Amelia Merhar, on Meanings within Pysanky
To me, pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, is messy memories of making eggs with wax and dye, with my Baba or at Ukrainian Easter events.
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Big Mama Lele
How Foster Care Shapes Lives
Amelia Merhar knows what it’s like to be a foster child, to go from home to home, and to be without a home at all.
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School’s out for the Summer
Amelia Merhar, better known in the Yukon music scene as Big Mama Lele, ended her Graduation Tour on May 10 in Fairbanks. The occasion? She’s
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Too Hot To Stop
Sexy, smart, sassy, sultry, superfragilisticexpialidocious: five words Big Mama Lele uses to describe her music, and it’s pretty spot on. With titles like “Dirty Old
Get Ready for a Heavy Metal Hallowe’en
Halloween isn’t just for kids, and neither is Heavy Metal Hallowe’en, an all-ages benefit concert scheduled for Saturday, October 30 at Takhini Arena. Featuring new
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Now we are here, in Zenadu
“The idea was Patrick’s,” says Bill Polonsky, the “media guy” for the upcoming Zenadu Music Festival. “He was saying there is this place he knows
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Big Mama’s Demo Debut
Amelia Merhar plays different kinds of metal. Last year she fronted an all-female heavy metal band, Carnal Romance. Now, in her persona of Big Mama
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