The ladies of the Prairie Fire Lady Choir had a raucous good time at our finale on November 20th at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis. We shared the stage with our brothers in silliness, The Murder of Bros: A Dudechoir and fellow PFLC choir lady Karen Townsend opened the show with her new group, Oblivia. Comedian Rana May added her unique brand of humor to make the evening a big giggle fest for all. We debuted choir lady Molly Bloom’s arrangements of Sleater Kinney’s “Modern Girl” ourselves and later collaborated with the Murder of Bros on They Might Be Giants’, “Women and Men” which was arranged by PFLC’s Julie Chan Kenney. This performance included a flying fish, cardboard waves and much nautical wear. We ended the show on an energetic and cacophonous high note with Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” (arranged by bro Peter Hogan with trumpet accompaniment by fellow bro Scotty Reynolds).
Former choir lady, Amy Dalrymple was in the first row making us smile and all the while recording a few numbers including her arrangement of Lowen and Navarro’s “We Belong.” We miss her voice and her web skills over her at PFLC and boy was she was quick to post videos on YouTube the following day! At some point on Saturday, They Might Giants caught sight of our version of their song “How Can I Sing Like a Girl” (arranged by Molly Bloom) and shared it on Twitter, Facebook and their website. Choir lady Amy Wilkerson and TMBG super fan was thrilled to see her song choice get a shout out from John and John.
In addition to debuting some of our new songs we also sang: Devo’s “Whip It” arranged by Andrew Berkowitz , The Free Design’s “Love You” arranged by Claudia Holt and Valerie Kahler, Rachel Buchburger’s original work, “Expiration” accompanied by Katie Condon on cajon, George Michael’s “Freedom” arranged by Colleen and Laura Borgendale (soloists Kinzy Janssen and Anna Miller), Aby Wolf’s “Hive,” The Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” arranged by Emily Johnson and Valerie Kahler and Jeremy Messersmith’s “Violet” arranged by Valerie Kahler.
We would like to thank all of our friends and family who came out to the Cedar and supported us.