As a singer, probably when I was 8 or 9 and Judy Miller (my next door neighbor) and I were the "featured" solo-togetherists in the Greenfield Park Lutheran Church Junior Choir in West Allis (west 'burb of Milwaukee), Wisconsin. Judy and I could always be counted on to show off. Sang at church services and funerals.

First time I ever read/performed (had instrumental backup) my poetry was a coffee house in Milwaukee when I came back to visit in the early '70s.

My (now) ex-husband and I never really performed (Peter Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Judy Collins & Phil Ochs repertoire) in the '70s because we didn't like to learn the same material. (This was indicative of the way the marriage went, too.)

I started performing with Curmudgeon fairly early in the '80s at The White Horse Pub in North Conway and at the Press Room, of course, in Portsmouth, NH -- I just ran across my calendar notation of when I first got paid for singing with the group. (I think it was either for Friends of Odiorne or the Gundalow Project.)

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