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Comprehensive Malvina Reynolds Song Lyrics Site | |
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Song Lyrics (Ear to the Ground CD only) | |
| An Evening of Malvina Spirit | |
| Sporadic Times: February, 1998 July, 1998 August, 1999 February, 2000 October, 2000 | |
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Let's Go Dancing Till the Break of Day: A Remembrance of Malvina Reynolds by Nancy Schimmel (in Pass It On, the Children's Music Network magazine) | |
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The Unsung Malvina Reynolds an article by Larry Polansky, Chair of the Department of Music at Dartmouth College. | |
| Bio | |
| Recordings Available | |
| Film Biography | |
| The Soul Book | |
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Malvina’s daughter, Nancy Schimmel and friends at Sisters’ Choice coninue the tradition with Storytelling Recordings and Books Gardening for Kids | |
MALVINA REYNOLDS
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See a photo of her and Country Joe MacDonald on his site
Judy Fjell & Nancy Schimmel
Sunday, March 23, 2008
an evening of Malvina song and story
The Freight and Salvage Coffee House
1111 Addison Street, Berkeley CA 94702 (510)548-1761
Door 7:30 P.M., Music 8:00 P.M. | Purchase advance tickets: $18.50
Thirty years have passed since the death of famed folksinger, songwriter, and activist Malvina Reynolds, yet her songs remain as pertinent as ever. Tonight Malvina’s daughter Nancy Schimmel and singer-songwriter Judy Fjell present songs by and stories about Malvina. In addition to famous tunes like “Little Boxes,” Nancy has unearthed a number of new songs and stories: tonight she invites the audience to “Sing along with your favorites and learn something new!”
WEEDS
A new generation of fans are discovering Malvina Reynolds. Sales of Malvina lp’s and traffic to this site are up because the excellent Showtime series “Weeds” is using “Little Boxes” as its intro song.
Mary Louise Parker plays a recently widowed suburban mom who manages her cash flow problems by selling pot to members of her community. It is refreshing that this widow rarely weeps. We skip the death and the grieving and the hand wringing and hit the ground running with her relationship to her tough but quietly fond supplier, “...it’s business”. The writing is sharp. The characters are sometimes sarcastic and cynical and sometimes stick up for each other, like real people you and I know.
The intro uses camera effects to show multiples of the same person jogging around different corners or coming repeatedly out of a franchise coffee storefront. It is a marvelous visual for “Little Boxes”.
In the coming season, “Weeds” will use versions of “Little Boxes” recorded by other musicians including Elvis Costello and Death Cab for Cutie.
Blog: Writing Malvina
Malvina’s daughter, Nancy Schimmel, is writing a biography of her
mother, based on her own memories and on research done by Ellen
Stekert. Nancy is also blogging about the process at http://web.mac.com/nancyschimmel
Email
nancys@sisterschoice.com
