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Karen Dietz

About Me

Born in Boston; Mexican mother, German father; Catholic school; lots of singing; moved to Scotland in 1990; here I am/aquí estoy/ich bin hier...

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Member Since: 14/08/2007
Sounds Like: I'm in your living room...
Record Label: Unsigned

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Recording

So... why is it so easy to do vocals for someone else and cover other folks' stuff, and why is it harder to do your own?I had a week in April in which I made up, on the spot, in the studio, backing vo...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 11:44:00 GMT

Bright spots...

1. St Andrew/The Word on the Pavey This amazing CD has been around for some time now - was a collector's item for a while there (rehr... gey rehr!) but mercifully is back in print. I have bought at...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:26:00 GMT

Shore Poets con't

Our 3 perfectly formed sets included three Burns songs (it was the man's birthday, after all) - one we sang together, one I did, and one Richard sang. (yeah, I know - neither of us is Scottish, but Bu...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:11:00 GMT

Shore Poets gig

What a great end to a busy weekend! It was my ideal wee gig.The lovely Nancy Somerville had invited me to do the Shore Poets music slot - I knew about the Shore Poets (they have a poetry event with mu...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:56:00 GMT

Well...

I can't believe it - the last blog was about Taybank, and now it's come round again (er... I haven't blogged in a year...).My wish for it to be all outdoors in 08 has been scorned by the weather gods....
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:22:00 GMT

Tayside Festival at Dunkeld

Still recovering from Tayside yesterday; it was a long day! Up very early to leave Blackpool at 6:30 am (where we gave the switching on of the illuminations a bodyswerve on Fri night and took a tram t...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:19:00 GMT

Ummm....

I am just starting out here and haven't ever blogged, but I feel like I'd better slap some damn thing up here for folks to read.I will go away and think of something...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:04:00 GMT