These Streets from Together by Sarah Rudinoff

In 2011, the media celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the grunge music revolution. There were books, magazine covers and television specials. My bandmate in We Are Golden, Gretta Harley, had been in Seattle bands in that era and we realized that once again the history was focused on the same dozen bands, most of them filled with men. Gretta is one of my musical heroes. She is a classically trained pianist, a rock guitarist, a com-poser (including writing operas!) and is always pushing her creative boundaries. Gretta and I went on a writing retreat too work on a new batch of songs and it turned into the beginnings of writing a play about a more diverse scene in Seattle in the early 90’s, one where women were front and center. We interviewed over 40 musicians and with our writing partner Elizabeth Kenny, created and performed in a play filled with music from that time, mostly written by women. These Streets played at ACT Theatre in 2013 to sold-out crowds and this was the title song that we wrote for the show. I was also in Seattle in the early 90’s, making theatre at Annex and Re-bar and lots of places where the music scene overlapped. The play’s characters were seen in the early 90’s and the present day—wrestling with what happened to their scene and their city.
We are joined by seasoned musicians, all multi-instrumentalists and songwriters: Ron Nine of Love Battery, Mitch Ebert (Landlord’s Daughter) and Mary Genova (Heavy Mothers). It was incredible to have rock musicians on stage each night with us—you don’t always get a killer rock band in the theatre.

“Rudinoff’s stage presence is thermonuclear (in a darling kind of way) and the golden gospel gravel of her voice can ride a jazzy tune like a Harley on the bad road to heaven.”
-Adrian Ryan, The Stranger. Rudinoff is a theatrical powerhouse who is known for her cabaret, theatre work and solo shows. She released original music with her band “We Are Golden” and is a Stranger Genius award winner.

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