Dyke March Presents Films at the 24th Annual Boston Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival

When: May 7-18, 2008
Where: MFA Boston
Cost: See MFA site
More info at: MFA

The Boston Dyke March is proud to annouce our performers and emece for 2008.


This year's performer are Zili Misk, Lyndell Montegomery and Faith Soloway as emcee.

Zili Misik
(performers)

Zili Misik bridges cultures, generations, and continents. With captivating sounds that evoke the African continent, zili retraces routes of forced exile and cultural resistance through diasporic rhythm and song. Powerful Haitian, Brazilian and West African rhythms infuse zili’s original creations and traditional folksongs, while zili inspires its audiences to dance and even teaches them how. Reconnecting Haitian mizik rasin, jazz, roots reggae, samba, Cuban son, and neo soul, zili honors its influences while creating a sound that is uniquely its own. All female, zili takes its name from Haitian spiritual entity, Ezili, who is envisaged as mother, lover, and warrior. Zili’s songs are sensual, political, self-reflective, positive, and invoke love. Zili’s lyrics glide seamlessly from English to Kreyòl to Portuguese to Spanish, spinning tales and visions of lives lived and yet to be.

For more info on Zili Misik, please visit their site.

Lyndell Montgomery has always known music as a primary medium of expression. Growing up, she studied violin and piano through the Royal Conservatory of Music and was heavily involved in school bands. She dabbled in a bit of everything: French horn, trombone, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, before settling predominantly on bass and violin. Coming from a classical and gospel background with a tip-of-the-hat to ragtime and jazz, Lyndell has embraced music not only as a career, but as a life force.

In addition to extensive touring, composing, arranging and performing alongside Ember Swift for thirteen years, Lyndell has collaborated with an enviable range of artists on both studio recordings and live-performance projects. She has worked with Pete Seeger, Melissa Ferrick, Fruit, Garnet Rogers, Xavier Rudd, Rachelle Van Zanten, Holly Near, Kinnie Starr and Alix Olson, to name but a few.

After over a decade of enriching other artists’ music and stage shows, Lyndell now combines the many layers of her skills in her debut solo show, presenting original compositions as diverse as music itself.

When she is not working on a musical project, Lyndell is restoring an 1877 wood-frame house located in Eastern Ontario . Slowly but surely, she’s retrofitting it to be off the grid and fully self-sustaining, a reflection of the values also found in her music.

For more info on Lyndell, please visit her site.

Faith Soloway began her love of comedy and music as a musical director for Chicago’s Second City Theater Company.  She also helped to found “The Annoyance Theater” in Chicago, where she co-created several groundbreaking hits, such as “Co-ed Prison Sluts,” and  “The Real Live Brady Bunch,” which saw national, commercial success.

After moving to Boston in the mid 90’s, she entered the fast growing folk scene where she established a loyal following. Her CD “Training Wheels,” was nominated for “Best New Artist” in the Boston Music Awards. It wasn’t long before she began to interject her love of racy, musical comedy into her folk act. She created her own “schlock operas,” such as  “Miss Folk America,” and “Jesus Has Two Mommies.”  Both shows played to sold-out audiences at the Somerville Theater. More recently, she has continued her “schlock” with runs of  “The F Word,” and “Journey To The Self: One Woman’s Self Journey,” at The Milky Way. 

She is currently working on a webisode project to hit the air in spring. Faith is one of the director’s of Urban Improv, a violence prevention program that works primarily with the Boston Public Schools. She also works as a musical director/composer for the Freelance Players, and The Charles River Creative Arts Program.