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Deana David

About Me

Deana David is an international tour guide, freelance writer, artist, and cabaret singer. After working as a costume maker in the London theatre for several years, she returned to New England and published a number of travel stories and short literary fiction. She has also written nonfiction articles for national publications like Somerset Studio, Seal Press, and Artella. Her stained glass and collage work has appeared in galleries for over ten years, and she teaches a variety of art mediums locally. In recent years, touring has become central to Deana’s life, often causing her to disappear with busloads of screaming mimis, only to return months later with darker freckles and taller tales.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/18/2007
Band Website: www.deanadavid.com
Band Members: All songs recorded with Joe Mennonna privateislandmusic.com
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Influences: Stephen Sondheim, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, 35 years of the Chatham Bandstand, sweet Mamma Bear, the Queen of Cambridge, Jones & Schmidt, Maury Yeston, Room with a View, I Capture the Castle, Barbara Pym, crossword puzzles, the Irish Rovers, the bubblegum ice cream at Lickety Split, Piewacket David's purry eyes, killing everyone at Scrabble, rowboats that don't creak, the hill towns around Florence, the Mermaid Inn in Rye England, coffee from the Greenwich flea market, Angela Thirkell, Agatha Christie, Velda Johnston, John Bucchino, Jason Robert Brown, John Van Druten, the accordian players of Paris, the lyrics to Try to Remember, the crotchety piano player at Christian's, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, the Dennis Playhouse, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mary Poopins, Bell, Book, and Candle, Gaslight, the Monomoy Players, the Irish Rep, Barbara's concert in Central Park, Judy's concert at Carnegie Hall, the Seaside Sorcerer who does magic at the Unitarian Church, the zipper ride at the carnival where I lost my mind, my sister's host family in Italy where everyone had lost their minds, Aunt Joan's house, Gram's photo album, Maine, paint by numbers, silly putty, musty bookstores, boxes of sheet music
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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Turtleback

Mint and fizzy like an old-fashioned cocktail A museum of memories reaching far back Fanned out and breezy as a swallow's tail Potholed and textured, our stories, like brail Are crooked and crumbling...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:47:00 GMT

Sad Song of Plain Pigeons

Mottled purple-grey pigeons pick the plainest places to bed They could nap alap virgins or glide beside gargoyles aloft the spires of Rome But they chose their views in cobbleless, virginless, nothing...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:45:00 GMT

A Drive into Autumn

When the sun was at its harshest Fluorescent wet Burning our skin Hopelessly tiring the already lazy cats Making it hard to breath Making our bodies feel heavy, and awkward and impractical in the lime...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:38:00 GMT

Scrabble

  Children are building a sandcastle with a pink pail Don't they know it will be gone before they've added the turrets? Didn't they see the paw prints of the dog disappear? And the yellow Frisb...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:12:00 GMT

'The Trouble with Tiramisu' (published in 'Italy: A Love Story') Seal Press

              My sister called me from a pay phone. Traffic buzzed in the background, Italian voices raised, horns honked, and motor scooters...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:07:00 GMT

Sestina: The Kites of the Poet

THE KITES OF THE POET Deana David There's a crowded road that leads to the edge of the city If you follow it steep, it will end on a hill. And there time stands still. Except for the man Who must whe...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:37:00 GMT

Upcoming Tours

To all of my precious friends whom I love and think of constantly (and never EVER get to see enough), and to friends I've travelled with before who would like to see what's coming up... here are ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:35:00 GMT