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Artist Spotlight: Grassroots comedy
This story comes to LEO through our partnership with Audience Magazine: Your Performing Arts Connection.
When it comes to the great comedians over the years, names like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield, and Eddie Murphy come to mind. More modern names might include
In the animated “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” the titular wooden boy decides he must leave home — and his beloved father, Geppetto — with a ragged traveling circus in the hopes of earning needed funds for the family. He’s shown onstage (voiced and sung by young Gregory Mann)
NASHVILLE — Sav Buist of The Accidentals likes to say that “songwriting is cheaper than therapy.”
So it’s particularly satisfying when she’s written a heartfelt song that really strikes a chord with listeners — and especially those seeking comfort.
And it’s beyond gratifying when that song, “The Line,” goes on
Sue Vicory. // Courtesy of Sue Vicory.
Kansas City native Sue Vicory has been creating community-based documentaries—One and Kansas City Jazz & Blues and Past, Present & Future—and short films—Absent and 1898, The W.F. Norman Story—for her nonprofit production 501c3 company Heartland Films, Inc. since 2003.
He still feels connected to Iowa and the Midwest, and he has deep, fond memories of growing up the youngest of six kids in Waterloo. His boyhood home was on Fletcher Avenue across from Byrnes Park.
But McLaughlin hasn’t been back in many years. “My parents passed away, all of