FRANKIE VALINDA GHEE

What do you do when you find Frankie performing some place this summer?

1. Come up close enough to hear
2. Stay as long as you like-feel free to sit if there is a spot you fancy
3. Take a business card if you like
4. Ask questions/make comments
5. Don’t feel like you have to tip
6. If you want to hire her to perform for your event or venue, contact her at FrankieGhee.com, or leave her a note with your information
7. Let her know how you heard about the gig.

This is as casual as it gets

My motivation for performing around Spokane is to raise awareness about my website and my creative projects.  I want to earn my living with my voice and my creative writing.  I love the freedom and randomness of street music, but my ultimate goal is to get my writing and music published, and to find paying venues for my singing.

The way you pay for a free concert is by visiting my site and reading a poem, story, or blog.  If you find something you like, spread the word.  If I build it, they will come.  Right?

Where can you find Frankie Ghee performing for free this summer? 

Okay, here’s the deal.  There are a few places I have found hospitable to spontaneous performances.  Thus far, I’ve been hitting them randomly.  Sometimes when I get to the place I planned to play, someone else is already there, or there is construction or a toxic gas spill.  You know?

If the Universe works it so my first choice of venue is a no-go.  I go to the next spot.

I am thinking I will try outside of Hastings and the Dollar Tree on the South Hill today, July 16, 2014 6:00-7:30pm.

I’ll send a tweet when I get there.

If, for some reason, that plan needs adjustment, I will tweet the location of my landing.

Tonight was fun.  I sat outside of JJ’s (Jimmy John’s) on 29th by Trader Joe’s.  I got to chat with a couple of people, and a few just hung out and listened for a while.  My song list is getting crazy.  I do original music for voice and guitar along with a weird variety of folk songs, ballads, oldies and whatever strikes my fancy.  I added two songs by the Pretenders tonight and I’ll keep working those in.  Man I love 80’s music.

If you ever see me out there being musical, please know that I appreciate the audience.  That’s why I’m singing out in the big public instead of in my front yard.

If you are interested in hiring me to perform at your party or venue, please contact me through this site or catch me on twitter.

For more information about me and my experience, education ect. check out the rest of the site.  Read some old blogs.  Go down the menu.  There is a lot there.

If you want a sample of my singing or of my songwriting,  please contact me and ask.  I’ll send you a file as an attachment.  Easy as pie.

In the mean time, look for me tomorrow evening for an impromptu free concert Down Town or on the South Hill most likely.

Frankie

I wrote, performed and recorded Into the Night with a band called Toto Caelo in the early 90s.  “Toto Caelo” is Latin for “By the whole extent of the heavens”  If you get a chance, look up the band.  We did some cool stuff.

Into the Night

Into the night was called

Into the night came

Into the night was called

Into the night came Reign

Into the night came Reign

And so he stood there after

Singing the songs of laughter

So he stood there after

Singing the songs of pain

He sang the songs of pain

And everybody ran out screaming

Wishing they were only dreaming

But the monster’s teeth were gleaming

So they had to play the game

Or to die in shame

Into the night was called

Into the night came

Into the night was called

Into the night came Reign

Into the night came Reign

And so he stood there after

Came through the walls of plaster

So he stood there after

Bringing in a wall of flame

He brought a wall of flame

And he said

To the death there’d be a battle

After Dark among the Shadows

Swords would class and bullets travel

And the loser dies in vain

The winner rides away

Into the night was called

Into the night came

Into the night was called

Into the night came Reign

Into the night came Reign

And so he stood there after

Singing the songs of laughter

So he stood there after

Singing the songs of pain

He sang the songs of pain

And though the soldier all were wary

To the grave the beast was carried

And his broken body buried

And the night was turned to day

The night was turned to day

Into the night….

By Frankie Valinda Ghee

Hello Free Music Lovers

I am planning to take it to the streets again today between  5 and 7pm.  Look for updates here and on twitter.   I’m not sure where I’ll end up, but I am thinking South Hill or Down Town.  Please contact me if you would like to be notified of upcoming performance details via email.

Stay groovy Spokane

Frankie

Hello Free Music Lovers

Today Flor (percussionist extraordinaire) and I spent two hours in Manito Park.  It was a beautiful afternoon in the shade of a great big tree, and we had a lovely group of people who hung out with us and enjoyed the performance.

I am planning to take it to the streets again tomorrow between  5 and 7pm.  Look for updates here and on twitter.   I’m not sure where I’ll end up, but I am thinking South Hill or Down Town.  Please contact me if you would like to be notified of upcoming performance details via email.

Stay groovy Spokane

Frankie

When I went back to school in the late 90’s to get my degree in Music Education at EWU, I was in a band called Anita Feedback.  We did all original music and created two CDs.  Our music was funk and jazz and just plain groovy.  It’s sad to me that all of those songs are now in the ether, so I am sharing some of them here with you.  I am going to try to create acoustic versions so you might hear me playing them at one of my impromptu concerts around Spokane.

Here is “Marvel Man” 

Marvel Man

Marvel Man

Standin’ up to his stomach in

Right free good and true

Do you understand that the hero never planned on

Takin any other road but to you

Fightin all of that evil

No Rest

Works late hours and weekends

Still he can’t get any good press

And he’s so tired

He’s not quite himself

He’s not even

Half of who he was last year

Marvel Man

His life is always threatened and every day might be his last

And in the calm his fans always forgettin’

Who it was that got us past that last

Fightin’ all of that evil

No rest

Works late hours and weekends

Still he can’t get good press

And he’s so tired

He’s not quite himself

But he used to be the Night Idol

Not even when he’s killin’ with a reason

He’s hurt

My oh my yeah

But he used to be the Night Idol

So tired

Believin would release him

My oh my yeah

He used to be the night idol

He’s killin with his armor

He is dying for a reason

He’s hurt

My oh my yeah

You said “It doesn’t matter what life throws at us”

I said, “You say that now, but what happens if…”

You said, “It will never matter”

I said, “I’m going to hold you to that”

Then we turned a corner

I died

You didn’t

I was buried

You watched

You wept

I came back

With a new kind of craving

Are you still at peace with what comes next?