A Celebration of WOMEN and FREEDOM
LOLO
LAUREN “LOLO” PRITCHARD
LOLO, also know as Lauren Pritchard, is an artist, songwriter, actress, composer and activist who was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee. In 2006, at 18 years old, she originated the role of Ilse in the 8-time Tony Award ..A Celebration of WOMEN and FREEDOM
LOLO
LAUREN “LOLO” PRITCHARD
LOLO, also know as Lauren Pritchard, is an artist, songwriter, actress, composer and activist who was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee. In 2006, at 18 years old, she originated the role of Ilse in the 8-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening. In 2008 Lolo signed with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and has since released four full length albums, including Wasted In Jackson (Island Records UK/Spilt Milk) in 2010, In Loving Memory Of When I Gave A Shit (Atlantic Records/Crush Music) in 2016, X (a rockabilly side project through No Reverse Records) and Lauren (No Reverse Records 2022).
When Lolo is not on stage she spends her time writing for other artists, bands and composing musicals. In 2017, She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her work on Panic! At The Disco’s hit album Death Of A Bachelor. Lolo is a co-writer of “High Hopes” and “Say Amen” from Panic! At The Disco’s 2018 follow up album, Pray For The Wicked which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The global hit, “High Hopes”, achieved #1 on all radio platforms and forever marked its place in history as the longest running #1 song on the Billboard Rock Chart.
Lauren is the composer and lyricist of the country/folk musical Songbird (book by Michael Kimmel, dir. Gaye Taylor Upchurch) which had its off-Broadway premiere at 59E59 in October 2015 (NY Times Critics Pick), followed by a run at Two River Theatre in Red Bank, NJ in 2018. Songbird will be presented by special arrangement in the Spring of 2021 at the Huntington Theater Company in Boston, MA. She is currently working on three new musicals: Finding Helena (book by Alexandra Conroy), Beethoven (book by Morgan Siobhan Green), and Pink Boxes (book and lyrics by Megan Dobkin).
Lolo currently resides in Tennessee with her husband, son and fur babies.
ANNIE HUMPHREY
Growing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it. Her parents were brilliant people individually. Her father, a singer and musician and her mother an artist and poet. Together they made sadness. Each of her parents taught Annie the beautiful things they knew. They showed her that she carried their gifts in her hands too. This is how creating art and music came about for her. This is what saved her. This is how she lives now.
Things my dad taught me:
skin a deer, set net, clean fish, make maple syrup, harvest wild rice, play basketball, ride motorcycle, go without if you can't afford it, play guitar
Things my mom taught me:
draw, paint, sew, write, laugh, wonder, forgive
Annie has 4 children and 2 grandsons. She has a handsome, Indian, horseman husband. They inspire her spirit and her art.
“Journeys of feeling
her song her voice
reflecting spirit
Story telling
People’s story
Woman’s story
Helping the music
to remember
what is real
Ancestor memories
Dealing with nows
Shadow worlds
An Ancient way
For the healing
A woman sings ”
— JOHN TRUDELL
AWFUL PURDIES
Awful Purdies is a Folk-Americana collective of five multi-instrumental women, powered by seamless harmonies, banjo, accordion, cello, guitar, mandolin, and bass. The sound is an earnest nod to traditional American music, folk, old country, bluegrass, honky tonk, and soul.
The live performance experience is intimate, containing both humor and insight. On stage, Awful Purdies actively share gratitude and support of one another and take turns stepping up as lead singers and songwriters.
Since 2006, Awful Purdies have been raising families, telling women’s stories, advocating for human rights, and engaging with their communities in Eastern Iowa. https://www.awfulpurdies.com
DIANE PATTERSON
Award-winning songwriter, Folkgoddess Diane Patterson subverts the dominant paradigm with rocking acoustic guitar and ukulele, a mighty pen, and a woman's voice. Since 1993, Patterson weaves her original Mystic Acoustic Americana and unifying stories, planting seeds of love and revolution. Diane’s new album, Satchel of Songs, was recorded in New Orleans with platinum record-producer Mike Napolitano and features amazing supporting musicians such as Terence Higgins, Todd Sickafoose, and Ani DiFranco.
Diane played folk guitar in church as a kid, and now her songs come from visions of equality and passion for wild forests. Check out Diane’s recent music video for her 20-year-old song Ballad of Big Mountain, all filmed around the stunning Diné/Navajo lands. In Summer 2023 Diane toured 3 months in Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Poland.
LOJO RUSSO
Lojo Russo has been making music along the ‘Big Muddy’ for most of her life. Born in California she likes to keep the river to her East and currently calls the Quad Cities (IA) home - performing mostly as a solo touring artist. But, most of her childhood and early adult years were spent in and around the Twin Cities (MN) music scene.
Self-taught on guitar and voice Russo spent her formative years in different bands in the Twin Cities (MN) playing guitar, bass and mandolin in all sots of folk, funk, jazz, jam, Irish and indie bands. The range of genres gave her a broader understanding of the music she played and a deeper understanding of the music she wanted to create. Those early years earned Russo a nomination for a "Mammy" (MN Music Award) for "Best Folk Artist" and the title of "Best Female Artist" from MN Women's Press.
To look at her history it’s no wonder Russo likes to keep the music flowing along wherever it takes her. Russo’s musical style is as varied and unexpected as the river she calls home. One moment she’s laying down a furious rhythm on the guitar punctuated with a wailing vocal the next we’re floating along carried by intricate finger-picking, her voice as intense and haunting as her lyrics.
Performing is her passion and the road is a long, strange, wonderful trip full of promise and adventure. Whether playing festivals or front steps, coffee houses or concert halls Lojo Russo connects with her audience in a way few performers can.
LOLOLAUREN “LOLO” PRITCHARD
LOLO, also know as Lauren Pritchard, is an artist, songwriter, actress, composer and activist who was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee. In 2006, at 18 years old, she originated the role of Ilse in the 8-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening. In 2008 Lolo signed with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and has since released four full length albums, including Wasted In Jackson (Island Records UK/Spilt Milk) in 2010, In Loving Memory Of When I Gave A Shit (Atlantic Records/Crush Music) in 2016, X (a rockabilly side project through No Reverse Records) and Lauren (No Reverse Records 2022).
When Lolo is not on stage she spends her time writing for other artists, bands and composing musicals. In 2017, She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her work on Panic! At The Disco’s hit album Death Of A Bachelor. Lolo is a co-writer of “High Hopes” and “Say Amen” from Panic! At The Disco’s 2018 follow up album, Pray For The Wicked which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The global hit, “High Hopes”, achieved #1 on all radio platforms and forever marked its place in history as the longest running #1 song on the Billboard Rock Chart.
Lauren is the composer and lyricist of the country/folk musical Songbird (book by Michael Kimmel, dir. Gaye Taylor Upchurch) which had its off-Broadway premiere at 59E59 in October 2015 (NY Times Critics Pick), followed by a run at Two River Theatre in Red Bank, NJ in 2018. Songbird will be presented by special arrangement in the Spring of 2021 at the Huntington Theater Company in Boston, MA. She is currently working on three new musicals: Finding Helena (book by Alexandra Conroy), Beethoven (book by Morgan Siobhan Green), and Pink Boxes (book and lyrics by Megan Dobkin).
Lolo currently resides in Tennessee with her husband, son and fur babies.
ANNIE HUMPHREYGrowing up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Northern Minnesota, Annie lived in a home filled with voices made of thunder and nothing could stop it. Her parents were brilliant people individually. Her father, a singer and musician and her mother an artist and poet. Together they made sadness. Each of her parents taught Annie the beautiful things they knew. They showed her that she carried their gifts in her hands too. This is how creating art and music came about for her. This is what saved her. This is how she lives now.
Things my dad taught me:
skin a deer, set net, clean fish, make maple syrup, harvest wild rice, play basketball, ride motorcycle, go without if you can't afford it, play guitar
Things my mom taught me:
draw, paint, sew, write, laugh, wonder, forgive
Annie has 4 children and 2 grandsons. She has a handsome, Indian, horseman husband. They inspire her spirit and her art.
“Journeys of feeling
her song her voice
reflecting spirit
Story telling
People’s story
Woman’s story
Helping the music
to remember
what is real
Ancestor memories
Dealing with nows
Shadow worlds
An Ancient way
For the healing
A woman sings ”
— JOHN TRUDELL
AWFUL PURDIESAwful Purdies is a Folk-Americana collective of five multi-instrumental women, powered by seamless harmonies, banjo, accordion, cello, guitar, mandolin, and bass. The sound is an earnest nod to traditional American music, folk, old country, bluegrass, honky tonk, and soul.
The live performance experience is intimate, containing both humor and insight. On stage, Awful Purdies actively share gratitude and support of one another and take turns stepping up as lead singers and songwriters.
Since 2006, Awful Purdies have been raising families, telling women’s stories, advocating for human rights, and engaging with their communities in Eastern Iowa. https://www.awfulpurdies.com
DIANE PATTERSON
Award-winning songwriter, Folkgoddess Diane Patterson subverts the dominant paradigm with rocking acoustic guitar and ukulele, a mighty pen, and a woman's voice. Since 1993, Patterson weaves her original Mystic Acoustic Americana and unifying stories, planting seeds of love and revolution. Diane’s new album, Satchel of Songs, was recorded in New Orleans with platinum record-producer Mike Napolitano and features amazing supporting musicians such as Terence Higgins, Todd Sickafoose, and Ani DiFranco. Diane played folk guitar in church as a kid, and now her songs come from visions of equality and passion for wild forests. Check out Diane’s recent music video for her 20-year-old song Ballad of Big Mountain, all filmed around the stunning Diné/Navajo lands. In Summer 2023 Diane toured 3 months in Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Poland.
“Diane is an amazing songwriter and a world healer.”
-- Bill Brickey, Chicago musician and producer
“...a voice of extraordinary strength, colors and passions...an uncommon originality...a musician of great quality.”
--Remo Ricaldone, DJ, Italy
“She is a fantastic artist. . . celebrated performance.” -- Lucas Scheffold, Swedish musician, producer
LOJO RUSSOLojo Russo has been making music along the ‘Big Muddy’ for most of her life. Born in California she likes to keep the river to her East and currently calls the Quad Cities (IA) home - performing mostly as a solo touring artist. But, most of her childhood and early adult years were spent in and around the Twin Cities (MN) music scene.
Self-taught on guitar and voice Russo spent her formative years in different bands in the Twin Cities (MN) playing guitar, bass and mandolin in all sots of folk, funk, jazz, jam, Irish and indie bands. The range of genres gave her a broader understanding of the music she played and a deeper understanding of the music she wanted to create. Those early years earned Russo a nomination for a "Mammy" (MN Music Award) for "Best Folk Artist" and the title of "Best Female Artist" from MN Women's Press.
To look at her history it’s no wonder Russo likes to keep the music flowing along wherever it takes her. Russo’s musical style is as varied and unexpected as the river she calls home. One moment she’s laying down a furious rhythm on the guitar punctuated with a wailing vocal the next we’re floating along carried by intricate finger-picking, her voice as intense and haunting as her lyrics.
Performing is her passion and the road is a long, strange, wonderful trip full of promise and adventure. Whether playing festivals or front steps, coffee houses or concert halls Lojo Russo connects with her audience in a way few performers can.
