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Mary Flower
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Mary Flower live at The Artichoke, $20 (doors open at 6:30 pm).
Internationally renowned award-winning Portland,? Oregon-based singer/guitarist/songwriter is a prodigious? talent whose seasoned skills have established her as one? of America's foremost roots performers.
Flower combines a? deep historical knowledge with a restless creativity that? keeps her music evolving into new creative territory while? echoing influences from Piedmont to the Mississippi Delta,? with additional stops at ragtime, swing, folk, and hot jazz
Midwest native Flower relocated from Denver to the vibrant? Portland music scene in 2004. Since then, she's continued? to impress crowds and critics at folk festivals in America? and abroad, including Merlefest, Waterfront Blues Fest, King Biscuit, A Prairie Home Companion and the? Vancouver Folk Festival, while maintaining a parallel career as a renowned educator.?
Mary has shared her guitar skills at over 25 guitar intensives around the country and is about to celebrate? 10 years as Artistic Director at her own "Blues in the Gorge" near Portland, Oregon. Along the way, she's? twice been a finalist in the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship, as well as being nominated? three times for the Blues Foundation's prestigious “Blues Music Award.” The Cascade Blues Assn. has? awarded Mary five years in a row, Best Acoustic Blues Musician. Mary is a contributing writer for Acoustic? Guitar Magazine and has recorded several CDs and many instructional DVDs for the Homespun label.?