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and edited a Buddhist magazine in
New York. For a short time, she was in
a Top 40 Country Band in Colorado.
"After I met Whit, we started
playing together on the weekends,"
she recalls. "He has a really sincere,
dynamic style, and I felt that we
played well together. Three years ago,
we started the band that we have
now. We kept getting more and more
jobs and started to travel.
"We moved to Texas two years
ago, and that was wonderful for us
because people in Texas love this
kind of music, and they embraced us
wholeheartedly."
The group self-produced its debut
album, Swingin' Stampede. It includes
fiddler Johnny Gimble, who worked
with Wills and could bring firsthand
experience to songs such as "My
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Confession" and "Just Friends."
The second CD, Tall. Tales, ranges
from the pop standard "There'll Be
Some Changes Made" to Wills' "Joe
Bob Rag" to a Fremerman original,
"Darling You and I Are Through."
The third CD will be produced by
a record company in California.
"When Whit and I were living in
San Diego, we did some performances
for the Jewish Cultural Festival,"
Fremerman recalls. "We learned a
bunch of klezmer tunes, and we love
to play things like that. Sometimes,
we sit in with a klezmer band in
Austin. When we're jamming with
other people, we occasionally pull out
some of those songs."
Fremerman, who has performed in
Anti Arbor and Lansing, visits her
remarried mom in Michigan about
three times a year. Besides waxing
nostalgic a bit as she performs the
trendy swing, she waxes nostalgic
about hei instrument.
"My mom gave me my violin,
which was made in a violin appren-
tice workshop in 1962," Fremerman
explains. "It had been a gift from my
dad to her." El
The Hot Club of Cowtown per-
forms with the Ann Arbor Folk
Festival Saturday, Jan. 29, at Hill
Auditorium. Performances begin at
6 p.m. Hill Auditorium is located
at 825 N. University. For informa-
tion, call The Ark hotline at (734)
761-1451, or access the Web site at
www.umich.edu/-mevents . Tickets
are $30/$25 and available at all
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Many well-known acts will be part
of the 23rd Ann Arbor Folk Festival,
which is sponsored by the University
of Michigan Office of Major
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and The Ark as a fund-raiser for the
Ark. In addition to the Hot Club of
Cowtown, the program includes:
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soul and solemn spirituals,
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wide audience. A professional song-
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Nelson, Tanya Tucker and Faith
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