TERRY ALLEN & JO HARVEY ALLEN W/ THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND AT THE GRAND 1894 OPERA HOUSE
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THE OLD QUARTER AND ARTS DOWNTOWN PARTNER WITH THE GRAND 1894 OPERA HOUSE TO PRESENT AN EVENING WITH TERRY ALLEN AND JO HARVEY ALLEN W/ THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND
Terry Allen is a visual artist and songwriter who was raised in Lubbock, Texas. He graduated from Chouinard Art Inst. in Los Angeles and has worked as an artist & musician since 1966. He has received numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Art Fellowships; Awards for the Visual Arts (AVA), Washington D.C.; Bessie (New York) and Isadora Duncan (San Francisco) Critic Awards for text, music, sets, costumes for PEDAL STEAL (Margaret Jenkins Dance Co.); AICA Award 2004, 2nd place (International Association of Art Critics) for Best Show in Commerical Gallery, for DUGOUT I, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, curated by Peter Goulds; Induction into the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame in 1992; United States Artists Oliver Fellow, 2009.
Jo Harvey Allen, actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio, is best known for her numerous film roles and critically acclaimed one-woman shows; called "A Storyteller in the Best Texas Tradition" by the LA Weekly, "Funny, Amazing, Profound...a knockout performer and writer who vanishes into her luminous material!" by LA Reader and "has elicited comparisons with Flannery O'Connor" according to the New York Times.
