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Marcella Fisting
The Bronze Age EP (2014)
Terrance Simien Collabs
Compilations
Digital Lows (2011)
Fille Catatonique Rough Sketches (2010-2013)
The Bronze Age EP (2014)
Terrance Simien Collabs
Compilations
Digital Lows (2011)
Fille Catatonique Rough Sketches (2010-2013)
Creole families to settle in St. Landry Parish, Marcella René Simien planted the seeds of her South Louisiana heritage deep into the bluffs of Memphis, TN—no small victory for a young woman just now rounding out her mid-20’s. Simien is a natural in the truest sense.
Daughter of two-time GRAMMY™ award winning Zydeco luminary Terrance Simien, she was practically born onstage, and grew up thoroughly immersed in sound and performance. Taj Mahal might sing her happy birthday (as he did for her 17th), or Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo might drop by the house for some gumbo.
Despite her almost fairytale-like upbringing, Simien makes it her mission to forge her own pathways in the music business. A graduate of the prestigious Memphis College of Art, Simien boldly follows her heart in her role of bandleader. Her music is a dueling hybrid of classic Memphis soul and the freewheeling swagger of New Orleans funk woven together with the sighing laughter of her ancestors: that Creole accordion. Assembling her group from the cream of the crop of Memphis musicians, Simien’s soulful voice smolders like a night star, fondly reminding us of a mysterious past while at once exciting us with the romance of an uncertain future.
As outspoken and courageous as she is sensual and feminine, Simien holds a wisdom far beyond her years. With each honeyed undertone, every saintly holler, with each twinkle of the keys, and every pump of the squeezebox, she reinvents the mold and soldiers against boundaries, yet she never fails to respect tradition.
As Willie Mitchell’s son, the Memphis legend Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell puts it,
“[Simien is] one of the most soulful artists I've heard since the glory days of
Memphis soul music. Her sound and stage presence are constant reminders that
soul music is still alive and well.”
Nearing the ripe young age of 27, Simien already boasts a lengthy list of musical accomplishments and recognitions. From a viral interview feature (over 1.5 million views on Facebook) sponsored by IKEA and Southern Living to being one of only 500 artists in America nominated for a $50,000 USA Artists Fellowship, Simien’s acclamation rises and is stunning to behold. In 2016, Marcella & Her Lovers were featured on the nationally syndicated radio program Beale Street Caravan, and Simien was high-lighted by the Memphis Flyer in their “20 Under 30” cover issue. Twice she has been a featured performer on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise alongside greats such as Marcia Ball, Allen Toussaint, and Irma Thomas. Additionally, she sang lead vocals on a track off her father’s album Dockside Sessions, which won a GRAMMY™ for Best Regional Roots Album of the Year (2014).
Simien’s first full-length album “Got You Found” with Marcella & Her Lovers, engineered and co-produced at American Recording Studio by Pete Matthews and Toby Vest, is forthcoming in 2017.
Artistically confident, composed and courageous well beyond her 26 years,
Simien has been lauded by Boo Mitchell as “one of the most soulful artist I've heard since the glory days of Memphis soul music. Her sound and stage presence is a constant reminder that soul music is still alive and well.”
Simien was most recently featured in a one-on-one interview “Meet Me In Memphis” produced by Southern Living & IKEA USA that has reached over 1.5 million views on Facebook. Watch it here
The band is now preparing to launch a 60-day IndieGoGo campaign in February 2017 to help fund their first full-length album!
Marcella was nominated by the esteemed USA Artists organization out of only 500 artists in the United States for a $50,000 fellowship award in March of 2016.
Marcella & Her Lovers will be performing at Orpheum Memphis' Halloran Centre on March 4th. This will be the first time Marcella & Her Lovers ensemble has opened for Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience. Buy tickets here.
Also in January of 2016, Marcella & Her Lovers had an entire performance at Bar DKDC recorded and featured on the internationally syndicated radio show Beale Street Caravan. Listen here
In January of 2016, Marcella was featured on the Memphis Flyer’s 20 under 30 cover issue as one of 20 young Memphians who are shaping the city's future.
In 2015 Marcella & Her Lovers were selected by the Memphis Hall of Fame as 10 Must Hear Memphis Originals. memphismusichalloffame.com
Marcella has been a featured performer on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise in 2015 & 2017 in the piano lounge. She just returned from the Blues Cruise, and was on a lineup that included Taj Mahal, Irma Thomas, and The Lowrider Band and many more.
Ryan Harris, of Oxford American's Local Live series in Little Rock, AR called Marcella & Her Lovers' 2015 performance one of the "top 5 of the year."
Arkansas Educational Television Network filmed their entire performance which aired numerous times in 2016 and will continue to air occasionally, AETN presents "On The Front Row" Marcella & Her Lovers performance on Oxford American's Local Live series at South on Main in Little Rock, Arkansas
In 2015 Bill Bentley (L.A. Weekly, Warner Bros. Records, Vanguard Records). reviewed Marcella and Her Lovers debut EP release on themortonreport.com
Bentley said "Marcella Simien heard it all as a youngster, no doubt, and once she double-downed with the Memphis sound, she found a totally striking new attack on Southern soul."
In addition to her extensive work with her own group, Marcella and Her Lovers, Simien was featured on her father’s most recent album “Dockside Sessions”, which won a GRAMMY™ in January of 2014 for Best Regional Roots Album of the Year. Marcella was recognized by the Recording Academy as a featured vocalist on GRAMMY™ award winning recording ‘Dockside Sessions' by Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience. Marcella was the sole vocalist on the song "Ava Magnolia" written by George G. Receli (Bob Dylan, Keith Richards) "Uncle George" who also produced 'Dockside Sessions.'
In 2014 Marcella was featured on the cover of the Susan Schadt's cookbook Memphis: Sweet, Spicy and a little Greasy. Marcella also appeared in Samantha Crespo's book 100 things to do in Memphis Before You Die
She has recorded with hip hop artist Cities Aviv , and was featured on the album “Digital Lows” (click album title to read the Pitchfork review from 2011). One of her contributions to the Cities project, the track “Black Box”, was featured on theindieplaylists.com (summer of 2011) compilation in the company of Arcade Fire, Mayer Hawthorne, Modest Mouse, Coldplay, and many others. Here's an article by Brooklyn Vegan about the album.
Marcella sparked the interest of Jonathan Poneman (Sub Pop) at the GrammyGPS event in October of 2011 at Earnestine & Hazel’s in Memphis, where he and his wife stayed for Marcella’s entire set, requested to meet Marcella and invited her to submit (and/or email) music to him.
GRAMMY GPS artist showcase, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Memphis commissioned work, Lucero Family Picnic, Levitt Shell, Memphis, TN; Double Decker Festival Oxford,MS; Auto Zone corporate event at Memphis Cook Convention Center, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Legendary Blues Cruise ft. Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Marcia Ball, etc. Private and public events presented by Arts Memphis, Odgen Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Levitt AMP, Lafayette, LA; Cleveland, MS and New Albany, MS; Folk Alliance International, Memphis, TN; Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN; Ole Miss Sarah Isom Center for Gender Studies, Oxford, MS; Thacker Mountain Radio, Oxford, MS; Save The Greensward for historical Overton Park, Memphis, TN; Old U.S. Mint, New Orleans, LA; Festival International, Lafayette, LA
Hired Expert Panelist on a Rhodes College Institute for Regional Studies “Working Musicians in Memphis” panel discussion, 2014; Professional Panelist for GRAMMY Pro/GRAMMY U “Breaking into the Business: Speed Networking” event. GRAMMY U 2016; GRAMMY futureNOW, @ STAX Music Academy , The Recording Academy Memphis Chapter, 2015 The Mike Curb Institute of Music, Rhodes College 2014 where Marcella & Her Lovers performed on the Rhodes student produced Audubon Sessions ; Mississippi Valley Blues Society, Blues in the Schools week long residency w/ Terrance Simien, informances presented at 10 schools, and 3 public events, 2013; Roadmap for Success, Recording Academy Memphis Chapter, 2012
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(b. circa 325, Rome, Italy; d. 410, Rome, Italy)
Marcella was a Roman noble woman who was canonized, or declared a saint, by the Vatican for her role in founding the Christian monastic system. Monasticism dates back to Marcella’s time and is practiced today as a system in which religious devotees renounce their worldly possessions and declare their lives to God. They live together in monasteries under strict religious rules that vary according to the sect.
Marcella was married at a young age, following the death of her father. She was subsequently widowed in the seventh month of her marriage. Rather than remarry, as was custom in Roman society, she declared celibacy, devoting her life to God and the study of the Bible. She owned a palace on Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills that would make up the site where Rome was built, which she turned into a refuge for other noble women wishing to devote their lives to Christianity. The women followed the model of the ascetic monks by renouncing worldly pleasures such as lavish meals, material possessions, and sexual pleasure, to attain spiritual goals.
Marcella’s piety and the reputation of her Christian refuge prompted the formation of several other similar groups in Rome, which began the Roman monastic movement. Marcella ran her informal convent until the year 410, when the Goths invaded Rome. Soldiers ransacked her palace searching for the treasure Marcella was rumored to have. Though she had given away all of her fortunes to the poor, the soldiers beat her to learn the hiding place of her wealth. She managed to escape, but she died from the injuries soon after, in the arms of her favorite pupil, Principia.
During her lifetime, Marcella had a close relationship with Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, more commonly known as Saint Jerome, who is known for his translation of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. Marcella often engaged him in theological debates, documented in their correspondence from the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Most of what we know about Marcella is from the letters of Saint Jerome, most famously his letter 127 to Principia. It was written on the occasion of Marcella’s death, paying tribute to her life and consoling her beloved student. In it, he says the following about his relationship with Marcella:
As in those days my name was held in some renown as that of a student of the Scriptures, she never came to see me without asking me some questions about them, nor would she rest content at once, but on the contrary would dispute them; this, however, was not for the sake of argument, but to learn by questioning the answers to such objections might, as she saw, be raised. How much virtue and intellect, how much holiness and purity I found in her I am afraid to say, both lest I may exceed the bounds of men’s belief and lest I may increase your sorrow by reminding you of the blessings you have lost. This only will I say, that whatever I had gathered together by long study, and by constant meditation made part of my nature, she tasted, she learned and made her own. (Rebenich, Jerome , 125)
When most sources acknowledge the relationship between Marcella and St. Jerome, they inaccurately name her as his pupil rather than his colleague. We know from the letters between them that she often questioned his arguments and was never afraid to criticize him, treating him as an equal student under God.
Despite her contributions to the founding of the monastic system, Marcella remains one of the lesser-known saints of the Roman Catholic Church. She is remembered each year on her saint’s day, January thirty-first.
Marcella’s place setting is decorated with the symbols of her sainthood and those of the Christian church. On the runner is an outline of the architectural plan for early Christian basilicas. Marcella’s plate rests on this plan, locating her as an important figure in the early organization of Christianity, central to its development. The front edge of the runner is made of woven camel hairs, also used to make shirts worn by early Christians like Marcella and members of the ascetic women’s convent she founded. These shirts, whose rough fibers irritated the skin, were worn under clothes in an act of penance.
Another important symbol on the front of the runner, located in the first initial of Marcella’s name, is the figure of a woman praying in orans posture—her arms spread out and reaching upward. According to Chicago, the gesture was first associated with goddess figures, and was later used to depict Christian women and then Christ himself. It is used in the place setting to show how early pre-Christian symbols were often co-opted by the church for their own iconography (Chicago, Embroidering Our Heritage, 107).
The back of the runner contains other symbols important to the early church and to Marcella’s life. The scroll symbolizes learning, an important part of convents, as they were often the only sites of education for women in early society. Below the scroll is a composite image of a fish, staff, and triangle. The triangle was an early symbol of female genitalia, which became a symbol of the goddess and the sacred feminine, but in Christianity it also represents the Holy Trinity of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The triangle encompasses the staff, a symbol of Christ as the “Good Shepherd”; it also symbolizes the leadership and authority conferred on bishops. The fish, another early symbol of the church, was used by Christians as a secret means of denoting their faith under fear of persecution; the Greek letters that spell out the word “fish,” also start each of the words “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior.”
These symbols identify Marcella as a “savior of women” during the early Christian period, comparable to Christ (Chicago, Embroidering Our Heritage, 109). The ship, also appears on the back of the runner, is another important symbol of early Christianity, representing the Christian church sailing through the “perilous waters” of all that is not Christian; its presence links Marcella’s life, including all of the peril she faced, with the development of the church and Christian monasteries.
Correspondence of Saint Jerome, d. 419 or 420. Fifth century.
Butler, Alban. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. 12 vols. Ed. David Hugh Farmer and Paul Burns. New full ed., Tunbridge Wells, UK: Burns & Oates and Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1995–2000.
Kraemer, Ross S., ed. Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World. 1988; rev. ed., Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Mierow, Charles Christopher, trans. The Letters of St. Jerome. Introduction and notes by Thomas Comerford Lawler. Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1963.
Rebenich, Stefan. Jerome. London: Routledge, 2002.
Wright, F. A., trans. Jerome: Select Letters. 1933; reprint ed., Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Marcella place setting), 1974–79. Mixed media: ceramic, porcelain, textile. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago. Photograph by Jook Leung Photography
Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Marcella plate), 1974–79. Porcelain with overglaze enamel (China paint) and rainbow luster overglaze, 14 × 14 × 1 in. (35.6 × 35.6 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago. (Photo: © Donald Woodman)
Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Marcella runner), 1974–79. Cotton/linen base fabric, woven interface support material (horsehair, wool, and linen), cotton twill tape, silk, synthetic gold cord, wool, camel hair, wool fabric, silk thread, 51 1/2 × 29 7/8 in. (130.8 × 75.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago. Drawing for Marcella plate, which reads “Marcella— Founder of first convent for women in Rome, the ‘Little Church of the Household,’” 1978. Ink on paper, 11 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (29.2 × 36.8 cm). © Judy Chicago. (Photo: © Donald Woodman)
Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Marcella place setting), 1974–79. Mixed media: ceramic, porcelain, textile. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago. Photograph by Jook Leung Photography
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