Barbara Truex

Roles:

• Composer - Waiting for a Window

Barbara Truex has been involved with the Portland, Maine, performing arts scene since 1989 and before that in southwestern Connecticut. So it was a great honor to have her join FinalRune to create the eerily cheery tropical score for Waiting for a Window.

As an administrator, performer and/or designer she has worked or continues to work with several local organizations and individuals including Mad Horse Theatre, The Theater Project, Acorn Productions, Figures of Speech Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Ram Island Dance, Bates Dance Festival, Maine Jazz Alliance, Michael Lane Trautman, Loopin', the Maine Squeeze and more. She is currently the Executive Director and resident sound designer for Mad Horse Theatre in Portland.

A performing musician since the 1960's, Truex has been active in a wide range of musical genres and contexts. She is recognized as an innovator for her use of the fretted dulcimer in jazz, pop, free improvisational music and other settings beyond the familiar folk and traditional realms. She has extensive experience working with dance and theater ensembles, both as a composer and on stage musical accompanist.

Myron Samuels busts out "finger lickin' good" blues every Wednesday evening on WMPG 90.9/104.1 for the Evenin' Sun show. Fred sought him out as an authority on blues for Day of the Dead, and his awesome harp became an inedible part of the drama's finger lickin' soundtrack.

In thick of Bourbon Street at midnight, the kid stumbles into a crazy club looking for his missing girlfriend. He soon realizes that what he thought existed and what was reality were too very different things, and suffers viciously for it. Primal Musik made club beat at the middle of this intense scene from Day of the Dead.

Claude "Doc" Galinsky is a blues guitar, bass, harmonica, and mandolin player who's been working his instruments since he was in diapers. Hailing from Westford, Mass, he got involved with Day of the Dead through Bill Lambert, a buddy Fred met at the Writers in Paradise conference in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Claude's rich baritone and guitar skills brought to life the story of a kid lost in New Orleans in "Day of the Dead," through his masterful rendition of "I Never Cried" by Blind Teddy Darby and other incidental music. Learn more about him at his home page, or check out his band "The Usual Suspects."

Anthony Michaud is a music teacher in the Kennebunk, Maine school system and has a Master's Degree in Music Education. He is the founder and lead singer/guitarist for Little Melodies, a children's band that rocks varying music styles to children and families. Performing all original music, the band's styles range from rock to jazz, lullabies to swing. Overall, they seek for their music to be a blast for the kids!

Anthony scored the romping and eccentric music heard in "Tales from Williamsville." Learn more about him and his band at Little Melodies.com