Colleen is a common English language name, and a generic term for Irish women or girls, from the Irish cailín. It may also refer to:

People[link]

• Colleen (musician) (real name Cécile Schott, born 1976), electronic music composer
• Colleen Barrett (born 1944), president of Southwest Airlines in the US
• Colleen Camp (born 1953), American actress and film producer
• Colleen Clinkenbeard (born 1980), American voice actress and ADR director
• Colleen De Reuck (born 1964), South African long-distance runner
• Colleen Dewhurst (1924–1991), Canadian-born actress
• Colleen Dion-Scotti (born 1964), American actress
• Colleen Doran (born 1963), American cartoonist, graphic novelist, writer and illustrator
• Colleen Fitzpatrick, American pop music artist, dancer and actress, better known by her stage name Vitamin C
• Colleen Haskell (born 1976), American reality show contestant and actress
• Colleen Lanne (born 1979), American freestyle swimmer
• Colleen Lee (born 1980), Hong Kong pianist
• Colleen McCullough (born 1937), Australian author
• Colleen Moore (1899–1988), American film actress from the silent film era
• Colleen Rosensteel (born 1967), American judoka
• Colleen Zenk Pinter (born 1954), American actress

Colleen mcedwards cnn international anchor and correspondent, published author

Characters[link]

• Colleen (Road Rovers), a character from Road Rovers
• Colleen Carlton, a character from The Young and the Restless
• Colleen Cooper, a character from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
• Colleen O'Hallahan, a character in Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
• Colleen Smart, a character from Home and Away

Other[link]

• Colleen (film), a 1936 Warner Bros. musical
• Colleen (album), a 1983 release by Colleen Hewett
• Colleen (song), a song by band The Heavy
• Colleen, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Nelson County
• Colleen Class, a sailing boat once raced in Dublin Bay
• "Colleen", a song by Joanna Newsom, from her EP Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
• Colleen, the design code name for the Atari 800 computer

See also[link]

• Coleen (disambiguation)

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Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom in 2007
Background information
Born	Joanna Caroline Newsom (1982-01-18) January 18, 1982 (age 30) Nevada City, California, United States
Genres	Indie folk
Instruments	Voice Harp Piano Harpsichord
Labels	Drag City
Associated acts	The Pleased

Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.

Early life[link]

Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California. As a child, Newsom was not allowed to watch television or listen to the radio because she was raised by doctors who were "kind of idealists when it came to hoping they could protect us from bad influences, like violent movies, or stupid stuff".^[1] She was exposed to music from a young age. Her father played the guitar and her mother was a classically trained pianist who played the hammered dulcimer, the autoharp and conga drums.^[2][3] Newsom attended a Waldorf school where she studied theater and learned to memorize and recite long poems. This skill helps her to remember lyrics while on tour.^[4]

At the age of five, Newsom asked her parents if she could play the harp. Her parents eventually agreed to sign her up for harp lessons, but the local harp teacher did not want to take on such a young student and suggested she learn to play the piano first. Starting at the age of four, she began playing the piano and later the harp, which she "loved from the first lesson onward."^[5] From her instructor, Joanna learned composition and improvisation. She learned to play on smaller Celtic harps until her parents bought her a full-size pedal harp in the seventh grade.^[6] During her teens, she and the instrument became inseparable, and she describes her relationship with the harp as similar to "an artificial limb or a wheelchair. It’s almost part of me, but more to the point, it serves a purpose, and if it wasn’t there I would wonder what was supposed to fit in its place."^[1]

She studied composition and creative writing at Mills College in Oakland, California. While at Mills, she played keyboards in The Pleased. She dropped out of the school in order to focus on her music.^[1]

Career[link]

In 2002 and 2003, Newsom recorded two EPs, Walnut Whales and Yarn and Glue. These homemade recordings were intended to serve as a document of her early work; she recorded them on a Fisher-Price tape recorder.^[7] These EPs were not intended for public distribution. At the suggestion of Noah Georgeson, her then-boyfriend and recording engineer of the EP, she burned several copies to sell at her early shows.^[7] John Fellman, co-producer of Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, claims to be the first to have booked a show for her.^[8]

A friend of Newsom's passed one of these CDs on to Will Oldham at a show in Nevada City. Oldham was impressed with Newsom's music and asked her to tour with him. He also gave a copy of the CD to the owner of Drag City, his record label. Drag City signed Newsom and released her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender in 2004.^[9] Shortly thereafter, Newsom toured with Devendra Banhart and Vetiver and made an early UK appearance at the Green Man Festival in Wales, returning to headline in 2005, 2007 and 2010.

Newsom's work has become prominent on the independent music scene. Her profile has risen, in part, due to a number of live shows and appearances on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC.

Her second album Ys was released in November 2006. The album features orchestrations and arrangements by Van Dyke Parks, engineering from Steve Albini and mixing by Drag City label-mate Jim O'Rourke. On a road trip, Bill Callahan recommended she listen to the album Song Cycle by Parks, which led to his being chosen to arrange her work on Ys.

Joanna Newsom at the Sasquatch Music Festival, Washington in May 2005

Joanna is known to debut songs impromptu at her concerts. On March 28, 2009, she performed over two hours of new material at a 'secret' concert in Big Sur, California with fellow Nevada City singer-songwriter Mariee Sioux under the pseudonym 'The Beatles's'. Those in attendance reported that about one-third of her new material was played primarily on piano, with a backing arrangement of banjo, violin, guitar and drums.^[10]

Since late 2006, Joanna has performed a solo harp version of the traditional Scottish song "Ca the Yowes Tae the Knowes".^[11]

Several of the songs on The Milk-Eyed Mender have been covered by her peers. "Bridges and Balloons" was covered by The Decemberists on their 2005 EP Picaresqueties. "Sprout and the Bean" has been covered by The Moscow Coup Attempt and Sholi. "Peach, Plum, Pear" has been covered by Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) on the 2006 EP Young Canadian Mothers, as well as by Straylight Run. M Ward has played "Sadie" at some of his live shows.^[12]

In 2009, she appeared in the music video for the song "Kids" by the group MGMT.^[13]

On January 12, 2010, an entry cryptically entitled "@!?*(%$#!!" was posted on the Drag City website. It contained a link which led to a short comic strip titled "Joanna Newsom 'Have One on Me'" with a date of February 23, 2010.^[14] Later that day, it was confirmed by Spunk, Newsom's Australian label, that the title and date represented the title of Newsom's upcoming album and its release date.^[15] P-Vine Records in Japan announced that Have One on Me, which was recorded in Tokyo in 2009, would be released in Japan on March 3, 2010, as a three-disc CD set, with a total of approximately three hours of new recordings.^[16] Newsom was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

On February 11, 2010, Pitchfork Media reported that Newsom would be the subject of a tribute book titled Visions of Joanna Newsom which has now been published by Roan Press.^[17] She toured throughout Europe and America in 2010 to promote her latest record, supported by a five-piece band. In December 2010, a tribute album of Newsom covers was released as a digital download. Artists involved include M. Ward, Billy Bragg and Owen Pallett, with all proceeds going to Oxfam America's Pakistan Flood Relief Efforts.^[18]

On July 19, 2011, Newsom's second single, What We Have Known, was released on 12" vinyl. The single was originally the b-side to her first single, Sprout and the Bean.^[19] In June 2011, she filmed her second music video (for the song "Good Intentions Paving Company") with directors Karni & Saul.^[20] Newsom was also chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England.^[21]

In late 2011, Newsom contributed vocals to "The Muppet Show Theme" for The Muppets^[22] and appeared on the cover of the 10th anniversary issue of Under the Radar with Robin Pecknold.^[23]

Newsom began 2012 with television appearances on Austin City Limits (on January 21) and Portlandia (on February 7).^[24][25]

Style[link]

Newsom's earlier work was strongly influenced by polyrhythms.^[26] Her harp teacher, Diana Stork, taught her the basic pattern of four beats against three which creates an interlocking, shifting pattern that can be heard on Ys, particularly in the middle section of "Sawdust & Diamonds." After Ys, Newsom said she had lost interest in polyrhythms. They "stopped being fascinating to me and started feeling wanky."^[27]

The media have sometimes labeled her as one of the most prominent members of the modern psych folk movement. Joanna, however, claims no ties to any particular music scene.^[28] Her songwriting incorporates elements of Appalachian music and avant-garde modernism.

Newsom's vocal style (in the November 2006 issue of The Wire she described her voice as "untrainable") has shadings of folk and Appalachian shaped-note timbres. Newsom has, however, expressed disappointment at comments that her singing is "child-like."^[28]

Critics noticed a change in Newsom's voice on her latest album.^[29][30] In the spring of 2009, Newsom developed vocal cord nodules and could not speak or sing for two months. The recovery from the nodules and further "vocal modifications" changed her voice.^[31][32][33]

Collaborations[link]

In addition to her solo work, Newsom has played on records by Smog, Vetiver, Nervous Cop, The Year Zero, Vashti Bunyan, Moore Brothers, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Golden Shoulders and The Roots^[34] and played keyboards for The Pleased.

Personal life[link]

Newsom's family includes her brother Pete, a fellow musician, and sister Emily, who inspired her song "Emily" (and contributed backing vocals). She is the second cousin, twice removed, of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom of California.^[35] She has dated Noah Georgeson, Bill Callahan and is dating Andy Samberg.^[36]

Discography[link]

Albums

• The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City, 2004)
• Ys (Drag City, 2006) US #134, UK #41
• Have One on Me (Drag City, 2010)^[37] US #75, UK #28

Early unofficial recordings

• Walnut Whales (self-released, 2002)
• Yarn and Glue (self-released, 2003)

EPs

• Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band (Drag City, 2007) UK #135^[38]

Singles

• "Sprout and the Bean" (Drag City, 2004)
• "What We Have Known" (Drag City, 2011)

Licensing of songs[link]

• In 2004, "Peach, Plum, Pear" played over the credits of the animated short City Paradise.
• In 2004, "This Side of the Blue" was used on a British television commercial for Orange SA.
• In 2006, "Sprout and the Bean" was used in a tourism ad for Melbourne, Australia.
• In 2007, "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" was used in the PBS documentary Following Sean.
• In 2007, "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" was sung by an aspiring musician in the film Great World of Sound.
• In 2008, "Sprout and the Bean" was featured in the film The Strangers.
• In 2008, "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" was used in a television commercial for HSBC.
• In 2008, "The Book of Right-On" was used in an MTV ad for sexual care and education.
• In 2009, "The Book of Right-On" was licensed for the end credits of the Mexican/Italian film The Best of Feelings
• In 2009, "Sprout and the Bean" was used in a Victoria's Secret Bra commercial.
• In 2009, the harp intro of "Cosmia" was used in the Louis Theroux documentary "A Place for Paedophiles."
• In 2009, "Sprout and the Bean" was used again in a tourism ad for Melbourne, Australia.
• In 2009, a shorter edit of "Inflammatory Writ" was used in ads for the Spanish TV channel La Sexta^[39]
• In 2010, "Bridges & Balloons" was used in an LG commercial.^[40]

References[link]

Interviews[link]

• Tiny Mix Tapes (September 2004)
• KCRW (February 2005)
• The Guardian (October 15, 2006)
• The Wire (November 2006)
• Pitchfork (November 20, 2006)
• The Times (February 20, 2010)

External links[link]

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• Drag City

Ted Leo
Ted Leo performing at the 2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Background information
Birth name	Theodore Francis Leo
Born	(1970-09-11) September 11, 1970 (age 41), South Bend, Indiana, United States
Genres	Pop punk, indie rock, Hardcore punk, Thrashcore, Mod revival, Powerpop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Ace Fu, Gern Blandsten, Lookout!, Touch and Go, Matador Records
Associated acts	Citizens Arrest, Chisel, The Sin-Eaters, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Website	www.tedleo.com

Ted Leo (born Theodore F. Leo on September 11, 1970, in South Bend, Indiana^[1][2]), is an American punk rock/indie rock songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has played in the bands Citizens Arrest, Chisel, the Sin-Eaters, the Spinanes, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. He has also kept up a consistent presence as a solo performer since the late 1990s.

Though born in Indiana, Leo grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where his family is from, and spent many formative years in the hardcore punk scene of New York City during the 1980s and early 1990s.^[3] He graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange in 1988 and the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 1993 with a degree in English.^[4] His brothers Chris Leo and Danny Leo are also singer-songwriters, and members of Native Nod, The Lapse, The Van Pelt, Vague Angels and Holy Childhood. He is a vegan.^[5]

Ted is a fan of and frequent contributor to WFMU, most notably to Tom Scharpling's "The Best Show on WFMU."

Discography[link]

With Puzzlehead[link]

• Puzzlehead 7" (1991)

With Animal Crackers[link]

• Split 7" with Whipped (1991)
• Self Titled 4 Song 7" on Thrashing Mad Records

With Citizens Arrest[link]

• A Light In The Distance 88–90 (1995)

With Chisel[link]

• Nothing New (April 1995; Gern Blandsten)
• 8 A.M. All Day (January 1996; Gern Blandsten)
• Set You Free (April 1997; Gern Blandsten)

With Hell No[link]

• Reformer 7" (1991)
• Skin Job Lp (1992)
• "Hell No" (1992)

With Ted Leo and the Pharmacists[link]

• tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists (September 1999; Gern Blandsten)
• Treble in Trouble (September 2000; Ace Fu Records)
• The Tyranny of Distance (June 2001; Lookout! Records)
• Hearts of Oak (February 2003; Lookout! Records)
• Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead (October 2003; Lookout! Records)
• Shake the Sheets (October 2004; Lookout! Records)
• Living with the Living (March 2007; Touch & Go Records)
• Rapid Response (September 2008; Touch & Go Records)
• The Brutalist Bricks (March 2010; Matador Records) U.S. #114

Other Appearances[link]

• This Bird Has Flown – A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul (October 2005; Razor & Tie)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists official website

Colleen Barrett is the President Emerita and Corporate Secretary of Southwest Airlines. She joined Southwest in 1978, having previously worked for several years as founder Herb Kelleher's executive assistant at his law firm.^[1] She has served as Secretary of the Corporation, as Vice President Administration from 1986 through 1990, and Executive Vice President from 1990 through 2001. Barrett has been consistently named and recognized as one of the most powerful American businesswomen.^[2] In October, 2007, she received the Tony Jannus Award for distinguished achievement in commercial air transportation.

Barrett stepped down as President and Corporate Secretary of Southwest, effective July 16, 2008, but will remain an employee of the corporation through July 2013.^[3]

Education[link]

• Becker Junior College, 1964 - Worcester, Massachusetts

References[link]

External links[link]

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Articles by and about Colleen Barrett at FT Press
• Executive profile at Bloomberg Businessweek
• Executive profile at Forbes
  • #52 Colleen Barrett, Most Powerful Women 2005
• Works by or about Colleen Barrett in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• The Importance of Culture, Gary Kelly, Southwest Airlines, September 2011, on Barrett's founding of their Culture Committee
• Profile at LeaderNetwork.org

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