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Joy Katzen-Guthrie

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Your website: http://www.joyfulnoise.net
State: FL
Bio: Pianist, vocalist, composer and lyricist, Joy interweaves music with history and storytelling with her own music, pop, Broadway, film music, ethnic, and American spiritual musical traditions. A Memphis, Tennessee native, Joy’s home has been in the Tampa Bay area since 1981. Since 1983 she has appeared in concert regionally and nationally and is an award-winning writer of musical theatre, popular, and spiritual music. Live performances and recordings combine her skills as vocalist, pianist, arranger, and songwriter. With eleven recordings of original, traditional, and popular music, she operates Tune-of-the-Century Music® in Palm Harbor, Florida.
What's your favorite public radio show?: Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
What song is stuck in your head right now, you know, a music wedgie?: "Thank You So Much, Mrs. Lowsbourough-Goodby" by Cole Porter. I woke up with it this morning and it has been with me all day.
What sound is most characteristic of where you live?: At the moment, lawnmowers.
What's your favorite sound memory?: A lightly rushing creek at the foot of a mountain on which I spent part of a summer in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, with the summer breeze rustling the aspen leaves and the drumming of a woodpecker's beak on a nearby water tower ... a moment of idyllic pleasure.
Which station do you listen to most?: WUSF-FM, Tampa