I will be featured in the catalog and possibly in an ad!! Woo Hoo!!

I have also finished my new cd, my tenth, SUPERHERO, for Delta Groove records. http://www.deltagrooveproductions.com
Its slated for a June 16th release and we are super excited. I leave for Memphis for the Blues Foundation Awards on May 5. I am not nominated this year, but my friend, guitarist and co-producer, Laura Chavez and I will perform at the Delta Groove Records showcase alongside my other labelmates and friends.
Pretty exciting stuff just one year after being cut open, scrambled and put back together!

I know how lucky I am to be here. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly and many people die just six months after diagnosis. I was lucky to have a rare, slower moving form, the neuro endocrine tumor, and was lucky to have a brilliant and dashing surgeon Dr. Andrew Lowy at UCSD Moores Cancer Center perform my procedure. I have lost other friends to this same cancer so my future seemed pretty bleak at first. I still have to pinch myself that I am still here on this planet at all. I have very few side effects from the Whipple, other than losing 100 pounds. I have to be careful eating rich and fatty foods and that’s been a bit difficult here in France. I am looking forward to going back home to my juicer, my neighborhood health food store and most of all - my gorgeous yellow Electra bike!

Cancer has brought many blessings to my life. New friendships with other survivors and patients – bonding with others who are suffering health challenges, like my friends, Kenny Neal, Ann Rabson, Jenny Bohman and Michele Seideman. Cancer has made me reevaluate my choices and my lifestyle, helped me lose 100 pounds and taught me about nutrition and juicing. Most of all, cancer has made me appreciate the beautiful friendships and moments I have on this planet.

On today, the anniversary of the traumatic nine hour surgery I endured, I just want to thank you again for your kindness, white healing light and generosity. I am still hundreds of emails and thank you notes behind but little by little, I am getting caught up. Your monetary gifts, the benefits and beautiful words of inspiration you shared with me were essential and vital for my speedy recovery. People cannot believe how strong and vibrant I look, just one year after this cancer catastrophe. I feel great and am grateful to be around a bit longer to make music for you!
I realize now that every day I have here is special and sacred. There are no guarantees in life and so I cherish every day I am given.

May you fight your own struggles with courage and positive thought and may you also appreciate every day you open your eyes and take a fresh breath of air.

Your super hero diva,

Candye Kane


Candye Kane band shows

4/13 – 18 Paris, France/ Le Meridien Hotel
4/19 Purmerend, Holland/ Private party/jazzenzo.nl
4/20 and 21 UBM workshops/ Holland
4/23 home from Europe
5/1 Bakersfield, Ca/ Double Tree Hotel Club Odyssey
5/8 Memphis Tn/ Delta Groove Records showcase at the National Blues Music Awards
5/9 San Jose, Ca/ Metro Fountain Blues Festival 2:30 pm
5/10 Orange County Marketplace/ 88 Fair Drive 92626
12 noon – 2:00 pm
5/16 Casper, Wy/ The Attic
5/17 Denver, Co/ Lannies Clocktower
5/18 Lyons, Colorado/ Oskars
5/20 Boulder, Co/ The Outlook Hotel
5/22 Dallas, Tx/ Pearl at Commerce w Cheryl Arena
5/23 Austin, Texas/ the Continental Club
5/24 Houston, Texas/ The Continental Club
5/28 Lincoln, Nebraska/ The Panic
5/29 Kansas City/ Knuckleheads
5/30 Eureka Arkansas/ Blues festival
6/2 Lincoln, Nebraska/The Zoo Bar
6/3 Des Moines, Ia/ Blues on Grand
6/4 Omaha, Nebraska/Murphys
6/5 Navarre, Mn/ Narrows Saloon
6/6 Chicago, Ill/ Fitzgeralds
6/7 Ann Arbor, Mi/ The Ark
6/9 Grand Rapids, Mi/ The Intersection
6/11 Macalester, Oklahoma/ Private event
6/12 Oklahoma City, OK/ Bricktown Blues Festival
6/17 New CD Super Hero! released on Delta Groove records!
6/19 ONLY SAN DIEGO APPEARANCE FOR MONTHS! ANTHOLOGY ON INDIA STREET/ CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!
6/20 Dana Point, Ca/ The Renaissance
6/26 Cloverdale, Ca/ Downtown Cloverdale concerts
6/27 Point Arena, Ca/ Arena Theater
6/28 San Francisco, CA/Biscuits and Blues
7/4 Portland, Oregon/ Waterfront Blues Festival (Mainstage)
7/5 Eugene, Oregon/ Sam Bonds Garage
7/10 Folsom, Ca/ Po Boys Bar and Grill
8/2 Chicago/ Halstead Market Days/Belmont and Halstead
8/4 Indianapolis, Indiana/ The Slippery Noodle
8/5 Cleveland, Ohio/ Beachland Ballroom
8/10 Rockland, Maine/ Time Out Pub
8/14 Woonsocket, RI/ Chans
8/15 Camton, New Hampshire/ White Mountain Blues and Boogie Festival w UK singer Dani Wilde
8/18 – 9/13 United by Music Tour of Ireland and the Netherlands/ www.unitedbymusic.eu
10/3 Narooma, Australia/ Great Southern Blues festival

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Having a great time in Europe and Scandinavia. Started the tour out right at the Akkurat in Stockholm where they have hundreds of amazing whiskeys and all these kinds of mussels. Mussels in curry, mussels in garlic and white wine,mussels marinara. G-d they are amazing there. Stene, the owner, is so nice and I just think Stockholm is an amazingly beautiful city with all the water and the cobblestone streets. really a cool place. My friend Little Jenny Bohman of Jenny and the Blue Beans sat in on harmonica and sang us some Piaf songs in the backstage. No lie, this chick sounds and looks like the petite sparrow herself and she will be doing some Piaf tribute shows in the near future. She's amazing and also a cancer survivor who has just beat cancers ass with a vengeance.

Next we took an overnight ferry to Helsinki, where I admit, I did cheat on my diet and had a bit too much to drink. Laura and Evan and I even hit the dance floor when the karaoke band sang Gloria Gaynors " I will survive." It was really fun seeing the Abba imitation dancers and singers. It makes you worry for the state of instrumentalists when corny singers like that are getting huge applause for singing other peoples compositions and dressing up like them and copying their moves. wow. we played blackjack and roulette for a super long time on ten euro. I bet on the color black and it won like eight times in a row so then i gave my kids, evan and laura, money to play blackjack and we played till we lost. I spotted at least ten totally wasted people on the boat, some even laying down, right in the corridor and none of them were me, evan or laura. what a shock. man, those scandinavians sure can party.

Next we played in Helsinki where the crowd was very sweet and there were some awesome swing dancers. there was this one super drunk guy who kept insisting he needed to come backstage. I tried to explain that there was nothing back there but he came back anyway and pointed out the fact that there was no security in the joint. cool. Then he proceeded to play lauras guitar without her permission. And better yet, hes moving to L.A. to be.......you guessed it, a guitar player!!! Thats what we need - another drunk Finnish guitar player helping the band at our l.a. gigs. I cant wait!! It was freezing in Helsinki but the joint was packed on both the Tuesday and Wednesday night we appeared at Storyville. Its great seeing people loving live blues on a week night! that never happens in l.a.

Our next stop was Umea, Sweden where it was really, really, really cold. There was snow piled up that was at least five feet high. We were treated like royalty by Anders and his wife Monica. They made us a great dinner in their lovely home and we played their jukebox. Its a Seeburg just like mine. Umea is a gorgeous city with a big river running thru it. Ill bet its amazing in summer and it sure looked great from the 14th floor of our hotel. We played during the day at the university and the students were a great audience. When a reporter wanted a picture of us three girls, me, laura and sue, evan decided to race into the shot. ( see below). I told Evan he needs to be the front person from now on and so we are renaming the band Evan and the O'Kanes. whaddya think?

The show in Umea was super fun too and we met this guy Stefen who has a record store and has every recording I ever made, even A Town South of Bakersfield Part II and my appearance on the Forbidden Pigs record. He didnt
have the Mentors record, Up the Dose, that I was on the cover of, back in the cathay days, but he did have quite the candye kane collection. Hes been sharing my music with Umeans for awhile now. Thank you, Stefen.

Our last show in Sweden was at the Great Jazz Festival in Linkoping. It was really cool. I had the best hotel room I have ever had with my own jacuzzi and sauna! I really felt important! There were a bunch of amazing bands there including the Domestic Bumblebees who are rockabilly cuties. We also met and hung out with Swedish blues star Sven Zetterberg and his awesome bandmates. Sven will be appearing at the Doheny Blues Festival in May. So dont miss him. His band is great.

We now have a couple of days off before we leave for Vienna, and are spending them in Amsterdam. I love it here and am lucky enough to keep a bike here so I can get lots of exercise. Its still cool weather but spring is in the air and the amsterdammers are outside and enjoying the cloudless skies whenever they are here. Sue and Paul are staying over at the home of my friend, Xaviera Hollander, the infamous Happy Hooker. She is such an amazing woman and her husband Phillip is darling. Xaviera is a pioneer for the sex positive feminist movement. Her bestselling book permanently changed the way prostitution was perceived and for the first time, reclaiming and owning your own sexuality and deciding when and how to use that power, became a concept to embrace and ponder. She is hilarious to. when asked to describe the room our bassist Paul is sleeping in, she said "Its warm and cozy like a giant pussy!" If you are ever in Amsterdam, and want a unique experience, consider staying at her bed and breakfast. Google will find her.

Our next stop is Vienna and then Denmark where we will play Aarhur and Hornslet at the Djurs Blues Festival. I am feeling great and as usual, so grateful for this adventure I call my life. we have a whole week in Paris at the end of this tour at the Meridien hotel and I am really hoping to see my friends, little victor, sophie kay, velvet vixen, david gouny, julie folkard - please come down while we are there and say hi and help me practice my french.
Man, I live a charmed life and am so grateful for every moment. Wish you were all here with me.

xo candye


Candye Kane band shows

4/2 Vienna, Austria/ Reigen live
4/3 Hornslet, Denmark/ www.Djursbluesland.dk festival
4/5 Aarhus, Denmark/ Loevens Hule www.cafepustervig.dk
4/6 back to amsterdam
4/7 drive to basel
4/8 Basel, Switzerland/ Grand Casino
4/9 go to paris
4/10 Paris, France/ Euro Disney/ Billy Bobs
4/13 – 18 Paris, France/ Le Meridien Hotel
4/19 Purmerend, Holland/ Private party/jazzenzo.nl
4/20 and 21 UBM workshops/ Holland
4/23 home from Europe
5/1 Bakersfield, Ca/ Double Tree Hotel Club Odyssey
5/8 Memphis Tn/ Delta Groove Records showcase at the National Blues Music Awards
5/9 San Jose, Ca/ Metro Fountain Blues Festival 2:30 pm
5/10 Orange County Marketplace/ 88 Fair Drive 92626
12 noon – 2:00 pm
5/16 Casper, Wy/ The Attic
5/17 Denver, Co/ Lannies Clocktower
5/20 Boulder, Co/ The Outlook Hotel
5/22 Dallas, Tx/ Pearl at Commerce w Cheryl Arena
5/23 Austin, Texas/ the Continental Club
5/24 Houston, Texas/ The Continental Club
5/28 Lincoln, Nebraska/ The Panic
5/29 Kansas City/ Knuckleheads
5/30 Eureka Arkansas/ Blues festival
6/2 Lincoln, Nebraska/The Zoo Bar
6/3 Des Moines, Ia/ Blues on Grand
6/4 Omaha, Nebraska/Murphys
6/5 Navarre, Mn/ Narrows Saloon
6/6 Chicago, Ill/ Fitzgeralds
6/7 Ann Arbor, Mi/ The Ark
6/9 Grand Rapids, Mi/ The Intersection
6/11 Macalester, Oklahoma/ Private event
6/12 Oklahoma City, OK/ Bricktown Blues Festival
6/15 New CD release on Delta groove! Im a Super Hero!
6/19 ONLY SAN DIEGO APPEARANCE FOR SIX MONTHS! ANTHOLOGY ON INDIA STREET/ CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!
6/20 Dana Point, Ca/ The Renaissance
6/26 Cloverdale, Ca/ Downtown Cloverdale concerts
6/27 Point Arena, Ca/ Arena Theater
6/28 San Francisco, CA/Biscuits and Blues
7/4 Portland, Oregon/ Waterfront Blues Festival (Mainstage)
7/11 Folsom, Ca/Po Boys Bar and Grill
8/10 Rockland, Maine/ Time Out Pub
8/14 Woonsocket, RI/ Chans
8/15 Camton, New Hampshire/ White Mountain Blues Festival w UK singer Dani Wilde
8/18 – 9/13 United by Music Tour of Ireland and the Netherlands/ www.unitedbymusic.eu


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Hello all,

I recently received this google alert about the sex workers art show when Daily Press writer Tamara Dietrich used my quote out of context in her critique. Below is my response to her, a link to the story and a way to contact her yourself. Spreading misinformation is not okay.

xoxo candye

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Google News Alert for: candye kane
W & M sex show is performance, but not art
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Former stripper and adult film star Candye Kane concedes as much. "Sex work is not for everyone,"Kane says on the show's Web site. ...

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_tamara_0325mar25,0,2308635.column?page=1


Contact Tamara Dietrich at tdietrich@dailypress.com or 247-7892.

my response to Tamara:


Tamara Dietrich misses the point of the Sex Workers Art show entirely. Although I am not included in the current line up of this show, I can defend the show as an artistic, entertaining and provocative showcase for the talents of people who are too often maligned and invisible in our culture. The sex workers art show is not an effort to remove or glamorize the too often, demeaning aspects of sex work. The art show is designed to give musicians, authors and artists, whom have also worked as sex workers, an opportunity to express themselves in a mutually supportive platform before a live audience. Our stories, though sometimes stark and brutally honest, can be inspirational in their messages of perseverance, survival and the universal human quest for love and acceptance.

It is precisely because, in Tamara’s words “the sex business is a global industry inflicting (suffering) on women and children in a vicious trade” that we should take a second look at who these women and men are who are strong enough to survive this kind of work and courageous enough to identify themselves as such. It is Tamara’s and societies widespread ostrich mentality, “see no evil, hear no evil” that will continue to guarantee that sex workers (mostly women) will be victimized, and even murdered like the hundreds of victims of the Green River killer, Gary Ridgeway, while polite society turns the other cheek and pretends its not happening.

Though it may offend Tamara’s delicate sensibilities, sex work exists and has existed for centuries, since the biblical mention of Mary Magdalene.
As a culture we continually glamorize sex work in media and on television, (Pretty Woman, Stripper) and in advertising for everything from cars, fashion to cheeseburgers. Yet, when women are finally given a voice to express their struggles, or when our daughters or sisters become closeted because of the shame of our choices, women like Tamara would have us silenced before our voices are even heard.

We can pretend sex work doesn’t exist and we can choose to believe that the only ones involved are desperate crack addicts and child victims or we can attend the sex workers art show and hear the experiences of these people in their own words. Only in listening and creating dialogue can we ever affect real change. If sex work were made legal and sex workers valued, we could possibly change the entire system. We could find out who was coerced or forced to prostitute themselves because they are underage, or drug addicted. We could possibly slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and perhaps save lives of the often invisible, disposable people who are working as sex workers all over the world. We could remove the back alley element from sex work and allow women to perform their work in safe houses such as in Las Vegas and Amsterdam. We could afford these women access to health care. We could find out who embraces this work as joyful healers and who embodies this “sex positive” label. This is a public health issue, not a morality issue and it isn’t always humorous. There is no wink and nudge involved here, Tamara. We are real people with real lives who have made choices, good and bad, uplifting and demoralizing. Listening to our stories might educate you about us and unlock you from your obviously comforting embrace of the stereotypes. Isn’t that what college is supposed to promote - Learning? Discussion? Enlightenment?

Turning personal stories into art, poetry and entertainment has been done for centuries. There is nothing new about being paid to bare your soul for art. Sometimes art makes people uncomfortable. Sometimes art is provocative – sometimes sad – often moving. The truth can be painful to witness. Pretending it’s not happening doesn’t negate the truth. It’s still there while you sip your non-fat latte, Tamara. Because a story is “sad” is no reason to silence it. If we don’t talk about unpleasantness, if we ignore the harsh realities of our world, the problems don’t disappear. They are still there, in dark back alleys and hotel rooms in almost every city on earth. Wishing it away won’t make it so. Giving it a voice, a name and a face might be a start in humanizing this issue. Instead of throwing rocks and condemnation, perhaps you could be part of the solution? Listening would be a good start.


Candye Kane
Helsinki 3/09