CAPA Presents THE FOUR BITCHIN' BABES 5/23 At The Southern

After seven recordings and nearly 20 years, the multi-talented gal pals that brought you Hormonal Imbalance...A Mood Swinging Musical Revue! unveil their new entertainment destination-Diva Nation...Where Music, Laughter, and Girlfriends Reign! This fabulous female folkestra will take audiences on a royally hilarious musical journey, navigating life in the Diva Nation where chocolate is a vegetable, wine is in the food pyramid, shopping for shoes is medicinal, and a girl can safely admit that she wears 100% cotton underneath it all. With their whimsical, hip, and sophisticated girl-group harmonies, these hysterically funny and multi-talented musicians perform with pride, attitude, and terrific accessories.

CAPA presents The Four Bitchin' Babes in Diva Nation...Where Music, Laughter, and Girlfriends Reign! at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St.) on Sunday, May 23, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $37.50 and $27.50 at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000. The Southern Theatre Ticket Office will open two hours prior to the performance. Students between the ages of 13-19 may purchase $5 High Five tickets while available.

About The Four Bitchin' Babes

Sally Fingerett
As a pianist, guitarist, and composer, Sally is one of the founding "mothers" of The Four Bitchin' Babes, having recorded five solo CDs, seven Bitchin' Babes CDs, and 12 compilation recording projects. Her song "Home Is Where the Heart Is" has been recorded by Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, and folk legends Peter, Paul, and Mary. As a studio musician, she has sung countless radio and TV jingles such as Butterfinger, Hallmark, and Sears. Fingerett has been seen performing with the national touring company of The Vagina Monologues, on stage with Putamayo's Songwriter Festival at NY's Carnegie Hall, and has been a featured musical guest on Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know," NPR's "Mountain Stage," CNN's "Sonya Live," PBS' "Lifelines with Peter, Paul, and Mary," and "CBS Sunday Morning." Her humorous essays have been published in such publications as Columbus Monthly and Random House's Life's A Stitch, a collection of contemporary women's humor including Erma Bombeck, Gloria Steinem, Molly Ivans, and many others. Blending her essays and songs, Fingerett created "The Mental Yentl Show" which now airs annually on XM/Sirius Radio's special events channels. Currently, in between touring with the Babes, Fingerett is at work composing music for the play Hersteria..A Musical Noir for the Winnipeg Studio Theatre in Manitoba, Canada. Fingerett's latest CD, A Women's Gotta Do Her Thing, includes a moving duet with pal and guest vocalist Janis Ian. When not working, Fingerett catches her breath at home in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband Michael and their three (college) kids Max, Aaron, and EJ.

Debi Smith
Playing guitar, piano, and Irish bodhran (drum), Smith has received many Washington Area Music Awards and nominations (Wammies) including Best Vocalist, Artist, and Album. Smith has been a repeat performer on NPR's "Prairie Home Companion," "All Things Considered," "Mountain Stage," "Radio Smithsonian," and "Voice of America." She has appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning," Country Music Television (CMT), and her bodhran playing is heard on Ken Burn's PBS series, "The National Parks." She has performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center, Wolftrap, EPCOT Center, Philadelphia's Keswick, and LA's Wadsworth Theaters, and internationally as far away as Russia. "The Smith Sisters," Smith with sister Megan, released four recordings on Rounder/Flying Fish accompanied by Doc and Merle Watson and Mark O'Connor, and recorded three children's albums that won Parent's Choice and American Library Awards. Smith's songs have been recorded by Grammy-winner Tom Paxton, won ASCAP composer awards, and been finalists for the Virginia state song. Smith has participated in over 20 albums and compilations, and her CDs have been picked as the year's best by The Washington Post and featured in Billboard, The New York Times, and USA Today. Smith lives with her husband and teenage son in Falls Church VA, where she's famous for her impressive "handy-woman" skills, having physically installed the vertical blinds and wired track lighting in her living room BY HERSELF!

Deirdre Flint
Lauded by The New York Times, Billboard, and The Christian Science Monitor, Flint's songs hang out at the intersection where folk music and stand-up comedy collide. Since her first CD, The Shuffleboard Queens, debuted in 1999, Flint has played The Kennedy Center and The Kerrville Folk Festival and has been heard on more than 100 radio programs throughout the country including "The Dr. Demento Show" and "The World Café." Flint's song "Taxidermal Therapy" from The Babes' Hormonal Imbalance CD was chosen to represent the Babes on Dr. Dimento's Best of 2006 compilation. Her songs have recently been heard on Ireland's What Not to Wear and Britian's Spendaholics. Stateside, her songs have been used in TLC's A Dating Story and the "frockumentary," Always a Bridesmaid. Flint earned a Masters Degree in Elementary Education from The University of Pennsylvania. Teaching, her first love and first career, got her started writing children's songs as learning tools. As a celebrated witty and topical writer, she's been commissioned to pen a children's song honoring the town of Norfolk, Virginia. A devoted hobbyist, she's taken classes in furniture building, electrical wiring, quilting, and most impressively, spent a week at a cooking school in New York City, where she learned to make a flaming dessert (on purpose) and she can put it out, too. Having mastered high caloric extravaganzas, Flint is the "Sporty Babe," completing the Sherox Triathalon and The New Jersey Marathon.

Nancy Moran
Declared "Songwriter of the Year" by the Virginia Sound Achievement Awards and WXGI radio, Moran has recorded four solo CDs, including her latest titled Something Old, Something New. Garnering public and commercial radio airplay on more than 80 stations coast-to-coast, Moran's CDs have landed her on the Gavin Americana charts alongside Delbert McClinton and Joan Baez. She's been featured internationally on radio stations in Australia, Canada, and Europe. The Richmond-Times Dispatch called her "nothing short of a [modern-day] Joni Mitchell" and "a force to be reckoned with." Dirty Linen Magazine says Moran has "a powerful, expressive voice...stunning." She has performed at universities, festivals, and clubs such as Nashville's Bluebird, Washington DC's Birchmere, Cambridge's Club Passim, and the Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival. She is also an accomplished studio vocalist and has sung on numerous song demos and CD projects. Because she loves to inspire and encourage other artists, Moran is a frequent key-note speaker at music conferences, a Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) -endorsed music business instructor, a SongU.com online instructor, and the author of several books, audio series, and live workshops including "The Songwriter's Survival Kit," "The Professional Songwriter's Code of Conduct," and "Making and Releasing Your Own CD." She is the former Assistant Editor of American Songwriter Magazine and currently serves on the advisory board of Indie Connect. Moran resides in Nashville with her husband, Fett, and their two cats, Fluffy and Suzie Q.

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