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Petra Haden to perform second show following recovery
12 April 2001

Los Angeles based vocalist/violinist/composer Petra Haden has recovered sufficiently from serious injuries last August to perform again. She’ll appear next Tuesday (17 April) at Spaceland in LA, along with Roxy, Gwendolyn, and Tracy & The Hindenburg Ground Crew. (Gwendolyn, along with Haden, contributed to the soundtrack to the 2000 indie film Chuck and Buck.) The upcoming show follows an appearance this past February—her first following the accident—with sister Rachel at The Fold in LA.
    She is also back in the studio, working with, among others, Victoria Williams and Sean Lennon. One of several projects is an a cappella version of the 1967 album The Who Sell Out.
    On 31 August of last year Haden sustained injuries to her head, both legs, her ribs, and her pelvis when a vehicle hit her in Venice, California. Following the accident she was unable to walk. Haden did not have health insurance. To help pay the medical bills, dozens of artists stepped forward to play benefit shows. The first, last November at the LA Knitting Factory, featured Beck, Abby Travis, Exene Cervenka & The Original Sinners, Victoria Williams, and many others. Benefits in Anaheim (with The Campground Effect, Endicott 8, Killingtons, Ozma, Smile, and others) and New York (with Cibo Matto and Sean Lennon) this January raised more money.
    Haden released her first solo album in 1999, the partly a capella and wordless, partly instrumental, largely experimental Imaginaryland. Daughter of jazz bassist Charlie Haden, she was previously in LA pop band That Dog along with sister Rachel. She’s worked with Jen Wood, Beck, Luscious Jackson, April March, Foo Fighters, Everclear, Midget Handjob, Green Day, and others. | Petra Haden on Win Records | | Fan site | | Gwendolyn | | Chuck And Buck | | discography | | sample | | CD | | top of page |

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