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DATE: 2/17/00

CONTACT: Carey Colvin

PHONE: 703-406-4238

FAX: 703-406-4237

E-MAIL: Sngrtr@aol.com

INDIEGRRL COMING TO LUNA PARK GRILLE

SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE ON MARCH 2nd

The Luna Park Grille Songwriters Showcase, presented the first Thursday of

every month, is featuring a special Indiegrrl Show on March 2nd starting at

8:00 p.m. The show will feature Indiegrrl performers Edie Carey, Carey Colvin,

Holly Figueroa, Suzanna Mallow of Red Letter Day, and Vivian Slade,.

From New York, Edie Carey "has the voice, the songs and the presence that

will take her right up alongside such stars as Shawn Colvin and Ani DiFranco.

(Matt Smith, Assistant Booking Manager, Club Passim Music Director, Folkweb).

Her song, "If I Were You," was recently nominated for a 1998 GLAMA Award in

the Acoustic/Folk category. Her intense energy is evident in her CD, The

Falling Places.

Sterling, VA's Carey Colvin is an award-winning performer with a 1997 Wammie

for Folk-Contemporary Female Vocalist and nominations three years straight

for both Folk-Contemporary Female Vocalist and for Rock-Rock/Pop Female

Vocalist in addition to several songwriting awards. With a mix of

folk/rock/pop ("Stuff You Like!"), she performs frequently in the DC area

both solo, as a duo with Granger Helvey, and with her band On The Air.

Colvin's first CD, The Distance Wall, is currently in final production with a

release expected in April of 2000.

Seattle, Washington's Holly Figueroa, Indiegrrl's founder and ringleader, has

toured extensively throughout the US, greeting fans everywhere with her

refreshing style of hybrid folk and blues. Her first release, Three Chord

Plea, received excellent reviews and is available online through CD Baby.

Figueroa's energy and perseverance has been an inspiration to independent

female artists everywhere.

From Maryland, Suzanna Mallow of Red Letter Day has begun performing solo

while her fellow Red Letter Day member Andrea Jones is pursuing studio

production. Red Letter Day has received several Wammie nominations and was

chosen from a field of 10,000 bands to perform in the 1996 Musician

Magazine/Ticketmaster Showcase. A prolific songwriter, Mallow takes you

from laughter to tears and a sprinkling of grins with her expressive lyrics

and high-energy performances.

Nashville's Vivian Slade studied voice in Manhattan at Mannes College of

Music. After transferring to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where

she pursued art, she graduated cum laude with a degree in art history and

moved to Nashville to study music composition at Belmont University. It was

in Texas that she began writing after taking classical guitar for a college

credit, and she never looked back. Incorporating folk, rock, blues, jazz and

Latin into her sound, Slade has started her own independent record label,

Human Art Records, the home of her self-titled CD.

Indiegrrls is a forum for information, networking and conversation about

independent music from a female perspective. Formed by Holly Figueroa in May

of 1998 on the Internet as a mailing list in an effort to bring together

independent women musicians, Indiegrrl has become much more than that with

Indiegrrl compilation CDs and the formation of Indiegrrl Records (with an

exclusive distribution through CD Baby). With an East Coast and Midwest

tour in 1999 and showcases at the 2000 Folk Alliance conference, the Oxygen

Media's National Tank Tour, and the Indiegrrl Expofest 2000 in New York City

March 5-7, Indiegrrls continues to make its presence known throughout the

country.

Carey Colvin has been booking and hosting the Luna Park Grille Songwriters'

Showcase for over two and a half years, with Granger Helvey manning the

soundboard. Former participants in the Showcase include Red Letter Day, Tom

Prasada-Rao, Rachel Bissex, Marianne Flemming, Michael Sheppard, Lisa Taylor,

Garth Ross, Rachel & Jaqui, and many more. Luna Park Grille is located at

5866 Washington Boulevard in Arlington, VA, phone 703-237-5862.

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