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Teresa Clark & Her Chosen Family - CD Release Party
Sunday, July 23 6-8 PM in the auditorium
Join us in celebrating the release of Sonoma County's own Teresa Clark, joined by talented friends to share music and the spirit of community!
Featuring:
Teresa Clark - vocals and guitar
Renee Harcourt - harmonies and other instruments
Nina Gerber - electric guitar
Chris Webster - harmonies and washboard
Cary Black - bass
John McConnel - harmonies and drums
Tickets are $25 GA, discount for OCA members. $5 more at the door. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Beer & wine, refreshments, light snacks for sale. OCA is wheelchair accessible.
Once upon a time, back in those long-forgotten, pre-Covid days when social get-togethers were as easy as waking up in the morning and stumbling over to your local coffee establishment, there was a small gathering of friends at Dillon Beach. Among the group of women out walking their dogs were Renee Harcourt, newly relocated to Sebastopol from the Bay Area, and long-time Sonoma resident, Teresa Clark, horse-trainer cum real-estate agent with a long-simmering passion for music.
Clark had been quietly studying guitar with the legendary Nina Gerber for nigh on 20 years. Her love for Americana music had turned her into a diehard fan of the band Blame Sally, of which Harcourt was one of the principal songwriters. Teresa and Renee started talking about songs and soon Teresa asked Renee if she would consider teaching a class. After adamantly insisting that she had no idea how to teach songwriting, and frankly, wasn’t all too interested in figuring it out– Teresa persisted, and faster than you could say ‘that dog don’t hunt’ Renee had agreed to give a masterclass to a small group of budding and wannabe songwriters.
That one workshop soon turned into more classes and private coaching sessions for Clark. In the weeks, months and years that followed, the former cowgirl began to parlay her hard-earned guitar chops into musical motifs that, with Harcourt’s help, she wrangled into real songs with words, verses, choruses – the whole kit and kaboodle.
And then, of course, the pandemic hit. No more get-togethers, no more classes, the wild ride suddenly came to a dead stop.
But as happened for so many of us who suddenly found ourselves alone and bored, new interests were discovered, and old passions burned harder. Clark threw herself into writing more songs and Harcourt started teaching herself how to engineer music with a new Logic Pro set-up. Renee let Teresa pass through the quarantined doors, and soon they had more songs than anyone had planned on. An honest-to-goodness recorded album was birthed right there in Renee’s barn-turned-studio.