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Stage Door Concert Series: Siren Songs

  • Columbia Theatre 1231 Vandercook Way Longview, WA, 98632 United States (map)
Enter through the stagedoor. Cafe-style seating on stage. An intimate, magical experience!

Enter through the stage door. Cafe-style seating on stage. hors d'oeuvres provided and open bar. Each concert is an intimate, magical evening!

Wine for the evening provided by:

 
 

Hors d’oeuvres provided by:

 
 

Seats are $65 or purchase a table (4 seats) and get $20 off total order with code word: SIREN22

Siren Songs is new collaboration between Merideth Kaye Clark and Jenn Grinels. Powerhouse vocalists, musicians, and national touring artists present American favorites and original compositions. Gorgeous harmonies and unique compositions performed on a variety of instruments will move and uplift the listener. Dolly Parton and NETFLIX chose Siren Songs’ rendition of Jolene as a favorite and you will too!

ABOUT MERIDETH KAYE CLARK

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Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Merideth studied Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University before earning a Masters in Musical Theatre at San Diego State University. It was there, in California, where she began her career as a concert artist and musical theatre performer. Merideth has since performed major roles in theatres around the country. Highlights include: Elphaba standby, Wicked (First National Tour); Nancy, Oliver! (Seattle’s 5th Ave); Cathy, The Last Five Years (Portland Center Stage); Alice Murphy, Bright Star (Arvada Center); Clara, The Light in the Piazza (Portland Playhouse); Tzeitl, Fiddler on the Roof (PCS); Kate/Lilli, Kiss Me Kate (Clackamas Rep); Eva Peron, Evita (Northern Stage); Olivia, Twelfth Night (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe); Amazing Grace (Goodspeed); Rose, Meet Me In St. Louis (Irish Rep). She has participated in numerous developmental readings and has originated roles in two off-Broadway musicals.

Clark is a sought-after concert artist described as "plain astonishing" and "a masterful performer" with "powerhouse pipes." She co-created the original concerts Winter Song (Portland Center Stage), Joni Mitchell’s BLUE and Happy Days Are Here Again: The Music of Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand which are now touring internationally. Merideth has devised a new work in development called Tonight Nothing for which she is co-writing, co-starring and musically scoring. She is a multi-instrumentalist and plays anything with strings, most notably the guitar, dulcimer and viola. She is half of the acclaimed folk-Americana duo Siren Songs which released their debut album in spring of 2020. Merideth is also a teaching artist at ReSound NW in Portland, OR and has taught masterclasses nationwide. TV credits include Portlandia and Emmy-nominated Documentary Now! Original Cast Album: Co-op.

Merideth now lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

ABOUT JENN GRINELS

A tremendous vocalist, compelling songwriter and dynamic performer, Jenn Grinels is shockingly talented and unexpectedly sincere. 

​Nearly a decade ago, Jenn Grinels gave up her apartment, put her things in storage, and hit the road, armed with little more than her soulful voice and an acoustic guitar. 

 For years, she supported herself selling her albums at open mics, bars and coffee shops, touring from city to city, and honing her skills until she was able to have just about any audience eating out of the palm of her hand. Grinels’ live shows are explosive and unapologetically human; you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you will get sucked in. Her innate ability to connect with listeners activates their deepest emotions pertaining to love, resilience, and hope. 

 The singer/songwriter recently relocated from Nashville to Portland after years spent on “perma-tour”, headlining hundreds of concerts across the country and abroad, as well as supporting artists like 10,000 Maniacs, Marc Broussard, Edwin McCain, Christopher Cross, Marc Cohn and many more. 

 Her concerts are explosive, intimate and unapologetically human; she’s an artist who deeply values and excels in connecting with her audience. San Francisco Examiner writer Kenneth Fish described this quality in his review of her performance: “I found myself utterly captivated. Whether Grinels was quietly purring into the microphone or seriously belting out a tune, the audience was hanging on her every note and every well crafted phrase… Grinels’ performance was nothing short of amazing.”  Read more…