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"Verna Gillis has been performing ""sit-down comedy"" standing up since 2010 when she won her first slam sponsored by TMI in Ulster County. The topic was Coming of Age which she changed to Coming of Aging. She was 68.Her niche is aging - and so is she.Her One Older-Woman Show is called TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK - On the Verge of Extinction. She talks about childhood, the holocaust. addiction, aging, drugs, scones, peeing, and cancer. She laughs her way through it."

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"Gillis has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and taught at both Brooklyn College and Carnegie Mellon. She did field work recording music in Peru, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Ghana and Cuba. Twenty-seven albums of these recordings are available on Smithsonian Folkways. In 1979 she opened SOUNDSCAPE, the first multi cultural performance space and producing organization in NYC. She was the first US presenter of African Pop in 1983 bringing King Sunny Ade from Nigeria which the NY Times called ""the pop event of the decade."" At different times she managed the careers of Youssou Ndour, Salif Keita, Yomo Toro, Carlinhos Brown, and Roswell Rudd."

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