Austin’s SOS Alliance to
Benefit from Live Oak Coffeehouse Show


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information –
Jeff Dorsch, Concert Publicity: 925-7874
Concert Line: 219-9008
Coffeehouse Web Site: www.liveoakuu.org/coffee

MARCH 2005 (Austin, Texas) – The Live Oak Coffeehouse this month presents Mary
Catherine Reynolds and Emily Kaitz in a benefit performance for the Save Our
Springs (SOS) Alliance. The show is set for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11.

Admission is $10 or a season pass at the door. Gourmet coffee and pastries are
included in the price of admission.

As always, the concert will be smoke-free and alcohol-free, putting the emphasis
on the music and the musicians. Three-quarters of the gate goes to the
performers, and one-quarter to the selected charity. Since the coffeehouse is an
all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization, all of the money from admissions
paid at the door and season passes goes to the performers and the charity.

The Save Our Springs Alliance is perhaps best known for the SOS Ordinance
overwhelmingly approved by Austin voters in 1992. The group’s mission is to
protect the Edwards Aquifer, its springs and contributing streams, and the
natural and cultural heritage of its Hill Country watersheds, with special
emphasis on the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer. For more details, visit the
organization’s Web site at www.sosalliance.org.

A talented songwriter herself, Mary Catherine Reynolds is an acclaimed
interpreter of the songs of Emily Kaitz, Linda Waterfall, and Ilene Weiss, among
others, and she can call upon an eclectic repertoire of traditional material and
American popular songs. She is a classically trained vocalist and
multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, bass, or saxophone. Her compositions and
interpretations were featured in the Fast Folk magazine when she lived in New
York City in the early ‘80s, and she performed on several other selections as
a side musician. While living in Austin, she was a frequent performer on the
Austin scene and in October of 1996 was spotlighted in a solo “Live Set,”
the venerable live radio broadcast of KUT-FM. Mary's first solo CD,
“Patience,” was released in April 1998 to great enthusiasm from audiences
and public radio, appearing on several “Recommended” and “Best of the
Year” lists. Mary now lives in Oklahoma City, where she continues to play with
the jazz band Miss Brown to You and the vocal group The Sisters of Swing, along
with other projects in traditional, country, jazz, and pop music. Louise
Goldberg will be joining her on guitar.

Emily Kaitz, a Fayetteville, Arkansas, resident since 1998, cut her musical
teeth in the vibrant club scene of Austin, Texas, where she lived for 21 years
and played “every place that had original acoustic music and didn't pay
enough.” Emily Kaitz writes songs recorded by Trout Fishing in America, the
Therapy Sisters, and the Austin Lounge Lizards. She's recorded six albums of her
own songs, which she published under her own label, Pingleblobber Music. With a
name like Pingleblobber and recording groups like the Therapy Sisters and the
Austin Lounge Lizards seeking out her work, it isn't too much of a stretch to
guess that Emily's songs are eccentric, intelligent, and strangely humorous.
“Middle Aged Rock and Rollers Are So Damn Cute” took its title from the song
by the same name. The lyrics claim that middle-aged rock and rollers have bags
under their eyes, double chins, and a bald spot under their cowboy hats–but
are damn cute!

Doors open at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 11, at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist
Church, located at 3315 El Salido Parkway, Cedar Park. For driving directions,
visit the church’s Web site at www.liveoakuu.org or call 219-9008.


THE LIVE OAK COFFEEHOUSE – GREAT MUSIC FOR GOOD CAUSES.
NOW IN OUR EIGHTH YEAR.