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November 15, 2007 - 8 pm
Fox Theatre - Redwood City, CA
Comedian Grace White Hosts Girls with Guitars
A fundraiser for
Guitars Not Guns with musicians
Grooy Judy
FONTAIN's M.U.S.E.
and
Amy Myers
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WOMEN WHO KICK COMEDY BUTT HOSTED
The Oct 21
Nike Women's Marathon
A race to benefit
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco Fillmore
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Comedian Grace White
That OLD Hippie Chick
[Comedian Grace White]
White opens for super star bands, including 3 Doors Down, celeb comedians such as Maria Bamford and Jackie Kashian, made her film debut in "The Independent" with Jerry Stiller & Janeane Garofalo. White performs with female comics from every corner of the globe, even Hollywood.
[COMEDY SCHEDULE]
Johnny Steele, Grace White, Rocky LaPorte, Rich Freedman

ITS OFFICIAL. IM HOT!
HOT LA COMIC
HOT CALIFORNIA COMIC
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Woman Who Kicks Comedy Butt
Funny Business Magazine
Pat Katzmann
June 2006 Issue
She may bill herself as That Old Hippie Chick, but she looks more country club than commune. Classy, blonde, and caffeinated, Grace White is in constant movement. A perpetual motion machine, she blazes through North Beach and takes some cell phone calls while giving a walking tour of local landmarks on her way to her favorite spot, Caffe Trieste, for a cappuccino. Even when shes walking, shes on the road. Its no wonder she calls herself a transient with an act. Shes no slacker, thats for sure.
For someone who only started performing stand-up seven years ago at age 49, when she became an empty-nester, White has come a very long way in a short time. Shes opened concerts for 3 Doors Down, Jefferson Starship, and Jethro Tull. Shes shared the stage with Father Guido Sarducci, Kevin Pollak, and Will Durst. Shes performed at Comedy Celebration Day before thousands of Bay Area fans, appeared on The Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and ABCs Good Morning America, and played a role in The Independent, a film starring Jerry Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. Last year, she created a revue called Women Who Kick Comedy Butt (WWKCB), featuring funny females from all over the Bay Area. WWKCBs proliferation and popularity means White spends more and more time producing the show in comedy clubs, casinos, and wineries all over northern California.
Responding to what she and fellow women comics saw as a need to generate more gigs, since women still arent perceived to be as funny as men, White thought a PG-13 showcase with a revolving lineup would be welcome at variety of venues seeking an alternative to lounge singers. She was right. Because the discrimination that all women experience also predominates in comedy, I find myself even more committed to proactive change rather than just getting pissed off, says White. Simply, I am a comedian that wants to perform. Being very scrappy, I have found ways to do just that by working outside the comedy box. Thats how her WWKCB brainchild was born, and her persistence is why its become a favorite of comedy fans from Larkspurs Caf.. Theatre to Lockefords Vino Piazza.
I dont see myself as a female comedy leader, or a prophet, or a smarty pants purporting that I know everything on or off stage. I am old enough to be smarter than that. I see WWKCB as a win, win, win, win, win for myself and other females, no matter what direction it takes. More good female comics (which more stage time produces) means more good comedy shows, which means more for all female comics and more for comedy as a whole. My dream is to have a full-blown concert tour where comics can have their own careers while also participating in WWKCB shows when convenient to them. Can a network show based on this boomers life be far behind?
Life may be a continuous caf.. crawl interrupted by periodic stand-up sets, but always punctuated by punch lines. After a quick breakfast and latte at Oaklands Coffee Mill, White spies a bookstore across the street that she has to hit. Walking into Walden Pond, she notices a remaindered Ed Rosenthal calendar featuring some pricey California flora. Upon hearing that the marijuana maven was angling to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she flatly states: Oprah would never allow that. Because shes anti-drug, of course. No, shed be afraid of getting the munchies. And without breaking stride, as the booksellers behind the counter crack up, she hurries to the childrens section, finds a copy of Curious George and the Dinosaur for her 4-year-old grandson Brandon, and heads back to the counter where the booksellers are still chuckling. Always leave em laughing.
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GRACE WHITE, aka That Old Hippie Chick, is a classic bohemian with a mother who stalks her, a father to whom road rage is an art-form and a stand-up comedy act like no other. White launched her comedy career at the onset of her "Middle Ages," and has gone on to open for the Jefferson Starship, 3 Doors Down, Edgar Winter, Leon Russell, Father Guido Sarducci, and Kevin Pollack. She made her film debut in "The Independent," starring Jerry Stiller and Janeane Garofalo and has appeared on "Good Morning America."
White is a symphony in contradictions, a blur of reluctant energy and a compulsive workaholic entrepreneur who stubbornly maintains her title of World's Laziest Woman. She's also a successful single parent (her daughter's never been to jail), and has earned a solid reputation for herding aspiring comedians through their performing puberty. That Old Hippie Chick may not be the last of her tribe, but she is surely one of the most entertaining.
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GRACE WHITE PRESENTS WOMEN WHO KICK COMEDY BUTT
Women Who Kick Comedy Butt (WWKCB) is an all-female stand-up comedy show featuring very different comics with very different acts.
The brainchild of comedian Grace White, WWKCB was conceived to spotlight funny women. "This is not a girly girl show, Hot Mommies or Women Who Tell Jokes Who Have Bosoms. This is a show boasting talented female comics doing their own act," says White.
Each comic in her own unique way will show how now more than ever, women have come into their own onstage. No longer restricted to voicing vanilla views on love and marriage, these bright women offer more flavors than Baskin-Robbins, and represent all ages, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. They will be telling their tales for all to hear, guaranteeing a laugh-fest you really don't want to miss. This show welcomes everyone to enjoy a great night out with comedy that's power-packed, high-energy and hysterical.
Johanne Savoie says, "Grace, you have a positive creative energy that can be felt through wires and computers."
Linda Costello says, "I am thrilled to have finally met a cool chick...I thought maybe somebody had come through the Bay area and "taken away" all the cool people. "
Look left, and CHECK OUT MY TRIBUTE TO HEROES .

My Interests

Traveling, great food, art, great food, literature, great food, theater, food, movies, food, gardening, cooking food, & my family.

I'd like to meet:

Moses: I have a bone to pick with him setting the precident that men don't ask for directions. John Lennon: He was supposed to be my husband. My great grandmother who was a full blooded Native America born in the 1800s. Jimmy Carter: To see why he is still smiling.

Music:

MOTOWN, BEATLES, ROCK N ROLL (EARLY), ROCK N ROLL, PAULA COLE, SHAWN COLVIN, JOAN BAEZ, COUNTRY WRITTEN BEFORE 1955, SHOWTUNES, VAULDEVILLE (LATE 1800'S & EARLY 1900'S), TOM WAITS, ARETHA FRANKLIN, BEATLES, RAY CHARLES, OTIS REDDING, PAUL SIMON, DR. JOHN, THE KINKS, JONI MITCHELL, PRINCE, WHO, NEIL YOUNG, JAMES BROWN, SONGS MY FRIENDS WROTE AND PERFORMED IN SF IN THE 70'S, SOME FOLK, SOME 1950'S MAINSTREAM, MUSIC SCORES FROM CLASSIC 1950'S MUSIC LIKE HENRY MANCINNI, JAZZ (ALL TYPES), MUSIC FROM AROUND THE WORLD, & SOME OF WHAT I CALL MY "DAUGTHER'S MUSIC".

Movies:

To Kill A Mockingbird; Vanilla Sky; Almost Famous; The Fisher King; Stella Dallas; I Love You To Death

Television:

HGTV; I can't help it.

Heroes:

Richard Pryor
WOMEN HONORED AND AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
1905: Bertha Sophie von Suttner (Austria) - Author of influential book Lay Down Your Arms, and President of the International Peace Bureau.
1931: Jane Addams (US) - won jointly with Nicholas Murray Butler (US)- Addams was President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and founder of Hull-House, a U.S. settlement house for immigrants families.
1946: Emily Greene Balch (US) - won jointly with John Raleigh Mott (US)- Balch worked with Jane Addams and also was President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
1976: Betty Williams (Britain) and Mairead Corrigan (Northern Ireland)- Both founded the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, (later called the Community of Peace People) dedicated to ending the violence in Northern Ireland.
1979: Mother Teresa (Albania)- A nun in the Orders of the Missionaries which helped the poorest of the poor in India.
1982: Alva Myrdal (Sweden) won jointly with Alfonso Garcia Robles (Mexico)- Myrdal, a writer and diplomat, worked for many years to promote disarmament and world peace.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma/Myanmar)- Human rights advocate, often a political prisoner, for her efforts to peacefully bring democracy to Myanmar.
1992: Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala)- For her efforts to bring enduring reconciliation among all sectors of Guatemalan society, and for defense of indigenous rights worldwide.
1997: Jody Williams (US)- won jointly with the group she coordinates, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, for work promoting the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
2003: Shirin Ebadi (Iran)- lawyer and human rights activist, notably in defense of the rights of women and children in her society.
2004: Wangari Maathai (Kenya)- Founder of Green Belt Movement which promotes awareness of the need to protect of natural resources as a prerequisite to a sustainable and peaceful world.
MORE WOMEN HEROES
Chipeta, a Ute Indian worked all her life to promote better relations between her tribe and whites.
UNs Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, she works for the rights of women.
Susan B. Anthony led the early Women's Suffrage Movement.
Sojourner Truth, born a slave, she worked all her life for the rights of women and blacks. She is well known for her 1851 speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
Sacajawea guided Lewis and Clark across the northwestern territories.
Ruby Bridges bravely led the way to desegregation of schools as a child.
Rosa Parks made history when she refused to sit in the back of the bus.
Ada Aharoni works for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Adi Roche took responsibility for helping orphans of nuclear disaster.
Alicia O'Brien, at age 11 with inoperable brain cancer, was the inspiration for Cherie Bennett's novel, Zink.
Amy Biehl gave her life to end apartheid in South Africa.
Ann Armstrong-Dailey founded Children's Hospice International.
Anna Akhmatova is considered one of Russia's best poets.
Anne Frank 'When I write, I can shake off all my cares.'
Annie Mansfield Sullivan Macy developed new methods for teaching blind and deaf students.
Augusta Ada Byron developed the world's first computer program.
Aung San Suu Kyi seeks democracy for Burma.
Bella Abzug was a New York Congresswoman who fought for women's rights.
Cathy Freeman won races and respect for the plight of native Australian people.
Chiaki Mukai is the first female Japanese astronaut.
Chief Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Christine de Pisan was a 15th century French poet.
Claire Lalanne founded the Center for Nutritional Recovery.
Clara Barton was known as the 'Angel of the Battlefield in the Civil War and among other things she started the Red Cross.
Clara Hale helped hundreds of children in Harlem and started the Hale House.
Clara Shortridge Foltz was the first woman to practice law in California.
Connie Samaras has created media archives for deep space voyages.
Corrie Ten Boom helped hundreds recover from the trauma of WWII.
Daphna Ziman is the founder of an organization that helps children around the world.
Diane Fossey worked to protect the endangered Mountain Gorilla
Dorothea Lange created photographs of great power and beauty, most famous for her photograph, Migrant Mother, 1936.
Dr. Caldicott has been a lifelong anti-nuclear activist.
Dr. Elizabeth Kalko and the Jason Project studies bats in the Panamanian rainforest.
Dr. France Cordova is a renowned astrophysicist who has broken genderand cultural barriers.
Dr. Rosalie Bertell Anti-Nuclear Nun is a renowned scientist, eco-feminist and peace activist.
Dr. Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League.
Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a scientist dedicated to the study and conservation of bonobos.
Edith Cavell was a nurse who risked her own safety to help others during WWI
Edmonia Lewis was a 19th century sculptor.
Edna St. Vincent Millay 's poetry was both popular and critically acclaimed.
Eleanor of Aquitainewas a powerful and independant woman in the Middle Ages.
Eleanor Roosevelt was a champion for freedom.
Elizabeth Blackwell opened the first medical school for women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a pioneer in the movement for womens rights.
Zohra Ben Lakhdar is a physicist from Africa who does research on atomic spectroscopy.
Robyn Van En worked to save organic farming businesses in North America.
RAWA promotes women's rights through non-violent action
Raja Weksler helped her daughter survive in a concentration camp.
Rachel Carson was the mother of the environmental movement.
Oseola McCarty donated her life savings so others could go to college.
Maya Angelou is a writer and poet.
Mary Lyon established the U.S.'s first college for women.
Mary Harris Jones worked to free children from industrial slavery.
Marian Wright Edelman is one of the country's leading advocates for children.
Maria Montessori developed a new approach to education.
Madame Curie received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium.
Madam C.J. Walker used her business success to oppose racial discrimination.
Lucy Stone was a pioneer for womens rights.
Lillie Hitchcock-Coit was a turn of the century firefighting hero.
Joan of Arc died for her beliefs.
Jessie Daniel Ames worked openly and actively on behalf of racial justice.
Helene Gayle is one of the leading authorities on AIDS research.
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander saved the lives of thousands of children through her work.
Harriet Tubman organized the Underground Railroad.
Frida Kahlo was an artist and survivor.
Frances Ellen Watkins devoted her life to speaking out against slavery.
Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing.
Florence Ngobeni urges African leaders to work for AIDS prevention.
Florence Kelley was an outspoken leader against child labor.
Ellen MacArthur has broken numerous records with her courageous solo sailing adventures.
Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems in her lifetime.
Emma Lazarus wrote the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
Erin Gruwell teaches freedom through reading and writing.
Kelly Perkins climbs mountains to raise support for organ donation.
Judy Warner worked to create a public technology high school.
Effa Manley: The First Woman to enter Baseball Hall of Fame

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July 28 & 29MONTEREY SUMMER OF LOVE FESTIVAL Grace White with Bands from then and now celebrating the 40th anniversary of all the iconic music events of 1967. Two days of Peace, Love, Music, and ...
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