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Edgar’s Place Coffee House Proudly Presents Kristin Lems on Saturday, March 11


Singer, songwriter Kristin Lems will perform at Edgar’s Coffee House on March 11

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—March 5, 2017.  Edgar’s Place Coffee House proudly presents Kristin Lems on Saturday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m.  Edgar’s Place is located at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church, 70 Sycamore Drive in Park Forest.

Kristin Lems is a versatile composer, songwriter, folksinger and performing artist from Evanston, Illinois. As a teenager, Kristin picked up the guitar and wholeheartedly raised her voice as part of the movement to make a better world. Kristin brought her upbeat musical stage presence to nationwide events for the ERA and women’s rights, safe energy, peace, racial equality, and other pressing causes. Kristin Lems has shared the stage with two First Ladies, Maya Angelou, Captain Jacques Cousteau, Gloria Steinem, Helen Caldicott and Alan Alda, and performed a full song on Nightline. Musicians include Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, Holly Near, Dana Fogelber, Koko Taylor, Peter, Paul and Mary, the BoDeans, and many others. Gloria Steinem named Kristin “a one-woman argument against the notion that the women’s movement doesn’t have a sense of humor.”

A recipient of numerous awards, Kristin most recently was the first recipient of the Kristin Lems Social Change Through Music Award, created by the Women in the Arts Foundation for the 40th National Women’s Music Festival.  For more information about Kristin or to sneak a peak of a performance click here.

There is a $15 cover charge at the door.  For additional information, call 708- 481-5339 or visit www.uuccpf.org.

Source: http://www.uuccpf.org

 

 


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