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Big Bad Gina with Comedian, Barb Neligan
Big Bad Gina in concert with Comedian, Barb Neligan from Nashville TN. The 2012 Winner of WIA's Got Talent at the National Women's Music Festival.
About Big Bad Gina:
From rock to reggae, jazz to rap, to Goddess Groovin' and danceable disco, Big Bad Gina spans a myriad of genres and styles with knee buckling 3 part harmony and multi-instrumentalism. They have headlined national festivals on the Womyn's music and GLBTQ circuits leaving their audiences exhilarated and asking for more. Their first CD release, "Amazon Warrior Princess" features 10 original tracks with songs written by each of the three band members and the title track is the 2009 Goddess Festival winning theme song. With their second release, "Lake of Dreams", the band continues the tradition of all members taking turns writing originals and they bring it on strong with sexy, soulful lyrics about love, life, and living our dreams. Full of passion, feeling, and an empowering mission "Lake of Dreams" is good for the after dinner hours.
Big Bad Gina is Jori Costello, Renee Janski, and Melodie Griffis
Jori Costello, Singer/songbird, guitar groovin, percussion pounding Goddess. Renée Janski, Ethno-Amazon vocals, gypsy fiddle, and keyboard kinesthetics. And Melodie Griffis, Global jazz Angel with the silky soprano voice, keeping it rockin on the bass and guitars. Add a slew of instruments, some kickin original tunes and select scintillating covers, and you have Big Bad Gina an all womyn's band that is ready to rock the world with their award winning "Amazon Warrior Princess" Goddess Groove! It's Folkin' Rockin'!
About Barb Neligan:
Bio
Barb Neligan sticks the firecracker of comedy into life's absurdities and lights the fuse.
During her formative years growing up Catholic in the deep South, Barb also enjoyed blowing up brightly colored plastic objects with real firecrackers. (Please note: The Catholic/deep South thing is not really related to the firecracker/plastic object thing. It is more related to the absurdities thing. Seriously. She went to the only church in America that served communion moonshine.)
Barb started doing standup in the early 1980s while in college in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From there she moved to Chicago where she spent five years honing her improvisational comedy skills.
That raucous time led her to a writing stint that included scripting such epic dramas as "Country's Most Shocking: Stories Behind Southern Rock and Outlaw Country" which aired on CMT. Even though Barb is pretty sure she was close to winning a Pulitzer Prize for her in-depth analysis of celebrity plane crashes, car accidents and drug overdoses, the steady glow of the word processor paled in comparison to the sparks given off by a live audience.
So she's back out on the comedy circuit putting a match to everything from kudzu to congress to cyberspacemostly because she likes the way the explosion brightens up the room. (Figuratively, that is. There's no actual gunpowder involved. Just words. Which is good, because otherwise everyone in the audience would have those little pieces of paper stuck to their clothes and smell like the Fourth of July.)
Come see Barb. She's currently working on getting some of her jokes to float down on little parachutes after they blow up. You won't want to miss that.
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LocationAll Souls UU Church (View)
4501 Walnut
Kansas City, MO 64110
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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