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Donna Hébert

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Writing

I meant to be a writer and was spirited away in my youth by the fiddle, though I’ve managed to keep a pen as as well as a bow in my hand. My original songs are recorded on collections that include two Smithsonian anthologies, I’m revising a novel, compiling a poetry collection called “The Fiddlers Eye,” and writing a music memoir, “Heaven on Stage, Hell on Wheels.” The first two essays below are from the latter, which is proving a rich and humorous cornucopia of material.

The Franco-American Women’s Institute has published my poetry and essays in Moé pi toé, with several pieces also included in their 2016 anthology Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create, edited by Rhea Coté Robbins.

In 1998, Molly and I toured the West Coast for five weeks and she learned to do everything but drive the car. Resurrection tells that tale. Now she can drive and writes her own songs and sings them with four different bands. Plays the bass, too. Two of those bands are with me – find our shows on the events page. (Susan Wilson photo)

ESSAYS

Teaching the Baby to Swear – 2014

Resurrection – 2016

Matriarch – 2016

POETRY

The Fiddler’s Eye – 1995

At the Dance – 1996

On the Road – 1998

Jammin’ – 1998

Chain Lightning – 2010

Poem for my loud upstairs neighbor – 2010

World Fiddle Day – 2013

Uncle Bob – 2014

Me and Molly, Thanksgiving 2013. (Peter Lee photo)

SONGS

A Parcel of Rogues – 2013

The Ballad of Francine Hughes – 1986

Gypsy Moon – 1988

Babies – 1983

Mean Molly Blues – 1989

Blessing – 1993

A Place Called Beautiful – 2000

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