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Show Buy•Seii•Trade The Story unfolds 3005 E. 3300 S. Salt Lake City 466-0540 Lowest Every Day Prices on all COs Special Orders at the Same Low Price EXCELLENT PORTRAITURE • AFFORDABLE • CONVENIENT If I sparked some interest, please contact me for more information. CALL ARTIST: SAM COLLETT (801 ) 363-3202 its first Utah concert The Story is Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball, who are basically from the Northeastem part of the Country. Their harmonies are strong and have faultless pitch and have an "Urban Folk" feel. They met in the early 1980's while attending Amherst College in Massachusetts and began singing together in an a Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball cappella singing group and the College Choir. The Volunteer Alternative Concert Committee of KRCL 91-FM Radio presents The Story in concert, Friday January 21, 1994, at 7:30p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. Tickets are $9 in advance; $10 at the door. ASUU students with a card, get a $1 discount on admission. Ticket outlets include: Acoustic Music, Compact Discounter, Intermountain Guitar & Banjo, Local Music, Smokey's Records, All SoundOff locations in the Salt Lake Valley, NuSound in Roy and The Great Salt Lake Guitar Co. in Provo. Opening for The Story will be the great local troubadour, Doug Wintch. Jonatha Brooke began studying ballet at an all girls' school in London when she was six. Dance was her main passion until the end of high school, when she had to decide between Amherst College and dance at Joffery Ballet in New York. She had spent a summer at the Joffery Ballet at the age of 15. "I couldn't stand it, all those obsessive, lithe-limbed talents, and few of them could even stay with the music. Wasn't that the point?" So she went to college and majored in English. Jennifer Kimball, who grew up in New York City, has considered herself a visual artist first and foremost, but she too chose English as her major. "It seems like everybody in family sings," said Jennifer. "We have these extended family reunions where someone invariably will break into a song and of course, everyone joins in. I learned to sing harmony that way." Together, The Story was drawn toward skewed, unexpected harmonies. They found a more suitable outlet in the material that Jonatha had begun writing, and with the encouragement of a college music professor, they began producing full-length concert of their own. "I think that was the first mkling of what we could do," says Jonatha. After college both relocated to the Boston area. They were working day jobs Oonatha was dancing and Jennifer was designing children's books) and singing at nights. By 1988 Jonatha, who writes all their songs, had written enough material for a demo tape, which got them a deal with Green Linnet Records and Grace in Gravity was a local hit. They soon signed with Elektra Records and the album was re-released on that label. Elektra released their second album The Angel in the House which has met with great acclaim all over the coun-try. The Story is the contradiction of clarity, simplicity and age-old complication. "Our choices are our own," Jonatha said, "because we've evolved over eight years, we found our thing very naturally and nurtured it ourselves. It may have been the hard way, but what we've achieved is our own, the singing style and the writing continued next page 1 i Intermountain Acoustic Musician, January 1994 |
