Tret Fure
Sunday, March 28, 2010
3 pm
(Doors open at 2:30 pm)
Tickets: $10 (all money goes to Tret)
Tret began her professional work at the age of 16, singing in coffeehouses and campuses in the Midwest. At UC Berkeley, she discovered that music really was her life. At 19, she moved to LA to pursue a songwriting and musical career. After becoming one of the 1st women sound engineers in LA, she has engineered and produced countless recordings by a variety of artists, including her own work.
Since the 1980s, Tret has been a major player in the field of Women’s Music — recording with and producing some of the best of women’s music including the legendary “Meg & Cris at Carnegie Hall”. She worked as a duo with Cris Williamson throughout the 90s releasing, 3 CDs together during those years. Now after 4 acoustic releases on her own label, Tomboy girl Records, she has re-established herself in the folk world winning the 2004 South Florida Folk Festival Singer/Songwriter Competition in 2 out of 3 categories.
Fure also markets of her own line of clothing named after her popular song “Tomboy girl”. In addition, while not on the road, Tret teaches guitar and songwriting individually and in workshop settings. An accomplished cook, Fure has also published a cookbook, Tret’s Kitchen, featuring her own recipes.
Along with bridging the marketing, production, and music worlds, Tret serves as Vice President of Local 1000, The Traveling Musicians Association–a union geared toward helping traveling musicians find security and longevity. She also co-chairs The New Harvest Foundation, a foundation that channels charitable contributions exclusively to organizations working to promote LGBT rights, services, culture and community development.
