In the tradition of troubadours, this contemporary poet and singer-songwriter wandered the world of sacred sites for two decades. He collaborated with many extraordinary woman singers & poets. This record is to honor them all and the voice o

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"I wrote and performed this album during recent journeys to the south of France enroute to Collioure, Paris and Longueville (the medieval village of my ancestors), the Middle East (Jerash, Petra, the Sinai, Qumran and Jerusalem) and the Pacific islands of Kauai and Maui. Listen for birds who lived in the rafters of the red barn I converted into a recording studio. Special thanks to Melissa Dittmann for her inspired vocals. I played every other instrument while also engineering (when there was electricity. . . .)."


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Richard Fammerée has appeared on National Public Radio, PBS and ARTÉ (France and Germany) and is featured in international venues, journals and publications. Who's Who in the World introduces him as a poet, composer, performing artist, a member of the advisory board of The Poetry Center of Chicago and executive director and editor of UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry [www.universeofpoetry.org].

In the tradition of troubadours, Fammerée has played the varnish off numerous guitars in numerous countries. Recent venues include Amnesty International, Chicago Symphony Hall, Shakespeare & Co. (Paris) and The World Festival of Sacred Music initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

His most recent album Fammerée & Eurydice [www.myspace.com/richardfammeree] marries passion and spirituality echoing his book of poems, Lessons of Water & Thirst, recently included in the Poetry Library of Royal Festival Hall, London.

Fammerée has also composed for various artists including poets Li-Young Lee and Elise Paschen and singers Ann West and Toni Childs. David Tickle has produced three projects.

Richard Fammerée is currently in preproduction for a series of CDs featuring his poetry and songs to be released in 2008 and 2009.

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PUBLICATIONS:

LESSONS OF WATER & THIRST
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âA recipe for earthly delights,â (Bob Holman, director of The United States of Poetry), this vulnerable, metaphysical chronicle of an errant poet was recently included in The Poetry Library at The Royal Festival Hall, London. Manfred Gordon (Cambridge University) describes Lessons of Water & Thirst as âsensual and psychological, lush in the tradition of French Symbolism.â

Contact the poet directly for an autographed and numbered copy: fammeree@att.net.


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RECORDINGS:

Fammerée & Eurydice
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www.cdbaby.com/fammeree4

Pansophic and visceral in the same breath, Fammerée & Eurydice offers salvation to the intellectually insatiable who love to dance.

âA sensual banquet of poetry & music, passion & spirituality. Viva lâevolution!â
George Whitman, Shakespeare & Co., Paris



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RECORDINGS:

FAMMEREE & EURYDICE
www.myspace.com/richardfammeree
[a direct link to iTunes where all songs can be sampled and digitally downloaded]

www.cdbaby.com/fammeree4

Pansophic and visceral in the same breath, Fammerée & Eurydice offers salvation to the intellectually insatiable who love to dance.

âA sensual banquet of poetry & music, passion & spirituality. Viva lâevolution!â
George Whitman, Shakespeare & Co., Paris


âFammerée & Eurydice is a record of an odyssey and an idyll of quixotic, atavic love.

Poet and musician Richard Fammerée left home at eighteen with fewer dollars. Beginning before the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, he crossed Europe on foot, often inscribing impressions onto the face of his guitar, intuitively following ancient crusades and pilgrimages, culminating upon Mt. Sinai. Listen for evidence of faerie rings, trysting stones, Goddess temples, Gethsemane, marble theatres and medieval palisades in the west of Ireland, south of France, the mountains of Crete and Morocco, the plains of Turkey, deserts of Jordan and Egypt, and verdant islands of the Pacific.

Fammerée is passionate as a renaissance philosopher, daring as the troubadours, profound as his faith in life. He elicits the complex purity of myth and metamorphosis. To experience the exotic--and often erotic--adventures of love and love lost, self and self found, to rekindle fantasies and faith, delight in this CD, this seminal recording, this transcendence.â
- review by A. de Stael


ReVerse
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Richard Fammerée is a featured artist on this superlative, recorded anthology of poetry and poetry & music with Li-Young Lee, Mark Strand, Lou Reid, Elise Paschen, Alexi Murdoch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cin Salach, KClarke and Simone Muench.

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UNIVERSE OF POETRY
www.universeofpoetry.org

UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry, is an interactive forum and celebration of international poetry encouraging universal dialogue, compassion and peace.

Each nation, with or without territory, will be represented by at least one laureled poet. Poets writing in endangered languages and oral-traditionalists will also be represented.

Curricula is being developed to enable schools, colleges and universities to utilize UniVerse as a free resource.

Please visit
www.universeofpoetry.org

To help, please contact:
director@universeofpoetry.org

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POEM

Notre Dame

[To sample this poem and song, please visit: www.myspace.com/fammeree poet]

Notre Dame

Our Mother who art in everyone, everything is thy name.

Thy garden serene, thy waters green
the earth as they blue the heavens.

Thank you for our daily bread and
the blessing that no one can be satisfied until everyone is fed.

Forgive our ignorance as we forgive
those who ignore you in each of us.

Lead us from fear and deliver us
from anger and anxieties,

for life is a ripening to return to you,
to feed you, to seed you,

to be reborn forever and ever

Again

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Notre Dame

Notre Mère qui est en nous
tout est ton nom.

Que ton jardin soit serein, que tes eaux
verdissent la terre comme elles bleuissent
le ciel.

Merci pour notre pain quotidien
et le bonheur d'être certain
qu'aucun ne sera rassasié
avant que chacun mange a sa faim.

Pardonne-nous notre ignorance
comme nous pardonnons
à ceux qui t'ignore en chacun d'entre nous.

Ne nous soumets pas à la peur
mais délivre-nous de notre colère
et de nos tourments,

Car c'est a toi que revient la maturation
de la vie, pour te nourrir, t'ensemencer

et renaître pour les siècles des siècles

Encore


c 2007 Richard Fammerée