The Avalon Express

1st February 2001

“The Avalon Express” has left the station! I am currently rocketing along… passing through the recording of basic rhythm tracks, stunning harp and string lines. The “ripe and luscious” backup vocals have just been laid down.

In the middle of all this I received the most beautiful message from Dorothy Abbott, a woman I first met in Florida when she produced Liz Story, Barbara Higbie and me on our “Three of Hearts solo piano tour.” She is a dedicated activist deeply involved in international feminist radio programming along with many other concerns. Though I had forgotten all about the interview she cites, I’m glad I still agree with myself.
 

Dear Margie,
Thank you in advance for all the beauty and love you will bring us with the release of “Avalon.” Your email caused me to pull out the January 1992 issue of Hot Wire. You are on the cover and the inside interview is titled “Welcome Back Margie Adam.” What drew me to the article was that I remembered it was where I first heard you discuss The Mists of Avalon. You say, “The reason that Avalon receded into the mist was literally because people stopped believing that it existed.” And you state, “My feeling is that what is happening right now is connected with some sort of collective impulse to reaffirm what it is that women do when they come together with a common purpose.”

As bell hooks writes, “to imagine the way things can be.”

Thanks, Margie, for keeping the collective vision alive for us and always reminding us what is possible.

Peace and love, Dorothy Abbott