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Dr. Mary Crowell
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| Dr. Mary Crowell lives with her husband, Wesley, and their son, Simon, in Athens, Alabama. She has taught piano and composition for over twenty years. As a resident of north Alabama, she currently teaches music theory, music appreciation, class piano, and private piano lessons at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama. She is a certified YogaFit instructor. She loves playing Rachmaninov, Gershwin, and Bach, practicing yoga, gardening, and gaming with good friends. She has a B.A. in piano performance from Huntingdon College, M.M. in musicology from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and a D.M.A. in music composition -- also from the University of Alabama. While acquiring these degrees she accompanied ballet classes (and still twitches when she hears "Let's go. Five, six, se-ven, eight!"), helped organize receptions and run concerts as a house manager, graded many music appreciation and history papers, and taught freshmen music theory, ear training, and sight singing. She also snuck around and performed jazz whenever her teachers weren't looking. Mary was introduced to filk music by Karen Murphy and John Brewer who paid her way and drove her to her first filk convention -- GaFilk 2001. And now people cannot keep her away with sticks. She's written several torchy songs (Magnus Retail, and Oh Milo); blues songs (Legolas and Page Not Found Blues); and some that defy description (The Song Will Tell Me True). She enjoys making lead sheets for the GaFilk Songbook. Mary has played concerts at many conventions over the last ten years. Most recently, she was the GoH at Conflikt 2011, and she will be the International Guest in the UK at Duple Time in February, 2012; and will perform with the Three Weird Sisters (Music GoH's) at Consonance 2012. Poison Ivy, her octet for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, and trombone was performed at the UAH Local Composers Concert in March of 2004. Mary gigs in Athens, Alabama at downtown bookstores and garden markets and the greater Atlanta area. In August, 2004, Mary accepted the invitation to join Three Weird Sisters and looks forward a long and happy collaboration with the band. She also plays with Atlanta based jazz band, Play It With Moxie. She has finished recording Courting My Muse, her solo CD with Greg Robert. Courting My Muse is available through various filk dealers, Amazon.com, and CDBaby.com. It is also available at Pablos on Market, a delightful bookstore and coffee shop on the square in Athens, Alabama! Or, check out what other things she's up to at www.magnusretail.com! |
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Representative Work for the 2011 Pegasus. Note- this is NOT a song nominated for the 2011 Pegasus Awards. Get Down Mama Copyright © 2003 by Mary Crowell, All rights reserved Simon (my son) and I went to the Huntsville Botanical Garden's Scarecrow VERSE Ah ah hah hah! Uh huh! CHORUS VERSE Ah ah hah hah! Uh huh! CHORUS INTERLUDE VERSE Ah ah hah hah! Uh huh! CHORUS Get down Mama. Sleep your dark eyes down. |
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