What songs do you include in your performance?

Joni has released over 18 albums and composed over 170 songs. I draw on these albums for songs, from Clouds, For the Roses, Blue, Night Ride Home, Hejira, Turbulent Indigo and Shine.

Are you a solo performer?

Yes, I sing and play electric and acoustic guitar, piano and dulcimer.

Do you perform in the original guitar tuning that Joni developed?

Yes, I have studied her approach to guitar for a couple years and present her songs using her non-standard guitar tunings, including DAEGAD, DADF#AD and others.

Kathy Geary, soprano

Music and Poetry of Ireland: Van Morrison, U2

Original air date March 18, 2017 | Time 59:00

"The Streets of Arklow", a city on the east coast of Ireland, by Van Morrison from "Veedon Fleece" 1974.
Willaim Butler Yeats was born in Ireland in 1985 and we hear two of his poems set to music: Judy Collins "Isle of Innisfree" composed by William Butler Yeats, Hamilton Camp from "LIVING" in 1971; Joni Mitchell "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" from "Night Ride Home" 1991.
Van Morrison was born in Belfast Ireland: "Pagan Heart"from "Born to Sing, No Plan B" 2012; "Into the Mystic" from "Moondance" 1970; "Going Down to Bangor" from "Keep Me Singing" 2016.
U2 is from Dublin, lead singer Bono was born there in 1960, we hear "Sunday Bloody Sunday" from LIVE in Germany 1983 and then from the recent 2014 Songs of Innocence "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)" and "Iris" a song dedicated to his mother.