Donna Decker's CD Release Party August 17, 2011

When:
08/17/2011 at 07:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Where:
The Frog & The Hummingbird Co
118 Municipal Ave
Sopchoppy Florida, 32358
United States

Email Contact:
frogandhummingbirdco@yahoo.com
Phone
305-304-2226

Donna Decker's CD Release Party (Wednesday August 17th 7:30 to 10 PM)

After having many requests for a Poetry Night Salli Squitieri and Gabriel Butterfield proprietors of Sopchoppy's Eclectic Music Art Forum~~The Frog and The Hummingbird Co & Butterfield's Roadhouse learned about the background and experiences of Donna Decker a long-time patron and supporter of their venue. Donna's visits to Salli and Gabriel's business soon evolved into a friendship and Donna was invited to perform in a Night of Poetry & Story telling at their venue.

It was a very successful event and led to the manifestation of yet another project.

A project which was birthed and rehearsed at The Frog and The Hummingbird Co & Butterfield's Roadhouse and recorded at Lon and Elizabeth Williamson's Recording Studio—Gatorbone Records.

The project is a combination Donna's evoking vocals, humor, wit and rich stories that lead you onto a journey filled with imagery and is integrated with the creative and original music of three stellar musicians—Frank Lindamood, Gabriel Butterfield and Andy “Sax Man” Moorer who created the music around Donna's poetic speaking.

The CD insert photograph for this captivating and unique production was taken at Butterfield's Roadhouse. A CD Release party is scheduled at The Frog and The Hummingbird Co & Butterfield's Roadhouse on Wednesday August 17th 7:30 to 10 Pm and will offer free door prize drawings and store discounts.

Assorted Beverages, Light fare and Dangerously Delicious desserts will be available and on sale for a nominal charge.

The CD Release Party will be held at The Frog and The Hummingbird Co & Butterfield's Roadhouse At 118 Municipal Ave Corner of Rose St in Sopchoppy on August 17th 2011 7:30 to 10:00 PM.

For more information Contact Salli Squitieri at frogandhummingbirdco@yahoo.com or 305-304-2226
About Donna Decker

An award-winning graduate of Florida State University's Ph.D. program in English with a creative writing emphasis, Donna Decker now lives on the Forgotten Coast of the Florida Panhandle. She is the author of the poetry book Under the Influence of Paradise: Voices of Key West—poems set in Key West characters' voices. She co-wrote the poetry book, Three Thirds and is co-editor of Anhinga Press' North of Wakulla: An Anthology of Tallahassee Poets. She has widely published her poetry in magazines such as New Collage and Genre, and essays in places such as The Between Two Rivers Anthology: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf, Aveda magazine's Organica, and Tallahassee's Apalachee Review.

Dr. Decker is a founding member of Tallahassee's Java Girls poetry performance troupe. A performance poet, she has written, directed, produced and performed in numerous multi-media performance pieces with musicians, dancers, and visual artists. She has been a contributing writer to Tallahassee's newspaper, The Tortoise; is a founding member of the College of Staten Island's literary magazine All Ways a Woman; and is the former poetry editor of Willa, the National Council of the Teachers of English's literary magazine.

Dr. Decker, along with her sister Helen, founded the Harbor Series—Staten Island, New York's longest running poetry reading series—which featured new writers paired with established poets, Allen Ginsberg, Quincy Troupe and more.

Dr. Decker is a former full professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point where she taught for fifteen years. Currently, she teaches writing and speech for Florida State University's College of Business, and conducts workshops on creative writing, teaching writing, and performance for children and adults. She volunteers as a wildlife rescuer and a sea turtle patroller and is completing a collection of essays, Ways to Enter Water: A Decade of Living on the Gulf, largely set on the Panhandle peninsula of Alligator Point, including stories about swimming with wild dolphins. She will present a performance of her poetry and stories about living in Key West and on the Forgotten Coast at Butterfield's Roadhouse in Sopchoppy on November 20, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

She is co-renovator of the award-winning Soul Gardens cottages in Tallahassee's Frenchtown district. Dr. Decker is a former full professor of English at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point where she taught for fifteen years, winning the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Mentor Leadership Award. While at UWSP, she directed The Writers' Workshop for twelve years—a University writing scholarship program for Wisconsin high school students. She was instrumental in establishing the English Department's creative writing program and was credited in creating a “Renaissance of poetry” at UW-Stevens Point. She also helped found and was advisor for almost ten years for The Lincoln Hills Young Poets Project—a University student organization where UWSP student-poets teach poetry workshops to young men incarcerated at Lincoln Hills Correctional Facility in Alma, Wisconsin. She was adviser for the English Department's student literary journal, Barney Street, and additional student groups i.e. the performance group--The Gumshoe Troupe, and the Women's Resource Center

Official Website: http://www.tallahasseegrapevine.com/event/view/id_3882/