Saturday, March 7, 2009

s.d.


sarah dougher is an author, teacher, and singer-songwriter from portland oregon.
dougher has a ph.d in comparative literature from the university of texas. apart from her musical endeavours, dougher teaches courses on the history of women in rock music and lyric poetry in the women's studies department at portland state university.
dougher has been an organizer for the rock and roll camp for girls, and is currently involved with the girls rock camp alliance, an international coalition of girls' rock camps.
she is a full time teacher and development person for p:ear, a mentoring program for homeless teens in downtown portland.
the first of her solo albums, day one, was released on indie label k records in 1999; the latter two, 2000's walls ablaze and 2001's the bluff, were released on mr. lady records. in june 2005, dougher released harper's arrow on the cherchez la femme label.
dougher has also worked with sleater-kinney vocalist corin tucker and novelist sts in the band cadallaca, where she provided backing vocals and played the farfisa organ. in the tradition of 1960's girl groups, each member of the band assumed an alias, dougher being credited as dusty. the band put out two official albums: introducing cadallaca and out west, both of which contributed to the band's growing cult-fanbase.

dougher was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2004 - she is now in remission.

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