Biography
Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children’ s author. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture books, Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles, (Carolrhoda Books @ lernerbooks.com) are four titles in a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA Norah Dooley has published 5 storytelling CDs. She appears in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences.
She has performed as a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston MA, the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival.
Norah has been presenting workshops and stories for people of all ages throughout New England and also in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix . She has published 5 spoken word CDs including: Music of Angels (1), Stories Nobody Told Me “Italian” Folk tales (2002) and Stories from the Neighborhood, World Folk tales (2002), Rabbitales (2006) and My Bad,Bad Dog and other Neighbors (2006) www.norahdooley.com
Musicians who play with Norah
Bill McGowan,bass
Boston born and bred, Bill McGowan was inspired to pick-up the bass by the playing of Jack Bruce. Self taught by listening to blues and rockin’ roll records, Bill studied Afro-American music with Archie Shepp and Charles Greenlee. A member of many jazz ensembles directed by Fredrick Tillis, he also studied music theory and composition with Doric Alviani and Robert Stern.
Bill has performed in a variety bands at venues throughout New England including the Berklee Performance Center, Boston and Ryles in Cambridge.
Susan Miron, harp
Susan Miron's love of music and literature resulted in careers as a harpist and a book critic. She performed over a hundred concerts with the Melisande Trio (harp, flute, viola) which included her longtime musical partner, her husband former BSO violist Burton Fine. In addition to two CDs with singers (most recently "A Birthday Hansel" on Chandos Records) and two solo CDs of her transcriptions of harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti (Centaur Records), she wrote about 250 books reviews for such publications as The New York Times Book Review and The American Scholar.
Kevin Skorupa,flute
Kevin studied music composition at Berklee College of Music. While still in school he began playing music professionally and has toured schools and public libraries throughout Massachusetts.
In 2000 Kevin moved to western Massachusetts, where he and his wife are very happy to be living and raising their two little boys. He works with Poor Richard's Penny and derives great joy in presenting and performing the music of early America.
Eric Parker, bass
Instrumentation
Norah Dooley, [see full bio below]
see a variety of video clips at
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spoken word, writer, monologuist and storyteller.
Can enhance performance with musicians listed below
Biography
Norah Dooley, storyteller and author, is a versatile and active presenter in schools, libraries, spoken word venues and has been a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels, Albany River Festival, Clearwater Festival,NY, Waterfire in providence RI and at the Newport Folk Festival. Norah's newest CDs are on cdbaby.com. Her published picture books, Everybody Cooks Rice, 1991 (and her three sequels: Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup, Everybody Brings Noodles), are used in schools and learning centers all over the world. Her books are about her former Cambridge, Massachusetts neighborhood.
Bill Cosby was the first professional storyteller that Norah had ever heard. Many years later, when shut out of a Theater Class, Norah was forced, under protest, to take "Storytelling 101". It was love at first - sound?
Since then, Norah has studied storytelling with Jennifer Justice, Lee Ellen Marvin, Derek Burrows and Elisa Pearmain at Lesley College. Norah has a M.Ed. in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley College and a BFA in Painting from Tufts University/ School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Music is her avocation; she sings, plays fiddle and penny-whistle and calls contra dances.
She built a passive solar house with her husband and a children in the "back of the beyond" in Central Massachusetts but now live in Brookline MA, where they hear the trolleys rumble from their front door.
Discography
All Produced by Seat of Her Pants Productions and available at cdbaby.com
Discography
All Produced by Seat of Her Pants Productions and available cdbaby.com
The Music of Angels,1999
Stories Nobody Told Me - Italian Folk tales, 2002
Stories from the Neighborhood, 2002
My Bad Bad Dog and Other Neighbors, 2006
Rabbitails, 2006
Winter Tales, 2006
Links
| http://www.norahdooley.com |