Musician Statement:
I started music about 10
years ago while living in Los Angeles. Pursuing acting all my life had been
amazing but I needed a break. This 'break' led to pickin up that dusty guitar
and spending hours a day just trying to figure it out…chords on napkins, asking
a lot of questions, & a lot of long nights researching. I'm not a chick who
can be told I can't do something and after a few open mics I got offered my
first gig. This gig led to the next year..making a first record, getting signed
on a small label, doing my first tour, & working long hours at a coffee
shop to pay the bills. Working in that coffee shop early mornings led me to
meeting some amazing people as well as opportunities, like meeting my
producers, tv hosts Craig Ferguson &Tyra Banks, as well as various film/tv
supervisors. Within a few years I went off on my own, started booking tours
around the US, was given the opportunity to perform on the Late Late Show
w/Craig Ferguson, The Tyra Banks Show, play 250+ dates a year, & made a
second record.
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Click here to enjoy her music!
Artist Statement:
Local Smyrna artist Joan
Friedman painted in her head long before putting paint to canvas, longing for
the nudge that would make it a reality. A dozen years of making colorful
jewelry was a natural segue to painting, and it was a "love at first
sight" type of experience. An appreciation for various styles grew
over the past twenty plus years as she and husband Lee collected original works
by local and national artists. After a career in Nursing and raising two sons,
Joan and Lee are now raising a Collie and a cat, and she continues to find time
to also make jewelry, teach classes in jewelry making, garden, sew and
volunteer year round for her favorite charity, Operation Christmas Child.
Click here to enjoy her art!
Click here to enjoy her art!
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