Coordinates	28°1′0″N153°24′0″N
name	The Courage
background	group_or_band
origin	Seattle, Washington
genre	Folk rockAmericana Acoustic Indie
years active	Circa 2005-present
label	Independent
associated acts	Garage Voice Tom Rorem Paper Mache Karli Fairbanks Ben Blood (Photographer) National Theatre Project
website	http://thecourageband.com
current members	Noah Gundersen Abby Gundersen Ivan Gunderson Travis Ehrentrom Michael Porter Chris Judd Michael Rabb Drew Konzelman
past members	}}

The Courage (formerly known as "Noah Gundersen & the Courage") is an indie band initially started in Centralia, Washington by siblings Abby & Noah Gundersen and expanded to Travis Ehrenstrom and Ivan Gunderson. The group has two EPs, a live CD, and a studio album. Before the removal of Noah Gundersen's name from the title and the incorporation of the entire band, a majority of the songs were written and recorded by Noah and Abby.

Biography

Noah Gundersen began playing music when he was 10 or 11 years old when his parents had him take piano lessons. Later he taught himself to play the guitar and recorded songs with his father's recording equipment. Around the age of 16, Noah was performing solo in local cafes. His sister Abby began to accompany him with violin and harmonies in 2006 . Noah Gundersen & the Courage began in 2006 in Centralia, Washington. They began playing shows throughout the Washington/Oregon region, and quickly gained a fan base there. Noah's first CD, "Brand New World" (recorded by himself, Abby Gundersen, and Michael Porter) was recorded in Eugene, Oregon in a home studio. It began to be sold on the internet in 2008. That summer, an internet hacker named "andrewlandon" discovered Noah Gundersen's music and stole his song "Winter" (as well has three songs by a neighboring musician, Jacob White, and several other artists) and put it on his own MySpace.

In mid 2008, ''Live at the Triple Door'', the band's first live CD was released independently as they toured throughout the west coast. In May, Noah and Abby made another western tour with Garage Voice and Tom Rorem, an ensuing two month tour alongside Chelsea Seth of Paper Mache occurred that August. On October 9, The Courage played a show at The Q Cafe to release Noah's newest album, "Saints & Liars". Paige Richmond, a Seattle Weekly reporter attending the show gave the band's performance and new CD an outstanding review, titling the review "Noah Gundersen Brings Q Cafe Crowd to Its Feet" As winter set in, the band became stationary while Abby began to pursue her college education and the other three set out finding other jobs. Noah Gundersen & the Courage continues to rehearse and play shows in the WA/OR area at venues such as The Round and the Triple Door, while staying less active.

On December 10 at midnight, The Courage released a new song on their myspace, "Moles", which is the only studio recording of The Courage. The song was only on their music page for a few days but physical CDs were released when they performed at the Triple Door on December 29. In the following February, the track "Middle of June", off of Saints & Liars, appeared on an episode of One Tree Hill.

The band announced through their new website, as well as with an interview with Seattle Weekly, that their first full-length album would be released in the summer of 2010. The album, according to Seattle Weekly, marks a transition in the band as the group moved from a singer/song-writer led band fronted by Noah Gundersen—one that frequented solo acoustic songs—to a functioning unit that creates songs that incorporate the entire band. Noah Gundersen has even considered removing his name from the band's title.

Recording for The Courage's studio album began on March 16 of 2010. The band announced their progress with several updates through their Twitter account revealing that on the 27th of March, they had finished recording the album and in early July, they had started mixing the album. The album is the first full-length recording to be released by The Courage.

Fearful Bones and name change (2010-present)

By the beginning of August 2010, recording, production, and mixing for the new album had been completed in a barn in Sisters, Oregon. On August 3, the band announced the change of their title as well as the name of their debut album via their Twitter page, A new song, "Frequency," was streamed for free off of their official website in the beginning of September. On September 11, The Courage played a release show for Fearful Bones and followed up with a three week tour of the West Coast with the album's producer, Matt Lee, playing lead guitar.

The Local Lounge

On January 11, 2009, Noah Gundersen played live for 45 minutes on KCDA during the "Local Lounge". He performed the songs "Poor Man's Son", "The Ocean", and "No Fairness" and aired the songs "America", "Nine Pound Hammer", "Current State of Things", and "Oh, Momma".

Live performances

The Courage's live performances vary greatly from Noah's studio recordings: while the studio recordings are usually only Noah and Abby Gundersen, the entire band takes part in performing live. The line-up is also constantly changing, guests may appear at shows with additional guitars, saxophones, and other instruments.

Members

The core of The Courage is

Noah Gundersen- Guitarist/Songwriter/Singer

Abby Gundersen- Violin/Backing vocals

Travis Ehrenstrom- Bass guitar

Ivan Gunderson- Drums But additional artist play varying roles in the Courage, often playing with the band live

Michael Porter - Electric Guitar, additional guitar on "Brand New World"

Chris Judd - Bass guitar, Vocals

Michael Rabb - Keys, Tambourine, Vocals (appears on ''Live at the Triple Door'')

Drew Konzelman - Mandolin, Violin, Octave Violin, Electric Guitar

Matt Lee - guitar (Fearful Bones tour in September 2010)

Discography

The first two studio albums from The Courage are credited mainly to Noah Gundersen as the singer/songwriter with accompaniment from Abby Gundersen with vocals and violin.

Albums

Brand New World

Brand New World is Noah's first CD, it features Abby singing backup vocals and playing the violin, and Michael Porter playing an additional guitar.

# "Brand New World" - 4:48 # "Moss On A Rolling Stone" - 4:53 # "Burning Fences" - 5:03 # "The First Song" - 4:53 # "Winter"* - 6:18 # "The Current State Of Things" - 5:11

The song "Winter" was hacked and made to look like the creation of a notorious Internet hacker, "andrewlandon".

''Live at the Triple Door''

''Live at the Triple Door'' is the first CD by The Courage to include the entire group, and is Noah's second recording released. The album was recorded at the The Triple Door venue in Seattle, Washington. The Triple Door has had several artists and groups record live albums in its lounge and The Courage is one of the more recent bands to do so.

Saints & Liars

''Saints & Liars'' was released by Noah Gundersen on October 9, 2009; although tracks 2, 3, 5 and 6 were already on the bands myspace. The album was released at a show in The Q Cafe and was sold digitally later that month. The CD/show received an outstanding review from the Seattle Weekly saying "Noah Gundersen Brings Q Cafe Crowd to Its Feet". The EP has been compared to Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley, and Ryan Adams. In February 2010, the song "Middle of June" appeared on the television series One Tree Hill.

Fearful Bones

Fearful Bones is The Courage's debut album, sold on September 11, 2010 at the Crocodile Cafe for the audience, and recorded in a barn in Sisters, Oregon. The album is seen as a turning point in the band's direction, aside from dropping Noah Gundersen's name from the title and sharing song-writing among all members, the album is described as "less folky, more country-rock.

Compilations

We Love This Comp. Vol. I

The Courage's song, "All You Know," was released on Building Burning Record's 16-track compilation called We Love This Comp. Vol I on March 29, 2011. The album features several Oregon based folk and indie bands.

Associated acts

National Theatre Project

Bassist Travis Ehrenstrom leads an acoustic Oregon based band, National Theatre Project.

Travis Ehrenstrom - Vocals, Guitar

Seth Rodriguez - Saxophone

Matt Cartmill - Drums

Patrick Pearsall - Bass

Beneath Oceans

Noah Gundersen was frontman and singer for a post-hardcore group called Beneath Oceans. While the group was active, the band played shows throughout the West Coast, and recorded an unreleased EP. At the end of 2008, with the departure of Keelan O'Hara, Gundersen announced that the band was done. Beneath Oceans Myspace profile

References

External links

Noah Gundersen's myspace profile

The Triple Door website

Interview with Noah Gundersen

Concert review by The Falcon online

The Courage twitter page

Category:American folk rock groups Category:Musical groups from Seattle, Washington Category:Centralia, Washington

Coordinates	28°1′0″N153°24′0″N
name	Scott Garrett
birth date	July 09, 1959
birth place	Englewood, New Jersey
occupation	attorney
residence	Wantage, New Jersey
alma mater	Montclair State University Rutgers University
state	New Jersey
district	5th
term start	January 3, 2003
preceded	Marge Roukema
succeeded	Incumbent
party	Republican
spouse	Mary Ellen Garrett
religion	Christian }}

Ernest Scott Garrett (born July 9, 1959) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes much of the northwestern portion of the state. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1990 to 2002.

Early life, education and career

Garrett earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Montclair State University in 1981 and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Rutgers School of Law - Camden in 1984.

He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1990 to 2002 representing the 24th legislative district, which covers all of Sussex County and several municipalities in Morris and Hunterdon counties.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Committee on the Budget

Committee on Financial Services

*Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises (Chairman)

*Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity

Party leadership

Republican Policy Committee

Garrett is considered the most conservative member of the New Jersey delegation, as he has received perfect 100 ratings from the American Conservative Union throughout his career. He is regarded as a deviation from the norm in New Jersey, a state whose Republicans are generally more moderate in their views. In 2005, only 38 members of Congress nationwide and only two other members from Northeastern states — Bill Shuster and Joe Pitts, both from Pennsylvania — scored perfect 100s. New Jersey's five other Republican Congressmembers have ACU rankings ranging from 60 to 76.

Garrett is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he supported H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. In 2008, he opposed H.R. 5767, the Payment Systems Protection Act (a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined "unlawful Internet gambling").

In July 2007, Congressman Garrett proposed an amendment to strike money in a spending bill for native Alaskan and Hawaiian educational programs. Congressman Don Young of Alaska defended the funds on the floor of the House, saying, "You want my money, my money." Young went on to suggest that conservative Republicans such as Garrett lost the Republicans their majority in the 2006 election by challenging spending earmarks, and made several critical remarks about the state of New Jersey. While Garrett did not ask for an official reprimand, other conservative Republicans took exception to Young's remarks that the funds in question represented his money. Members of the Republican Study Committee gave Garrett a standing ovation later in the day during the group's weekly meeting.

Garrett led a drive to demand the immediate resignation of Governor Jim McGreevey after he admitted to an extramarital affair with a male state employee. McGreevey announced that he would stay in office until November 15, 2004. Had McGreevey resigned before September 8, 2004, there would have been a special election at the same time as that year's presidential election. Garrett started a petition on his campaign web site demanding a special election. According to his campaign manager, it received 10,000 responses.

Although Garrett promoted himself as a "mainstream tax-cutter that President Bush needs in Congress," he broke with the Bush Administration several times. Garrett was the only congressman from New Jersey to vote against the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act for purposes of states' rights. Furthermore, he led nineteen US lawmakers to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives backing UN membership for Taiwan, contrary to U.S. policy since Nixon.

He also serves on the Liberty Caucus (sometimes called the Liberty Committee), a group of libertarian-minded congressmen. Other members include Ron Paul of Texas, Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee, Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

Garrett was the only member of the New Jersey delegation to vote for oil and gas drilling off the shore of New Jersey. Garrett was also the only member to vote against restrictions on "price gouging" by oil companies, to vote against child safety locks on handguns, and to vote against emergency funding for Hurricane Katrina victims. He was the only New Jersey member to vote against federal aid for household pets in case of a disaster. He was one of only four members of the House of Representatives to vote against an extension of unemployment benefits.

In November 2009, Garrett met at the United States Capitol with protesting "tea party" constituents. After birthers harangued him for several minutes, he agreed President Barack Obama should produce an original birth certificate to verify his eligibility to be President of the United States.

As a state legislator, he once proposed public schools teach intelligent design alongside evolution.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Garret a grade of C- (2006) and B (2007–2008). Disabled American Veterans gave Garrett grades of 0% (2005, 2004), 50% (2003), and 100% (2006). The Veterans of Foreign Wars endorsed him in 2006.

Political campaigns

Garrett ran for Congress unsuccessfully against incumbent Congresswoman Marge Roukema in the 1998 and 2000 Republican primaries, falling short both times with 48% of the vote. He received support from several groups who had long felt chagrin at Roukema's moderate voting record; Garrett had by this time established himself as one of the most conservative members of the General Assembly.

In 2002, Roukema opted not to run for a 12th term. Garrett won a contested five-way primary with 45% of the vote over State Assemblyman David C. Russo (26%) and State Senator Gerald Cardinale (25%), who had received Roukema's endorsement.

In the 2002 general election, Garrett faced Democrat Anne Sumers, an ophthalmologist and former Republican. Roukema did not endorse Garrett in the general election. This was very unusual for an incumbent of the same party, even though Garrett and Roukema had faced each other in bruising primaries in past years. However, she did not endorse Sumers either, even though part of Sumers' strategy was to portray herself as a "Roukema Republican" and win support in Roukema's old Bergen County base (Bergen County is the biggest county in the 5th district). Sumers' chances decreased significantly after she made several ill-advised comments about the U.S.-Taliban conflict on an Internet message board. The race essentially ended at that point, and Garrett won in a rout, 60% to 38%--even winning Roukema's former base in Bergen County.

Garrett was reelected in 2004 with 58% of the vote. He declined to debate his opponent Anne Wolfe, several times, claiming to have conflicts with his schedule in Washington D.C. Eventually he debated her twice. In 2006, Garrett defeated his Republican primary rival, Michael J. Cino of Bergen County. In the November 2006 election, Garrett defeated Paul Aronsohn (a former employee of the U.S. State Department during the Clinton Administration) and Independent R. Matthew Fretz to win a third term. However, in this election, he only won 55% of the vote—the lowest percentage for a Republican in the district since it assumed its current configuration in 1983. This was particularly remarkable since the current 5th was thought to be more conservative than the area Roukema represented for 22 years.

The 2006 election was close enough to attract the attention of the DCCC, who targeted the 5th District for a pickup in 2008. The Democrats nominated Dennis Shulman, a highly-respected rabbi and psychologist, as their nominee in 2008. Despite the Democrats' increased efforts, Garrett defeated Shulman 56%-42% in the 2008 General Election.

In 2010, Garrett easily defeated Tod Theise, receiving 65% of the vote.

Electoral history

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em ; font-size:95%" |+ : Results 2002–2006 !|Year ! !|Republican !|Votes !|Pct ! !|Democrat !|Votes !|Pct ! !|3rd Party !|Party !|Votes !|Pct ! |- |2002 | | | | align="right" |118,881 | |59% | | |Anne Sumers | align="right" |76,504 | |38% | | |Michael J. Cino | |Lower Tax Independent | align="right" |4,466 | align="right" |2% | |- |2004 | | |Scott Garrett | align="right" |171,220 | |58% | | | | align="right" |122,259 | |41% | | |Victor Kaplan | |Libertarian | align="right" |1,857 | align="right" |1% |* |- |2006 | | |Scott Garrett | align="right" |112,142 | |55% | | |Paul Aronsohn | align="right" |89,503 | |44% | | |R. Matthew Fretz | |An Independent Voice | align="right" |2,597 | align="right" |1% | |- |2008 | | |Scott Garrett | align="right" |165,271 | align="right" |56% | | |Dennis Shulman | align="right" |123,512 | align="right" |42% | | |Ed Fanning | |Independent | align="right" |4,950 | align="right" |2% | |- |2010 | | |Scott Garrett | align="right" |119,478 | align="right" |65% | | |Tod Theise | align="right" |60,045 | align="right" |33% | | |Ed Fanning | |Green | align="right" |2,262 | align="right" |1% |

Personal life

Garrett is a member of Lafayette Federated Church in Lafayette, New Jersey.

References

External links

Congressman Scott Garrett ''official U.S. House site''

Scott Garrett for U.S. Congress ''official campaign site''

Profile at SourceWatch

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Wendy "Lady B" Clark is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one of the earliest female rappers in hip hop history, and one of the first to record a studio album. She began her career with the WHAT radio station in 1979, and recorded her first single later that year, "To the Beat Y'all".

Music & radio career

In 1984, Lady B moved to Philadelphia's Power 99 FM and started the legendary program, "The Street Beat," the program ran until 1989.

She is now broadcasting for the premiere satellite radio entity – Sirius Satellite Radio in New York City, ''and'' WRNB 107.9. in Philadelphia. '''

References

Rap Hip-Hop Timeline

Philadelphia Hip-Hop Timeline

External links

Lady B. and Chuck Chillout on STREET BEAT (video clip)

Lady B dj info on WRNB 107.9 radio Philadelphia.

Category:Female rappers Category:Rappers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category:Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category:Living people