Sarah Dougher
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| Sarah Dougher | |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Dusty (while in Cadallaca), The Doog, Doogs |
| Genre(s) | Indie |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, Singer-Songwriter,Composer Professor, Author, Artist, Label Owner, Zinester |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, Farfisa organ |
| Years active | Early 1990's - present |
| Associated acts | Cadallaca, The Crabs, The Lookers |
| Website | Official Site |
Sarah Dougher is an author, teacher, and singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon.
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[edit] Background
[edit] Career
Dougher has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Texas.[1] Apart from her musical endeavours, Dougher teaches courses on the History of Women in Rock music and Lyric Poetry in the Women's Studies department at Portland State University.
Dougher is an organizer for the Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls, as well as a volunteer teacher for Pear Mentor, a musical education program for homeless teens.[2]
In the absence of Mr. Lady, Dougher started the record label Cherchez La Femme which centers around the same grassroots feminist ideals of the labels Dougher herself has previously recorded under.[3]
In the summer of 2006, Dougher was hired to score a version of Euripides' classical Greek tragedy Orestes, which ran for five weeks in Portland.[4]
[edit] Music
Dougher has released eight albums over the past ten years, a combination of work with bands as well as solo releases.
[edit] Solo
The first of her solo albums, Day One, was released on indie label K Records in 1999; the latter two, 2000's Walls Ablaze and 2001's The Bluff, were released on Mr. Lady records. In June of 2005, Dougher released Harper's Arrow on the Cherchez La Femme label. Beginning with "Day One", Sarah began a long-lasting collaboration with Jon Nikki (Prima Donnas, Gene Defcon, Mocket, Sir, Sarah Dougher, Puce Moment). Jon Nikki contributed guitar, keyboards and piano, bass and drums on many of Sarah's recordings as well as a songwriting credit on the album "Walls Ablaze" for the song "What's Good Is Better Than Gone".
[edit] Cadallaca
Dougher has also worked with Sleater-Kinney vocalist Corin Tucker and novelist sts in the band Cadallaca, where she provided backing vocals and played the Farfisa organ. In the tradition of 1960's girl groups, each member of the band assumed an alias, Dougher being credited as Dusty. The band put out two official albums: Introducing Cadallaca and Out West, both of which contributed to the band's growing cult-fanbase.
[edit] Personal
Dougher is openly bisexual, and is a vocal advocate for the gay rights movement. She has voiced a desire to write a book about gays in the rock industry but has stated in interviews that this is one of the projects temporarily stalled due to illness.
Dougher was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2004.[5] Thankfully, Dougher's cancer is now in remission. Her struggle with cancer served as a source of inspiration on Harper's Arrow.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/kkofibru/sarah.html Geocities.com
- ^ http://www.cherchezlafemmeprojects.com/# Cherchezlafemmeprojects.com Retrieved on 06-06-07
- ^ http://www.neumu.net/datastream/2005/2005-00014/2005-00014_datastream.shtml Neumu.net
- ^ http://www.cherchezlafemmeprojects. Cherchezlafemmeprojects.com
- ^ http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/People/interviews/82004/sarahdougher.html Afterellen.com
