A Press Release concerning the Appearance of Lizzie Dickerson At the Grapes Restaurant Singer-Songwriter Series, Thursday March 27, 2003, which was printed in the 'Courier Gazette', one of Rockland's newspapers. Listeners can expect to hear divergent harmonies, as well as standard Country and Western romps. Classically educated, Dickerson became disenchanted with academic musical pursuits and moved to Maine. During the past 15 years, she has raised children, worked at a food co-op, organized for and against a variety of issues and run for Rockland City Council. A compulsive writer with never enough time to complete her magnum opus, she turned to songwriting and found her medium. "Songwriting is the completion of a circle. I can combine my love of writing, my need for music and my various life experiences in a three minute jaunt," she said. Dickerson said that song structure has just enough form to challenge her to fit into its mold; then the melody and the harmony have enough push and pull to help her break through that structure and present the basic format in a new way. "I like to take a standard chord progression and then see how much harmonic color I can add to it- without destroying the integrity of the basic groove- by using either impressionistic chords or alternate tunings," she said. Dickerson has performed live on WERU-FM Community Radio, East Orland, Maine, WMPG-FM Community Radio, Portland, Maine, a variety of coffeehouses around New England, and she hosts an open mic in Camden, Maine, at Gilbert's Publick House. She is a frequent performer at political gatherings and composed the song "Green Legacy" in honor of the people and trees along US Route One in Warren, Maine. |