News Page Updated March 1, 2005

03/01/2005 -- Iris Headlining Festival

Iris will be the headliner at the Porcupine Mountains Music Festival in Michigan in August. Click the link to be directed to the festival home page. (Opens in a new window.) 

See the Ironwood Daily Globe newspaper article here  or here.

1/05/2005 -- Iris Birthday

Happy Birthday Iris!

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12/03/2004 -- Iris Appearing With John Prine in Boulder

Iris is set to perform with John Prine in Colorado on 12/04/04.  See Ticketmaster and Pollstar links on home page for ticket information.

See the Sentinel newspaper article here.

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11/29/2004 -- Lifeline at Number 13!

Iris's "Lifeline" is #13 on the Americana Music Association's "Americana Airplay" list for the week of 11/29/2004.

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11/14/2004 -- Lifeline at Number 25!

Iris's "Lifeline" is #25 on the Americana Music Association's "Americana Airplay" list for the week of 11/08/2004 -- up from #41 the previous week.

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11/09/2004 -- Iris in "No Depression" Magazine

Iris is on the cover and featured in No Depression magazine issue #54.  Find out more at:
http://www.nodepression.net

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Iris On Mountain Stage!
Iris was a featured artist on "The Mountain Stage" in Charleston, West Virginia. "Mountain Stage" is a West Virginia Public Radio broadcast.  (Your webmaster was able to attend the taping in August.)  It was broadcast in October 2004.  You may be able to catch it on re-broadcasts.  It is worth hearing.  Iris performed new songs from the upcoming "Lifeline" CD; as well as unreleased (as of yet) songs.

More information can be found at http://www.mountainstage.org

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Iris Working On Gospel Album!
According to the 02/07/2003 CMT.Com Feature "Hot Talk" by Edward Morris, Iris is working on a gospel album which is being produced by Jim Rooney.

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New 11/24/2002!  Iris Marries!
Singer/songwriters Greg Brown and Iris Dement, exchanged vows and were married in a small, sweet ceremony in Dement's hometown of Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 21.
Dement recently contributed a beautiful rendition of "The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" for The Breast Cancer Fund CD, Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown.  Greg has been singing Iris's "When My Morning Comes Around" at his recent concerts across the country.
The couple will spend time at each of their homes in Kansas City and in southern rural Iowa, where Brown recently built a house on his grandparents' homestead. -- Country Standard Time Country News

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10/19/2002
Iris scheduled to perform Saturday 10/19/02 on the Grand Ol' Opry as part of the "Will The Circle Be Unbroken III" presentation.  See details at http://www.opry.com 

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10/12/2002  
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