Kathleen Hollingsworth's Mad Love at Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble

The PJCE Online series continues with singer-songwriter and pianist Kathleen Hollingsworth's trio Mad Love featuring Brent Follis on drums and Tim Gilson on bass. The performance will be recorded and released at 7 pm on December 13th with a livestream discussion with Kathleen Hollingsworth immediately following.
Tickets: $10 General Admission, $5 for those 65 or older & 35 or younger, free for PJCE Sustainers. Purchase tickets at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=119098
Hollingsworth calls her songs composed during the lockdown “deeply personal. The pandemic illuminated my complete exhaustion and burn-out…imagine a wounded creature curled up in a ball in the corner, hardly able to function. That’s what March-June felt like. All I could manage in my music practice was improvising for a very short time in the morning. When I found something I liked, I recorded it and forgot about it. I had no ability to produce anything until about June. I realized, after that compulsory slow-down, that I had a little goldmine of new music that only at that point, was I barely able to start crafting.“...

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The PJCE Online series continues with singer-songwriter and pianist Kathleen Hollingsworth's trio Mad Love featuring Brent Follis on drums and Tim Gilson on bass. The performance will be recorded and released at 7 pm on December 13th with a livestream discussion with Kathleen Hollingsworth immediately following.
Tickets: $10 General Admission, $5 for those 65 or older & 35 or younger, free for PJCE Sustainers. Purchase tickets at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=119098
Hollingsworth calls her songs composed during the lockdown “deeply personal. The pandemic illuminated my complete exhaustion and burn-out…imagine a wounded creature curled up in a ball in the corner, hardly able to function. That’s what March-June felt like. All I could manage in my music practice was improvising for a very short time in the morning. When I found something I liked, I recorded it and forgot about it. I had no ability to produce anything until about June. I realized, after that compulsory slow-down, that I had a little goldmine of new music that only at that point, was I barely able to start crafting.“
In addition to being a performer and composer, Hollingsworth is also Director of Vocal Music and Music Performance and Technology at Clackamas Community College and a passionate leader of Renegade Gospel, which is on hiatus now as the pandemic continues. Social distancing has hit all of us hard, but singers, especially those who work with choirs, have had an even deeper silence imposed on them. Those conditions have inspired some introspection from Hollingsworth, who said “there is a depth and solace to this new music that I think has not been in my writing before. Power without the angst… Spirit from the inside, where the Divine resides.”

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