You say Oh-vid, I say Ah-vid

Now that you have all seen and, no doubt fallen in love with Katy, I'll tell you something she was doing last night.
Last night, at the Good Shepard center, Katy was one of the singers for a presentation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The series of mythological tales, originally in Greek, was here recited in
the more modern languages of English, Latin, (Church Latin,
which is for worshiping the great unknown, rather than Roman Latin
[which I pretend to know something about, having read Henry Beard's
"Latin for all Occasions" {Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus Henricus Barbatus scripsit}) which is for kicking Europe's ass in to some semblance of order.
and Valley girl. No, really. Moon's influence, I suppose.
The first part of the show featured the music of Margie Pos.
Sort of a small Bass concerto (co-incidence?) with Margie on bass and a small ensemble consisting of
Cello/percussion by Ben Deitzen,
Accordion by Marchette DuBois
Percussion by Mike Hamms,
Violin by Paris Hurley,
Scott Rixe laptop,
and a vocal ensemble with Sarah Burgess, Amber Flame, Flora McGill, and Katy Webber.

Very nice bass work combined with some interesting percussion and accordion.
And of course, poetry and vocal chords by the Sirens

After a short intermission, Ovid showed up, as interpreted by Gretta Harley, who composed and conducted.
Shiela Daniels and Sarah Rudinoff narrated.
The Stylin' Sirens did the vocal backup.
The Stylin' sirens are;
Juliana Brandon
Marchette DuBois
Margie Pos
Maeg O'Donoghue-Williams
Sarah Burgess
Amber Flame
Flora McGill
Katy Webber

Lovely choral sounds.
Very entertaining narration.

Still reading from the program here;
Publius Ovidius Naso 43BC-17AD master storyteller (check wikipedia.org for the whole story)
Metamorphoses, a narrative poem in 16 books. 45 tales about love in all it's disgusting glories and painful ecstasies.

1) Introduction:
"Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed into different bodies
(in nova fert animus mutates, dicere formas corpora)"

2) Echo and Narcissus
3) Semele and Juno
4) Arachne and Minerva
5) Myrrah
6) Tereus and Philomela
7) Arethusa

Finale
"Some are transformed just once and live their lives after in that
shape. Others have a facility for changing themselves as they please"

Madonna comes to mind.

And Mitt Romney.

Come to think of it, I used to be a person who could get into a pair of 30 inch waist pants.

So, anyway I enjoyed the show thoroughly and was glad I attended.

Excuse me, a cat just jumped up on my lap and delivered several seed pods and other outdoor detritus Hey! stay away from the keybojysa;og;